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		<title>Nokia &#8211; Connecting Satellites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've become increasingly troubled by my old GPS navigator, an ancient Magellan I bought years ago at a clearance sale. It's from a time when navigators weren't that easy to update, so all maps are terrifyingly out of date by now. As I started looking for a replacement a while ago, Nokia announced they would be providing free turn-by-turn navigation to all their GPS-enabled smartphones. Would my old 5800 Xpress music-phone suffice?]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/07/30/nokia-connecting-satellites/</link>
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		<title>Handy Booklet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The way the internet works never ceases to amaze me. A while ago I posted an innocent tweet to my humble 140-follower Twitter stream. A day or so later, I received a Facebook-message from a representative of a British website called WOMWorld. He had spotted the tweet, hyperlinked onward to my blog, an onto my Facebook-account. Even though my tweet was concerning the up and coming Nokia N8 (man, it looks to be a great phone!), he wanted to know if there was another Nokia-machine I would be interested in trying out for a few weeks. I mentioned that I had been ogling at a Nokia Booklet 3G for a while, being of the opinion that it's the only "netbook" which doesn't feel like a Fisher-Price play-thing. When he offered to send me one for a trial I was initially very sceptical - E-mails offering free stuff are rarely kosher. I used my unprecedented Google-fu powers to find "The List", an official list of sites that Nokia have "approved", and finding WOMWorld on it gave me the confidence to go ahead.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/06/24/handy-booklet/</link>
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		<title>Asocial media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I concider myself somewhat tech-savvy. I know I should know better. It's like that really, really bad movie that you secretly (or not so secretly) enjoy watching over and over again (Spaceballs!). A discussion in the last This Week in Tech, as well as the latest Jasons-list (a web newsletter by Jason Calacanis) made me think about it again. I am naturally speaking of the beast that rules them all - Facebook, for which the proverbial sh*t has hit the fan over and over again, but its' users (including me) haven't seemed to mind.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/05/20/asocial-media/</link>
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		<title>Cult of the New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My kid brother is away doing his civil duty (what those who choose not to do military duty perform) but this week-end he was home, and aching for some gaming. So I packed a cooler with beer and meat (what else do you need really?)  and went over to visit my bro and his fiance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/03/22/cult-of-the-new/</link>
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		<title>Icky Goo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I had a little accident at work. One of my many phones rang, and as I reached for it I tipped over a glass of juice. Some significant amounts of this sugary drink positioned itself over the keyboard to my PC-laptop. Now, sweet liquids and computers don't match... I have been trying to remedy this problem by drying it out, blowing it out with compressed air and just plain attempting to wear it out - but the problem remains, some of the keys are quite literally sticky.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/03/21/icky-goo/</link>
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		<title>Touchy, feely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years and years ago I bought my first Wacom-tablet, a Graphire2 and I've learned to love it. Using Photoshop without it is a nightmare once you've gotten used to a tablet. Since it was time to retire ye olde tablet, I was considering spending a sh*tload to get a "proper" one, but ended up buying a Bamboo Pen &#038; Touch instead. The "Touch"-portion of the name refers to the fact that it responds to touch as well as the pen we're all used to on a tablet.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/03/20/touchy-feely/</link>
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		<title>Aftersweat: Pig Washout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At one point it looked like we would have a mega-meetup, but then everyday life intervened. A christening, a birthday party, a busy work schedule. In the end we were only at most six around the table. No matter, the peeps of Aftersweat were gathered and we were going to have fun. Brother Jens and better half Linda offered their table to host, and veteran Jan, Linda's kid brother Fred and newcomer Matias showed up, as did I.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/02/09/aftersweat-pig-washout/</link>
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		<title>iPad? iDon&#8217;t think so&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to be an Apple fanboy. A Machead. I would faithfully sit in awe, looking at all the keynotes, almost applauding at the screen in unison with the audience. Whatever Apple delivered, I wanted. I didn&#8217;t understand why anybody of sane mind would want any other kind of computer than a Mac. At some point that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/01/28/ipad-idont-think-so/</link>
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		<title>Sailing the Solar Winds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quarter Share follows Ishmael Horatio Wang, a land-crab who after losing his mother in a traffic accident takes a job at the freighter space ship SC (Solar Clipper?) Lois McKendrick. In most SciFi-stories he would be a hero, saving the lives of the crew, probably at least one pretty lady in particular, from the fierce attack by gruesome aliens who want to probe, tickle and spit like there's no tomorrow. Not so in Quarter Share.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/01/27/sailing-the-solar-winds/</link>
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		<title>Aftersweat: Snowed In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two months have passed since our last boardgame-meeting took place. Since then there has been work, work, work and... let's see... work. Oh, and then there were this crazy thing called "Christmas" as well... Time to get going again, so I proposed a meeting at my place this Saturday. Brother Jens and his fiancé Linda showed up, as did Tom from the neighboring town of Lohja.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/01/18/aftersweat-snowed-in/</link>
