Even though I like both Rolex and Panerai, there is no brand such as TAG Heuer from Switzerland. I guess that I am a bit of a fashion victim, and therefore I love Louis Vuitton (TAG Heuer is a part of LVMH). Also I prefer chronographs before regular watches, and they specializes on chronographs. In particular if the back of the watch is transparent so that the whole machinery is visible. The watertight watches are also popular with me.

The whole of TAG Heuers history is fascinating. In the early 20^th century they created the first stopwatch that was correct to the hundredth part of a second. Later on they created the watch “Seafarer”, that showed high- and low tide and the different phases of the moon, and the “Autograph” that could calculate the velocity of a car. Those things have been a pretty constant factor in the work of TAG Heuer, and many racer drivers are using their products. In 1958 a serie of watches were made that was assembled on car- boat- or aeroplane-panels. In 1962 the astronaut John Glenn used one of TAG Heuer’s watches in the first American space journey that was set in circulation.

Soon thereafter they had become bigger than ever. Lately, Tiger Woods has made sure that they get plenty of attention, through a well financed and wide commercial add for the brand. Also Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman and Steve McQueen have done their share of commercial for TAG Heuer. Tiger Woods has also participated in the development of the model Monaco Calibre 360 LS Concept Chronograph which, in a selection with 2200 other watch models, received the IF-award by the International Forum Design.

Out of their collection, my favourite is Carrera Chronograph Silver Dial Two Tone Bracelet, which has a bracelet in steel and yellow gold, which the name reveals. It costs 27 475 SEK at Watch On Watch and feels very slick with a face in silver. The only thing that concerns me slightly is when it comes to mixing silver and gold it can look a bit odd with certain pieces of clothing. The same thing goes for other jewelleries. But since one carries the wedding ring on the other hand that issue pretty much solves itself. I think that watches are very good accessories, but you have to watch out so that you don’t get too overambitious and dress up more than the occasion requires. That is why I suggest that you carry just one ring and no more, especially if you have a watch like this. 

Another watch I am a bit tempted by is the Link Chronograph Automatic Gray Dial, even though it looks very different from the Carrera Chronograph Silver Dial Two Tone Bracelet. In the same way that the contrast between silver and gold can be nice, the thing that makes this watch so handsome is that the colour of the watch and the bracelet has almost the same colour. Light grey and dark grey, almost adjoining black.

We’ll see what I will go for. One thing that is for certain is that after the purchase has been made I will have a hard time having my sleeve rolled down…

When I was young I tended to get obsessed with certain artists, but I rarely do any longer. However, now I am experiencing that obeying sensation of just loving someone’s music. And John Mayer, singer/songwriter, is the object of my affection. He is talented in a way I didn’t think anyone could be that wasn’t black and lived in the ‘60s. John Mayer have been a rising star the last eight years or so, but it was just recently that I discovered him. He is thirty years old, American and had a band called the John Mayer Trio. A couple of his most famous songs includes “No such thing”, “Say” and “Your body is a wonderland”. He is a guitar player and has been compared to talents such as Clapton and Hendrix. In my opinion he is a great song writer more than anything, and a terrific singer. I waited patiently for my town to get visited by his tour. As soon as it did, I called a friend of mine and we booked tickets the second we got home from work. When the concert night arrived we were so thrilled and of course the show was unlike anything I have ever seen. Even though he is a great record artist he is even better live. The audience was rather small, at least compared to my expectations, but we were all very supportive. It was obvious that everyone there loved him.

First he played “Something’s missing” and two hours later he closed the show with “No such thing”. I adore that song. In between the two songs he kept playing his best songs the whole time, and performed them greatly. He really has a good band to back him up as well. The drummer was brilliant.

When we left the concert we didn’t feel like going home so we went to a bar with some of his other fans. It was a long night with a lot of poker playing and song discussion. It was years since I did so bad while poker playing, but I couldn’t care less. Many beers and hours of poker playing later I went to bed early in the morning. I still had his lyrics in my head, and some vague memories of losing way too much money on poker. Quite the night!

Artificial intelligence is an interesting thing. Even though the computer hasn’t beaten man intelligencewise in poker playing yet, researches show that A.I will beat the human intelligence within a few years. The most popular poker game online is Texas Hold’em. This is also the toughest game strategically. Because of chance and the strong effect that chance has, the game is hard for a computer. Especially when it comes to bluffing. There is too much information, even for a computer, to control and to put together correctly.

In 1994 a computer won over a person in a game for the first time. A couple of years later, the computer won over a human in Chess.

Whether artificial intelligence is a good thing or not is highly debated. Some say that putting power and information (not to mention belief!) in computers is very risky. Others say that computers are perfect when it comes to using it a one of man’s tools.

Since the gambling society is growing each day, more and more of our social life takes part there. The way that affects us is hard to apply on a computers way of playing. A computer can never have such a thing as intuition.

But if there were to be a perfect computer, then the question would be how that would show. Would it be a computer that can beat any game, no matter what strategy the opponent would use? Or would it be a computer that has actual human features, like hesitation, boldness and other sensations that affects one’s strategies and weaknesses?

Unlike many other games, there is an important element of uncertainty when it comes to online poker. Each poker has it’s own knowledge, in comparison with Chess, where everyone knows everything about the game.

It is possible to use pokerbots, which are program that fake human actions, but still play almost perfect online poker. It is, of course, cheating, and not recommended.

And in the end of the day, what would be the point of using a pokerbot? The best part of a game is to play it, right?

I don’t care whether I could cheat my way to great wins, since it would, after all, be cheating and not nearly as close to real success as real winning is.

There are so many things to do with the kids these days; if it isn’t to go to parental meeting in my oldest sons school, then it is the youngest daughters teeth which hurts from growing. We have three kids, me and my husband, and I obviously love them above everything. But time and again I feel that it would be relieving to get away from it all for a couple of days, just to remember that I am more than just a parent.

I talked to my husband about this and he felt exactly the same. There is no real time for each other anymore, and there is barely time to read the morning paper or read a book in the evening before one of the kids demands help, attention or just entertainment.

Therefore we have decided to go away for a week and let grandma and grandpa take care of the kids for a while. They get along well with their grandkids and they have probably just been waiting for an opportunity like this, so they can spend some quality time with them.

And in the meantime, me and my husband finally gets to get away for some time. We are going to Mallorca. I love Spain and I have always felt at home there, so it feels great to be on my way.

What I long after the most is to sleep in. To not have an alarm set, to not be woken by screaming/crying/talking/running kids, to not have a job that I have to go to or a daycare where I need to leave the kids… Just sleep and sleep until the sun or my husband wakes me up. Everyone deserves that a few days a year!

But we are also going to do fun stuff together. We play a lot of poker, so we will definitely go to somewhere where we can join a poker game. Maybe even a casino. Otherwise we’ll just play poker online. But more than anything, we look forward to the beach. In Palma there is a wonderful beach where we have actually been before. I could spend days and days there. So I will get tanned so I stop looking this pale, swim in the waves (if it is not too cold of course), read a couple of books and play beach tennis with my husband. The weather is almost always good there so we scarcely have to keep track of the weather reports.

In the evenings we will go out to drink red wine. I can see us in the warm night, making toasts and eating seafood!