PinnedA week in paradise: part 2“I’m used to it.” And so reality finally caught up with us. Wednesday went well, and Thursday passed without major problems. We had a really nice time barbecuing freshly caught fish, hot dogs, and reindeer and had a bath in the lake and the kids had a great time with…Humor3 min read
PinnedAmong laptops and vampires“It’s ok, I saved the laptop!” I just returned from UK to Sweden after a week of standup gigs in and around London. This was also the first time I met my friend Paul-a cult comedian on the British standup circuit. …Humor6 min read
PinnedA WEEK IN PARADISE (part one)Summer, holidays and a future close to hell. At last it was time for us to leave. Already two days before our departure the wife had packed half our apartment in bags — “well, we must take it with us, what if they don’t have one”, “you never know if…Humor4 min read
PinnedHow to tell a child it’s dead”Have you spoken to her?” ”Not yet” The two parent were wispering to each other so that their daughter wouldn’t hear. Father glanced over at the daughter. No, she didn’t seem to have heard. She seemed busy trying to fish out her left eye from the bowl of cornflakes in…Horror5 min read
PinnedYour email app can save timeIn my earlier article “Time blocking made my life calmer” I wrote about how I with the help of ideas from among others Carl Pullein managed to get a structure for my calendar and task manager in iOS and MacOS. This has helped me in finding a way to get…Time Blocking6 min read
Jun 9How to save time and actually do somethingDrop your apps, save time and become productive As I have mentioned in other articles I am a really really good procrastinator. If there is a way for me to loose track of what I am supposed to do, I follow that way. Or at least, I did. But since I started to work with time blocking I…Time Management4 min read
May 13The Vomiting Frog“Goddammit! This is SOO good! Check it out! Damn it, it’s SOO fucking great!” Dagobert was obviously totally sold on the new rock-album he brought home to the dorm, waving it around in the air above his head. The album cover was a black and white photo of four longhaired…Humour5 min read
May 9In the footsteps of Baudelaire— my short life as a poet All good stories start with the words “once upon a time”. And so does this one. Once upon a time there was a website called Poetry.com. It is not the same Poetry.com you find today. The one I found was an older one, which now has disappeared. If that has…Poetry3 min read
May 9Why I left 1Password… and then came back As a longtime user of 1Password I was like so many others disappointed when they released their v8 Beta in 2021. Slow, filled with bugs and chewed up memory like a hungry and mad alligator. …1 Password5 min read
May 2Trom-six episodes of wasted timeWhat seemed to be an interesting idea to put a nordic crime story on a remote Atlantic island nation, after the first half of the first episode really never caught my interest. First: accolades and some handclaps to those who came up with the idea to make a crime story…Nordic Crime4 min read