Mind of an Err0r

Stargate Gurus

2007-04-16T20:12:00.000+02:00

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Asia more prominent in West

2007-04-01T11:04:00.000+02:00

This century has been dubbed the Asian century for a while, and now we are finally starting to see some Asian influence in the West.

First of all, we have Korean pop sensation Bi Rain, who sold out two concerts in Madison Square, New York last year. He is currently studying English and is set to release an album in English this year. He was also listed in the Time 100 list of the most influential people. He has already released an English song, Sad Tango.

Japanese culture is making a comeback, their cartoons, called Anime are gaining more and more popularity. Recently, Naruto Shippuden started airing, it is the sequel to the mega popular Naruto series. The good thing is that you can watch naruto online without having to download, on certain sites.

Also, the Chinese are also gaining popularity. Last year, Meizu released the Mini Player which quickly became popular around the world. This year, they have released the Meizu Music Card - we will have to wait to see how well it sells. Also, Meizu has recently attracted a lot of foreign attention with the announcing of the Meizu M8 phone - a phone who's appearance reminds a lot of the Apple iPhone.

Long time!

2007-04-01T01:08:00.000+02:00

Long time! Just found this place out of random luck and DAMN! I sure wrote some stupid stuff back in the day.

I remember my goal of this blog was for me to see where I came from years later. Guess what? Years later is now, and I really appreciate what's in here. Reading this, I get to know myself once again.

Business of the year, "sell" your Steam accounts

2005-10-07T21:42:00.000+02:00

Edit: To those who don't know, there is something known to the rest of the world as sarcasm.

If there ever were a *censored* of the year award, Gabe Newell must be one of the nominees, if not the winner. Valve Software is one of the most unprofessional and *censored* companies ever.

My previous post describes how I lost my Steam account and emailed their support. Well, today I got an answer.

"I cannot disable his account because he has the cdkey. Sorry."

What is that for *censored* answer? I write a complete letter and the *censored*gives me an answer that is written in less than 30 seconds.

I have thought of the perfect business plan (we
already know it works), here it goes:
1. Get a Valve game, such as Half-Life 2 in the store and register the
CD-Key to a new Steam account. The more games you buy, the quicker the money would roll in. Consider buying around 200-300 games, and you could do this as a full-time job.

2. Sell your Steam account on the
Internet, on sites that allow it to be sold. Only sell the username and
password, but do not give them the CD-Key. Put it up for a cheap price, around
half the price of what it usually would cost.

3. After the account has been sold, contact Steam Support telling them that your
account has been "hacked" or "stolen", providing them with the CD-Key.

4. They will reset the account for you.

5. Repeat and watch the cash roll in.

This actually works. Good job Valve, your the best. Now I will become rich, and the anger would be directed at you! Muhahahah... .... ... .. . *censored*.

Me and my friend worked out the problem ourselves so it's fine, but Valve... I can't believe they are soo unprofessional.

Finally back

2005-10-04T17:48:00.000+02:00

For the past week my MSN Messenger and Blogger did not work. Today I was finally able to fix it, and guess if I'm proud.

A lot has been going on lately, and I've also been thinking a lot, most of the thoughts are now lost and forgotten because I could not blog and was too lazy to record them any other way.

We have been having quite a lot to do in school recently, but it never seems quite enough, because I can always find another lame excuse for me to go off and play DotA again.

Last Wednesday I missed my presentation in Religion course. I woke up an hour late, because I did not hear the alarm go off. There were two busses at the station, and I took the wrong one. I jumped off and chased the other bus for 5min, the driving was playing with me. Really sad that he's got to do that to balance out all the sorrow in his life. In the end I caught it at a big station where many people had to go off, thus making the bus stay for a longer time. After all that, I still came half an hour late and missed my time for the presentation.

Something quite sh*tty that happened was that a friend who sold me a Steam account and wanted it back, sent an email to Steam telling them I've hacked his account. He got it back. Valve are such unprofessional retards and can go and fudge themselves. (Does blogger tolerate swearing?) It's not about the money that I reacted so heavily upon this, but that a friend would go through all that effort to betray me. If he would just ask nicely I would have given it to him. I sent an email to Steam yesterday explaining a situation, let's see how well Valve can handle this. I expect them to do nothing.

I guess that summarizes what has been going on lately. Anyhow, it feels good to be back.

Out.

Why TV shows like American Idol sucks

2005-09-28T19:39:00.000+02:00

Want to become famous? Do not mess your career up with shows like American Idol.

