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Python and Tkinter on Windows

2011-06-15T04:40:00.000-07:00

I'm currently taking a beginners course on line at KTH.se. I noticed too late that it was based on programming in Python; but programming is programming after all and it may impress someone ;).

Anyway. I'm trying to complete the final task and for a good grade I have to build a GUI using Tkinter. I found a tutorial but I've been going mad for the last hour or so.

Python has kept saying "ImportError: No module named Tkinter". No matter what i did.

Finally I found the solution. For some reason (that makes no sense at all) it is case sensitive and only lower case letters should be used in the windows enviroment.

Thus the "import Tkinter" is wrong. It should be "import tkinter" without the capital T.

My son Melvin

2010-03-17T02:44:00.000-07:00

I just noticed that I haven't posted anything here about my son.

Well, he's named Melvin and he is almost five months old. There's a pictue of him as a new born on http://www.jonny.nu/melvin

Weblog Updates

2010-03-17T02:41:00.001-07:00

A few days ago I launched my latest web project called Weblog Updates at http://www.weblogupdates.com/.

This is still in some kind of beta test mode but it seems to work beautifully. Maybe the web design isn't that beautiful, but I'll continue working on that.

What it does is it publishes a list of recently updated blogs (or weblogs as they were once called). The sources of information are the blogs themselfs, pinging weblogupdates.com.

Have a look ;)

Egypt website

2009-02-19T23:32:00.001-08:00

I'm currently working on a website about Egypt with information for tourists.

Swedish Blog

2008-05-12T08:31:00.000-07:00

This post is just a short note to let you know that there's a Swedish blog available now too.

I'll write here too occasionally though.

Fever

2008-02-05T14:00:00.000-08:00

By the end of Janary my daughter got sick. She had some kind of cold and high fever for about a week. And I caught it too.

It was really terrible. Well there are probably blogs from people losing arms or legs or dying from cancer, but still this was terrible to me and my references. It's been almost a decaded since I had a fever last time. It wasn't pleasant then and it sure as **** wasn't pleasant now.

But it didn't take more than a week for my child to get some new illness and another fever. I've spent most of the last two days at home, clibming the walls.

Well, it's time for a late night snack and then off to bed I guess. There's work to be done tomorrow and I'm actually eager to get to work.

One week

2007-08-18T05:23:00.000-07:00

It's already a week since I last wrote. Time really flies.

I was back to work but had to take thursday and friday off since the day care was closed due to planning.

All that free time wasn't that free. Yrla, my daughter, needs a lot of attention. But finally I finished reading and reviewing a book today.

I've read "murder.net" (mord.net). It's a book in Swedish and I know one of the novelists behind it. It's his first published novel and it was great. I reviewed in Swedish at zetterstrom.net.

Now we're off to Mc Donalds for lunch.

Creepy Spider

2007-08-12T04:36:00.000-07:00

Last night, or more accuratley put: early this morning, I hunted down and killed a spider in my bathroom.

No, I don't have aracnaphobia but this was one creepy spider and I was virtually naked fighting it. But I WON!

The dead spider is in my freezer. It was so creepy I want to find out if it was potentially dangerous and if I have to call some exterminators or something.

On an other note I just wrote a short biography of one of my favorite novelists: David Baldacci. Have a look at http://www.book-reviewz.com/david-baldacci

Homemade Meatballs

2007-08-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

Today I made my own meatballs at home.

I usually buy prefabricated meatballs and serve to my daughter with some pasta. This time I made an effort and made my very own meatballs and served it with potatoes.

Trying to find the time to read a little more too. I want to finish reading "4 hour work week" and move on to some of the other books I've been planning to read.

Oh, also I totally kicked Clonix butt today in Project Gotham on Xbox. :)

The Game by Strauss

2007-08-04T09:26:00.000-07:00

Feels like I spent the last few days doing nothing.
So today I actually did something.

Since The Game (by Niel Strauss) was recently translated into Swedish people have been talking about it. I read it last fall so I decided to write a short review:

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

I know the ending

2007-07-31T14:08:00.000-07:00

I know the ending of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I just finished reading the book an hour ago.

Read my review

No. I won't give away the ending. Read it yourself, it's really worth it.

I'm off to get some food now.

Berta

2007-07-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my parents arrived to spend the weekend. Today they went home.

Before going home they helped putting up curtains. And also the tent (or whatever it really is) Yrla had gotten for her birthday.

