Links
Scouting
- Årsta Scoutkår - My own scout group in Årsta, Stockholm.
- Earth - Apollo 17 -
- Kotter - Winning at change - Also check out all the Articles and Peter Drucker info at http://www.leadertoleader.org . It's highly related to scouting world wide and Girl Scouting in the US in particular.
- Vax och stearinljus affär / grosist - Kolla upp vad som är bäst - stearin eller parafin
- Energy consumption per world statistics -
- How to talk to a climate skeptic -
- Top three pieces of advice for would-be open source CEOs - 1. Community. Without community, there is no point in being open source. You don?t need to have millions of community members, but you do need to have a solid core group that is steadily increasing in size and is willing to contribute to the success of the project. 2. Deliver great solutions. "Good enough" is not enough. "Me too" doesn't cut it, either. "Insanely great" should be the goal from the beginning. And when you have done it, make it better! 3. Focus on partners, partners that sell for you. Strategic partners are great to increase credibility, but won't pay your bills. Peer partners are great to increase overall visibility, but won't pay your bills. Partners who will deliver your solution to the paying customer is a god-send - they pay your bills. Understand what motivates partners, and keep them happy and productive!
- The Dump - Resources for Scouting - BP books, talks, writings etc. And other scout stuff.
- Pine tree web - BP resources -
- Bushcraft downloads -
- SvD: Styrkan i svagheten -
- Vässarö - Vässarö International Scout Centre, located in the Stockholm Archipelago.
- Eriks bilder - Eriks bilder from scouting and other places.
- Handgripligt bistånd är hans nya liv - Om Percy Banrevik och 'hand in hand'. "- Om du vill veta hur jag jobbar i Hand in Hand kan du titta i mina handböcker från Sandvik på 1970-talet eller Asea på 1980-talet. Till 95 procent är det som att driva ett företag. Det handlar om att hitta rätt människor, att utveckla och behålla dem, att ha en vision som är tydlig och att de som jobbar ska känna entusiasm och stolthet över att arbeta med Hand in Hand. Jag jobbar med platta organisationer, med att delegera och ge människor ansvar, säger Percy Barnevik."
- Robert Rules - a group is it's own worst enemy -
- folded voigt horn page -
- LED current limiter using current source and PNP transistor. -
- The tradgedy of the commons - "Adding together the component partial utilities, the rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another.... But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited."
- W Edwards Deming - The man behing many of Japanese quality idéas.
- Godispapper - "Andrej Koltsov har sin egen beskrivning av Cirque du Soleils estetiska program: Om man inte hade godispapper hur skulle man då veta att det är godis. Så de rekryterar bland de bästa akrobaterna och gymnasterna i världen och presenterar de starkaste akrobatnumren som finns och paketerar det i ljus, musik, sång, projektioner. Cirque du Soleil har lagt cirkusnummer och akrobater i det vackraste papper så det blir visuellt tilltalande och smakar så gott."
- scx 4521 on Ubuntu -
- Forskning kring friluftsliv - Swedish research regarding outdoor lesiure time activities.
- Ernest Thompson Seton: The Beginnings of Controversy - The significance of the influence of Ernest Thompson Seton (14 August 1860 - 23 October 1946) on the development of the Scout Movement is the subject of debate. His involvement was acknowledged by Baden-Powell, but did he get the credit he deserved? The answer to this must be no, but that is at least partly due to the fact that his own organisation, the Boy Scouts of America wrote him out of their own history. Read more in this very well written article.
- DRUPAL instead of Plone -
- Magento eCommerce Platform -
- Mars Exploration Rover Imagery -
- David Allen on software for mind mapping - For productivity in general. Very usefull for scouting.
- Free mind mapping software -
- Simple current source for lumileds - See also http://www.instructables.com/id/E7QH8NG8I1EWOF32HJ/
- Ett År med Spejarna - A blog I write in Swedish about the experiences of being a scout leader for the scout group 'Spejarna'.
- Deep Fun Games from Young Religious Unitarian Universalists - Haven't have time to tried the games yet, but we all like games, dont we?
- Radio i Airsoft - Beskriver PMR, KDR och jakt frekvenser
- YAESU kdr -
- Bellona foundation -
- Zig Ziglar on Goalsetting - Short, good article on goal setting. Everything motivation related just have to be scout related.
- The Lessons of Zig Ziglar #1: 7 Steps of Goal Setting - Another short one on Goal Setting and Zig Zigglar
- The Republic: Stop Trying to Save the World - Big ideas are destroying international development Good and balanced read from the trenches. Quoting: "If a 49-cent deworming treatment really does produce a $30 increase in wages for some of the poorest people on Earth, we are assholes for not spending it."
