Lately, there have been a huge buzz around the internet about Google starting to sell their own Android-based handset.  Apparently, Google has given out phones, called Nexus One,  to Google employees for internal testing before the launch. This has resulted in a lot of blurry pictures and descriptions of the new mystery device.
If this is [...]

Google has apparently found my blog quite quickly, it has indexed all pages in less than three days.The funny part was seeing how Google approximated the number of indexed pages.

Sure, when there are millions of pages an estimate that is within 20 of the actual number is fine. But when there are only 24 results [...]

Now that I have code highlighting working, I thought that I should still look into getting some easy way to display mathematical notation. Turns out that WordPress once again delivered, there are in fact several different LaTeX plugins available.
The plugin I settled for is WP LaTeX, since it allowed me to use  wordpress.com’s LaTeX server. This was an [...]

As I am probably going to post much on programming, I felt that I needed a way of highlighting code syntax and showing it in an easier to read format to you. At first I thought of just using Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter. It turned out that there were in fact several WordPress plugins using Alex’s [...]

Everything seems to be moving along nicely. I really like WordPress, it was very easy to set up and start blogging. I currently use ready made theme that I found, which I think suits my blog very nicely. I may build an own theme some time in the future, but I’m sticking to this theme [...]

My hosting plan with Dreamhost had an option of using Google Apps with my own domain. In practice, what I wanted was using Gmail, only with my own domain in the address.
The process of setting up Google Apps with an own domain was straight forward. All I had to do was enable Google Apps for [...]

Grooveshark recently released a “sneak peak” of their Android app. The application had already been shown in the Android Developer Challenge, but it got finally released for the general public to use.
The application is still a “sneak peak,” so many of the bugs I found are surely already being worked on. The application only works [...]

I recently switched from using Spotify for Grooveshark.”Why?,” you may ask. Well let me tell you.
I have been using Spotify for quite a while, I got an invitation back in October of 2008. At first, I was very happy. The promise of cloud computing seemed to come to life, I had access to all the [...]

So I finally resurrected marcushellberg.com from the slumber that it has been in for the last few years. I took advantage of the deal dreamhost had yesterday, 1 year of hosting including a domain for $9.24 for a year. In addition to transferring over marcushellberg.com i also got marcushellberg.net which only acts as a mirror [...]

Hello there. This is, or rather will be, my personal blog about different things I find interesting. I hope that the things I write will be entertaining and useful to you. Check back in a while after I have got everything up and running.
//Marcus