I don’t know if i should be disturbed or just change my name.
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I had a look into my “personal” mailbox just now and i realized email is my conduit between commercial entities and me. And most of that is different kinds of “notifications” for things and events. Maybe the most exciting email i get is my daily newspaper which i tend to read in digital format more than on dead-tree these days.
Email just isn’t very personal these days.
So. For my birthday this Wednesday, i want a real email from an actual individual. That would be nice.
Ända sen jag kom tillbaka från Timor har min viktkurva pekat ostadigt uppåt. Och det är nu över tre år sen.
I något skede när min massa än en gång hotat spränga den psykologiskt vägande (ha) spökgränsen på 100 kilo beslöt jag mej att nu är det dags att gå ner. Ingen bantningshysteri, inga kolsoppsdieter, bara lämna bort kexätandet på jobbet och snask och efterrätter från veckodagarna. Och kanske lite motion, men inte för mycket. Jag tog mej ett mål (i viktbetydelse) på 85 kilo, vilket verkade oå gränsen till orealistiskt men inte alldeles omöjligt. 85 kg skulle motsvara normal-BMI för mej. För att göra det hela lite mer realistiskt beslöt jag att jag skulle räkna med min kvällsvikt.
Den här knäppen fick jag i slutet av juli, och sen dess har det varit neråt. Inte jämnt neråt, mind you. På veckosluten har jag tillåtit mej att jäsa litegrann eftersom jag ändå kan tappa tillägget senare. Men regressionskurvan (tror jag det heter) har haft stadigt negativ derivata (om än svagt positiv andraderivata).
I något skede insåg jag att jag gjort en liten miss i kalkylen. Mitt normal-BMI betydde 83.7 kg, vilket lät ännu lite jävligare än 85. Jag suckade djupt, bet ihop tänderna och konstaterade att mitt projekt visst kommer att ta lite längre än tänkt.
Men i kväll, gott folk, kan jag belåtet konstatera att jag nernått mitt mål. Vågen visade på 83.4 kg. Jag rockar. Fett.
How many times haven’t i come back to my computer and found that it has rebooted on me. At least KDE (and Firefox, and my pro-pimped IE) has session saving, but whatever was on the Windows desktop prior to the reboot … is no longer.
While Windows needs to reboot once in a while, the least it could do is do so on my terms. And my terms are “ask first”.
To prevent Windows from auto-rebooting after applying, apply this handy registry hack (but do remember to reboot your computer eventually, or your sysadmin will be very, very annoyed).
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Thanks to a friend at work, i can now present thee my name in Arabic:
الهلسنكي كريستيان بن الباسم لورين روبن رونيا ابو
If your Arabic looks like a string of boxes, you probably aren’t viewing this with a Unicode font.
Update: OK, maybe i need to comment on how to read it. The approximate translation of my full arabic name is as follows: Father of Ronja, Robin Laurén, the smiling one, son of Christian, from Helsinki. So Abu Ronja Robin Laurén al-basim bin Christian al-Helsinki. Or something along those notes.
This name may contain a semantic bug. According to The Source of All Knowlege (wikipedia), you would either have “Robin Laurén” or “father of Ronja” in a proper arabic name, but not both. Which makes it kinda funky that my name can be “Abu Ronja bin Christian” but my own personal name (“ism”, اسم) can be omitted. Yet my parents and kids could be abu/umm Robin and bin Robin respectively.
Any Arab who can fill me in?
Update on the update: The proper spelling of “Robin Laurén” should be روبن لاورين
Well happy birthday to me… 
I’ve got an exam ahead so it hasn’t been much partying. Got a wake-up from the wife and kids, with a song, a card and a breakfast (and a hug each!), and some chocolate thingies later on. Got a DVD with pictures from our recent visit to Paris from my wife’s sister and her husband. Got a few phone calls, a bunch of SMS’es and greetings in other electric form.
Actually my best birthday present is listening to Fish playing pretty serious prog on Planet Rock (KC right now). I’m not sure if it helps or hinders my exam practice…
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Mitt gårdagsinlägg fick mej att fundera lite. Dels har jag antagligen betett mej som en blåögd tonåring som trivialiserat saker till oigenkännelighet. Det tänker jag tillåta mej. Om jag hade fel nånstanns så är det åtminstone ett sätt att lära sej nåt.
Vilket för mej till nästa point: det skulle vara kul att, sådär bara av akademiskt intresse, läsa en grundkurs i “international conflict resolving”. Bara för skojs skull. För att kanske få upp ett öga.
Och så det mest centrala budskapet som jag helt missade att skriva igår: “Kriget mot terrorn” förs mot symptomet, inte orsaken. Det är därför det skiter sej.
Och nu till doonet och fundera på såna saker min hjärna egentligen är funtad för.
Whoa. llauren.com has been hogged by Wang Lee Domains, Port Lous / Mauritius. I’m almost famous :þ
OK, not that i ever wanted a dot.com llauren, but if i’d taken that UN job in Mauritius, at least i could go and tell him what i feel about domain hogging…
For the second time ever, i am conciously wearing pink, and i don’t know how to take it. The first time was at a party a year and a half back, and mostly intended as a joke. And now, this. The way it happened was the usual; my wife comes home from a shopping spree and has bought me clothes too. She’s the one who buys all my nice clothes. If i buy clothes, they are t-shirts with band imprints. Today, i’d run out of anything that could be considered nice to wear, and today it kinda counts, since i’m going to my wife’s brother’s fiancee’s semi-formal reception.
Down in Timor-Leste, my good friend Jed told me that a man can wear pink. He did. And he certainly counts as one. But me, i’m not convinced.
This week is Helsinki Pride, which includes the Pride march tomorrow. And i consistently drink cafe au laits in the morning. Maybe i’m just turning gay
I had my first mid-life crisis this morning. In a bit less than a week from now, i’ll turn 36. Friggin’ 36. That’s a lot.
I started to think about my life and what i’ve done so far. I’ve worked for UN in some bizarre far-away country, check. I’ve travelled to Nepal, Galápagos and a bunch of other off-the-chart countries, check. I’ve worked for a “new media” IT company during The IT Bubble 1.0, check. I’ve worked for the radio and met most of my musical heroes in person, check. I’ve toured with a rock band, (although it was only an overextended weekend, but it does count, so)check . I’ve got a wife and two lovely kids, check.
The whole thing was over in fifteen minutes. Check.
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