Swedish midsummer flora

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Today was the Swedish midsummer eve – and I used the free day for a bicycle ride. Hunting geo-caches also brought me in contact with nature. Paris quadrifolia is quite common in the forests around Uppsala. Sometimes you find Paris quadrifolia (four-leaved) with five leaves!

Brave New World

MS Outlook Web App - a survival mechanism for Outlook/Exchange refuseniks.

Today my employer, Uppsala University, will migrate our email system from an open-source and Unix based one to Exchange Server. At the same time we are all encouraged to migrate ourselves to using Exchange/Outlook for the sake of the benefits. Well, I will not, ever… Some working group in the administration has decided that it… Continue reading Brave New World

That’s bright!

IKEA LEDARE lamp with 16.5 W and 1000 lm.

Transatlantic recently asked about a new IKEA LED lamp, the LEDARE with 1000 lm. It comes as a quite big globe (diameter 95 mm) with an E27 socket, an electrical power rating of 16.5 W and is supposed to be dimable! Transatlantic commented on the high quality of the warm-white light output and wondered if… Continue reading That’s bright!