Greetings, humans!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all that. Hope the holidays have treated you well.

Personally, I’ve been spending to much time in front of the computer and the screen and have decided to take a break.

Starting to day, I will not sit in front of the computer, watch any movies or playing any video games (including RISK on my cell phone) while at home. Right now I’m at work where I have to use the computer, so I justify some minor blogging and facebooking from there with that.

I will try to catch up on my reading and possibly some project that has been laying around (Got a brand new wireless Dremel for Christmas!), but the main reason is to simply disconnect for a while.

Let’s see how long it takes before I forget myself – I hope I can last a week anyway.

Update:

I lasted the whole week and finished reading two books. Although on Sunday evening I watched a movie because I was utterly bored.

I have now moved the web server from my old VIA 800Mhz Win2k machine to the considerately faster Raid Radio machine.

Hopefully, this will make the web server snappier and more responsive than the last one. If you come across any bugs or experience particular pages as slow, please leave a comment and I will look into it.

Just a quick update:

I have decided to skip my regular homepage and have everything on this blog instead. This is not done yet, and music/photo pages is planned to appear here in the near future.

So from now on, “www.frankjohansson.com/blog/” will be redirected to the root level (“www.frankjohansson.com“). Easier to remember, especially since here in Sweden, many spell blog with two g’s (blogg), and that might be confusing when you have a url ending in that very word.

Posts and permalinks will however keep the same structure, so any bookmarks and links will still work as before.

Long have I resisted, long have I clinged on  to the statement  that I don’t need a Facebook account, that I am social enough in other ways. Also, many of my friends are also on Helgon.net, where I have been a member since 2002.

But it feels like everyone has a Facebook account these days.  And apparently a lot of party invitations and just plain contact-keeping is swarming around there. More so than on Helgon, which is becoming more and more stale.

On the back side of the coin, I tend to get addicted to these kind of things. And I don’t want to feel the need to check it several times every day. Especially not at work.

Help me out here, vote in the poll and tell me what you think I should do.

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Edit: It seems that to be able to vote, you have to use the frankjohansson.com domain. frankjohansson.se or killersnail.com will not work. If you still cannot vote, please leave a comment so that I can fix it.

Edit2: Now it seems to work with frankjohansson.se but not with frankjohansson.com! Strange. Will have a look at it during the weekend.

Edit 3: Seems that there were conflicts with having multiple domain names using the same IP, which confused the poll code. Or something like that. I have changed the DNS settings for frankjohansson.se and killersnail.com to forward to frankjohansson.com. This should also help my google rank a bit. Anyway, poll should be working now.

Yesterday I discovered cubeecraft, a site with lots and lots of templates for making your own figurines out of paper. No glue or tape is required. All you do is print an image, cut along the edges and fold it together. I made a Bender from Futurama in about 20-30 minutes, and it was really fun seeing it come together!

There are a lot of characters to choose from; most are from movies or games, but there are also political ones (see the Obama figurine in the gallery below)

Oh, do yourself a favor: If you want it to survive cleaning and moving around, use thicker paper. The 80 gram paper I used worked, but was definitely on the limp side.

A few samples:

Lots more can be found on cubeecraft.com.

Another site with similar paper figurine templates is Toy-A-Day. A bit flatter, but also with a big selection.