New York was fantastic, enven though
we lost our baggage.
An so was beautiful Niagara.
My dear friend
Mattias buys his own apartment on Södermalm in Stockholm. Me and Mattias performs the epic event of dragging and pulling up a
huge fridge into his new apartment. We swore never to do that again.
A few weeks later we help my father carry a freakin huge jacuzzi over rooftops in central Stockholm. So much for swearing not to redo things.
I'm briefly
engaged in Tango/D programming language development, responsible for the Mac OS X package. My progressively increased lack of interest in
Tango/D made me leave the team in November.
This was one of my best pictures from 2008 and
the lab in Germany screwed up; lost my originals. All I have left is the above scanned crappy proxy copy.
The first version of
Smisk – a high performance web service framework – is
released.
from smisk import Application
class MyApp(Application):
def service(self):
self.response("Hello World!")
MyApp().run()
My dear mother and her Magnus get married. A little surprise marriage during another celebration in Paris.
I buy a Adobe Creative Suite and become the victim of Horrible Software™ when the actual software is in the wrong language. The process of getting a correct copy takes more than a month, involving hours of phone time and letters like the one pictured above.
This incident makes me laugh even louder at this increasingly downwards-spiralling software company.
Best beer ever, last bottle in the picture. Brewed in limited volumes by Slottskällan.
This was a big thing for me, as I've flown lots of different airplanes but never a helicopter. Got this opportunity as a 25th birthday gift from my parents and friends.
We flew over the Stockholm archipelago and enjoyed both thrill and beauty.
The most noticeable difference from flying an airplane (except fromt the obvious lack of bearing wings and the addition of a huge rotor) was the extremely high sensitivity of control – I used my thumb and the index finger alone to handle the cyclic stick.
The aircraft in question is a
Robinson R44 – single-engined with a semi-rigid two-bladed main rotor.
I even managed to put her down nice and easy at Gärdet.
As a surprise, we spent two days on Styrsö with his closest friends.
Mattias establishes Music intro quiz as a festive midsummer tradition (summer solstice celebrated in Sweden).
As the technology fan I am, this was of course very exciting, even though the most conservative service provider;
Telia, signed the valuable we're-the-only-ones-who-can-earn-money-from-your-thing-in-Sweden-contract with Apple Inc. (
Telia press release.)
I'd earlier bought a generation 1 iPhone in the U.S. – now I needed to change ISP and upgrade to generation 2, something that took me about two months.
Second visit payed to amazing Hong Kong. This time I used sunscreen.
Noko Jeans consisting of
Tor Rauden Källstigen,
Jacob Åström and Jakob Ohlsson are producing Jeans in North Korea. Noko Jeans
writes about it being official, showing off with a video.
With the push of a big
ENTER-button,
Spotify goes live and, at least for me, marks a big happening in the history of music industry.
I wrote a short notice about it at the time:
Spotify Official Release.
Smisk 1.1 is released and at the same time
being used in the high-load backend system of
Spotify.
This is the third time one of my hobby open source-projects is used for profit in production. Earlier projects are
Content Daemon used as the
Spray content aggregation backend and
AbstractBase, a PHP runtime library used to service
spray.se and parts of
spotify.com (as well as this blog and numerous other small projects).
Flickr/Yahoo! cooperates with several archives/libraries, releasing historical photography under Creative Commons or lesser licenses.
George Eastman House,
State Library of New South Wales,
Nationaal Archief, and
The Library of Congress all joined the idea during 2008. This is something great, giving the people access to all of these photographies (and videos) documenting our civilization.
Leica announces they are using a different strategy than other high-end camera manufacturers when they say
Today’s and tomorrow’s users will always be able to incorporate the latest refinements and developments in handling ease and technology.
. Basically, the M8 will be partially upgraded rather than replaced. At least in a semi-long term perspective. Horray for less consumerism.
2008 was also the first full year
Spotify spent at Humlegårdsgatan 20, our second Stockholm office.
Adium, a popular instant messenger for the Mac OS, was released including a patch enabling Spotify URI support.
Adium 1.3 with Spotify-support
