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Magnus shot some pictures of me driving on the race track at Mantorp Park this weekend. You can see some more pictures if you follow the link below, just klick on the picture. From 120d on the r… Jeeeeez, that was real fun, I definitely need a race car project. Well maybe there will be [...]

In the tradition of food-blogging which I only did once so far, I have to write about our visit to the restaurant “Sjömagasinet” yesterday. Unfortunately the tasting menu in combination with the wine package was already sold out but we did our best to combine a nice variation by ourselves. Leif Mannerström’s restaurant Sjömagasinet actually [...]

After all this plastic fake stuff in Vegas it’s nice to come to Britain, especially here to Winchester where you are surrounded by all this genuine authentic buildings and things. I love it! OK, I have to admit the round table is in fact a fake from the 14th century, BUT this fake is older [...]

Here we go again, some new professional certifications achieved yesterday… IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family IBM Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions – WebSphere Process Server V6.0 IBM Certified SOA Associate Finally I got some Information Management certifications [...]

Nice! IBM Certified System Administrator — WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0 IBM Certified Deployment Professional — WebSphere Process Server V6.0

Some guys from work and me are attending to this years IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. This will be my first time in Sin City and I’m quite excited about the trip. I’ll try to keep up blogging about both the interesting technical stuff from the conference and my personal impressions about the city. [...]

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery [...]

A very interesting article about the clean energy scam everybody who thinks ethanol driven cars are the future should read: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975-1,00.html The Swedish government should read this article as they feign care for the environment by subsidizing these ethanol driven cars for being “environmental green cars”. The only reason for doing so is to save [...]

Fortunately, we have the time of single-grade oils long behind us. A single-grade motor oil is like a much too short bedspread. You must decide whether the bottom or top is covered. For the engine this means; either it has reasonable cold starting characteristics or a good wear protection at high temperature. Both simultaneously is [...]

“Mapodo” – or: I’ll buy my motor oil online from now on I recently made my first experience with Mapodo, an online shop for motor oils and lubricants. As most of the high quality motor oils are quite expensive here in Sweden I’m always looking for cheaper alternatives. Mapodo was discussed on various automotive forums [...]

The details of, e.g. “5W” and “40″ alone don’t say much about the oil. The first number is the dynamic viscosity, how the oil behaves at a very low temperature. Especially interesting is to what temperature the oil is still flowing to the oil pump by itself. E.g. “5W” means that the oil is still [...]