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By fungrim, June 18, 2010 19:41

Since someone asked, here’s a run down of the Internet applications I regularly use, and why. Enjoy!

• Google (there’ll be some of these):
  • Gmail – Since I started GTD’ing I’ve come to realize how much an empty inbox is worth. But then, you need search capabilities to back it up. At the moment, I’m doing all my emails, private and business, via Google. Also, the Android Gmail application rocks.
  • Calendar – What can I say? It is simply the best. I currently have 2 calendars for myself, one for me and one for my business appointments, as well as one calendar for St Jacobs Chamber choir.
  • Reader – Again, the best of the bunch. The ability to stay in sync with your reading list is a must have. I kind of like the interface as well. And I use NewsRob on Android too.
  • Documents – Not so much, but it is convenient at times. Otherwise I’m very much off-line when it comes to document management and editing.
  • Picasa – This is where my public albums live. That’s right, you may be in there! Have a look, fungrim’s the name.
• Remember the Milk – This is where my tasks and projects live. Live the simplicity, the Android application, and the name. I’m a paying user here.
• Hootsuite – The geek weapon for managing you social presence. Good stuff, but not for the weak hearted. I currently use it for Facebook (daytime), 2 twitter accounts and my LinkedIn account.
• Evernote – Together with WebClipper it’s the ultimate web reference tool. This is where I collect references and ideas. Good Android application too.
• TripIt – Damn convenient! Just forward your booking email to it and you have it all sorted out. This saves you from receiving a booking confirmation for, say, a flight and then manually insert it to your calendar. Decent Android application.
• Dropbox – Again, damn convenient! A shared storage that just works. Access the same folder from multiple computers. There’s all sorts of neat stuff you can do with this, and I have only started.
• Xmarks – Bookmark synchronising over multiple browsers. What would I be without it?

All of the above with the exception of Xmarks and Hootsuite works very well with Android (xmarks doesn’t exist on Android and the Hootsuite application isn’t very good) which is perfect, I’m a very happy nerd!

And yes, I’m on Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and LinkedIn as well. You’ll find links to my profiles below:

• http://fungrim.wordpress.com/
• http://www.facebook.com/larsan
• http://twitter.com/fungrim
• http://se.linkedin.com/in/fungrim

That’s about it. Not too addicted, eh?

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By fungrim, July 7, 2009 23:13

Erhm… Båstad Chamber Music Festival, St Jacobs Chamber Choir in Haarlem, Holland, Brügge with Herr Mürberg and soon also a trekking trip. All will be told, only later.

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By fungrim, April 12, 2009 20:12

And so I’m a GTD acolyte. Wish my luck, it’ll sure be interesting.

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By fungrim, January 18, 2009 19:33

To those close to me, it’s no secret that I have been too close the wall for comfort the last couple of months. Since November I’ve tried to step down a bit, to sleep more and to relax. However, I’m getting more and more certain that this may not be enough.

For years I’ve known that the ambition driving me has been, and continues to be, fairly destructive. However, I’ve not seen any easy way out; this really is the only way I know of to be me. I’ve dreamt of getting to a point in life where I could stop, just sit down for as long as it takes until I’ve found a new way, a new contract with myself.

But now it seems the choice has been forced upon me.

So what to do?

I’ll start here. There’s three things I need to put down, objectives to aim for the next 6 month, goals to keep in sight for the long run, and a set of aphorisms to steer by. These lists will probably be updated and updated as I go on, but that’s the point.

Objectives

• Sleep more.
• Get fit.
• Sing more.

Goals

• Get well (duh).
• A new contract. I must be able to have ambitions and dreams without paying this kind of price. It would be nice to be content with what I am, instead of what I do, or even worse, what I could do.

Aphorisms

• Change “must” for “want to” or “would like to”.
• Don’t be afraid to fail, or to appear weak; it’s only human.
• Never delay tasks that take less than a minute to do (you do have the time).
• Do stop and smell the flowers.