Berta, the dog, seemed to like the tent and spent some time sleeping in it. Later she seemed to have disappeared; we found her in what we thought was the least likely room. She was a sleep -- on her back -- besides the bathtub in the bathroom.

Another trip to Ikea

2007-07-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

My mother arrived. She brought curtains. Thus things were missing and things had to be bought. We went to Ikea where we also had lunch and I spent a lot of money on things I guess I needed.

Went to the house. We put down the swings and my parents will bring it to my sister. There's no place for a swingset in my apartment :(

Brought some other stuff back.

I found out Fortune had listed Google as the number one company to work for and wrote a short article about it.

Now it's time to read about the Deathly Hallows. At least the title is starting to make som sense.

A week of work

2007-07-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

One long week of work.

I'm away for one week on vacation and there's a mess when I return. I've had to sort out a few screwups during this last week. And there's a backlog of work to do.

I've squeezed as much time as possible into the new website; but it still isn't finished. It takes forever. Especially with stylesheets that won't work.

I have to store new orders in a database and create a few more static pages before I'll be done. But I'm almost done at least.

My parents are coming for a visit for the weekend. They'll get here sometime tomorrow.

Mean while I'm halfway through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By monday I might even have finished and reviewed it.

Back to work

2007-07-22T14:28:00.000-07:00

Free time passes by too fast. I've had a weeks vacation and now I'll have to work the rest of the month.

August 1st another week or so begins.

All work and no play :(
And the apartment needs so much more work...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2007-07-21T14:39:00.000-07:00

It's laying there on my nightstand and I've already read the first chapter. I would have spent the whole day reading, but there are too many other things to do in the new aparatment. The TV is finally haning on the living room wall. The bed is made and in the sleeping room beside the cupboard.

I have two lamps to put up on the wall; but it's a concrete wall and I don't think my neighbours would appreciate my drilling just before midnight. Thus I have another project for tomorrow.

I took a nap after breakfast -- felt I earned it -- and then I went to Kista and bought the book. Before leaving the mall I had to get an icecream as well.

Now it's time for a quick shower and then jump right into bed and spend some time reading J K Rowling's latest book. I thought the sixth Harry Potter book wasn't as good as the previous ones so we'll see what I think about this one.

The Cupboard Made it

2007-07-21T01:16:00.001-07:00

Yes! The Cupboard made it.

I spent an hour yesterday morning glueing back broken pieces.

[I then spent about half the day at Ikea buying barely nothing but still paying a small fortune for the things I really needed.]

[Went to the old house and put the big TV in the back of the car. Picked up Clonix on the way back.]

It took some time and "superman powers" (to get the old nails out of the back); but eventually it was as good as before. I now have to put the bed back together, sort out the mess in the livning room, in the kitchen and well... all else.

And since it's now been released I have to go pick up a copy of the latest, the last and final, Harry Potter book... There will be a review on www.book-reviewz.com as soon as I've finished reading it.

It hurts to move

2007-07-20T01:53:00.000-07:00

Yes, it really does hurt to move. Physically.

I spent fourteen hours yesterday moving my furniture. That includes the cupboard from hell. Getting it up the stairs proved... impossible. At least until we'd spent an hour nearly beating it to pieces. It broke, but maybe -- just maybe -- we'll be able to put ut all togheter using a lot of glue :)

There are things everywhere; and it seems like everything I need is really left in the old house.

There's no way I'll ever consider moving without professionell movers one more time. I kinda promised myself that the move before and the move before that too. This time I really mean it. And mostly because I rented a truck and hiring someone to do it all wouldn't really be more expensive.

Yes, I guess it really was good for my body to get away from the computers and do some honest work. But it hurts.

I just put up a lamp in the celing and I feel like it would be nice to just chop off my arms. The only thing I really did was hold them over my head for at the most fifteen minutes.

Well I'm off to Ikea to buy some stuff I need.

New website

2007-07-18T03:34:00.000-07:00

I've been building websites for more than a decade now. Funny enough I started out with a very confusing personal homepage in English and slowly began making more serious websites and somehow along the way the language changed. Until yesterday I didn't really have a professionell website in English.

That was bound to change sooner or later. Yesterday it actually did.

My first trembling steps into building a website that could potentially make me some money. I figured a website in English would eventually have more visitors and make more money. To actually make me about $15,000 dollars per month I have to get started - I should have started years ago. Actually I did but my focus changed; but since about a year ago I'm back... for good.

