Claes Jakobsson

Experiences from CBT

2007-05-26T20:36:01Z

1 1/2 weeks ago I began my CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) which is said to be the best way to get rid off GAD and Social Phobia.

My first session was to go and have a coffee with my therapist at a cafe,. I felt very nervous and anxious but after a while the anxiety actually went down. The other two sessions has been riding the subway and eating lunch at a restaurant. Apart from the sessions with the therapist I also have to expose myself to the situations that trigger the anxiety for approx 2 hours / day.

I already feel a lot better and hopefully the CBT when completed will mark the end of me 18 months of illness.

Being all web too dot oohh

2007-04-12T12:26:49Z

I've jumped on the twitter bandwagon.

http://www.twitter.com/claesjac

When to announce a project?

2007-04-10T17:42:41Z

One of the reasons I left old $job was to realize an software idea of mine. The plan has always been that it will be released as open-source (not sure under what license tho) mostly because I'm a firm beliver in the open-source movement and there's no way I can singlehanded come up or even think about all the cool ways people will use the system or the extensions they'll develop for it.

I've just recently started to actually write code on the project and now the big question is: when do I announce what I'm working on? should there be something to show or would a write-up of my vision be enough?

Lack of motivation

2007-03-22T20:41:45Z

I'm currently lacking the motivation to code.. help! what should I do?

Baking bread

2007-03-15T14:03:06Z

Baking your own bread give you lots of satisfaction. Here is a recipe for breakfast buns that I make regularly:

50 g yeast
5 dl water (at about 30°C)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons mixed bread-spices (aniseed, cumin and fennel)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 dl sesame seed
1 dl lin seed
1 dl sunflower seed
3 dl rye flour
10 - 12 dl wheat flour (special wheat flour that contains extra proteins)

Solve the yeast in the water and then mix together all other ingredients (add flour last) well and knead the dough for some 5 minutes or so. If the dough is too sticky you can add a bit more wheat flour. Let it ferment covered for about 1 - 1/2 hours. Now knead the dough again and then make 16-18 buns from it. Let them rise under a towel on the plates for another hour. Bake in the owen for about 6-8 minutes per plate at 250°C. The buns are ready when they sound hollow and are golden brown on the underside.

These buns contains lots of fibers and other stuff that will keep your intestines happy.

Happy baking!

life 2.0 progress

2007-03-08T21:38:59Z

In the past 1 1/2 month I have really seen a big improvement in my psychological condition. I can now do grocery shopping again, ride the bus and subway for shorter distances and generally feel much happier about things. There is some nervousness and anxiety left I must overcome and my muscles are still very tense but I'm seeing a physiotherapist regularly now to learn how to get rid of that.

On work side things are moving along and I'm able to work more and more each day that passes. No contract work yet so I get to work on administrative things, open-source stuff and of course - my project.

Tomorrows project: visit IKEA and buy a new office chair.. woohoo =)

Happy hacking!

Spring cleaning code

2007-03-03T16:16:40Z

Oink!

Everything suffers from entropy. It's just the way the universe works.

So why not fight entropy with by doing spring cleaning your code? Expand your testsuite, refactor badly written code, reformat it to sparkle in your eyes, document it and rename what is hard to grasp.

Rebooting life

2007-01-22T10:09:11Z

I've been having stomach problems pretty much every day for the past year with symptoms such as nausea and reflux. After several visits to different doctors and doing all kinds of testing they couldn't find any medical fault so I finally accepted the fact that the problems resided in my head 3 months ago. I talked to my doctor and we came to the conclusion that I suffered from severe anxiety. How and why I've been struck by it I don't know. Possibly because I had a little too much to do on my table. In order to cure this my doctor prescribed SSRI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citalopram) and I've been eating them now for 2 months and I'm starting to feel better. I've also begun going to a counselor to talk about my problems.

I hope 2007 will be a fresh restart for me.

Happy new year!

bash_completion

2006-10-18T10:31:41Z

An ex-coworker of mine told me about auto-completion on other things than files in bash. This can be achieved by installing the bash_completion package available from http://www.caliban.org/bash/

Apple should install this by default on OS X. It's very sweet.

Writing a Java parser

2006-10-06T18:33:33Z

I need to parse Java from Perl...

No luck on CPAN.. =(

Writing my own.. =)

expect it on CPAN soon...

T plus 1 day

2006-09-30T14:42:50Z

Yesterday was my last day at work. It did feel a bit strange to leave them after being there for 4 years and 2 months. And to be honest, I never thought I'd be staying for so long. As a goodbye gift I got flowers, a cookbook, a Simpsons-poster, a bottle of wine and some very tasty exclusive tea.

Now I look forward for a couple of months of vacation and working on my company product.

T minus 8 days

2006-09-19T20:39:11Z

Whoa!

I only have 8 days left at old work before I become self-employed =)

So.. much.. to.. finish.. before.. I.. leave..

20" Cinema Display

2006-08-24T13:39:45Z

Today my new Apple 20" Cinema Display arrived =)

I've hooked it up to my 1.83 GHz MacBook w/ 2GB RAM + external keyboard and mouse so I can run in closed-lid mode... really nice. It's quite an upgrade from my old 700 MHz eMac.

Back from vacation

2006-08-13T11:01:17Z

I'm back from vacation now and trying to catch up with everything that has happened for the past 2 weeks. Being away without a reliable internet connection is very relaxing.

Been watching the WWDC Keynote stream.. I can't wait til I get to use Leopard.

Leaving $work, starting $company

2006-07-20T19:09:18Z

A couple of months ago I finally took the decision to leave my job since 4 years back and start my own software company.

I'm very excited but a bit scared at the same time since I don't know if there is a market for my software idea. Guess only time will tell..

I've named my company Versed Solutions and you can visit it here: http://www.versed.se/

There isn't any information about the software I'm working since it's still very secret (as most start-ups). More info will come later.