Spacewaster

Why are all the cool stuff in the States?
No worries, I know the answer... there's no market for things like this in Sweden.

However, I'd really love to see the offspring of a "Swedish style" house with columns!

Worthington carries a surprising amount of fiberglass columns, much like the ones that you see in the southern colonial style houses (hey, gone with the wind anybody?).

Of-course you understand that I was joking about marrying my house with the colonial style? But I've always like the "heavy" look of the colonial era, and if I had a spare room (and money) I'd love to decorate it in that style.

I especially like the fire place mantels.

I have been all happy lately, bought a faster CPU (AMD64 4000+) and more RAM - 4GB worth.

Only thing that's stupid is me, for buying a motherboard from MSI!

According to their CPU compatibility chart for my board, the CPU I bought would fit like the hand in the glove... but they've forgotten to mention that I need to flash my BIOS, and to do that I need to have Windows installed (I'm using Linux).

Even stingier is that I can't use all my ram because the "old" CPU doesn't play well with 4GB RAM.

So here I'm sitting with 2GB ram and my old CPU, trying to figure out a way to flash my BIOS without installing Windows.

So I'd recommend you all to think twice before you buy MSI - even though they give a lot of "bang for your buck", they're strange solutions to certain things might not suit you.

Being a klutz when it comes to using tools I almost managed to chop my right hand of cutting open a carton (luckily I'm a leftie though).

The inventor in me woke up (for a moment) - what about a "safe" box cutter...

But of-course those damned Americans beat me to it. Martor USA is selling a rather cool safety knife.

Martor's Optisafe box cutter

If you look at their video thingie on the front page, you'll see that the blade retracts automagically when you slid the blade out from the box.

Man, a trampoline for my son (and *cough* me) to play in!

In the post before this I ranted on the postage on items from the States to Sweden. But not here - the 15ft trampoline on the photo is $898 + shipping, but I've found one in Sweden (same size, different make) for 5400SEK (~ $914).

It's a tad more expensive, but I'll make that up with it "only" being $60 in shipping.

Now I just have to convince the Mrs. that this is a great idea... wish me good luck with this one :P

I'm looking for some new lighting for my front porch...

As usual, when you scour the net for one... the shop is in the states! I really think that a couple of these (one on either side of the door) would look great - those and some new paint.

Just twice the price of the item in shipping. Bah, nothing but bah!