There are some really talented people testing their luck in TV shows like American Idol, they think that if they win, they would be rich and famous. True, to some extent. In this entry, I will discuss why those TV shows suck.

First of all, how big is the chance that you enter the show? Less than 1% I'm sure, let's say 1% even though it is actually much less than that, 1% is enough to prove my point.

Secondly, how many will win? One, one person wins. If there were only 10 contestants in the show, then only 0.1% would win.

Let's put the percentages aside. Who actually buys albums from those artists? I try to stay as far away from them as possible, I do not even download them for free. The only potential consumer is the teenage girl.

If you have been on the show (winning included), you could never be famous again. Once you get eliminated from the show, your career as an artist is over. Who would want to buy an album from a loser like that? Even if you win, you would still be a b-artist, forever. If you win, you get a contract and an album, wow. Would your album feature big artists like Mariah Carey or 50 Cent or even have some good producers? No. Your album would be junk. How many winners of those shows stay famous for more than 2 years? None?

In Sweden, groups/artists like Excellence and Supernatral were made in the TV show Popstars. Still popular? Most people have already forgotten all about them. I do not even know who won Fame Factory. For the Swedish version of Idol, it is too early to say if the winner will succeed. So far he only has some temporary fame within this country.

People on the show are heavily screwed by the producers, how cheap isn't it to make a show like that? They earn lots of cash when people vote, they get money for every CD that you sell.

What do you get if you win (much less than 0.1%)? Temporary fame.

What do you get if you do not win? Nothing except humiliation, bad self-confidence and your entire show-biz career ruined. So go do it!

Think twice, do not let others exploit your talent in that way.

Time, time

2005-09-27T22:12:00.000+02:00

I remember not so long ago I could do whatever I wanted to, I always had the time.

Now I actually have to make time to do something. I got to make time to do homework, to go to the gym, to play games, to write blogs, etc. Everytime I make time, I have to sacrfice something else.

This is getting lame. I am busy to the point when I only blog 1-2 times a week. If this continues, things will not look pretty.

Longing for a break.

The Sony Ericsson w850

2005-09-25T19:35:00.000+02:00

Remember the k700 and the k750? Well, the w850 is coming. Here are some pictures.

Nice phone, I just don't like the colors (whats up with all the orange? :S )

This is what the iPod phone could have been

w850 vs s700

Sorry no time for a proper post, the mind is not erroneous right now.

It worked...

2005-09-23T20:36:00.000+02:00

2 months ago, when I wanted to try Linux, I found Ubuntu. It is a Linux distribution and many people said that it was the easiest to use, so I decided to try it.

On their site you could order Ubuntu on CDs for free. I never thought it could be true, I mean they do not earn money. What they have made is free software.

Today I was suprised to find 10 Ubuntu CDs in the mailbox. That's just nice!

I haven't had time to try it just yet.

I can't believe they actually came, forgot all about it.

I'm an idiot.

2005-09-19T20:41:00.000+02:00

I'm an idiot. For as long as I can remember, every Friday I bring a bag full of homework weighing a lot. I take the homework that I plan to do home, over the weekend.

Every (every) Monday I feel damn guilty, because I didn't do the homework I brought with me home the Friday before. On Mondays, I always go back to school with the bag the way it was on Friday. Sometimes, I do a half-assed attempt to finish some work, but the result is just... bad...

I am soo lazy.

Still, a little self criticism is good. Self-praise is bad, according to the Sunscreen song, which I follow religiously.

Btw, I found a song on DotA, it's funny. If you play DotA you should listen to it.

Don't be hating gossip

2005-09-18T21:03:00.000+02:00

Haven't posted for a while. My broadband connection has been down for 3 days. Some say that it's Katrina that has come to Sweden (those 3 days were damn cold as well). Here is something I wrote in Word while my internet was down.

Don't hate gossip. If you do, you are nothing but a stupid, self-centered loser with no personality, lots to hide and/or a crippled thinker.

Now is about the time where you go: What the fudge (can I use explicit language?) is this for crappy entry I'm reading? Wait, don't leave yet.

Give me a chance, and maybe you will get a better understanding.

You see, the only way you can hate gossip is if you hate news, TV, radio, movies, magazines, books, most music, and blogs. I assume that since you are reading a blog, you do not hate it. Since you don't hate blogs, I can safely assume that you like gossip.