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		<title>D-Day on Dice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surfing on the wave of print-and-play games, the second one I printed was the solitaire (or co-operative) game D-Day Dice, by Emmanuel Aquin. Differently from the previous game I tried, this one doesn't need any assembly. Just print out the rulebook, a battle map and a score-sheet for that battle map. To play you need... Dice. Six dice in three different colors.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/01/12/d-day-on-dice/</link>
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		<title>In my pocket&#8230; I have&#8230; Zombies!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Zombie in my Pocket, you start your journey having just entered a house. In three hours you have to find the secret Evil Temple-room in the house and the Totem therein, then take it out to the gardens, finding the Graveyard and burying it there. All this while zombies are looking for you with evil intent.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2010/01/12/in-my-pocket-i-have-zombies/</link>
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		<title>Ride that M.U.L.E.!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe it was the Christmas when I was seven when me and my big brother Mats got a Commodore 64 from Santa Clause. Although I was a bit of a nerd even before this, it was this contraption which sealed my path into geekhood. One of my all-time favorite games was M.U.L.E.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/12/10/ride-that-mule/</link>
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		<title>Superstar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a week or so ago I was contacted by a journalist by the national broadcasting company YLE, Erik Snellman, who expressed an interest in my interest. Boardgames in particular. He had been ordered by his boss to do a "thing" about boardgames, but knowing that he didn't know very much about the subject he sought people to enlighten him.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/11/13/superstar/</link>
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		<title>Aftersweat Triple-One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long hiatus of barely gaming at all, we've now had a handful of gaming sessions in a short period of time. The spark has re-ignited, if you will. This past sunday was the latest. As the date was 1.11. (the way we write it here...) it was immediately named "Triple-One". A new member was supposed to join us, but he sadly had to back away in the final hour, so we ended up being only three; Jens, Linda and myself. Just like back in the days, when we didn't have friends... Or at least not friends who were geeky enough...]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/11/02/aftersweat-triple-one/</link>
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		<title>Digg the Digi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was one of those days. At work, phones ringing off the hook (not that there are hooks on cellphones, but you know what I mean), seemed like all the people in the area got up on the wrong foot and all decided to call in. Out in the corner a TV was on, but since it was daytime it was just meaningless infomercials, so I wasn't paying attention. Until I happened to see a commercial for the upcoming DIGIEXPO. "Ooh, gizmos and gadgets!", I thought, spider-sense tingling. And since I had the weekend off, I decided to go.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/10/30/digg-the-digi/</link>
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		<title>Touch the Screen, Young Believer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years and years ago I bought a Wacom Graphire 2 tablet. Every now and again I hook it up and look for drivers. A few weeks ago I dug it up again from the lurky boxes of unused electric gizmos and gadgets (it's quite a large box). Photoshopping is just so incredibly much better with a tablet than with a mouse. Since then I've had three input devices connected to my iMac; an Apple keyboard, a Logitech mouse and a Wacom tablet... And I just noticed something - I haven't touched the mouse since!]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/10/29/touch-the-screen-young-believer/</link>
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		<title>Gold-Rrainer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our little unofficial boardgaming group Aftersweat (don't ask...) has managed to reach the respectable age of two human years - which in Diplomacy-time is probably closer to three centuries. This had to be celebrated, so me, my brother Jens and his fiance Linda pulled together to organize a big meet-up. We managed to borrow Le Chateau, also known as "our mama's house" to make sure we would be able to welcome as many people as we wanted]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/10/28/gold-rrainer/</link>
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		<title>Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...is what the Internet is build from. Or at the very least - a massive amount of good deeds and good people. At least according to Jonathan Zittrain. I really enjoy a lot of the TED Talks (Technology Education Design), and this is by far one of the best. It has probably the greatest (simple) explanations on what the internet is and how it works.]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/10/17/sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice/</link>
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		<title>Aftersweat: p**ptube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work has been really, really crazy lately. So much so that my "boardgames played"-statistics page over on Boardgamegeek is almost shameful to watch. For somebody with 150+ games in his collection, and concerning himself an avid boardgamer, it seems I actually play very little... All summer long we've been trying to plan a get-together with our little in-official gaming group Aftersweat (yeah - don't ask...) without success. Last saturday we managed to pull one together, next weekend is another (but I'm at work) and the weekend after that is the second anniversary party of said group. Wow. Three week-ends in a row. Risk for overdose?]]></description>
		<link>http://themosse.net/blog/2009/10/13/aftersweat-pptube/</link>
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