Brasklapp

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:37 GMT

Sweden saunters leisurely into the century of the bonobo.

(It was that or gay penguin.)

Complain and ye shall receive

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:53:34 GMT

Monday afternoon, I asked the people in the nextdoor recruitment/personnel company about if they knew someone around here who could be interested in doing some proofing and language quality jobs.

Yesterday, I complained here about the tediousness of doing proofing and language quality of your own texts.

Today, a journalist who just got notice from her newspaper walked up to the office hotel for some networking and possible leads - and she loves doing language quality work!

Things that suck

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:09:25 GMT

Proofing my own translations. Especially when the CAT tool isn't suited to the type of document that I've translated.

AKICILJ: Backup solutions

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:23:02 GMT

I've been active as a freelance translator for close to a year now, and it's way overdue to think about backup and archiving.

What I have is:

1 basic PC with Windows Vista SP1 Business
1 MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5 (due for upgrade to 10.6)

Both are networked in the office, using an (for practical purposes) unsecured network. Occasionally, I work with restricted stuff for paranoid customers, and creating my own little physical subnet will probably be frowned upon. Right now I mostly use a memory stick to move files between the computers (it's easier and more secure than opening up file sharing).

Other than some basic security, I want it to be as hassle-free and simple as possible. A single solution for both computers would be a big plus. The data volume is modest - 500 GB would probably last me for a year, 1 TB for the foreseeable future. Low noise levels is very desirable.

The main questions are:

Are the built-in backup tools up to snuff? (The reports about Time Machine I've read are favourable, but I don't know about the Windows side.)

What hardware can be recommended?

Travelouge, part N of N

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:40:41 GMT

All of us have been busy vacationing for the last two weeks. First ten days with thette's parents in Boden, with plenty of excursions around northern Sweden, among them Storforsen, and Hulda got to spend a lot of time with her cousins (translation: they lived with us).

We flew back to Stockholm Wednesday, and Thursday and Saturday was mostly spent prepping for Lars-Olov's 80th birthday (Lars-Olov is the Swedish BNF, and was the FGoH of Worldcon 2004). We managed to visit the amusement park Gröna Lund to Hulda's delight on the Friday, and Aquaria on Sunday, before it was time for Lars-Olov's party, which was a roaring success. The surprise of the evening was when teroyks turned up.

Now thette is off with part of the luggage to meet uistic, and Hulda and I will soon follow suit. Back home tonight!

Startup Adventures, part 8

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:16:33 GMT

May was entirely too little work.

Now, I went from a 20% workload, mostly private stuff, to 120%. After Aplakonen, it'll be only 100%.

Aplakonen, and Hulda's smart

Mon, 04 May 2009 14:30:33 GMT

I'm probably a bad person for not mentioning this before here, but the planning for Aplakonen continues. The last few days brought several fans being interested, and I hope we can get a few more to attend. Beer, whiskies and relaxing will be the high points, with smoffing thrown in. The really nice part is that our GoH – Glenn Petersen – gets married just a few days before, and what better way to start on a honeymoon than as the GoH at a nice con?

I had been having some serious doubts earlier, but after Alcocon in Gothenburg I decided the only real way forward was, well, forward.

Hulda's growing smarter every day. When we came home from daycare she noted a small white leaf lying on the ground outside our door. She picked it up, examined it, and pronounced it must have blown here from somewhere. Then she looked around, and noted a tree with white leaves about ten meters away (I think it's a cherry, but I'm not sure), and said it must have blown from there.

Job-wise has been all right March and April, but the big job I expected during May was delayed to June (at least I got some prior warning, and was expecting some delays anyway). I've got a job lined up, but it's very long-term and not that well-paying.

The idea that broke thette's brain

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:52:10 GMT

During our increasingly strange conversation during supper, I got the fanfic idea that broke thette's brain: a Chalion fanfic, in Gorean style.

I'm thinking I'll have to scrub my own brain too.

Hooray, hooray, it's April tenth

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:23:50 GMT

outdoor swimming begins today!

Yep, when my father and Hulda went to the nearby lake earlier today, Hulda wasn't satisfied with standing ten seconds barefoot in the water – she got naked and run around.

Startup Adventures, part 7

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:47:37 GMT

Success! My first localisation project as a freelancer is now available on iTunes app store: Diceshaker (it's free, for all cheapskates out there).

Hey, Weasel!

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:01:48 GMT

Got something for you! Where should I send it?

(Comments screened, naturally.)

Startup Adventures, part 5

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:26:45 GMT

I've been approved for membership in the Swedish Association of Professional Translators!

Still waiting for the rest of the money I'm owed for the jobs I did in December. Bummer.

Just for theweaselking

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:26:46 GMT

Do you think you have managed to crash your car spectacularly? What about through the church roof?

Startup Adventures, part 4

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:17:35 GMT

Money, sweet money!

About bloody time, too. And I still owe the bank some money, but there should be some more money coming in during the week, anyway.

Startup adventures, part 3

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:34:15 GMT

Things I never thought I would do that I did today:

Wrote the first draft for the script to a commercial.

I'll have to make sure I get copies of the finished product.

Searching for botmommy

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:33:47 GMT

Anyone having any contact info to get in touch with our dear botmommy, Erica Sadun? Finding her web page is easy, but I'd prefer using e-mail rather than public comments.

Comments screened.

Advantages to small-town life

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:47:33 GMT

Day before yesterday (ie Thursday) we visited the nearby appliance store just before closing time, to buy a new washing machine and dryer (the ones in the house when we bought it were quite old and tired - especially the dryer was ancient). They had a nice sale on decent Whirlpool machines, and we enquired into delivery, installation and handling of the old machines.

The guy in the store said, almost apologetically, that he had to make the delivery Friday mid-morning, otherwise we had to wait until Monday. In Stockholm, we had to wait over a week for delivery.

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:01:37 GMT

Wee Vishnu a merry crushed moose, and a hoppy jew near.

Mmm...

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:54:02 GMT

Bacon...

All software sucks

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:06:20 GMT

Especially that which doesn't have an option for including the name of the document when you print said document.

Return of the timmybot

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:45:21 GMT

Seen in the comments in a recent Ars technica post:

blackfrog:
bob, darling, perhaps Erica could build an Apple analytical robot, be parsing and negating statements made by Hesseldahl ... (!)

It's the return of the timmybot, by our own Auntie Erica.

Konversation i ett hem

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:05:31 GMT

KJ: Är det med?
T: Inte bara det, med kir.
KJ: Det kunde jag aldrig ana.
T: Det är en sån ort vi bor i.
KJ: En hel rad, således.

An encore!

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:10:39 GMT

Since I accidentally broke rimrunner's LJ yesterday, here's an encore with Black Ingvars doing Schnappi das kleine Krokodil:

PSA for krfsm-lesss people

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:52:28 GMT

krfsm, in the kindness of his evil, cold, hard and square heart, sends us this cover of "Take On Me" from Northern Kings

Det här kan väl inte stämma, eller...

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:43:55 GMT

Fick en märkligt ögonblick idag när jag skulle ringa upp Olof på Tanto: tjejen som svarade hette Anna och svarade ganska likt Anna Goméz. Jag fick ett väldigt konstigt ögonblick där innan hjärnan slutgiltigt kopplade att det var en annan Anna.

Jag har även översatt så mycket idag att ena pekfingret börjat få ett skärsår från nageln. Inte lika häftigt som Scalzi's youghurt, men ändå...