This society we live in is based on gossip, or information as we also like to call it. Why do we watch news? To see and hear what happened to others. Why do we listen to radio? To hear what happened to others. Why do we watch movies? Too see and experience what others go through. I can go on but I think I have made the point, its all GOSSIP.

It doesn't have to be non-fictional (news, documentaries) to be gossip; real life mouth-to-mouth gossip can also be fictional (movies, fairytales) or highly-exaggerated.

If you did something stupid/dumb and everyone around you knows about it, it is your fault. You were the one who did the stupid/dumb thing. A little gossip won't hurt you. Every time a politician does something wrong they get bashed to death, I don't hear them complaining.

If you did something wrong stand up for it, don't try to push your mistakes onto someone else.

The human race is the gossip race. We are feeded/spammed with professional gossip daily but still some choose to complain about some simple mouth-to-mouth gossip. Grow up.

And... Iroc.

Oversensitivity

2005-09-12T20:39:00.000+02:00

- I want that black shirt over there.
- Did you say black? What a racist you are!

Oversensitivity has become an issue. A lot of anger is pointed at the wrong people, the people in the middle, the normal and average.

Everything can be seen as a line, where two extreme groups occupy the two ends of it. The racists and the anti-racists. The feminists and the anti-feminists.

Much of the time regular people get caught in the line of fire.

The anti-racists always have to make stupid comments when you talk about color. This world is colorful, not just black and white. Oops! I said the word black...

Feminists... most annoying of all. When a man does something bad, it's something all men do. When a woman does anything bad, it's just a personal thing. Men should shut up and not comment on women and women should be free to say what they like. Don't feminists want an equal society? Have they gone completely insane?

Am I the only one thinking clearly?

Distractions

2005-09-11T20:55:00.000+02:00

I can never concentrate; there is always some kind of distraction hindering me.

Today I was typing some stuff on the laptop in a dark room. The only source of light was the laptop screen. There was this bug climbing up and down on the screen (bugs like light right?). At first I ignored it, but then I started thinking about it. I started watching it's moves. It was always climbing upwards and occasionally falling down.

After studying the bug for 2min (forgetting about the work I was doing) I realized that it reacted to what was happening on the screen. When I moved the pointer on it, it got so afraid that it fell down and started climbing from the bottom again. It worked for 6-7 times. Then it got immune to it, it learnt that the pointer couldn't hurt it. So I am trying to scare it with swift-random-crazy moves with the pointer, but it still didn't fall.

I thought of the perfect plan. I went to a website with a lot of text and scrolled downwards. The bug got really confused and fell; I did it 3-4 times. The bug got owned.

Then suddenly, a thought stroke me: What the hell was I doing? I was supposed to do some work.

I write blogs to practice my writing; maybe I should start meditating to practice my concentration?

My excuse

2005-09-09T21:51:00.000+02:00

Sorry for not writing in the blog. Here is my excuse, or maybe story?

So on Wednesday I got the new 8/1mbit internet, an upgrade from the last 512/128kbit one. I got excited. In the middle of the all the exite, I broke my wireless router (during reset I pulled the plug out).

Yesterday I called tech support, they told me to send it in. It's gonna take at least a month to get it fixed...

Today I borrowed by friends wireless router. Really nice of him.

So now I'm BACK!

Freedom of speech

2005-09-06T21:06:00.000+02:00

Freedom of speech has always confused me. No matter how hard I try and want to believe it isn't, I always end up convincing myself that freedom of speech is nothing but a part of a scheme to silence people.

People go round and thinking about the fact that they can say whatever they want, they have the freedom. Their happy, society stays stable.

Of course I do not randomly choke up statements like that, I tried to believe that freedom of speech really was freedom of speech, but some things that have happened is making it hard. I tried to be silent, to shut up, but I have failed.

Farenheight 911. No one wanted to release it. Disney canceled the contract. Michael Moore was stuck with a documentary he spent lots of time making. In the end Miramax agreed to release it, if he cut out large portions of it. So that's what he did.

I saw Farenheight 911, there was nothing shocking, average-documentary, not too convincing. -- then I saw the bonus material. It was an infinite times better than the movie itself. It showed what really happened. If that had been shown in the movie, then Bush would not be sitting in the White House today. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the movie and the only way you can see it is to buy the DVD. How much audience was lost?

Then, several days ago Kanye West said this during the Katarina benefit concert:

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food. ... They've given them permission to go down and shoot us. ... George Bush doesn't care about black people ... We already realized a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way, and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us.

