Antidepressants don’t work for people who are not depressed February 28, 2008

I saw an article Antidepressants don’t work – official study on my friend’s delicious page. Knowing his political inclinations, I promptly recognised the subtext big bad companies making millions by selling snake oil.
In cases like this I always go to Slashdot Science to find proper discussion and second opinions. And here it was:
The study did [...]

Going out February 27, 2008

Today was the first day for almost a week that I had time to write this blog.
I spent hours surfing the net. Occasionally staring at the few sentences I’ve managed to draft in an editor window.
I have to go out. Actually, I think I’ll visit a restaurant again.

Dream fantasy February 25, 2008

A year or two ago I found an excellent cover of King Crimson’s 21:th century schizoid man sung by Minoru Niihara. However, I couldn’t find it any more.
Here’s the best song by Niihara’s former (and also current since 2006 – I found this out while searching for pages to link) band Loudness, Dream fantasy:
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OK February 25, 2008

It is Monday and everything seems to be OK. At least this site tries to tell us so.

Weekend February 22, 2008

I’ll be having a rather uneventful weekend. I’ll spend it off the Net and mostly out of town too.
But don’t worry. I’ll be back next week. Hopefully rested and hungrier for action. And in a better mood.

Flaneuring February 22, 2008

Yesterday I ate my lunch at a restaurant. It was just an ordinary hotel restaurant, and I happened to be the only customer at the time.
The waitress was very friendly and even apologised for the cleaning staff vacuuming in the lobby. I told her it’s okay. Actually it was nice to have some noise to [...]

Bad studying habits – a case study February 22, 2008

A friend of mine is writing her thesis (at last). She’s not reading this, so I can tell you how much her plans suck:

She’s made a schedule, which is basically fine. Too bad she’s planned to work ten hours every day. I told her she’d have twice more done by halving the daily toil.
She hasn’t [...]

Fast cars February 21, 2008

Cars making speed records in Bonneville Salt Flats. Can anything be more straightforwardly boyish and fun?
I got this link from a friend of mine. We went to school together and we were interested in things ten year old boys usually are (or at least were at the time): cars, trains, aeroplanes, space exploration, and Second [...]

Billy Cobham / Tommy Bolin: Stratus February 20, 2008

Some weeks ago a friend of mine stated that this is the best music ever made. I cannot exactly recall when or who. We were very drunk or something.
I wrote this to test how to embed a video in a WordPress blog. Not very convincing. Seems like the video doesn’t scale [...]

The top 5 uncommon timesavers for bloggers/writers February 20, 2008

This excellent list by Tim Ferris is a must read for every writer. I’ve been blogging for over five years but still learned a lot from it. These are the things you seldom come to think about, as obvious as they seem in retrospect.
My favourite is number four, thinking in lists. Mostly it’s just brainstorming. [...]