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27 Nov

Trailer Trash…

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humour, Movies, Personal, author. Tagged: chuck riley, humor, life, tobias vemmenby, trailer. 2 Comments

A while back we were asked by a lecturer to write the cover text for our own biographies. Needless to say, that excercise turned out to be pretty pointless in the end. But it did give me an idea. Why not try to write the trailer for my life? It should be fun, right? Let’s [...]

31 Oct

Halloween!

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal, Philosophy, Religion. Tagged: death, divorce, halloween, reincanation, wedding rings. 1 Comment

I feel a little like Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter right now. I’m sitting here thinking about death. Yes, dear readers, it’s that time again; Halloween.
I just had a small, informal ceremony by the fire under the oak. I prayed a little, I thought a lot, gazed at the moon, remembering the dead. I even [...]

18 Oct

Self confidence

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal, feelings. Tagged: confidence, courage, feelings, personal, self confidence, self worth. 5 Comments

Self confidence. Some people have it, some seem to not even know what it means. Where does it come from? I, personally, should be fairly self confident. My parents are, I’ve been brought up to believe in my self, and it has had some effect. I have a great sense of self worth! I do [...]

15 Oct

My eternal curse

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal, feelings. Tagged: bad boy, curse, feelings, guy, nice, why. 2 Comments

My dear readers, Halloween is drawing nearer and this time I therefor want to tell you about a curse. A curse that has afflicted me since I was very young. I can’t remember exactly when I was cursed, but I was.
I have always had a lot of female friends. I have male friends as well, [...]

14 Oct

Love…

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal, feelings. Tagged: feelings, heart, love, personal. 2 Comments

It is time for me to bare my heart for a moment. Other people chose do that in a diary, but on the other hand they talk this stuff over with friends. And that is something I am not yet ready to do. Also I’d like to add a disclaimer, no I don’t think I’m [...]

29 Sep

Feelings

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal. Tagged: feelings, male, thoughts. 5 Comments

As a man I can, with resounding verve, say that feelings are hard. While I won’t go so far as some other men and claim the frontal lobe to be a complete waste and as such should be devolved, I do recognize the difficulty it has put us as a race, and men in particular, [...]

30 Jul

Long, long ago…

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Personal. 4 Comments

It’s been a long time. So long I could swear the login page creaked when I logged in. It’s been a topsy turvy spring and summer. I’ve had to face some demons and things have, as they generally do, happened in ways I could never have foreseen.
The most shocking of them is that my wife [...]

30 Nov

John Hodgman’s brief digression

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Tech, author. Tagged: aliens, fermi, john hodgman, ted, tedtalks, zefrank. Leave a Comment

As a geek and a ‘Macster’ I of course love John Hodgman, more known to world as PC in the I’m a Mac, I’m a PC commercials, and soon also as Coralines father. Here he is talking at TED, and I have to say, many TEDtalks are interesting, many are moving. But not since Zefrank [...]

9 Oct

Jason Calacanis at Open Coffee Athens XV

Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in New media, Philosophy, Tech, author. Tagged: dare, entrepreneur, greece, jason calacanis, mahalo, open coffee athens. 3 Comments

Jason Calacanis, love him or hate him, is definitely a very successful entrepreneur. And he is also extremely generous about giving advise to you entrepreneurs in the making. I stumbled across this video of him giving a speech at the Open Coffee Athens XV. Yes, the video concentrates on Greece, but everything he is saying [...]