It was censored. I am not saying that I fully agree and or support his views, I am just saying that it was censored, to clear up eventual confusion.

Two cases (that I know of) where some anti-Bush/government ideas were censored. Not directly by the government, but by the media. The media has many reasons to do this, but all reasons have something to do with politics. The media can go against it, and lose money (which they of course wouldn't).

Of course there are countries far worse than the US, like China, Cuba and North Korea for instance. The difference is that those countries are 'bad, evil', they oppress freedom. They are totalitarian.

The United States is the home of freedom, of 'good', defenders of freedom and peace. Go defend your freedom of speech. When a person can not express what he feels about the rulers, then something is needed to be done.

I have lost faith in the freedom of speech. I wish that it was not just a scheme, but truths always hurt.

Hurricane Katrina

2005-09-05T18:38:00.000+02:00

Hurricane Katrina. It seems that every blogger has written something about this. At first I did not want to join the majority, the generic, but after seeing the aftermath it is hard not to.

Sad.

So much death.. first the catastrophe in Asia and now this.

Instead of spending so much money developing military, can't people stop for a bit and think. If they did, then maybe someday countries would spend more money on research that save lives instead of take lives.

I have noticed that it is only during catastrophes like this, that people can really unite with each other and forget about issues like race, gender, sex, politics, etc. It is good that something so sad can do something positive too.

Rest in peace to all the ones lost. For everyone else; be happy you are alive and cherish this life of yours.

I do not know enough to comment further.

Blogging is hard

2005-09-04T19:42:00.000+02:00

I've run an anime site getting over 900 visits a day.
I've run a warez site getting over 5000 visits a day.

Now I am running this blog, getting around 15 visits a day.

Blogging is really hard. So many people blog, how do you get known and recognized, and even respected?

It doesn't matter much to me, but thinking about it, it's just weird (the visits). I will continue because I do this mostly for me, myself.

Over this half-year of blogging I have found it easier to write and gather my thoughts.

I feel all you bloggers out there, don't quit just because no one reads your blog. It is hard, no matter how easy it looks.

Broken pictures

2005-09-03T16:20:00.000+02:00

Last year when high-school started, everyone painted a picture of themselves. Some conciously, some not. Some exaggerated, elaborated, and hid parts of themselves in their paintings.

Slowly, some of those paintings are falling apart. Some can't live up to what they have painted, some can. Those who can't are slowly falling apart.

Is it worth painting a false picture of yourself when you have a risk that the painting would fall apart and you would never fully recover. What do you do when your picture has fallen apart, with pieces shattered on the floor and you can't ever fix it again?

Until recently, I did not even know people would do such things. At least not to this degree. Naive and maybe absent I was.

Soo many questions, but only the future can give me the answers.

Politics confuses me

2005-09-01T20:41:00.000+02:00

Today when I went to the CNN site I found this news in the Asia section. It's not the article itself that is important, but the fact that the author has given the title the impression of Taiwan being a part of China.

Usually, journalists write of Taiwan as a country and not a state/province of China, so this article (well, the title at least) made me stop and think.

In the article the author gives no further views(or clues?) on whether Taiwan belongs to China or not. Maybe it's just the title?

This whole issue is confusing me, what do western media want to say, where is their standpoint? Is Taiwan a country? Some news/travel articles are written as if Hong-Kong was an independent country.

Traditionally, China claims Taiwan to be a province and Taiwan claims itself to be an independent country. The USA has always been poking here and there, changing sides all the time, getting advantages from both sides. The stories from all sides are basically the same but with slight differences at crucial points to change the entire moral of the story, thus making their respective arguments.

I am originally mainland Chinese but I don't really care. My personal standpoint? It would be good for China to reunify Taiwan but starting a war for Taiwan is not really worth it. With the advanced weapons of today, the ones suffering the most (if a war would eventually break loose) would be the civilians .. and if a war would break loose, it would basically mean the end of the World©.

Perhaps this CNN article title is the first sign of journalists changing attitude towards the China-Taiwan issue?

Ahh, confusing stuff, eh? Don't think this will be fixed for another 20-30 years.

Pain in the ass

2005-09-01T11:49:00.000+02:00

School has started, most days from 8:30AM to 4:30PM. Plus the two hours it takes to get there and back I'm gone for 10 hours a day. No lunch break anymore, eat lunch and continue lessons. Kinda tireing.

