For some strange and irritating reason, the developers of WordPress MU have decided that users of said product are not allowed to access their own web server using a web address beginning with www.

Fortunaltely, the system is open source so this amazingly stupid setting can be deactivated (comment out a few lines in wpmu-settings.php). It’s just that you have to remeber this change when you update the software.

Read more if this is of any interest to you:

http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/forcing-mu-to-use-www/

(And I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use URLs without www, it’s just that it’s not up to the developers of WPMU…)

Last week, Apple announced the long awaited iPad. I guess I was a bit disappointed that it turned out to be a big iPod instead of a small computer.

I had naïvely been hoping for the iPad to be an open platform, but just like on the iPod/iPhone all applications have to go through the app store and be approved by Apple.

Photo: Michal Zacharzewski

Staffan Göransson made a number of wonderful cover illustrations to Asimov-novels during the eighties. Göransson’s drawing style is far from the boring, clinical illustrations that come with a lot of science fiction. Enjoy:

Död robot (The Robots of Dawn)

Den okända lagen (Robots and Empire)

Preludium till Stiftelsen (Prelude to Foundation)

Stiftelsetrilogin (Foundation Trilogy)

Stiftelsen och jorden (Foundation and Earth)

While I’ve been a stay-at-home-dad, the kid and I have listened to the following playlist of groovy, funky and jazzy children’s music, mostly in Swedish:

Svängig barnmusik

Trazan & Banarne – Balla Trazan Apansson
Jojje Wadenius – Mitt sår
Dunderklumpen – Jätten Jorms sång
Leppe Sundevall – Jag Vill Ju Va Som Du
Bröderna Lindgren – Välkommen till djungeln
Electric Banana Band – Zwampen
Voffisarna – Älgarna demonstrerar
Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter – Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter
Jojje Wadenius – Kalles Klätterträd
Electric Banana Band – Min Piraya Maja
Various Artists – Okända djur
Uffe Börjesson& Rey-Ove Karlén – Imse Vimse Spindel
Electric Banana Band – Rap-hönan
Per Myrberg – Alla Snubbar Vill Ju Vara Katt
Electric Banana Band – Banankontakt
Petra Rydgren, Kristian Thuresson och Anders Lundström – Vipp-På-Rumpan-Affärn
Jojje Wadenius – Den jag älskar heter Örjan
Electric Banana Band – Pelikanen
Rolf Bengtson – Var Nöjd Med Allt Som Livet Ger
Danny Elfman – Kidnap The Sandy Claws
Disney Characters – Oogie Boogie’s Song
Anders Lundström – Jag Vill Ha Blommig Falukorv
Uffe Börjesson& Rey-Ove Karlén – Ketchup Ska Prutta
Anders Lundström – Champinjon
Bröderna Lindgren – Eld i baken
Uffe Börjesson& Rey-Ove Karlén – Yllevisan
Bröderna Lindgren – På väg
Jan Johansson – Tre små gummor
Jan Johansson – Har du sett Herr Kantarell
Jan Johansson – Poliskonstapeln
Jan Johansson – Tomtegubben som hade snuva
Jan Johansson – Nej, se det snöar
Caramell – Caramelldansen – Speedy Mix 2008
Uffe Börjesson& Rey-Ove Karlén – Dansa Min Docka
Häjkån Bäjkån – Ett Gammalt Fult Och Elakt Troll

Tove Jansson not only wrote really good stories about Moomin, she was also a fantastic artist:

While researching this blog post I found out that Tove Jansson also made illustrations for a Swedish edition of Bilbo: