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Herb Albert - Spanish Flea

Posted on February 7th, 2008 / Comments: 0

This song has been going around like the flu in the office the last couple of months. Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass… Here’s what has to be the funniest interpretation ever of it:

Och nu brinner hela skogen

Posted on January 28th, 2008 / Comments: 0

Jazz is not dead … it just smells funny

Posted on January 2nd, 2008 / Comments: 2

Finally breaking the silence around here, since Anders from ofokuserat challenged me in a band-relay game. I got the letter Z (which, I guess, is the last character?) and the first band that came to mind was Zero 7. But since I couldn’t think of a single song of theirs I really like, I’m going with Frank Zappa.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

Linkdumping

Posted on August 7th, 2007 / Comments: 0

Here are parts of todays finds, jotted down for later reference: GZIP compression, HTTP Caching, the Pareto principle (plus the wikipedia equivalent), passing elements to event handlers with jQuery, CSS Compress for WordPress, This day in type, Pingdom, We love TXP, Jon Hicks’ google reader theme, lovely inspiring typography works by Craig Ward…

… and now I can finally quit Safari.

How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app

Posted on June 4th, 2007 / Comments: 0

Just open up the terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"

It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back