Apart from the bad scheldue we have something has been bothering me more and more is the chair we use in most classes.

Just look at it, blue hard-plastic chair. I'm sure it didn't cost more than 6-7$. Not only is it ugly, it also is a pain in the ass, literally.

Imagine sitting on a hard-plastic, badly shaped chair for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

After about 30-40 minutes your ass starts to itch. After ignoring it for 10 minutes you can't endure anymore. You start thinking of how to cure the itch, and that's all you think about for the rest of the lesson. It cuts productivity in half.

The school administration is having a crisis meeting fixing our scheldues these coming days, which gives me a chance to take a break from the pain in the ass.

UK seeks ban on violent Web porn

2005-08-30T21:50:00.000+02:00

LONDON, England -- Proposed new laws could make the UK the first western country
to make viewing or downloading violent pornography on the Internet illegal, the
British government said on Tuesday.

Hmm, what's violent porn? What happened to democracy and freedom, or is it just a title? Shouldn't you have the freedom to choose whether you want to watch violent or un-violent porn?

Is violent porn a porn-with-guns-and-knives-thingy? Never seen & never heard of that...

Tired

2005-08-29T17:48:00.000+02:00

Monday's are usually those days when we get home early and have the opportunity to take it easy.

Well, I just got home. It took 2 hours and 45 minutes. Normally it should only take 45 minutes.

I have wasted 2 extra hours doing nothing.

Very pissed off, tired, etc.

Dilemma here.. wanna smash something, but afraid to break it and/or too lazy to clean up the mess afterwards... which makes me even more pissed.

Insane.

The Island

2005-08-28T21:17:00.000+02:00

Just saw The Island today at the flicks with a couple of friends, a very nice movie indeed. Not only does it make you think, it also takes up an important issue that we may have to face in the near future; cloning for body parts.

Warning! Spoiler, select the below text to view.

There are a couple of things that is bothering me about the movie:
1. At the end the guy uses this switch to ruin the whole lab/cloning-facility, why did they design a switch that could do that in the first place?
2. Luck. They are soo lucky, if you haven't watched the movie, watch it and you will see. This is my biggest dissapointment, they are so damn lucky, can't stress this enough.
3. Where did the clones get the memory of the "host" back? Science doesn't does not like that, unfortunally. This seems like a lame attempt to make cloning for medical use look bad.

But still, the movie rocks.

Why kiddies should not debate

2005-08-27T14:25:00.000+02:00

Because they suck at doing it, at least higher level debates. It makes you confused, not knowing whether to respond or not to something so stupid. Some time ago I read a debate article sent in to a newspaper by a kiddie, this was the content:

Adults can change too!
Hi, I think that killing animals is bad and cruel, so I became a
vegetarian. Most adults support me in being a vegetarian, they say it is a good
thing, but when I ask them to become one, they say that their too old to change
their eating habits. You are never too old to change... etc

Ehhh, ... ok? Humans are omnivores, we eat both meat (yes, animals) and vegetables to obtain a balanced diet. Vegetarians can use protein rich products like beans to give them protein, but plant protein is not as complex as the ones in various meats. Thus, making vegetarians skinny and weedy. If you want to be a vegetarian and limit yourself, go ahead.

Asking adults to go vegetarian is bad enough, then you go publish an article in a popular newspaper about it.. The adults you have been talking to says it's a good thing only because they do not want to hurt you, and they don't change their eating habits because they don't want to. They say their too old to change because they do not want to hurt your feelings.

