2019-Aug-12

In I Dimman

It is now twenty years to the day since the last show of my radio programme “Into the mist” (or “In i dimman”, in Swedish) aired. The show ran for two years on Yle X3M1, first weekly and then every two weeks, until it was pulled for being too far off the mainstream. It was the best job i’d had, and i still miss it fondly. Into the mist played Progressive rock.

2019-Jul-29

Digital Afterlife

One day i’m going to die, which is something i might as well come to terms with. It’s not like i’m in any kind of hurry to die; i rather like living and i’d prefer to postpone the inevitable end as much as is easily possible. But after i’m dead, i’ll leave a big digital heap of memories behind me, and that’s what this post is about: making those memories accessible to my near and dear, if that’s what they want.

2019-Jul-23

Refactor My Site

Inactivity can do wonders. Having been on summer vacation for a while and not having done anything technically creative, my mind decided it’s time to experiment a little. I have a few websites, or blogs, or whatever, and for reasons of simplicity and incompetence, these have always been separate from each other. Well, i thought, how about trying to consolidate them? Just for fun? So that’s what i did. My blogs/sites use Hugo, a static website generator.

2019-Jul-23

Humane Security

I would like to explore the idea of Humane security as an alternative to Mandated security. None of these terms exist, or, at least, are established terms from before, so allow me to explain what i mean. In traditional computer security, corporate security, public sector security, and basically any high security environment, there’s a power structure where the user is told what to do and what not to do and that’s the end of it.

2019-Jun-24

Efraim Longstocking

I can’t believe i haven’t written about my largest project in ages! Yes, i’ve taken the stage in an amateur children’s theatre production, Pippi Långstrump, which is Swedish for Pippi Longstocking. I’m playing Pippi’s dad Efraim and a small role as Starke Adolf who i don’t know the English name for. But it’s this strongman who performs at the market (originally, at the circus) and gets wrestled down by the strongest girl in the world.

2019-Apr-26

Learning to Speak

Today i learned (the hard way) that doing something by hand that you usually get through automation can be really tedious. So when you Automate Everything, make sure there’s an easy manual override when needed. But that’s for another post. I’ve given my second ever presentation, which was at the Finnish Mac Admins' meet-up. The presentation was essentially the same as i did in London earlier this year, about “Government Level Security (while maintaining your sanity and humanity)”, but in Finnish.

Learning in public

Curing my incompetence, one step at the time, in front of an audience.