[Hedda]'s diary
International Byhålenytt
A test to see how well I can run a daily or almost daily news site. I'll try to combine interesting facts, real news, irony and incompetence of local newspapers combined with international news.
I think the style will change after a while, and I'll try to keep it quite short, but released it as close to once per day as possible.
Written about Sunday 2009-07-05
Written: (5619 days ago)
Get your typing skills up to speed...
http://www.pow
Damn I have never been this slow! After trying to type correctly in that test, I simply can't type well anymore.
Written about Saturday 2009-07-04
Written: (5621 days ago)
That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
http://www.you
Written about Friday 2009-07-03
Written: (5621 days ago)
And when Krill was almost done with its repairs, it died again! Not so much problems, because it just could restart and then continue almost where it was in its repairs.
Then a few minutes later it seemed like the thunder had stopped and I started the sites. I was about to post some news about the crash, and while doing that, there was another power problem and Krill died again!
And this time I had to start all over with repairing all tables. I really really don't like MySQL-tables! Repairing indexes is no fun when it takes hours!
Damn! Krill died with Elfpack, Fake and the other sites!
But Elftown somehow survived thanks to it's great (and quite expensive) power-supply. But there are still heavy thunderstorms here and the damn shit doesn't seem to want to stop!
The UPS should be here in the afternoon... If these thunderstorms continue, I better turn Elftown off at once and connect it. But it takes 8 hours to charge the battery so I guess I'll just do that first as it isn't that much use without the battery loaded. Well... Maybe some use. The power-failures are mostly only half a second or so, which a pretty empty battery should be able to handle.
Start practicing and learn how to use your sonar!
http://www.the
Basically: Click with your tongue and listen to the difference in the sound depending on if there is an object in from of you.
I find it the hardest to make those damn sounds sound the same all the time.
A world wide ant empire:
http://news.bb
There are some power-problems here... Elftown survived though, but my UPS was screaming and Krill (www.elfpack.co
http://writersco.heddate.com/
As you might have noticed, [font] has changed the Writersco address to point at a new site. So to get to the old one, you have to use http://writers
I've cleaned out the Writersco council in a vorlon style and removed everyone I don't have a personal relation with. I get pretty pissed at news-writings like this:
http://writers
(A note: I offered to share ad revenue, but there simply isn't any.)
I wish them good luck with their new site, but to be honest I think it has nothing to attract people with and so far they have been great at repelling people with fights.
Written about Tuesday 2009-06-30
Written: (5624 days ago)
Beer wars
I just saw the pretty nice documentary Beer Wars. Mostly interesting to [Viking], I guess. But it do have quite a few general issues that is interesting (The woman making it doesn't even drink alcohol).
It clearly displays both how huge companies can benefit the society by bringing what they want, but cheaper, but also how "cheaper" might start to mean "the only and more expensive choice" when regulations and bought politicians start to hit an industry.
You can download the movie from here for example:
http://www.min
If you want to learn a lot of interesting things about beer, then this movie has not so much to offer. It's more about business, but it's quite fun, especially in the beginning. In the end it's more about Anheuser-Busch(Bud, you know?)-bashing.
I myself had never heard of that three-tier beer distribution system (http://www.bee
Written about Tuesday 2009-06-30
Written: (5625 days ago)
The Pirates have sold out
Nothing is settled and done, but The Pirate Bay is about to be sold:
http://thepira
The stock-price for the buying company Global Gaming Factory X has gone up through the roof, which should be a sign that there is a possibility that the take-over can be done.
But does anyone remember Napster? I really don't get what GGF is trying to do here. They say they want to push a new kind of filesharing tool, develop The Pirate Bay, and also give something to the content monopoly owners and to democracy and free-speech funds.
To me that sounds like a business plan like going out to the middle of a battlefield and hand out free food.
But regardless of how that goes: This pirate nest isn't really pirate anymore and the brand is severely damaged. Port Royal has turned into Kingstown. Talk like a pirate day will turn into Talk like a Jamaican guy...
We have to adjust to a world with either a new ThePirateBay or something else.
Written about Monday 2009-06-29
Written: (5626 days ago)
For you who like squids and such stuff. This is a really nice talk:
Ocean depths and the Undersea Voyager Project.
http://www.you
http://underse
One interesting fact is a calculation about that to support the sperm whale population of the world, there have to be about 6 000 000 000 giant squids in the world's seas. But they live at such depths and are so afraid of light that they are almost unknown anyway.
Mosquito!
So, if you loved Firefly, you'll... Eh... Well, it's pretty fun: www.mosquitove
Direct link to behind the scenes movie:
http://www.mos
Today's news
Over one million people in USA have been infected with the A/H1N1 virus (Also known as the Mexican pig-party hangover). Totally word-wide 67 000 people (300 dead). If that doesn't add up for you, there might be a job for you at WHO.
Someones have eventually realized that you can make cars really light, cheap and modern:
http://www.pdd
I especially like the part where they explain that they'll save money on the crash tests, because the car simply doesn't get destroyed by them and one car can go through all the, usually destructive, tests and then be ready for sale.
Conan O'Brien is still not funny. Jon Stewart is.
Internet was hit by a DOS-attack. It started in a heart of an ex-pop-star, ex-black and now ex-person, but quickly spread over Internet and then an hour later over TV and similar 20th century media.
Written about Wednesday 2009-06-24
Written: (5630 days ago)
BREASTS!
We haz dhem!
To specify: In the south Swedish town Malmö, it's now OK to swim without anything on the upper body. Regardless of which gender you are.
The logical conclusion is that the breast dress-code has to be lifted, otherwise I'll be discriminating women/girls. And that girl-breasts can no longer (must not!) be considered "childporn".
This brings up some quite interesting conflicts with the American laws of "Boobies bad!"... I should sue Facebook, Google and all the rest of the bunch on behalf of the discriminated people of the world!
Today Lilo has been with me for 10 years! 
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
Written: (5637 days ago)
Written about Wednesday 2009-06-17
Written: (5637 days ago)
And a cultural perspective of file-sharing:
http://cdybeda