Here is another example, comment from this post:
Sorry but you've got it totally wrong. The media does one thing and only one thing to the population: It manipulates. Look how it's manipulated you!
- From where I stand I see you being manipulated by the anti-media-ideals people.
Ya, it makes people go anorexic when they're already underweight and is dangerous for health. Sure obesity is unhealthy, but neither is malnutrition! The notion that starvation=skinny is totally off; when you starve, your body CONSERVES calories, and furthermore, you will eat more at your next meal than the total amount of food that you would have eaten had you eaten regularly. If you need an example, none better than Terri Schaivo.
- Look at the statistics, are there more obese than malnutritioned in developed countries? What is a greater problem, and what costs more tax money?
Nearly everybody has enough on their self-improvement lists without the media's interference. And nearly everyone is discouraged at not meeting them either, without the media's interference. The media creates standards for the population that cannot be sustained, and as a result harms and dulls the minds of the population.
- I don't have a list, neither does any of my friends? Who actually has a list? Harms and dulls the mind? Ummm, actually, obese people have a harder time thinking as the human mass increases, less blood is transported to the brain, etc.
And it absolutely true that beauty is only skin deep. It's also relative; in ancient/medieval ages, being fat was considered attractive.
- Attractive, maybe. Unhealthy, yes. a) How long did ancient / medieval people live? b) Do obese live longer than normal people?
First off, we need population CONTROL, not introduce more people! And sex based purely on physical attraction, like what you implie, typically does not result in good marriges or families. Thus the children suffer and it if happens to a wide enough extent, society itself will be pulled down by the suffering of children is dysfunctional families.
- Control?? Europe's population is dying! To maintain a steady population, many european countries are forced to "import" large masses of people from other places. Population control is needed in countries like China, India, Japan, etc. Also, do you mean that obese couples would have better relationships than other, non-obese couples?
WRONG, ALL WRONG! THE MEDIA MANIPULATES! DON'T LET IT MANIPULATE YOU!
- From what I understand you have been severely manipulated by your obese teacher/parent(s). I can not think of other reasons to why you would comment like that.

Google goes talking

2005-08-25T20:45:00.000+02:00

Google has launched an IM service called Google Talk.

Seems pretty uneccessary to me, we already have enough IM programs (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, QQ), more than enough..

I am a user of MSN and all my friends use it, so I see no point in changing to Google Talk right now, but I do feel that MSN is kinda cluttered with ads and tabs and Microsoft stuff.

Google Talk only works for people with Gmail, for those who don't have it, I can invite you if you just post your email below.

Late Registration

2005-08-24T18:21:00.000+02:00

I just had a listen to Kanye West's new album entitled Late Registration. I have to say that this album is really great. Especially this song called Hey Mama where he sings for/about his mother.

The song is very warming.

After listening to that song I realized that I would never be as great a son as Kanye. That fact made me a little sad, but I will work harder to become a better son.

:)

For those who want to listen to the song to check what I'm talking about, use the link below.

That's it!

2005-08-23T18:10:00.000+02:00

Got spammed again. 5 new spam messages in the previous post... Noticed that blogger added support for verification images on comments, shortly after I made my last post about spam.

Good, because I'm turning it on. Will I lose comments? No, because if the commenter thinks it's too hard to type a word verification, the comment would not be good.

Still, always the innocent who have to suffer...

Oh no, you have the wrong opinion

2005-08-23T17:56:00.000+02:00

I'm noticing this more and more. Everytime I express my opinion about something, the first response is: "That is a typical right/left point of view. You must be a supporter of the right/left." The exact words can differ, but that is the meaning.

Since when did all opinions become left/right? What happened to my opinion?

It is funny I even get that response, considering I have nothing to do with American politics because: a) I do not live in the US b) I am too young to vote and c) My opinions do not come from my very unpolitical parents.

I'm getting the impression that everything, yes everything is about politics.

Left right left right, care to move forward and think for yourselves instead of using generic left/right quotes to every argument?

Media, and the perfect people

2005-08-19T21:45:00.000+02:00

A lot of people complain that the media sets false ideals for boys and girls. Girls can't be fat and must look good. Guys must be well-trained and have this macho-thing going on. I like it.

People say it makes girls starve themselves, go anorexic, etc. Yes, that's bad. There are extremes to everything. Remember the news of that girl jumping off the balcony thinking she could fly after watching Pokémon?

Why do I not oppose it?
- It fights obesity. Obesity is a large (and growing) problem in western society. If it weren't for all those pictures from media, who knows how fat this world would be?
- It shows a picture of how a human should be. If people went round thinking that they should look like Fat Joe, it wouldn't be pretty.
- Better looking people. The population would look better and be more attractive. It leads to more sex and more babies.

Do like me and do not oppose it. It is good for you, for all.

Is Bush a fan of Hitler?

2005-08-19T17:48:00.000+02:00

In 50 years, would the history books write good or bad about Bush? I can draw a lot of similarities between Bush and Hitler. Here are a few examples:

- They were elected by their people. Their victories in the elections were both questionable.
- Most of the people believed and supported their actions.
- They started wars.
- They used scapegoats (Jews, Muslims). Wars have always been started using excuses.

Winners write the history. They can write it in any way they want to, people would have a hard time telling if it's truth or lies. I think the most widespread rumor was that Hitler's mother/other relatives were Jewish. False. Just to came to think of it, there is this rumor that Bush's IQ is 70, hope thats false.

