Emil’s Chronicle - The journal of Emil A Eklund

Archive for December, 2004

2005, Here I come

Friday, December 31st, 2004

It’s hard to summarize an entire year in a few paragraphs, but I’ll do my best.
Personally what started as a pretty dull and uneventful year quickly turned out to be quite interesting and fulfilling. Sure, it evolved almost exclusively around work, but never the less. I’ve been to quite a few places during the […]

Winter Solstice

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

At 13:31 CET (12:31 UTC) today the Earths tilt caused the Sun to reach the lowest point above the horizon, on the norther hemisphere, in the year-long cycle (actually the year defining cycle). In other words, today is the shortest day of the year.
In Stockholm we’ll have less than six hours of daylight today, which […]

IMSmarter

Friday, December 17th, 2004

I’ve been using the IMSmarter service now for the past two weeks or so, and I must say I’m quite impressed. For those of you who haven’t heard about it the idea is quite simple. Instead of connecting directly to the IM server you connect via the IMSmarter proxy, and all your instant messages […]