The Original Geek aka Mattias Pettersson

Here we go again...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:15:00 +0200

I’ve always been a big dude, even when I was younger and did competitive swimming I was still ‘fat’. I’ve tried most of the types of diets out there. Be it weightwatchers, atkins, itrim among others. Some more successful than others.

Now I’ve actually found something that might be possible to use for an extended time and that seems to be working, for other at least. I’m actually looking forward to starting it - which is weird in itself.

Tim Ferriss book The Four Hour Body is the reason behind me finding it, after tips from my sister and a former workmate that was reading it. After divulging the content on what you should and shouldn’t eat during this diet both me and my wife concluded: “this diet we can live with”. The reason is simple. There’s a scheduled cheatday and it’s ‘mandatory’.

I’m not going to cheat Tim from his money by giving you the diet in it’s glory - just google 4hourbody or 4hbody and you’ll find lots of info on the subject.

Me and my wife, as well as a colleague at work are starting this coming monday. I’m giving myself 100 SEK per kilo I lose - payable if/when I reach my ‘final’ goal. That being 90 kilos (I might reconsider and go lower when and if I reach it). I will not be posting my starting weight here - I’ll give you, on a weekly basis, the amount of lost kilos as well as the centimeters lost in total (having measured both arms, chest, stomache, behind and thighs and then presenting the total of those measurements).

Added later for clarity: We will not be doing the diet during my summer vacation of three weeks - but we’ll ‘reset’ and ‘restart’ the moment it’s over and keep running it. Although we might do it - but we’re saying we won’t in case we don’t want to :)

Slow Carb Diet vs The 4-Hour Body: Some have said that it’s a waste of money to buy the book since it’s basically a regular Slow Carb Diet. Yes, I guess it is - but like a aquiantance said ‘a good diet is diet that works’ - and we’re going to see if it does :)

If anyone has any ideas for bets, for motivation, to be made let me know - I’m open for it!

Start: Monday May 28th 2012 - but you’ll get the first measurements the week after :-)

Tiresome statistics

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:43:52 +0200

I can get very, very ‘tired’ from time to time. Especially when I’m told that “hey, our ranking on ‘arbitrary rankingsite’ is declining”. I answer: so? does anyone take notice of that site? Yes, they claim.

So I look into how this ranking is done. The quick answer? The bulk of the ranking is done using the toolbar that people have to install. Well.. suffice to say, I haven’t installed a toolbar during the last 10 years on any computer. I haven’t seen anyone, in my part of the world, using a toolbar - other than the default ones that came with the browser - during the last 10 years either.

But for some reason some agencies take notice of what ‘arbitrary rankingsite’ thinks. So now I have to increase our ranking on this ‘arbitrary rankingsite’. Due to that fact I’ve found out what SEO-consultancy firms do for a living and man.. in most cases it’s not a pretty sight to see what they’re up to.

I don’t deny that they normally work, they get the job done, but what the **** - it’s a manipulation of data that is only made to do one thing - increase your ranking in different searchengines. They artificially inflate the number of links you get to your site, they artificially adds more visitors to your website - and for that they take ‘top dollar’.

I thought that I had an idea what to do to make a website more or less searchable and more indexed on a searchengine (like for example google). But I’m an honest mane.. I can’t go around setting up fake websites that links to my own websites just to boost my own website. It’s making me sick seeing that people actually get paid to blow smoke up the searchengine’s *** to ‘boost’ the traffic so you can end up higher up on your ranking.

Ok, I’m ranting I know, but sometimes you have to do that as well.. now back to figuring out how to increase our rating, without actually blowing smoke up it’s *** and faking it.

thisistheverge: Apple reports Q2 2012 results: $39.2 billion...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:47:18 +0200

thisistheverge:

Apple reports Q2 2012 results: $39.2 billion revenue

35 million iPhones, 12 million iPads

I wish I could make that amount of money

"Att tänka innan man talar är som att torka sig i arslet innan man skiter…"

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:44:00 +0200

“Att tänka innan man talar är som att torka sig i arslet innan man skiter…”

- Arne Anka (och kanske Gert Fylking)

Spotify can never be profitable?

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:39:26 +0200

Spotify can never be profitable?:

Michael Robertsson thinks that Spotify never can be profitable like iTunes. Interesting read, but it is by default, speculative.

Waiting

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:12:45 +0200

For some reason I always keep hearing Flash and the Pans - Waiting for a train when I get into ‘waiting for something’ mode.

Currently waiting for what you ask?

We had a client conference today and I’m just waiting for the verdict on our offer. Since it’s been a rather long road getting to this point it would be nice if we could get the order. Even though it would mean ‘hell’ for a while in terms of workload.

Keeping my fingers crossed. Sources say the meeting went well, now we’re just waiting to hear…

If you don’t know the song I mentioned above.. you can listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skVv0__xKdY

Recording for nordic brand of headache medication

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:13:23 +0100

Recording for nordic brand of headache medication

Recording in progress. VoiceOver for a lottery in Sweden.