Hopefully you're really excited about this new website. It's a website about books, reviews of books actually. It's called book-reviewz.com. Since all the ordinary spelling domainnames were already taken.

book-reviewz.com
There are only three book reviews there so far. And I feel I really have to rewrite the one about the camel club. But do have a look and let me know what you think.

I found an okay wordpress theme, so I'll use it for now.

Homepage update

2007-07-10T06:35:00.000-07:00

A little bit is still better than nothing, I presume.

I've updated my personal homepage. Finally.

Actually, all I really did was write a book review. The review itself didn't really turn out the way I planned. But at least the book I was reviewing was great. It was "the Camel Club" by David Baldacci.

Someday soon I might even get to the part where actually find the time and energy to do something about the rest of the homepage.

Truck causes traffic jam on E4/E20

2007-01-16T04:04:00.000-08:00

Wonderful morning. I was about to drive from Södertälje to Solna today. It was rushhour, but still it's usually about half an hours drive.

South of Hallunda in Botkyrka on E4/E20 a truck was heading south. For unknown reasons the truck smashed through the road rail and through oncoming traffic -- miraculously not hitting anything -- to end up in the ditch with its tail still in the right lane. The cargo? LPG.

A little past eight I had to stop my car completely and turn the engine off. Both lanes were blocked north. For people going south the shoulder was partially open.

[above: The cars ahead of me]

For two hours I got nowhere. Finally I ended up at the office at about 11 -- two hours late.

[above: the cars behind me]

Snow

2006-12-19T09:28:00.000-08:00

Two months (or so) ago the snow fell over the general Stockholm area resulting in complete chaos. First trucks and buses got stock, then the afternoon traffic rush hour began and lasted all night. A lot of people were unprepaired with bad tires often combined with a lack of basic driving skills.

It took me over five hours to get home from work that day -- it takes about half an hour if there's no traffic.

The snow quickly melted away though. It was all gone just about when we finally had managed to buy tires for Ellinor's car. (I had been telling her to get good tires made for snow for over a month by then).

Anyway. Today at about 16.30 a friend on msn messenger told me there was about an inch of snow in Bålsta. I went to the window. No snow at all. A few minutes past five I went out to my car and found it covered in snow. I brushed it off and prepared myself for a few hours drive home.

I took my oridnary sneaky shortcuts and managed to avoid most of the traffic. The E4 wasn't moving much -- but I was. It took me about an hour to get home. At this time of day it's average time.

As I passed Vallentuna I saw a car in the ditch that had crashed into a street lamp. I took a picture, but it's not very good.

Too bad I had my car washed this morning though. It probably will look dirty when the snow melts away. I'm hoping the snow will last, but I have no such illusions. This Christmas won't be white.

Christmas Card

2006-12-18T11:48:00.000-08:00

How hard can it possibly be to send a few christmas cards? It doesn't sound very advanced. You really shouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.

Yet I spent eternity -- that's what it felt like -- trying to send 20 something cards using a service called "real postcards" from the Swedis postal service "posten". I retrieved my password and realized it was two years since my prior use of this service.

I uploaded my jpeg and was told that the quality was excellent - of course it was. I had followed the instructions to the letter. The interface was really slow as I entered address after address. For each address I had to agree to a security warning since not all info on the webpage was encrypted. It took ages.

Finally it was time to click "next". I did. I waited. I got an error message. I tried again. And again. And AGAIN. No luck.

I was wishing I could have the systems developer responsible close enough to hit everytime something went wrong. Maybe it was a good thing, that there were no such people in my office.

Eventually I gave up and went home.

Then I found out on webmasternetwork.se that someone actually managed to send Christmas cards using the webpage today. I tried again and it worked. Apparently my VISA didn't and I wasn't trustworthy enough to get an invoice -- but I did it! I've sent all my Christmas greetings.

Two to the US. It will be interesting to se if they actually get there.

Everybody has a blog

2006-12-14T07:37:00.000-08:00

Everybody who's anybody has a blog these days.

I've spent my share of time on the internet, in newsgroups, IRCs, mailing lists starting up a web hosting company - you name it. I haven't really gotten around to having a real blog though. Until now, that is.

I have no grand world changing illusions for this blog. There's a chance it will end up being just another crappy blog. Or maybe, just maybe, I'll make the mountains crumble through my keyboard, or more likely something in between.

Eventually a lot of my thoughts are destined to end up here. Except the too personal ones. But then again what ever is personal these days.

I got rid of the volvo for a new toyota this past monday. Fewer horsepower, but it's brand new and less expensive in the long run. It's almost time to head home, so this will have to do for now.