[Hedda]'s diary
MySpace is dying
MySpace will kick 300 of its 450 employees. Looking at this graph, it's easy to see why:
http://trends.
MySpace has however been better than Facebook to make money.
The main thing, I think, is that:
1) People just want to be on one place. The biggest place.
2) People are kind of bored at meeting new people.
That said: I think there is still a place for communities like Elftown. The trick is to make it exciting to find new people. It has to feel new and fresh all the time. And one of the main features with Facebook is that you can't really find new friends there - just connect to the ones you already have. That's where Elftown comes in and sites like www.couchsurfi
A sober look at Iran:
http://www.str
Iran's problem isn't the election, but the strange of freedom of speech that the so called "Islamic" republic enforce. If the so-called Muslims in the guardian council could take some time of to read their book, they'll see that fighting freedom of speech is like spitting Mohamed in the face.
The second problem is the practice that the guardian council disallow democratic candidates. Cooperation with people of different views are cornerstone in the Koran. Which, apparently, the guardian council uses for toilet paper...
But even if these problems are resolved, Iran will have the same democratic problems as India: Poor people will be fooled to vote for politicians who appear to help them, even though they are mostly enriching themselves and/or create an inefficient society with powerless individuals where you have to apply to do anything.
And that problem can only be solved if the brightest people in the society get into politics.
Written about Thursday 2009-06-18
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Written about Wednesday 2009-06-17
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And a cultural perspective of file-sharing:
http://cdybeda
http://iran.wh
Now wait for the evil forces of intellectual monopolies to fight for free speech and democracy... Don't hold your breath though!
Todays lesson in New English:
The British minister of censorship is called Minister for Communications
Show him that you care! Throw out your TV-set on the street and watch everything via bittorrent instead! Remember that every time you buy a file, watch TV without totally avoiding the ads, buy a CD or DVD, a little bit more of Internet dies.
Written about Tuesday 2009-06-09
Written: (5501 days ago)
Crash again
This time for a totally unknown reason. And it seems like [Elftron] was disturbing out my network too while doing its guru meditation. It might just have been the network card running amok and then eventually crash the entire computer.
Basically nothing got lost in the crash. Maybe a few gb-messages or wiki-comments, but no postings for example. It was just between 09:57 and 10:22.
Sleepy...
Can't seem to get good sleep. Today nothing got done. We'll see what I can do this evening.
Jolly Roger forever!
Let's just adapt it to the current times!
http://www.you
This song was however made before the Swedes came down there to blast the crap out of them, so I guess it's just another pirate age going down the drain.
Written about Wednesday 2009-06-03
Written: (5506 days ago)
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You can do mine too:
http://apps.fa
Written about Saturday 2009-05-30
Written: (5511 days ago)
Anyone playing the stupid Robin Hood game on Facebook?
Join me then: http://apps.fa
Pretty smart idea with a game that demands that you fish for other players...
I don't really get the point of the game though. One just improves, levels, buys more stuff and on and on...
About the heavy metal scene in the Middle East:
http://svtplay
Texted and narrated in Swedish, but the deep interviews that is the most part are in English.
Now I'm on my way to vote in the EU-election and then on a robot lecture with http://www.ald
Whoho! It's the towel day! Don't forget your towel today!
Of course it has to do with Douglas Adams.
Still network problems...
For some reason Elftown is not accessible from the outside (even though its network work fine locally) now and then. A restart of the network solves that though. I had a script that would do that automatically, but it wasn't working. I found the error, fixed it and now it seems to work, so if Elftown is disconnected again, it should be reconnected in 30-90 seconds again.
I have no clue about why this happens. Might be a problem in the router, at the ISP or something else that get triggered when there is a lot of traffic.
Written about Saturday 2009-05-23
Written: (5518 days ago)
Any Estonians reading here?
http://www.you
Poor Latvia got no coast! I don't get why Sweden isn't a kingdom though...
Written about Monday 2009-05-18
Written: (5522 days ago)
The cats are fucking.
So... SOF2009 is finally over! I'm still tired though, and I might have come up with a flue. It feels OK right now though, but it was bad 1-2 hours ago. I didn't get lucky, but I guess I was pretty lucky compared to many others. My foot was broken in the beginning of the 4-day party, but now it's better after 4 days of heavy walking... A friend jumped from a stage and broke his foot on the other hand. And while I lost and got my mobile phone back, another friend lost his wallet. And another got robbed of a bottle of vodka and a student pub was hit by a burglar.
I had some nightmares about Elftown crashing this morning, but instead Elftown is having damn network problems and I have no idea why. I've put in yet another automatic network restart feature (there was already one, but it worked differently). I'm somewhat suspecting that my router is bad. I'll see if I can reroute the cables a little. Prepare for some 5-10 seconds downtime later today! 
Apart from that, Lilo has also been partying the last days together with a very nice tomcat. I think they have argued about one time or so (not that I have been at home...) and that was quite gentle. Quite different from how it is with Sonic or Kali.
Written about Thursday 2009-05-07
Written: (5534 days ago)
From children, alcoholic and idiots you hear the truth
I've just watched the movie "The Obama Deception" (You can find it on for example www.mininova.o
To sum it up on the positive side:
1) FED is a problem as it's creating a bubble economy and they are stealing money from the ones using the dollar. EU's bank ECB is handing out its profits to the countries, which the movie totally fail to relate to.
2) Obama has lied his ass of and continue to do so. This is something that especially left wing politicians are allowed to do it seems. Why? People generally mistrust right-wing people more, so they have a harder time getting away with lies (not that they don't try...).
3) It should be quite clear that borrowing money isn't the way to make the economy grow. To grow the economy, you need to invest, invent and increase trade. Patents-monopo
4) They really try to reach out for everyone, even though they truly suck at it. But all they can do is point out errors (actually many more than there are...) and they don't have an alternative. People who are opposed are just pawns who someone smart will use. Someone smart who is for something.
But on the negative side:
1) There is a total moron who apparently believe in the bible and he says that we shouldn't be so easily fooled! And then they another guy goes on and says that you have to be American, otherwise you can't make things happen, and if he would have been Italian he would have been suppressed by the local culture and not able to understand free speech. Seriously: You are a fucking ignorant asshole American village idiot!
2) Apparently they say that the (Anglo-American) world is run by Wall Street bankers. They throw out bullshit like that globalization is something that only is good for these bankers while it's a threat to "the workers of America". The makers of the movie clearly show why they can't make any money on the insights they have as they understand nothing about internationali
3) Apparently taxes on carbon dioxide is really really going to end free life for every American and the entire green house effect is a scam. That's bullshit of the scale. Historical temperatures have very little to do with the theories about global warming, and it's quite clear if you check the numbers on how much carbon dioxide we put out in the atmosphere that something quite drastic will happen. And really: This sure as hell doesn't mean that the poor countries have to live in poverty - Taking care of the environment is what you have to do to make the economy flourish and they are not opposites even though environment investments are just that - investments.
4) They did mention the control of the Internet a little. But there are way more bad stuff going on there in the try to stop free flowing of information for all kinds of reason.
5) And what about the churches? These coward, weapon-loving, god-fearing, xenophobic, anti-intellect
6) There is of course not one true power behind everything. The makers of the movie find some bad stuff and then try to imagine that someones are in control even though there are thousands of powers competing and not even the gang they are pointing out is competing between themselves.