Oscar and Friends

Push to add drama – A dramatic surprise on an ice-cold day

Oscar — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:13:06 +0000

The button is added, again. To launch TNT – a quality series and movies TV channel – in the Netherlands, Turner made a sequel to the viral hit video “A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square”.

Help Diamanda Holmström come back home #helpdiamanda

Oscar — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:00:18 +0000

This is the story about Diamanda Holmström, a soon to be 2 year old girl. When Diamanda was just 7 months old, she took her dad Kudo and mom Ulrika to visit her grandparents in Argentina. Shortly after arriving to meet her family, Diamanda got sick, really sick. Their five months of parental leave together with Kudo’s family and hence Diamanda’s grandparents has since then gone from bad to worse. Instead of watching Diamanda play and discover the world and her family – the family’s trip has been filled with the worst kind of worries; a sick child, YOUR sick child.

This is the background, it’s taken from Diamanda’s parents open letter at Diamanda.se:

We began discovering that Diamanda had an aggressive form of child epilepsy. She started to lose capacities that she had earlier – for example, she stopped grabbing objects and we gradually started to lose contact with her. The worst of all, though, was that she stopped smiling. Luckily, we got in contact with a fantastic neurologist who seems to have found the right medication for Diamanda. She started to improve and she started to give us small smiles again.

But then her breathing problems started, and they only got worse. She started to cough and had difficulties breathing and she started going in and out of hospital as she sometimes needed oxygen. We had to postpone our trip back to Sweden a first, a second and a third time. The last time she was hospitalized, in May 2012, she only got worse and finally ended up in the intensive care unit with a respirator. And since then, she is still there. In the beginning she was very ill and her state was critical. She got better, but there were several relapses. We spent many long hours at the hospital every day. Diamanda was anesthetized and we got to meet her only three times a day during visiting hours.

Finally her condition started stabilizing and the respirator pressure could be lowered. But since Diamanda could still not breathe without help from the respirator, in the end of July it was decided that she should be tracheotomized – a small tube is inserted in the throat to facilitate breathing (for a period of time). Since then, the situation has been more stable, and her medication dosages have gradually been lowered. Now she is awake and does not have so much medication. The respirator is on a low level – she breathes herself but gets a bit of help from the respirator. That way, her muscles get a chance to get stronger. We get to spend the whole day with her and take turns on the hospital. Lately she seems much stronger – and finally she smiles at us again!

We still do not know when she will be able to breathe without help but we think her chances of improving are much better if we can come home. Our big hope now lies with the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital where a group of doctors are trying to find a solution and where they are ready to receive her at a special unit for children with her needs – a big contrast to the unit where she is now, in a big room with many severely ill children, high risk of infections and a constant noise – a bad environment for a child who is awake.

The problem right now is that neither the travel insurance, home insurance, the Swedish authorities nor the Swedish Embassy can help the family pay for their trip back home. Diamanda has in all received very little ~~economic~~ support from the Swedish public system.

In the meantime, a transport team from Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Stockholm is standing by with a special plane to accompany Diamanda back home. The cost of this trip is estimated to around 650 000 SEK/100 000 USD/75 000 EUR. Even though the Swedish Embassy can’t directly pay for their trip back home, they’ve “kindly” offered to grant the family a loan. And even though both of Diamanda’s parents are working, and living at a friends house meaning they have very little expenses, Diamanda needs more help! Relatives, friends and strangers have already contributed, but more is needed to get Diamanda back home.

Ulrika&Kudo: Diamanda is the most precious treasure we have.

If you want to contribute, transfer money to the Swedbank account: (83279) 924713 9901. If you are outside Sweden you’ll also need IBAN: SE2380000832799247139901 and BIC: SWEDSESS. You can also donate via Paypal.

MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW DIAMANDA’S JOURNEY ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND OF COURSE ON DIAMANDA.SE.

At last, kudos to all media, tweeps, and bloggers that have been covering this story and thus helping the family get more traction and donations.

Aftonbladet, SVT, Metro, Dagens Nyheter, TV4, Mom in The City, Xenia Alpkut.

UPDATE: Fantastic news! Diamanda is coming home: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/tvaariga-diamanda-flygs-hem

Good luck and see you back in Sweden Diamanda!

Happy 1st birthday kid

Oscar — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:00:37 +0000

You’re totally awesome and rock my world every day. You’ve changed my life for ever.

Var inte rädd, jag går bredvid dig.
Kom ta min hand, jag håller i dig.
Här i min famn, kan du våga tro.
Sänk dina murar, jag ger dig ro.

