Those riots in Stockholm

You could do worse than read this interesting op-ed by a Swedish pro-immigration campaigner explaining why a minority of youths in Husby are torching their neighborhood: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323855804578509210305407152.html?mod=rss_Opinion?mod=hp_opinion

Champions League Final

Bayern v. Dortmund. As a lapsed Cologne fan I can’t make up my mind.

A man in his lab

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Taken 18 May 2013 at the Olympus Photographers’ Playground in Berlin.

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Baustelle Berlin

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Jetpack plugin

Have installed the Jetpack plugin, but still struggling to implement comment, share and auto-tweet functions. Could be clashing with other plugins. Apologies if there are problems with the site.

May 1

Ernst Thälmann celebrating the Workers’ Revolution. Picture is (c)

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Merkel’s ‘tache

Is it a coincidence that French-dominated Euronews shows a still of Merkel that appears as if she has distinctive Hitleresque facial hair on her upper lip?

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Scan in progress

A weird item to restart the blog with, but here you go: I’ve just loaded the new Samsung scanner with an inch of old letters exchanged between me, T-Mobile UK and a debt collection company called Buchanan, Clark + Wells. They’re a few years old, I won, and I’d like to get rid of them. But you can never be too sure, so they’re now being archive electronically, just in case.

Upgrading Asus EeeBox with a Samsung SSD

I’d been toying with the idea of buying a new computer for a while, but realized recently that the money just wasn’t there. So after a bit of research I decided to do the next best thing: replace the regular hard drive in my computer (an Asus EeeBox) with a Samsung SSD of the same size. All the reviews I read said it would give the old machine a significant boost.

First the good news: the procedure was relatively simple, and it worked. Working on the EeeBox is much smoother. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s equivalent to getting a new computer, but it’s definitely breathed new life into the old one.

The bad news is that it wasn’t as cheap as I’d hoped. A Samsung SSD of the same size as my HDD (250GB) cost €159 on Amazon. What I didn’t know is that I’d also have to pay another €10 for an IcyBox USB adapter cable and €39 for Norton Ghost, so I could attach the SSD to the computer while the old drive was still inside, and clone it before swapping the two. All in all the upgrade cost me €208.

Still, given how easy it was to do, and given I didn’t add to the world’s pile of discarded computers, I’d say the procedure was worthwhile.

If you have any questions about upgrading your EeeBox with an SSD, drop me a line.

Istanbul fruit seller

A fruit and vegetable seller prepares his wares in Istanbul’s old town

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