Kjære dagbok

1. Det går fint å kjenne igjen sitt barns gråt tvers gjennom en håndfull andre.
2. Alle rynkete nyfødte rosiner ser IKKE like ut.
3. Når folk sier det å bli forelder er en ubeskrivelig følelse er det fordi det nettopp er det.
4. Følelsen av å kunne stille sitt barns gråt er den beste i verden.
5. En liten bylt på 3,5 kilo kan både rape og prompe som en 120 kilos nordlending (vi frykter han er arvelig belasta ja).

Jeg. Pappa.

Disse to ordene har aldri vært synonyme før nå. Det er en sterk følelse, samtidig som jeg føler at mye i hodet mitt plutselig er snudd opp ned. Jeg trodde faktisk alle følelsene var på plass før fødselen, men det å holde ham i armene forandrer hele verden.

Det praktiske: Mathias ble født 02:38 natt til 1. april, 17 dager før termin. Han var 48 cm og 3484 gram. Og alt står bra til med både mor og barn.

A couple of things got me stumped when migrating to Mac, so I thought I'd just do a small post on them.

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It's now official - I'm a Mac user. After flirting with Ubuntu Linux for a year, watching Knut Sætre (my coworker) use his MacBook Pro and reading all the switch stories around the net I decided time had come for a change. So far, I'm definitely not regretting anything. OS X seems to me like Plug 'n Play the way it was supposed to work. Everything integrates out of the box, and I've so far never even SEEN the word "driver". I've always meant that my "work computer" should work without fiddling and never need tweaking. This was the reason I waited so long to try Linux, and this is exactly the reason I love OS X.

As those who know me might know, I love researching stuff on the net. In addition to that, I've also got a personal policy of always using freeware when it does the job - my own way of avoiding pirated software. It also helps freeware authors get a nice user mass, so I can't say I feel sorry for NOT buying commercial alternatives.

So one of the first things I did (actually before I received my black new-model MacBook with 2GB ram) was researching for apps I needed. And now, after actually testing them I figured I might publish my findings, so others could benefit from it as well. So here it is, my list of Mac OS X "must have" freewares:

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During the last couple of months, GMail has had several hiccups. And when Google homepage suddenly lost all my gadgets for two days recently, I figured I might look into the desktop application approach to organizing my life again. I've also experienced that having "tools" in the same browser that contains tabs with social networks and news is pretty counter-productive in the long run.

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As some of my readers might know, I started using Horde webmail (and it's addons) half a year ago. But after a while, I just had to cave in. Even when running against a local IMAP server on a computer with plenty of CPU-power and RAM left, it was very sluggish. On top of that you had a terrible user interface that forced you into way too many clicks to perform even the simplest tasks. I needed something snappier and easier.

So the time came to revisit my old friend, Google. I imported all my old mail into GMail using GMail Loader and set all my other mail accounts to forward into it. Since GMail lets you reply to mail with the same from-adress you received the original mail to, this setup is transparent to people you communicate with. I also moved my todo-lists to the Google Personalized Homepage todo gadget, my notes to Google Notebook, my calendars to Google Calendar, my RSS-feeds to Google Reader (which by far is the best online RSS-reader I've tried, and I've tried a lot!) and presto! I'm back at the Google Personalized Homepage. After trying it a while, I really can't say I regret the migration. It has everything I need and then some. Click on the picture to see what it looks like right now.

And with Google recently adding Tabs and drag'n'drop to their API, developing new gadgets should be a breeze!