Computex is over, yet work hasn’t slowed down…
Posted by thelostswede in blog on June 18, 2010
Otherwise life is treating me pretty good these days, need to start moving my ass, as I’ve been getting way too lazy and put on too much extra weight these past six months or so. I just don’t have the drive to go to the gym and there’s really no-where to walk to where I live now, so I don’t go out for walks either. Anyone got ideas on how to make me want to move my backside? 
I’ve got a few new eateries I need to add to the blog as well and I’m looking at sorting out a new design for the blog, as I’m seeing this one all over the place. Sure, it’s a good template, but I think I’m going to try to go with something a bit more original.
Anyhow, I’ll try to at least update things once a month, as I’ve been really bad at this whole bloging thing. Until next time…
Missing in action…
Posted by thelostswede in blog on May 18, 2010
Finally… or something like that…
Posted by thelostswede in blog on September 14, 2009
So, after many years in the IT industry, most of them as an IT journalist, I’ve gotten around to starting my own site. It’s something I’ve wanted to do many a times before, but I’ve just never gotten around to it.
Some might think that now is a bad time to go and start a new business, but it seems like things have started to slowly improve and either which way, things have gotten to the stage where I’ve run out of options as to what to do.
The website is called mobile+notebook although as you can’t use plus signs, the actual url uses and instead of the plus sign. It will cover all things mobile technology related, although currently you’ll only find news on the site as I’m still working on building up the content on the site. However, as soon as I manage to get my hands on some new, interesting hardware to play with, there will of course be reviews on the site.
Hopefully you’ll like what I’ve done so far, although there’s still much work to be done and as I’m not very much of a coder, there are things that I can’t really do. I’m at least happy with what I’ve managed to put together and if I ever make any money from the site, at least some of that will go towards a better design.
Work, work, work…
Posted by thelostswede in blog on September 1, 2009
Gah, not having a steady job seems to mean more work than ever and for some reason I can’t seem to concentrate on what I’m doing…
Got tons of freelance work on and it’s not really that bad, just a bit mind numbing stuff at times. Not been the most product couple of weeks and I wish I could figure out how to get the “spark” back and get things done.
I’ve almost finished one major project, but I’m having a hard time with the last few bits for some reason.
Also busy working on my own thing which will hopefully kick off within the next too weeks, things are just being a bit slow as I’m waiting for a few things to be done before I can start working on it properly…
Oh well, back to work…
Easy come, easy go…
Posted by thelostswede in blog on August 6, 2009
Well, I guess it’s not exactly an accurate description of things, but I’m no longer with netbooknews.com…
Still, I’ve got more work on right now than I’ve had in a while and hopefully I’ll also make some money on it all, it’s just that I seem to be sitting around waiting to get paid by a bunch of people/companies that owe me money.
Life’s been a bit rough as of lately, but it seems like things are getting better once again. I guess you never really know what to expect, no matter what you get yourself involved in.
Now I’m working on something on my own on the site as well and hopefully with the help of a few friends, it’s not going to take too long to get it all sorted out. I guess it’s not hard to figure out what it is that I’m working on if you know what I’ve mostly been doing for a living over the past few years. I really should’ve done this years ago, but I guess I just never got around to it.
Tomorrow is “Typhoon holiday” here in Taiwan, as we’re about to be hit by a rather large typhoon up in the northern parts of the island. This means that most local will be haning out in the malls, as I have yet to be here during a typhoon that’s bad enough to close up the malls…
I’ll try to be a bit more of a frequent blogger as well. I know I keep saying this every time after I’ve been absent for a while, but I guess this is just my little personal thing and not something I have that much time to focus on.
Until next time…
Win one of 11 Asus Eee PC 1005HA
Posted by thelostswede in blog on July 23, 2009
Ok, normally I don’t post this kind of stuff, but as I’m now part of netbooknews.com and because the Asus Eee PC 1005HA is one of the best netbooks out there, I figured I’d link to this competition by eReleases who are giving away one Eee PC 1005HA every week for 11 weeks counting. All you have to do to enter can be found here and good luck.
Computex aftermath
Posted by thelostswede in blog on June 13, 2009
So, the start of netbooknews.com went much better than I hoped for and with Computex over and done with the real work is starting. I have to say that I’m very happy with the team behind the site and as long as we can keep up the momentum that we’ve started, the site should keep gaining popularity quickly.
Doing video content is an entirely new thing to me, but it turns out that at least the stuff I do isn’t all that difficult after all. It still freaks me out to listen to my own voice, but I guess this is normal. Still a lot of things to learn about how to do it all properly, but I guess I’m at least ok both in front and behind the camera considering I’ve never done any of this before. I’ve also figured out how to edit video, although this is still a serious learning process.
Apart from all this, life is pretty good. I even had someone I know from the UK that was over here for Computex come up to me and commenting on how happy I looked. I guess that’s a good thing It’s funny how things work out sometimes, but it looks like once again I’m off to new and exciting things, just fingers crossed that it all works out.
I’ve got a couple of things I need to finish off and get posted on the site and I’m really sorry about the lack of updates, but the past few weeks have been insanely busy.
So many things going on
Posted by thelostswede in blog on May 27, 2009
Wow, sorry for the utter lack up updates, but I’ve been soooo busy as of lately.
So, I’m in the middle of launching netbooknews.com and we’ve already got content up on the site, but the official launch isn’t until Monday next week.
We’re going to be crazy busy covering Computex next week and I’m still going to cover the show for my old company as well.
Once Computex is over I’ll try to get a bit better at this whole blogging thing, but until then, you’ll have to make do with this.
Updating some old stuff
Posted by thelostswede in blog on March 30, 2009
Right, I’ve been updating some older posts, as things have changed a little bit since I started this project and I’ve also had some additional information, alongside the fact that I’ve actually been to a few more of the supermarkets in the list I’ve done.
I’m going to try to add more stuff to the site as well, I’ve got a fair few restarant’s I should be writing up, but it all takes time. I also need to add more stuff to the FindIT map, but again, this is a hobby project and it’s not as if I have unlimited to do this.
On a more personal note, I’m busy working on a more serious project that will hopefully work out in the end, but as of right now it looks like it’ll be a lot of hard work. I guess there isn’t really much else to say at the moment, so just bare with me and hopefully everything will improve with time 
The FindIT map
Posted by thelostswede in blog on March 11, 2009
As some of you might know, I’ve put together a list of eateries in Taiwan and made map links to Google maps. Then reading Forumosa last night, it struck me, why not do a map that links to anything and everything useful in Taiwan? So what I cam up with was the FindIT map (Find it in Taiwan, and yes I know there’s one i too many), a silly name, but hopefully this is something that people will find useful.
At the moment you can find it here or by selecting it from the How, where, what tab up top. I’m working on getting a front-end made that will make it a bit easier to use, but hopefully you can still work out how to use it. As long as you have a Google account you can also add your on bits to it, which was also part of the idea, as I only know where a fraction of everything here is located. Please let me know if there’s anything you think I can do to improve it and I hope this will become a useful resource for all foreigners in Taiwan, those living here and visitors alike.