För att jag älskar dig, så som du är
och jag vill ge dig allting jag har.
Låt mig få bära dig när du är svag,
för du betyder allting för mig.
Var inte rädd, jag går bredvid dig.

Social Media 2013

Oscar — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:58 +0000

Social Media Video 2013: Social Media Revolution 4 was written by international best selling author and keynote speaker Erik Qualman.

First 10 statistics used in the video:

Over 1 billion users on Facebook
If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest and 2x the size of the U.S. population
Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
Each day 20% of Google searches have never been searched before
In 10 years over 40% of the Fortune 500 will no longer be here
Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web
1 in 5 couples meet online; 3 in 5 gay couples meet online
1 in 5 divorces are blamed on Facebook
What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook…
Ford Explorer launch on Facebook more effective than a Super Bowl Ad

Keynote av Johan Ronnestam på Webbdagarna 2012

Oscar — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:30:44 +0000

Det handlar om mina barns framtid. Johan Ronnestam levererar igen, det här är en fantastisk keynote som verkligen slår huvudet på spiken och belyser många av de problem som vårt framtida samhälle i Sverige står inför. Tack!

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Oscar — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:45:41 +0000

Genius. Love this old talk from Simon Sinek.

Infografik – Svenskarna och Internet 2011

Oscar — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:56:53 +0000

Illustration: Martin Ander
Internetstatistik.se, ladda hem hela rapporten “Svenskarna och Internet 2011″.

Facebook F8 2011 Keynote

Oscar — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:30 +0000

Ledarnas kampanj – Världens bästa CV

Oscar — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:18:37 +0000

Hade tänkt att embedda min film från Ledarnas kampanj “Världens bästa CV”, men det går ju sådär nu när de valt att stänga kampanjen på grund av att de blivit anmälda till Reklamombudsmannen. Success från början, betydligt mer /fail nu. Britneys utlåtande kunde inte kommit mer otajmat.

Ledarnas kampanj i blåsväder hos Resumé, på Twitter är allt ongoing och bollen i rullning också, Nikke Lindqvist ligger bakom anmälan till RO, håller med hans kommentar om att det hela är “ohyggligt klantigt”. Nikke har även bloggat bra om det hela, finns tydligen en fin koppling till en gammal namnlista som Jonas Lejon gjorde från Searchmeet 2009.

Fail.

The Pirate Bay – Away from keyboard (TPB-AFK)

Oscar — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:16:28 +0000

It’s been a while since I checked up on how the documentary about the Pirate Bay was doing. Been over a year since the trailer came and now there’s news that editing will begin in November 2011 according to this, impressive. After spending some time reading old entries in “the making of the TPB-AFK-blog”, I can highly recommend you do the same!

TV theme trivia perfection

Oscar — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:25:40 +0000

I like this guy!

In The Fall – Stroke of genius from Steve Cutts

Oscar — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:51:12 +0000

Love it, check for details such as the changing style of the computer on his desk (stevecutts.com). Thanks (and my warmest congrats) to Matthew Epstein for the tip (googlepleasehire.me).

Papa’s got a brand new style

Oscar — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:02:08 +0000

So I finally got some time to play around with the blog, update WP and so on. I’m now running the latest WP and Elemin, a beautifully crafted CSS3/HTML5 theme from Themify (many thanks to Nick for all the support). I think what I like best about this theme is the mobile device/fluid resolution design. Try making your browser window smaller or browsing on an iPad/iPhone, why isn’t this a standard across the web?

Elemin has great sense of typography, good white space balance, and minimal graphics. It is a piece of art crafted with modern technology — Google font, CSS3, Javascript and HTML5. WordPress post formats was incorporated which allows you to write about various post types such as photo, gallery, video, quote, etc. (very much like Tumblr). The design is completely fluid and responive. This means the layout automatically adapts based on the user’s viewport. The layout never breaks no matter of what screen resolution it is being viewed on. It works on all desktop and most mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and Blackberry. To see this in action, visit our demo site and resize your browser window or check it with a mobile phone.

I’ve also taken the time to update the lifestream – it’s now cleaned up and has Kivasupport, yay! There’s also support for comments now on lifestream posts, so that might be worth checking out as I normally share more across the web than I do here on the blog (e.g. my shared items in reader). I’ve taken on a monster-project to finally backup all of my images on Flickr, I expect to be done by 2015 or so.

Cheerio

Spotify launches in the U.S.

Oscar — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:16:25 +0000

Google Plus vs. Facebook

Oscar — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:21:28 +0000

Let’s see what happens!