Jacken’s Blog

Entries from November 2004

Reise, Reise

November 19th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Just back from the Rammstein concert. And it was bloody good. They managed to fill Globen, so there was a lot of people there. The opening numbers were great. But it sagged half way in into the consert. But they managed to lift the consert, and the ending was spectacular. They played all songs I [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

G4 Optimized Firefox

November 18th, 2004 · No Comments

If your on a G4 machine, there is now a recompiled version of FireFox optimized for PowerPC G4. You can find it here. This will give you a faster experience.

There’s also a G5 optimized Firefox that you can find here.

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Tags: Technical stuff

Rabbit

November 18th, 2004 · No Comments

What have you been doing the last 15 minutes? Well, I’ve been playing with my rabbit.

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Tags: Weird on the net

Try for equilibrium

November 18th, 2004 · No Comments

A couple of days ago, me and my wife was out shopping. I needed some processor paste so we went by a typical large PC retailer out in a place called Sickla. On our way out, my wife told me to check out the support area that was located directly at the entry of the [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Real band

November 16th, 2004 · 3 Comments

My friend Jacob called. He’s the producer of the band Rammstein. They are playing here in Stockholm on thursday, and he had a ticket for me. Yay! They had to move the concert to Globen because ticket sales is higher than expected. Jacob got a call yesterday from the keyboard player who told him that [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Corporate ethics

November 16th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Did big companies ever have morals? In a world where Disney lobbies Washington to prolong the copyright time so their oldest films doesn’t go public domain. And then look what kind of films they do. Old stories that they take from the public domain for free.

Companies like Microsoft manage to get away with anything.The teflon [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

I need more

November 15th, 2004 · 2 Comments

So I got my hands on a ProFoto studio flash system. But as soon as you start using them, you realize that you need more stuff. You need background paper (buying that tomorrow), I also would like to have at least two more flashes, one for hair highlight and one for background illumination. But in [...]

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Tags: Photography

Studio flash

November 14th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Tomorrow my friend Stefan Boman is coming over. He’s bringing his studio flash kit so I can try out flash photography with some good gear. He’s a professional motorsport photographer, so he does not take studio photos too often, so I hope I can have the flashes for a couple of days. It will be [...]

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Tags: Photography

A day in my action life

November 13th, 2004 · No Comments

Today when I got out of the front door of my apartment, I met six police officers (two of them wearing riot shields) Apparently they was looking for my neighbor. I resisted my initial urge to ask what they wanted, but I which I had done it now. I wonder why they where there…

By the [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Yohoo! Who’s the man?

November 13th, 2004 · 2 Comments

After reading Mike Littles blog about him being the number one Mike on google, I thought I just give my name a try. And I can now say that I’m now officially the new number one Jacken. When doing a search for Jacken (which incidentally means jacket in German) you’ll find this blog as number [...]

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