Let's see if Bush will win or eventually lose. Let's see in the future what the books will write about him.

To see what others have said about Bush=Hitler, check the link below.

Worst excuse ever!

2005-08-18T21:20:00.000+02:00

I've heard lots of bad excuses (especially from some friends ^^), but this one is by far the worst. I was playing a game (DotA), me and a team-mate killes an enemy.

After 30 seconds, the killed enemy says: "SORRY GUYS I GOT TO GO. MY MOTHER DIED!" (Yes, in all caps).. and then he left.

After that I had a fit of laughter. What the hell is that for excuse, "my mother died"...

ROFL

Got spammed

2005-08-18T14:38:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I found 7 spam messages commented in the previous post. It was automated spam. Sent an email to Blogger support 24 hours ago, no answer.

If this happens again I think I'm gonna switch to haloscan.

This could be easily fixed by generating a validation image, the commenter types the text generated on the image to confirm the comment. A good way to remove those automated bots.

The bots are specially designed for Blogger/Blogspot, they find blogs by using the "Next Blog" link top top of every blog. I know this because I had a lot of referrers from blogs that I didn't even recognize, and when I went to them I could not find a link to my blog on any of them, so it must have been the "Next Blog" button.

Annoying.

Koizumi apologizes for war wounds

2005-08-17T17:52:00.000+02:00

Japan's leaders apologize once again for the havoc their country caused during WWII. They are sorry for everything they did, etc.

Still, the leaders are visiting the Yasukuni shrine every year, where the Japanese war dead are honored, where the war criminals are buried.

We don't see the German leaders go paying tribute to Hitler...

WWII Germany terminated around 5000 Jews.

WWII Japan terminated around 300000 Chinese.

Just a heads up.

Peace.

Immortality

2005-08-16T20:17:00.000+02:00

Recently I just discovered Alex Chiu's site again. I think I found it somewhere in the year 2001. He believes he has invented something to make people physically immortal, a pair of magnet rings you put on your fingers.

At first I thought it was a joke, I thought it was a prank site.. but after surfing there for some time I noticed that he really believed in it.

It is impossible for him to prove that the rings really provide immortality, because he hasn't invented it long enough, but people have posted in his forum telling him that they have became stronger and healthier after using the rings.

I would never buy anything like that, but luckily he also offers them for free. All you got to do is to get 80 people to check his site out, and that's what I'm doing. I do not think that they would make me immortal, it's just not possible, but achieving better health? Yeah, maybe.

So help me please... Click the link below.

A butterfly woke me up

2005-08-16T08:56:00.000+02:00

Guess what? I got woken by a butterfly, now that's not something you hear everyday right? I don't know how I missed it when I was going to bed last night/this morning.

There are soo many things that could wake you up, such as nightmares, outside noise, family, stress, but I got woken by a butterfly. It was just flapping its wings against a window trying to get out.

That's pretty cool, getting waken by a butterfly.

:)

Schnappi - das kleine Krokodil

2005-08-15T20:53:00.000+02:00

Guess I'm several weeks late, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

Yes, just when the Crazy Frog (in case you haven't been living in a cave for the past year, you might have a clue of what it is) hype seems to have cooled down, something else has came to plague us.

Schnappie.

It's a kiddie song sang by a German kid, and is getting pretty popular here and has been stuck in my heads for days and days.

I've uploaded it for you, check the link at the bottom of this entry. --And, if it gets stuck in your head, make sure you sing it correctly. Here are the lyrics:

Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil
Komm aus Ägypten, das liegt direkt am Nil
Zuerst lag ich in einem Ei
dann schni-,schna-,schnappte ich mich frei

Schni Schna Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Schni Schna
Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil
Hab scharfe Zähne, und davon ganz
schön viel
Ich schnapp mir was ich schnappen kann
Ja ich schnapp zu, weil
ich das so gut kan
Schni Schna Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Schni Schna
Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil
Ich schnappe gern, das ist mein
Lieblingsspiel
Ich schleich mich an die Mama ran
Und zeig ihr wie ich
schnappen kann
Schni Schna Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Schni Schna
Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Ich bin Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil
Und vom Schnappen, da krieg ich
nicht zu viel
Ich beiß dem Papi kurz ins Bein
Und dann, dann schlaf ich
einfach ein
Schni Schna Schnappi
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp (schnapp!)
Schni Schna
Schnappi (ja!)
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp (schnapp!)
Schni Schna Schnappi
(mhmm!)
Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp (ja!)
Schni Schna Schnappi
Schnappi
(hmm) Schnappi Schnapp

Good luck and have fun. Out.

