Jonas Beckman

Unfortunately, the first round of antibiotics doesn’t seem to have cured my ear.

Jill Walker recently started an interesting discussion by revealing her recent breakup in a very subtle way.

Via Det perfekta romrummet, I find a new magazine with some fascinating speculation about next-generation social values.
In summary: the world is so unpredictable that young Americans will become conformists prepared to rule the world, Germans just conformists and Swedes subcultural has-beens. We’ll see about that, I guess… I’m just an aging gen-X:er, so what do I know?

Hal is linking to a common favorite today. Matt Rossi has found a new home and an awesome URL for his demented meanderings: onceinoticediwasonfireidecidedtorelaxandenjoythefall.

BTW - Hal, I really appreciated your kind words a little while ago.

Exactitudes is "[…] an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity"
Via Neablog

API Changes between versions of the .NET Framework.
Via ScottW’s ASP.NET WebLog. I may not join the Borg anytime soon… but I work a lot with C# right now, so I am really glad there are plenty of DotNet webloggers around.

My old HyperCard hero Dan Shafer and Robert Scoble disagree on Open Source

Kevin Altis: Python is an Agile programming language!

Do people tell their diaries the truth? I always do, of course . Via mymarkup.net

Got an enthusiastic SMS from a very old friend last week and went to see Tiny Dynamite (Dynamit in Teater Galeasen’s Swedish version). She was right.

First some good work. We had five hours to put together a release today and we did.

Then I started my weekend with another long massage session. I was surprisingly relaxed when it started, so we went deep.

George Orwell, in 1946: Politics and the English Language

Is there still a place for tragedy in modern society? Via Dangerousmeta

War Watch, a daily look at claims and counter claims made during the media war over Iraq. Brittish newspaper The Guardian is looking better and better. Found via the online journal of the Swedish journalist trade union

Perhaps it’s just my recent ear inflammation. But all week I’ve felt intense waves of love and sadness. Last year ended the way it had to - but I still don’t understand what hurt so much. And it’s not for lack of either analytical ability or soul-searching.

I do know that the never-ending lies wore me down. When even good memories are suspect, it’s hard to learn and forgive.

I once bought a t-shirt that said: Understanding Is Love. Perhaps I shouldn’t have - because I believed it. That’s what I wanted to do and what I wanted done to me. And I still do.

Who the fuck says truth is boring and passion comes from telling interesting lies? Not me. I’m free and I’ll die burning with passion, not just hoping I got away with one more lie than the other assholes.

Be careful about what you find via Google. From The Register

BTW, I’m surprised the antibiotics kicked in so quickly. Yesterday I almost fainted after walking four blocks to the doctor, then spent all day in bed. Of course, I’m very tired today and my ear still hurts - but overall, I feel almost well again.

Otitis hurt when I was a child - and it still does. It is also called swimmers ear.

Let’s hope the antibiotics work quickly this time. I want to get back into the pool.

Catherine Bennet on the curse of 24-hour television.

Seymour Hersh has the story on why USA doesn’t have enough troops in Iraq.

Plenty of thoughtful articles on the Iraq war at Cursor

Alternet is an alternative news portal with lots of anti-war articles.

Release every Monday - how is that for an XP slogan? Anyway, we currently do and so far it works.

Tim Bray: Why XML doesn’t suck

Kendall Clark: XML isn’t too hard

Patterns and Best Practices for Enterprise Integration

Martin Fowler: The new methodology

Too much free software?

Tim Bray: XML is too hard for programmers

A Novices Tutorial on Subversion
Subversion is a very interesting replacement for CVS - I’ve been tracking it for a while and will probably switch in a few months. There is even a clone of my favorite CVS add-on TortoiseCVS

Inetmedia fokus: Kriget i Irak

Michael Moore: Starting a ruccus was the right thing to do

Don’t try this at home - do it in the pool!
From BBC Sport academy, swimming section.