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My unsent letter to my biological parents I’ve not met since I was just a baby

I’ve not met my biological parents since I was less than a year old (I don’t remember much from that time). I don’t know anything about them or why they chose to leave me and my brother up for adoption. … Read more

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Programming revitalization

Recently I posted an embarrasingly bad question at http://programmers.stackexchange.com (no you can’t read it). The thing is that I’ve been way out of my programming form of late and was not thinking straight, thus I had misconceptions about how good … Read more

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Things that have never been said on the Internet

– I never have anything to complain about. – That girl really could use some more clothes. – YouTube comments always give good insight on the movie in subject and other related and unrelated topics. – When I disagree with … Read more

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Sharing of information, social media and privacy – before and now

As I can’t sleep I’ve decided to scribble down some thoughts regarding sharing of information, social media and privacy. It’s interesting how in my younger days I was obsessed, well maybe not intentionally, about sharing information about me and getting … Read more

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iGoogle replacements

Netvibes Netvibes may be my iGoogle replacement of choice as of now. It seems to be fairly flexible and also importing the iGoogle feeds to Netvibes was a breeze. Appearently Netvibes requires the import file to be in an OPML … Read more

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Apple location services you think you need enabled but you don’t

So you don’t fancy the fact that Apple knows where you are at all times? Then you’ve probably browsed through the “Location Services” items in the Settings menu and you’ve also looked through the cunningly named “System Services” section. With … Read more

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Readability is important – programming principle that should be used by everyone

When you’re working in programming teams, code readability is very important to the overall quality of the system – that is if you care for it in the long run. You have to consider that other people don’t know what … Read more

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I’m scared to death of flying…

Well ok, not really, but now as we just took off from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok I felt genuine fear. It’s funny because I’ve flown over 50 times in my life and have probably flown every year of the majority … Read more

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Applying for visa/residence permit at Norwegian Embassy in Thailand? READ THIS

If you’re going to apply for a visa, or in my case a residence permit for a cohabitant, to a schengen country from Thailand then for your own good PLEASE USE A PROPER TRANSLATION SERVICE. Me and my cohabitant have … Read more

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Microsoft Word 2007 – Annoying hidden sub headings

There’s few things that are more annoying than starting Microsoft Office, start writing and then spend 10 minutes figuring out how to f*#&(“=+ structure your content in subheadings. Here’s how you do it and make Word remember it until next … Read more

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