- The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World - Wired on AI
- Rob Parenteau: Why Understanding Money Matters in Greece -
Music
- An inconvenient truth poster -
- Superb Old School Goa Trance Albums That You Should Own. - Not os bad list
Software
- 32 Reasons Why Geeks are Severely Underpaid - Says it all. Really good article by Calum Coburn
- All about microsoft -
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - measure your employer or future employers software development maturity.
- sites -
- Joel on Software - Customer Service -
- MIL STD 498 - Good to know about since many buyers use it as reference.
- Ten things the world can learn from open source -
- The Open Road: Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy -
- Change tracking and bug reporting -
- Rory Blyth - Excel as a database -
- Click stream analysis on Apache - See also http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_usertrack.html
- LoopFuse: Open Source Startup Mantras -
- Holub Associates: UML - Great quick UML referense
- Paul Graham Essays -
- svn, bsddb and fsfs -
- Excell 2007 Bug - Very good analysis of Excell 2007 formatting / floatingpoint bug.
- Browsershots -
- DICOM for C++ and Python - At last...
- Timline AJAX widget - Tiline widget in Ajax like Google Maps for planning
- Joel on Software: hitting high notes -
- orthogonal polynomial curve fit - Article with algorithm for orthogonal polynom style curve fitting.
- Meta Weblog API - The Meta Weblog API standard
- Gnu Octave 3 manual - From a Japanese site, but the best I've found so far.
- Audit my PC - Free online tools for security auditing.
- PATH_MAX simply isn't -
- Numerical methods paper -
- Windows Install Clean Up Utillity - When Windows installers mess up.
- From Java to Python - Some good turbogears stuff
- TurboGears reference - From compound thinking
Business
- Pre-Negotiation Strategy Check List (Part 1) - Good negotiation article (part 1) by Steven Roberts.
- BATNA Negotiations - Another good negotiation article. By Dr David Venter.
- Program on negotiation - Harward Business School - Lots of books to explore.
- Twoship PPM fondrådgivning - Twoship is a Swedish independent and free adivsory service for managing personal pension funds in the Swedish pension fund system called PPM.
- BNI - Ivan Misner, Networking and Business Cards Also check out: http://www.e24.se/dynamiskt/Jobb_karriar/did_15261473.asp
- Klär upp eliten - ”Jag har bara två fåtöljer, eftersom jag vill diskutera med min kund själv. Ibland händer det att fruarna är med, för de tror att de har smak i egenskap att vara kvinna, helt enkelt att det är genetiskt. Det är mest mellanchefer som släpar med sina fruar och det talar ju sitt tydliga språk – de kan aldrig fatta egna beslut.”
- Standard Marketing techniques for Open Source -
- Pauls eight best tips on negotiation - * Be willing to negotiate in the first place * Don't get emotionally involved * Don't get suckered by the "rules" trick * Never be the first person to name a figure * Ask for more than you expect to get * Let them believe the final decision doesn't rest with you * Don't act too interested * Don't leave the other person feeling as if they've been cheated
- Negotiating in Three Dimensions -
- Yahoo OMX index -
- Yahoo DJStoxxx50 index -
- Sekretessklausuler i arbetslivet -
- Darkside of the Looking Glass - Learn something important of Naked Shorting (and theories about SECs fear of a major systemic risk).
- S&P 500 Returns by Day of Week 1962-2007 -
- Baltic Dry Index - Good for tracking world trade volumes
- ABN RICI -
- PR secrets? bullshit. -
- Paul Wilmott - Magicians And Mathematicians - "We've learned the hard way how important it is to measure and manage risk. Despite the thousands of mathematics and science PhDs working in risk management nowadays we seem to be at greater financial and economic risk than ever before. To show you one important side of banking I'd like you to follow me in an exercise with parallels in risk management."
- Getting The Clients You Want - Pretty good advice in this one. Read it all.
C# and .Net
- C# FileStream and Flush -
- C# async IO -
- Memmory mapped IO not possible in C# -
- FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING in C# .Net -
- Atomic writes on file in NTFS - Note: in NTFS, only metadata is really journaled, and so only meta data manipulations like move and rename is to be considered atomic.
