Interwebben.com live
I’ve launched a new service at http://www.interwebben.com.
It’s still a work in progress but I wouldn’t mind feedback.
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Cape Town Up Close
This is a pretty cool feature: High Res Picture of Cape Town.
Have a look for yourself 
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A few more albums
Quadruple Bacon Explosion
Horse Sled Riding in Orsa
New Years Eve 2009
Orsa Bear Park
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A Long Awaited Post?
I’ve finally got pics of the apartment (better late than never).
It’s not done yet, the pics labeled “Paint job – Day 1″ were taken this evening. It should “done” in about a week. I still have more plans for the place but I prob won’t be doing that right now both due to the fact that this stuff is quite costly and because it would be nice to live there for a while without handymen running in and out all the time
I will add more pics from the ongoing work during the week and, of course, once everything is done.
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On the Move
The contract is signed!
The apartment is mine!
The days are happy!
Pictures will come as soon as I can find them, there gone from the broker site. 
If all else fails I’ll take a couple of pics of the apt. when I gain access to it on the 4th of January.
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Swedish Gaming Law on the Point of Stupidity
Redeye.se is an equity research company that is focused on the Nordic market. On their website they have a banner to Betssons stock “betting” website, Betsson Trader, where you can bet on stock. Essentially you can “trade” stocks without actually buying them.
Lotteriinspektionen has told Redeye to remove this banner because they consider it a gaming banner and they are prohibited by Swedish law. Redeyes own blog post on the topic is very insightful and asks the question that needs to be asked: Does this mean that trading stock is a game of chance?
The legal developments surrounding Online gaming in general is very interesting to follow and one by one the EU countries make moves towards opening their markets. The poker market is a very prominent example of this where Italy has already regulated online tournament poker and is likely to open up cash games soon, France is drafting a regulation law for Poker as I write this and I think it’s only a matter of time until Germany and the UK will follow. It’s not unlikely that the US will come to the obvious conclusion that banning online gaming isn’t the solution to the gaming problem nor the financial shortcomings it may bring when overseas providers “take” money from your citizens and hence that money leaves the country, because that’s what all these legislations boil down to, sovereign states want their citizens to pay tax where they live.
With regulated markets there’s a way to come around this financial issue and with the EG directives about open trade and fair markets that’ll be the only alternative for the EU countries over time.
The question is, how long will it take for Sweden to realize that 17th century politics and laws doesn’t apply to 21st century technology and public opinion.
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Katthatt.se is becoming famous ;)
Read this very interesting thread about SEO optimized URLs and note what URL they use as an example
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Solving Puzzles Online is no Guarantee
Even if you solve puzzles online there’s no guarantee that you won’t end up with missing pieces…
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Flash Reloads on Javascript show/hide
I don’t work that much with flash, especially I don’t tend to show and hide objects on a website with Javascript. Today was an exception.
Apparently, when you hide an flash object with Javascript and then show it again, toggle the visibility if I may, the flash will reload every time you show it. That’s quite annoying, especially if loading the flash involves server calls and such.
It took me a while to confirm that this was actually my problem but once I knew exactly where the problem lie I already had a solution in mind.
Instead of showing/hiding the flash object I move it out of the view by setting the left margin to -10000px. Only doing this will however make sure that the flash still occupies the space it was in and I want to swap the content where the flash was for another div. By positioning all these divs absolute that problem was taken care of. Great news for my end users
I won’t post example code as all you really need to do is set position: absolute in the css and then toggle margin-left between 0 and 10000px (or any other value that you like and is enough to hide it) in your Javascript code.
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Twitter Down
I was just about to twit the following:
“I almost died on my way home! Or, I bruised two fingers against a fence as I rode into it at about 3 km/h. Still, I drew blood!”
When twitter stopped responding. “Error 503 – There is no service available to handle the request.” Very well..
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