The new year has started and Stanford has been open for a week. During this week I´ve already managed to sign up for a course and various seminars. And set my learning goals on LinkedIn Learning. Did you know that Stanford and SLAC affiliates have unlimited free access to LinkedIn…
My family has been in the US for almost two months, and what have we learned so far? Everything is expensive Very early on, we learned how expensive things are in the Bay Area. Housing is ridiculously expensive, and we spend around half our income on our two-bedroom apartment. Still,…
After flying from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport early on Thursday morning via Munich we finally landed in San Fransisco International airport late at night, Pacific time. There, we had to queue for more than an hour to get through passport control before our youngest kids started screaming. This led to an officer…
Last winter I thought about doing my postdoc at Stanford University in California, USA. I applied to the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for a two-year grant with the possibility of another two years back in Sweden. Now I am excited to learn that I was awarded the grant, which…
I ended my trial subscription on Pluralsight and decided not to renew it. I have to say that I was disappointed when the trial ended and this was the biggest reason for not going ahead and paying for a subscription. Why was I disappointed? Well, when you are about to…
Now that my development environment is set up I've started following the videos on Pluralsight. However, I don't know if it's my particular installation or if the videos haven't been updated, but I got a problem immediately with the first task. I just couldn't see the results of my coding.…
I want to properly learn JavaScript to improve my front-end developer skills. I've been using HTML and CSS for over a decade with my themes and my websites, but I feel like JavaScript is the missing piece of the puzzle. Nowadays there is no need to buy a book if…
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My hubby bought me a new phone a couple of months ago while he was vacationing in Malaysia. It's a Samsung Galaxy Note Fan Edition (FE), which is basically a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Note 7. You remember the ones that used to be potentially explosive? (more…)
Although I was looking forward to the trip and determined to go through with it, I knew I would miss my children, and I worried that my youngest one, who was only 9 months old, would miss me as we had never been apart for very long before. On top…
Going for Hajj is a big thing, one of the biggest adventures in your life. For me, thinking back to where and when it began, it's getting difficult to remember. Although the process started almost a year ago (when we first started talking about making the trip), it finished just…
See u all in Malaysia!
It used to be "If you're not on Google then you don't exist". Now it's "If you're not on Facebook..." Google sees what you search for. Facebook knows your friends. Both of them know you better than your friends and family do. What's left for you?
Happy Eid al-Fitr 2013!
And now is the time for summer holiday. Not that I didn’t have one yet. HELLO! I just came back from a wonderful trip across the world! But now I’m back in Sweden and summer holidays are about to commence. The good news is that I have been offered a…