- SBA analysis of journaling file systems -
- .Net Remoting Tutorial -
- FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH - The FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH flag for CreateFile() causes any writes made to that handle to be written directly to the file without being buffered....The write call doesn't return until the data is written to the file... see also http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/8cc5891d-bf8e-4164-862d-dac5418c59481033.mspx?mfr=true
- .Net remoting callback -
- Singleton in C# - Good article
- Custom sections in AppConfig - See also http://www.aspcode.net/SystemConfigurationConfigurationSettingsAppSettings-is-obsolete.aspx
- .Net 2GB limit -
- Bulding C# using NAnt - worth exploring
- Coding Horror: Anything but VisualSourceSafe -
- Ten Things MSDN says every developer needs - * NUnit to write unit tests * NDoc to create code documentation * NAnt to build your solutions * CodeSmith to generate code * FxCop to police your code * Snippet Compiler to compile small bits of code * Two different switcher tools, the ASP.NET Version Switcher and the Visual Studio .NET Project Converter * Regulator to build regular expressions * .NET Reflector to examine assemblies
- Creating a C# exe thaty can be run as shell command or Windows Service - I always liked the way SSH works: you pass the -d parameter and it isn't forked into a daemon but executed as a shell program instead. This is a tip on how to achieve the same thing in C# on Windows.
- On implementing Equals and GetHashCode in .Net - Important subject making implementing IComparable a little bit cumbersome.
- Sysinternals process and system monitoring tools - I've seen some effective usage among couleges using this tool (and AQTime).
- Casting byte array to float in C# -
Photography
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? - Excellent essay by Errol Morris on our relationship to photographs and The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
Economy
- What happens if Chinese growth slows? - What happens if Chinese growth slows? - an interesting answear based on the Japanesse experience.
- Al Jazeera: A revolution against neoliberalism? - "And the application of utopian neoliberalism in the real world leads to deformed societies as surely as the application of utopian communism did….."
- How to destroy the web of Debt - How to destroy the web of Debt
- Time is Money - A good read on the now defunct connection between money and time in capitalism.
- The Street Light: What really caused the eurozone crisis - part 1 - Simple and effective fact consistency check camparing the two different main views of the cause of the eurozone crisis: fiscal or systemic. The logic is crystal clear which is refreshing in the current cacaphony of confusion.
- The Street Light - What Really Caused the Eurozone Crisis? (Part 1) - Really down to earth explaining and myth busting.
- The Political Economy of Artificial Constraints on Government Money - On the argument of fascist monetary policy arguments. Logic apply there too.
- Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem - The anything goes theorem showing that "microeconomic rationality assumptions have no equivalent macroeconomic implications". Good to know when reading neo-classical economics.
- The Eurozone: If only it were the 1930s - "The 1930s deservedly have a bad name. It is hard to imagine that a decade that included the Great Depression and a major de-globalisation of the world economy, and culminated in WWII could be other than notorious. And yet, compared with struggling Eurozone economies today, the economic situation in Europe in the later 1930s was in many ways more promising."
- The Telegraph: Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads -
- Some thoughts on QE -
- Vox EU: The Eurozone: If only it were the 1930s -
- Mathew D. Rose: Greece – It’s a Revolution, Stupid! -
- The Washington Consensus and Long-Term Austerity in Latin America -
- The Standard Definition of Money is in Error -
Society
- Any Port in a Storm - From I cringley on Solar Storms
- Who bankrupted Ireland? -
- Matt Stoller - The Anti-politics of Occupy Wall Street - Make you think someone is thinking outside the box
- Mark Ames: Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine - Very good on how democracy has (not) turned out in Greece Quote: "See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s" Yup. an ax.
- The Streetlight: Where Exactly Are Those Lazy Southern Europeans, Anyway? - Again, a good read from the Streetlight picking apart myths with some readily available statistics.
- How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done -
- A skeptics guide to nonviolent resistance -
- The myth of the eight-hour sleep - In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
- 35 års fängelse för Manning -
- We Are All Confident Idiots - The trouble with confidence is that it feels so much like expertise.
- Bob Goodwin: A Layman’s Guide to the Mathematics of Ebola - Some simple math showing behavioural change is more important than medicine in this case.
- We think the Paris terrorists were offended by Charlie Hebdo's satire. What if we're wrong? -
- It’s Official: If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill - Don't question authority too much
- Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Six Americans Who Prove Bush and Cheney Didn't Have to Do It -
- Everything You Think You Know About Addiction and the War on Drugs Is Wrong - A must read.
- 14 Years After Decriminalizing All Drugs, Here's What Portugal Looks Like -
- What ISIS Really Wants - A good read, as a balance to ordinary news.
- Tomgram: Engelhardt, I.F. Stone and the Urge to Serve - Well written, gives perspective.
- How is polio still a thing? -
- Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist - Potential to be a reference in the future.
- Greece: The Struggle Continues - Long article with another view from the inside.