jernstrom.org

I always thought of my site as a public notepad. I guess I have once again regressed  back to putting notes in Notepad.exe and putting URLs and binaries to a web drive that no one, except perhaps me, benefits of.

It’s not like I’ve been personally doing anything fancy, I’m just gathering and building upon other peoples achievements. I’m having a bit of a rough time as my interest sphere is quite over encompassing and feeling a bit uncertain of where to at technology wise – what to consult, what to advice…I’m not sure, I’m confused and I’m undecided. Certainly my work-life points me to a certain direction, and that’s a relief, but at the same time, real-life and autistic interest point to a much broader direction.

That’s my random thought    

So, my kid brother is in Sydney, down under, cuddling Koalas and boxing Kangaroos. Well, the saved money was running dry and he didn’t take my advice of taking a job carrying banana boxes back and forth in the Sydney harbor (gah! that’s a good job as any!), no siree, instead he ventured into doing some White Hat SEO stuff.

As the helpful brother I am, I decided to help him out so that he didn’t have to SEO stuff for others but have this entire planet desperately SEO his search engine instead.

Here’s a screenshot of the prototype version. Any resemblance to an actual search engine is entirely coincidental.

At home I’m still using my age-old Linksys WRT54GS router, it’s such a fantastic piece of hardware! Back when I bought the the router I tested various alternative firmware’s, but settled for OpenWrt/X-Wrt.   

Well, a few days ago when I felt  it was that upgrade time again I thought to have another try at the other firmware’s again. That’s when I instantly fell in love with (a) Tomato! I mean, just the name! Who the hell would call a router Tomato?! By that definition it had to be something extra special.  And, boy it certainly was!

Check out linksysinfo.org forums for more info, add-ons and mods. The picture above is from the latest Vicitec Mod of Tomato that I’m currently running.

The initial joy was severely taken down when I found out that Kimmo was the dog in the magazine. Damn!

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The reference was made to Jonas Birgersson, a classical figure in Swedish IT culture.

I’m not so much into music /your typical radio guy, but sometimes I’d like to listen to recent/way back tunes. Downloading gets tiresome as it’s now and here,  then – Gone!

Spotify provides a good alternative but how long will it last? Already are we seeing rights owners (quite  NOT…another topic) quietly disappearing. Are the revenues displeasing?

[Edit 09-01-29] Seems I beated Spotify blog on this with 11 days

Crumbling under the weight of this cruel season.
How I long to climb the stairway to the warmth of the sun…