OK, det är bara att erkänna. Den bästa svenska hårdosten är Västerbotten (åtminstone enligt mig), den har en perfekt avvägd blandning av styrka/mildhet och har en speciell smak som är helt underbar.
Prova gärna på tunnbröd med smör och några tunna skivor röd eller gul paprika.
There was a deadly accident at home. Early in the morning we could here a thud coming from the living room … but since it was so early we didn’t bother to get up.
A few hours later we could see that there had been a deadly accident.
Apparently the bird had crashed into one of the windows, so hard that it died.
Summer is now officially over, at least here in Yttersjö. Today was the day when we pulled up the bridge from the lake. This may sound like a simple task … and it would probably have been so if it hadn’t been for those pipes.
You see, they have used a sledgehammer to drive those pipes into the sand/clay/mud at the bottom of the lake and now we need to try to get them loose again. And this, my friends, is not something that is easily done.
Anyway, after some work we finally managed to get them loose again. After that we divided the bridge into sections and lifted it onto the beach.
Done. Now the snow and the ice can come.
One thing that MobileMe account includes is an iDisk, a “cloud”-based disk that conveniently can be mounted on your desktop. You can use it to store various files, etc. Once in while I hear the advice that “use your iDisk to backup your critical documents” and it does sound very tempting.
But, then I start to wonder where these people live. Because iDisk is too slow to be of any practical use whatsoever. A few hours ago I started an incremental backup that took more than 2.5 hours to complete – although the complete size of the files is just 385MB.
Despite knowing the answer I decided to do a quick test. I opened the iDisk in the Finder and dragged the 385MB folder to it, leaned back and waited, and waited, and waited, and then … waited a bit more. Finally, the first pixels on the progress bar were colored to show that something had been transferred. So I continued working for a while, then I looked at the estimate time remaining and decided that I didn’t want to wait 10+ hours to see this copy operation complete. So I quit the copy operation and did some calculations based on the “time remaining” value and got a transfer speed of:
9 kilobyte per second. YES, kilobyte !!!
And this number is actually better than the incremental backup I did (1.9) but that might have involved other operations than just copy … but it’s in the same region. This is just plain silly.
I used sftp to copy the same data to a server in town (can’t really be compared to sending the data to Apples servers but still … ) and got a transfer speed of:
1.2 megabyte per second
Once again, it’s not fair to compare a local copy like this to using Apples WebDAV server but it’s at least an indication that someone at Apple need to do something to improve this.
And no, it’s not just me – there are a lot of people here in Sweden with similar experiences. And it’s not a temporary thing, it’s been like this since I first started to use MobileMe (Mac.com, whatever).
