Jacken’s Blog

Entries from September 2006

Xbox 360

September 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Micke, Pär and me had a gaming weekend. They dropped over to my place and played all day and night. And it was so fun that I had to get myself an Xbox 360.

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Mighty Mouse, yeah right

September 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I got a new Bluetooth Apple Mighty Mouse a couple of weeks ago, and let’s face it, Apple can not design a mouse. The Bluetooth reception is good, and so is the battery life, but it has several problems. To get it to right-click is a gamble. Yes, I know you have to lift your [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

Xtorrent

September 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I found this great bittorrent client called Xtorrent. And what a lovely application. It’s still in beta, but it works like a charm. This is now my preferred bittorrent client.

So what’s so nice about it? Well, how about being able to do torrent searches inside the app? A very nice interface? Easy handling of [...]

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Tags: Technical stuff

MacBook Pro

September 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments

Today I ordered a new MacBook Pro 17″. So finally I’m going to get my greedy hands on on an Intel mac. It’s about time to get back to work on JackenIAX, and this could be a good reason for it.

My first choice was the 15″, but I’m about to set up my stationary machine [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken

Ruby on Rails Beginners

September 12th, 2006 · No Comments

After reading Agile Web development with Rails, I still didn’t feel I had a grasp on how Ruby on Rails worked. It didn’t go into detail on how everything worked made it harder to learn. I don’t feel I was ripped off when buying this book, but I looked for a better one. And I [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken · Programming

Drupal Blog

September 10th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m thinking of moving over my blog to a new Drupal site instead. There’s already a module to import WordPress data into drupal. But I really have to try out some rewrite rules so all the old links works. It looks like I’m getting to be a real Drupal fan boy…

I also just started to [...]

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Tags: Life and times of Jacken