FOLLOWUP

A little followup on yesterday's post - I updated my Samsung Galaxy SII with the officially released Android 4 and I kept an eye on the connection indicator to see if they had gone the same route as Apple. Nope, still only HSPA+ :)

Btw, gotta love flashmobs (although this seemed a bit TOO well organized)

I HATE ..

Time for another "I hate..." post.

I hate it when marketing departments screws with technology terms and twists them. The latest example is .. can you guess... that's right, Apple! Read this if you're interested in the technical aspect of it - or let me summarize. We all know what 3G is on cellphones today. It's pretty fast. So the next thing is ofcourse 4G which is really really fast. But there have been a technical debate about what defines each. Most people agrees that the technology called "LTE" is what really is 4G. Actually as far as I knew there wasn't anyone saying anything else. Well in the latest iOS update Apple and AT&T decided to redefine it and include HSPA+ as 4G. HSPA+ has been available for years through the 3G network. And yes, in perfect conditions HSPA+ can come up to the same transfer speed as LTE. But that don't make it 4G because it still uses the overcrowded 3G range. LTE is a new technology that uses new infrastructure which is what I, and every other sane tech nerd, call a new technology - when you need to change the infrastructure!

I mean, did Intel ever overlock a Pentium 3 CPU to ~2 Ghz and call it Pentium 4? Ofcourse they didn't since Pentium 4 is a completely different architecture!

But I guess the marketing departments at Apple and AT&T decided that doesn't matter and just went for calling HSPA+ 4G and BAM! overnight Apple has the most 4G capable devices in the world (but not a single one publicly available that actually uses the 4G network). Good work And it also makes it easier for them to sell the new iPad in europe as a "4G" device even though it can't handle European LTE!

Now the big question is how will they sell the iPhone 5.. I mean they can't brag about "it has 4G!" since the iPhone 4S already, by their definitions, has 4G!

Let these technical things be for technical people and let marketing do ads. I mean if technical geeks where to make ads it'd probably be something like this -

GEORGE TAKEI

I really like George Takei. You know, that asian guy that played "Sulu" in the old Star Trek. I can't say I either like or dislike his acting or whatever, but I am a huge fan of his facebook-page. It's one of the big downsides to deactivating my account - I don't get to see the funny pictures and clips and his posts that are always full of Zen-isms. And I loved his roast of William Shatner!!

And then the guy goes and does something like this...

It's hilarious shit! I wish Hollywood had more people like that!!

REGARDING CAREMA

Sweet - http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/carema-foljde-de-etiska-riktlinjerna_6911371.svd

It's basically the findings of an investigation into how Carema have handled the care of elderly and they can't find nothing wrong that Carema isn't fixing and they also go as far as saying that the media was in some cases totally outright lying. :)

WOMEN'S DAY, HUH?

So it's the International Women's Day today.. what does that exactly mean? And does it mean every other day of the year is Men's Day? ..

I don't need a special day to remind me how much I love my beautiful Helena; the woman that keeps me on my toes at home instead of being the lazy couch potato I'd probably be; the mother of my wonderful child; the love of my life; the wonderful person that I wake up next to every morning... hm, I guess it took a special day for me to write it though :)

PICTURES

Time to post some pictures. I haven't done that in a while so there is alot to post.

Here we have pictures from when we went out to have some fun in the snow, going sleigh riding down the slopes and whatnot.

Here are some pictures from Sams 2nd birthday which we celebrated a little bit but since it was a normal weekday we didn't have much of a party, but enough for him to know it was a special day.

Here are some pictures from the real birthday party we had on Sunday.

Password is the name of my current employer.

IT'S MY PARTY ..

Yesterday we had a birthday party for Sam. We were a bit unsure if we should invite family or friends with kids he can play with. Because after all it is his party, not ours. But we eventually decided to invite "people he likes to be with" which included my sister, mother and father and same for H. And some other friends and neighbours with kids. So about 20 people all in all. And our house suddenly felt a bit small!!

But next year will probably be different. He'll be three by then and hopefully have made friends at kindergarten that we can invite because I really wanna make his birthday parties about him!

I SPOKE TOO SOON

Right, so remember a few updates ago that I mentioned that "I've been sick enough for the whole year". Well I spoke way too soon on that one! After we'd gone to the cemetery on Saturday to honor Eden we went back here to watch some Star Trek now in Bluray. And all of a sudden I got this vibe that not all is right with me. And on sunday I woke up with a fever and banging headache. Popped a few iprens, drank alot of Coke, stayed in bed and watched F1. It was so bad I was totally delirious all sunday night! Monday was even worse, my fever spiked at 39.5! And my throat started to swell up. Tuesday not much better. Wednesday the fever went away but still very swollen throat and today my throat is dry as hell, I dont have much energy so I'm home from work one more day.

But I HAVE to go to work tomorrow! Call it work ethic or pride or whatever, usually it's in Sweden considered idiotic to come in and work one day, especially a Friday but I just can't stay home any more! And I've run out of Formula 1 races to watch!!

So now I've had the "common flu".. is this really so common? Down and out for almost 4 days!? What's up with that? And you have to appreciate the irony that I've just started working for this healthcare company...