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Two weeks of christmas holiday

2013-01-6 Ichimusai

Good holidays this year, had two weeks off from work, which has been very good, lots of stress to unwind from and now some interesting trips to look forward to do. We’ve been visiting my wife’s family and then we went to the winter hack that ACG-G arranged in Gävle where we also celebrated new year so it was great.

I will be putting together a trip to Canada covering 7 citities in 10 working days withing two weeks back to back. It will be a good trip I’m sure. I think Vancouver would be a good place to stop for the weekend, it seems that everyone I have talked with have something good to say about Vancouver, and it is a city I’ve never been to before so it sounds interesting to try to get the feel for it!

There is also a lot of other things to do, not to mention going to Mexico and other places perhaps. Last year I think one of the best trips was going to Rio de Janeiro, interesting place, lovely beaches and as work trips comes it was rather laid back. Good stuff that!

Happy new year everyone, now let’s make 2013 rock.

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Feynman on the NASA Shuttle

2012-12-28 Ichimusai

This Ebook is a formatting of the text that you may read in standard text format over here at NASA web site. I believe it is fair use to convert it into something that may be easier to read on an ebook reader, smartphone, pad or so.

Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle

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Beyonce vs Benny Hill

2012-12-27 Ichimusai

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Photowalk Hammarby Sjöstad

2012-10-20 Ichimusai

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Visit to the Citybanan tunnel

2012-10-14 Ichimusai

Today I visited the Stockholm Underworld again, first time actually after leaving my position with SL, the local transport company here in Stockholm, and it was quite fun. Citybanan is a huge train tunnel being built straight cross Stockholm city. It is to make life easier for the multitude of commuter trains that runs south to north and back again, basically covering the northeast, southwest, nortwest and southeast of the city with fast commute on the normal rail.

This excursion was an open visit arranged by Trafikverket who are having the tunnels built and it was a pretty good walk in the underground. And of course I brought the camera. Here are some pictures.

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Going down the ramp into the tunnel here. About 3 900 people had visited before we got to go down. It was a lot of people everywhere but it was fun. A lot of kids liked it as well, but we saw one that did not want to go down the tunnel, after queueing more than two hours…

More moist here than I am used to in the tunnels under stockholm, probably because it is in construction still. Water is used to bind dust among other things, or to cool when drilling and so on.

A pretty standard Wheel Loader for mines and tunnels like this.

This gives an idea on the conditions in the tunnel.

Another picture with longer exposure.

Another machine parked for us to take pictures of.

This got to be the coolest machine in the mine. The drilling rig. Feel that power.

Different parts looked quite different as well.

Entrance from Solna.

And about to get out the other end.

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This summers Rosé Wine

2012-08-10 Ichimusai

Gris Blanc became my favourite Rosé wine this summer. Lovely half dry and refreshing, light on the palate when cold and flowery when it has warmed up a little bit. Not too expensive either, I picked up a full box, six bottles for €50 which I think is a good price.

For Swedish readers: Systembolaget nr 70419

The wine comes from Gérard Bertrand who also makes some lovely red wines. Its from Languedoc-Roussillon and I hope that it will be continued next year as well.

It is the most colourless rosé wine I have ever seen, it looks like a white wine with just a hint of rose in it and it immediately became a favourite for me.

The grape is Grenache Gris which can be found locally in the Tutavel district in Languedoc-Roussillon and is probably a mutation of Grenache Noir. The grapes are picked by hand and immediately pressed. Fermentation happens at low temperatures in stainless steel tanks.

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Travels

2012-05-19 Ichimusai

Back home again, it has been three weeks on the road with really bad internet connection in most cases. Can’t belive how lucky we Swedes are with our networks, beats anything I have seen for some time. Even in the five star hotels you can be lucky if you get 128 kbit/s (paid service) and the complimentary is even worse.

Anyway, it’s been great fun as well. I have visited Los Angeles for some site work on a rail tunnel there and then off the same evening to Mexico City for two starting up two rather big coverage projects in television studios and then some other projects as well – coming stuff.

Off from there to the CTIA show in New Orleans which was a great show, lots of interesting people and not to mention Bourbon Street which really appealed to my Jazz nerve directly.

From there I had a short stop at home and then off to Dubai for the TETRA World Congress, a really good show this year, I met several old friends there and it was great fun alltogether.

Now I am resting and chillin’ at home kicking it back, probably gonna take a full day to get all the bills in order after this trip!

Pictures to come a little later.

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Lussebullen

2012-05-14 Ichimusai

Lussebullen, a photo by ichimusai on Flickr.

Yesterday was a terrible day, we had to put Lussebullen one of our cats down. He was old and started getting lots of problems and he fell asleep quietly in our arms.

But the sadness, oh, the sadness. We miss him terribly and keep seeing him in the corner of our eyes whenever we turn around. It has been a long and hard day. It is strange how much you get attached.

Rest in peace Lussebullen.

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Two-step verification with Google

2012-04-15 Ichimusai

I have today activated the two-step login verification for my Google account. It was not complicated at all and not hard but it raises the security quite a bit when it comes to getting your accound hijacked. The principle is easy and I will explain how it works here.

For computers that you use to access your GMail account, Picasa account, Google+ or any other other services that runs through your Google account it means that if you are using a new computer at a friend’s house, at the internet café or at the library you should bring your phone. When you log in a code is sent to your phone by text message that you need to enter as well as your chosen password. This way it becomes much harder for someone to hack your account.

Other devices that are using your Google account, such as smartphones, pads and so on can be given separate passwords that are hard to guess and remember and can be revoked at any time. If you loose your phone, you can revoke the password and your phone can not be used to access your personal info any more.

If you are in a place where there is no coverage there is an app that will generate time-based one time logon passwords for Android, iPhone and Blackberry. You may also in advance print a list of one time codes on paper and take with you when you travel, allowing ten computers on your trip access.

At your Google accounts page you may also input alternative mobile phone numbers, create security questions and alternative e-mail addresses in case you need to recover a lost account.

Do not hesitate, go and sign up for your two-stage login now. Every day people get their accounts hijacked, they have someone they know spy on them because they forget to logout and so on. If your account gets hijacked it means your documents at Google docs are lost, your mail as well and so on…

Therefore it is time to activate the 2-step verification right now. Click here and get your business in order! accounts.google.com

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Irony Pinot Noir 2010

2012-04-15 Ichimusai

Irony Pinot Noir

One of the best Pinot Noirs I have had the pleasure to be aquainted with. I just had it with dinner and some strong cheese afterwards. The cheese where cave-stored Gruyere, a well done Brie, Saint Agure and a piece of Chistera.

The best cheese with the wine was the Gruyere followed by the Saint Agure which made lots of flavours come through.

The wine is recommended for lamb, bird and pig dishes. The taste has tones of oak, plum, ripe strawberries, coffee, mint and chocolate and a faint tone of leather and caramel.

All in all it is an excellent reason why Pinot Noir are by some considered the noblest of all the grapes. I also believe you can store this wine and it will be even greater. I have another bottle that I will bring down in the cellar to store for a while and decant in another five years perhaps.

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