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Category Archives: Rant

I’m a better driver than most.

In Sweden, you are not allowed to be good at anything, it’s called Jantelagen and it comes sneaks up upon you even though you know it exists. One thing is that there are some “statistics” from a “survey” that everybody knows of (though I have not been able to find it) that say that “90% [...]

A little rant about Swedish toll

Toll in Sweden are taxes on foreign stuff imported. I have no big beef with paying taxes. Taxes are how we keep our society going. Sure the elected officials could be more efficient in smarter way’s but that is not really the issue here, most of the money go to the places where they should [...]

How I made a twitterbot for fun and profit! part 2

Back to the bot. The twitter-bot. The Lars Ulrich twitter-bot. The Lars Ulrich swearing twitter-bot. He’s up and running, spreading obscenities all over the internets. Check him out at http://twitter.com/i_am_larsulrich The engine I was planning on using didn’t do what I  wanted it to do (search) so I went with twitter4j and processing (processing to [...]

The Android market-schmarket

This is going to be a rant about stuff that I don’t like with the Android market.  Dont read it if you are a fan boy. I have a google g1 phone from htc. I have had it now for a year or so. At first it was ok, then the small annoyances became really [...]