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:56:57 +0100

Recording in progress. VoiceOver for a lottery in Sweden.

Pinot Noir X2 - en USA o en Nya Zealand / on Instagram...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:49:14 +0100

Pinot Noir X2 - en USA o en Nya Zealand / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/IAKOPav7eN/

Frun väntar på vin och ost :) / on Instagram...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:19:17 +0100

Frun väntar på vin och ost :) / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/IAGnntv7dX/

Flash Media Encoder for broadcasting with WebcamStudio For GNU/Linux

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:27:02 +0100

Flash Media Encoder for broadcasting with WebcamStudio For GNU/Linux:

kloningspoon:

This is a basic setup that should work without any glitch. Feel free to improve the script on the FFMPEG parameters like changing the bitrates, output size, etc… For now, FFMPEG seems to only be able to support YUV webcam, RGB does not seems to work for now. On my laptop, I was able to broadcast at 10 fps, maybe recompiling FFMPEG could improve that…

Surely it will work with other provider like Bambuser, or any other supporting FME broadcast… Have fun!

Nice setup. Will try it :)

(P)interestingly enough. Have a read...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:32:55 +0100

(P)interestingly enough. Have a read...:

A lawyer deleted her pinterest boards out of fear. I actually got scared to when I read it. Perhaps I should move away from pinterest…

webmsmith: Lines in the sand. Who needs Twitter and that social...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0100

webmsmith:

Lines in the sand. Who needs Twitter and that social media stuff for business? We have Facebook. Who needs Facebook for business? We have perfectly good email. Who needs email? We have a fax machine. Who needs a fax machine? We have a landline. Who needs a landline? We have the postal service.

People always draw lines in the sand. And then embrace the technology when it becomes common practice. Early adoption is seldom a waste; innovation has its benefits.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:25:41 +0100

“Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem”

- Gabe Newell of Valve. (via kennethto)

Birthdaycruise...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:41:00 +0100

Me and my wife likes to cruise the baltic sea and this afternoon we leave for Helsinki. Since we go quite often we’ve managed to get a “free” cruise with one of the best cabins they have. Commodore class is high up, with quite a luxurious way of travelling. You even get ‘Commodore Lounge’ where you can escape the rest of the travellers and just sit down, look forward and have some free coffee. The personell working in the lounge can help you with bookings and the like - It’s, suffice to say, really nice. We’ve tried a few times to have the breakfast delivered to the cabin and it’s better than the ones you get in the restaurants. This time we’ll take that both ways :)

We’ve also decide on one of the dinners during this 40 hour cruise. I’ll let you load the link here instead of posting the whole thing it’s called Menu Signature on page 4. Sounds good eh?

To the left here is the ship itself. It’s the type where you have a ‘street’ in the middle of the ship where all the restaurants, bars and shops are. All the entertainment are front and aft parts. So… as usual, we hope it will be a nice trip. But if all else fails we can lock us in the cabin and just relax or spend the time trying some new wines in the winebar.

thisistheverge: Now, some might wonder why Barack endorses...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:59:14 +0100

thisistheverge:

Now, some might wonder why Barack endorses Spotify, a Swedish service, instead of a made-in-America offering like MOG, but we’re guessing Obama needs the deep, obscure cuts that only Spotify can provide him. (via Barack Obama tweets his campaign Spotify playlist, election cycle has officially begun | The Verge)

He does it because spotify, from sweden, is better than your local MOG? :)

Smush.it™ - Yahoo! Developer Network

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:25 +0100

Smush.it™ - Yahoo! Developer Network:

kloningspoon:

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a “lossless” tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality.

I use smush.it in most of my wordpress-sites I make.. better to “flush” the crap out of the images on the way into the system. :)

thisistheverge: It’s not the first time Apple has streamed a...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:02:17 +0100

thisistheverge:

It’s not the first time Apple has streamed a concert, of course — last year’s month long iTunes Festival London could be streamed through iTunes and an iOS app — but it’s the first one that will be on Apple TV instead of the iPhone and iPad.

via Free Paul McCartney concert to be streamed via iTunes, Apple TV | The Verge

About time that they try this.

KLoning Spoon: 19 ffmpeg commands for all needs

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:03:15 +0100

KLoning Spoon: 19 ffmpeg commands for all needs:

kloningspoon:

ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. I have compiled 19 useful and amazing commands covering almost all needs: video conversion, sound extraction, encoding file for iPod or PSP, and more.

Getting infos from a video file
ffmpeg -i video.avi
Turn X images to a…

justbeingseriouslysocial: 5 Stages of a PR...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:58:07 +0100

justbeingseriouslysocial:

5 Stages of a PR Disaster

Corporations needs to figure this one out… social media is killing them if they don’t accept their responsibility…