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Marjaneh Bakhtiari fan post

Author, young, from my town. Raises issues of “Swedishness”. But, also a brilliant stylist. Reviews have called her style usage average. I’d like to call it shining and excellent. Piercing. Kan du säga shibbolet is the title of her latest novel, which I’m currently enjoying. She’s like the anti-Pär Thörn.
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4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup report

The 4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup was just held at Hypergene’s Malmö offices, yesterday night. Eight brave souls made the journey to Malmö C and came to Hypergene’s quite fancy offices. After a little pizza snack and introductory conversation, we repaired to a meeting room. Networking was in full swing, in at least three languages, when [...]
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Pen buying recommendation in Malmö

Drewex has the art supplies that I need, according to my comics artist friend. She showed some pens that were also brushes. It’s situated in a backstreet, and is cheap and popular with the active artists. These facts sum up to a great endorsement. I’ll report back when I’ve been there. In other news: Rainer Hartleb’s “Jordbro suite”, [...]
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On the town: met a photographer

A man walks with a stick on his shoulder. The stick has gear attached. I get intrigued, and sidles up: “Nice rig. What is it?” He explains it is a large-format camera. 25cm square negatives! Hands me a business card that points to his website. (Oh! That website has a picture of the wonderful camera, go [...]
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Hardware stores for the electronics enthusiast

This is just me linking to my nearby local stores that I’ve gotten recommended. I’ll revise the list when I’ve experienced these. Malmö At Jägersro Center the local electronics specialist Bejoken is joined by almost-an-institution Elfa (Jägershillgatan 20. Open 8AM-6PM Mon-Fri). More inner-city access can be given by Electrokit at Södervärn. They’re open daily at 10-16, according to [...]
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Hackmeetup, on Javascript, July 22

Hi friends, This coming Tuesday night, July 22 we’ll deal with Javascript. It’s thus a theme. And, no less than two people asked to make presentations: Morgan Roderick (from Gazebo) explains Event Delegates Mark Wubben (sIFR lead developer) will do a short version of “Bringing Typography to the Web with sIFR 3” Location: Västergatan 23, Malmö, that is Hypergene’s [...]
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Web Hacking Oresund website up

I made a little web site for the hands-on Open Source group we’re putting together in here Malmö. That’s a little more Google-friendly: http://hackmeetup.ollehost.dk is the URL to Web Hacking Oresund. I used the simple Ruby project Webgen to make the site, and rsync to get it online.
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Hack-a-thon, in my town!

More groups of people who want to fiddle with opensource software: Hackaton.se. They have an event in Malmö, at a school, 23-25 november. Just to let you know, so you can spread the word. I’ll write more when I know more. Update! An attentive reader, also being the organizer of the upcoming event emailed me, and told [...]
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Pinter’s political stuff played in Malmö

A friend, who I met via Luisa, just sent me information about the stage design work she has done in the period of time. Keywords are, according to Sarah: Site-specific, literary, installations, video, and an amazing trombone player. So, without much further ado, I hereby inform you, the interested public, that there is great possibility to [...]
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