And I leave you tonight with a poem, in Swedish I’m afraid, that I remember from long time ago. This poem echoed in my soul once, to the point where I printed it on my first website. Perhaps it is time for me to see if I can find that young man, so desperate to sing, again.

‘Til next time, good night.

Jag har drömt… (Dan Andersson)
Jag har drömt jag skulle sjunga vad jag känner,
hur jag hatar, hur jag älskar, hur jag bannar, hur jag ber,
hur i vanvett jag flyr från mina vänner,
och i mörkret till den okände ber.

Jag har drömt att jag en visa skulle sjunga,
om alla själarnas fasor, alla himlarnas ljus,
om när all världen jag ser dansa och gunga
och darra i dåraktigt rus.

Jag har drömt, att när alla stjärnor skina,
över vildmark som viskar, vad i ensamheten hänt,
att alla vindar som kring tjärnlanden vina,
skulle lära mig att kväda vad jag känt.

Jag har drömt att en liten, liten kvinna,
skulle söva mig med visor, skulle smeka mig med skratt,
och när allt som jag byggt måste brinna,
skulle följa mig i elddopets natt.

Jag har tänkt att alla jagande åren,
som ha dödat det jag älskat, som ha stulit vad jag fått
skulle lära mig en visa om våren,
som har bott hos mig och bländat mig och gått.

Jag har trott att alla stormarna som rasat,
i min själ skulle blandas till en vansinnig sång.
Att där jag snavat över helvetet och fasat,
jag skulle lära mig dess visor en gång.

Men se mitt solur mot middagen skrider,
och aldrig har jag sjungit vad mitt hjärta har bett!
Skall jag sjunga först i dödsskuggans tider,
när det ändlösa mörkret jag har sett?

Skall jag leva tills jag lärt mig att smida
alla rosor, alla fasor till en levande ked,
som skall skälva som en rusig och glida
som en stråkton i dödsmörkret ned?

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By fungrim, November 1, 2008 21:55

My brain’s hurting. I must be getting old.

For reference, this is some of the programming topics I’ve read up on (or at least tried) lately:

• Guice and Spring
• Declarative transactions and JTA
• EDA, Pipelines and CEP
• SOA and ESB and NMR
• Column databases and distributed file systems
• Wicket and various related Ajax components
• OSGi in various permutations with the above
• BI, in-memory BI and CEP (again)
• AOP and/or IoC patterns

And now I’m contemplating the fultility of programming.

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By fungrim, October 28, 2008 22:45

I’m a bad, bad blogger. I’ve forgotten to tell you about the main event this autumn. The earth-shattering, sky-rendering, all-time freaky fun event of the St Jacobs Chamber Choir Baritone Bash of 2008.

For those of you not familiar with the event… Er… That’s not very strange, since we invented it this year. Since the 1st bases of the choir have always been the pinnacle of male beauty, intelligence and loudness, we thought we’d celebrate it by: 1) eating A LOT; 2) drinking A LOT; 4) slaughter a few male choir parts at the piano; and 5) be “almänt självgoda”.

In attendence, yours truly, E2, Herr Mürberg und the Castle.

And I’m happy to report that we succeeded admirably on all points. I wont be able to give you a blow by blow report, so you’ll have to make do with some documentation of the food.

And if you wonder: Yes, E2’s a very good cook.

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By fungrim, September 20, 2008 19:51

For some reason my body decided to screw up yesterday. And by “screw up” I mean fast heart beat, sleep problems, nausea etc. Which meant I’ve spent the day in bed.

Just because I had some fun yesterday? And by “some fun” I mean going out with Herr Mürberg and six other very cool and relaxed folks from the choir. It doesn’t seem fair.

Anyway, I slept through the day and is feeling fine now. So here’s some entertainment for you, Richard Dawkins at the Colbert Report! Great Stuff!