World Peace Blogging Network

2005-08-15T09:04:00.000+02:00

For those of you who want quality traffic and at the same time support a great cause, this is for you. Check the link out.

Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

2005-08-13T12:38:00.000+02:00

Remember my previous post about the song that I'd forgotten the name of? I can hardly believe it but Destry Maynard commented and told me the name of the song! I am soo lucky.

So I searched a bit and found the mp3, then I searched a bit more and found the video.

When I watched the video, I could feel tears forming around my eyes. Luckily, I didn't cry.

It was soo long ago, it brought back many memories. I had been wanting to see the video again for about 2-3 years.

This means really much to me, thanks again Destry!

For all of you who haven't seen it, see it. For those who have seen it, see it again. I have uploaded the video for you guys. It is in 3gp, ready to be put inside your mobile phone or be viewed with Quicktime.

Download:
320x240 Resolution - Hi-res mobile video, also suitable for computers
176x144 Resolution - Standard mobile video
Mp3 - For those happy just to hear it ^^

Watch it! Go go go!

Online tests suck

2005-08-13T10:47:00.000+02:00

What does this really tell you about me... more or less nothing?

I am 24% Idiot.

I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me. But what can I do? I am smarter than most people.

Take the
Idiot Test
@ FualiDotCom

Wisdom Quotes + Porn = ?

2005-08-12T17:48:00.000+02:00

Lately I have been receiving lots of wisdom quotes by email, always there is a porn spam advert in the middle of it. What the hell is wrong? Here is an example, the one I received most recently:

hey was up?Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew
7:120],Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling
himself to it.,The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has
its limits.,
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks
itself secure.,

Life is a dead-end street.
LOOKING FOR
A HORNY FUCKABLE BUNNY TO MAKE YOUR SEX DREAMS COME TRUE?

Jaaw
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do
that.,Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.,The sound of a kiss
is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal
longer.,
He who loves not wine, woman , and song, Remains a fool his whole
life long.,
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a
failure.,
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.,America had often been discovered before
Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.,
Fate is nothing but the deeds
committed in a prior state of existence,
The worst of all diseases is a
nervous ability.,
It is most unwise for people in love to marry,

If they wanna spam me with porn then why the hell do they add wistom quotes? Is it to bypass the spam filter? Well, it ain't working...

Still, I like the quotes.

Help me remember

2005-08-12T17:05:00.000+02:00

For about 8-9 years ago, there was this song/music video on MTV that I really liked. I would like to see or hear it again. I have been looking for it for a long time, and the reason I can't find it is because I know more or less nothing about it, but here is what I do know:

It is basically someone speaking to you with music in the background.
The music video is a compile of many different amateur video footages, I can remember one clip where a kid in a playground slides down the slide. Sometimes colorful backgrounds + text would appear to emphasize the lyrics.
The lyrics are basically different pieces of advice telling you what to do and how to live life. One advice I can remember is "do something you are afraid of every day". Perhaps "respect your parents" was another.

If you could help me find it I'd be really grateful and happy.

Peace

Can't sleep

2005-08-12T01:35:00.000+02:00

Body soo tired... mind soo active. Can't sleep.

This must be thanks to the 1.5 liter bottle of coke i drank today (yesterday?).. Why am I so sensitive to caffeine?

:(

I'll go listen to some music...

I wanna go to jail

2005-08-11T20:50:00.000+02:00

I just realized that sometime in my life, I would like to try how it feels living like a prisoner inside a cell.

When I grow old I can look back at all the things that I have been through. If I were to live just a regular life, I would not have much to look back at.

I would like to try as much as possible, both the bitter and the sweet sides of life. For how can you know what is sweet if you have tasted nothing else than sweet?

Colors part 2

2005-08-11T16:44:00.000+02:00

Colors. Ahh, yes.

Are humans color blind? If black people aren't black, if yellow folks aren't yellow and white guys aren't white, why do we keep saying it?

How can the human kind expect to develop and flourish if we can't even learn to tell the difference between some basic colors?

Colors part 1

2005-08-10T22:10:00.000+02:00

Colors.

Do we see colors in the same way? What if we don't?

When we learn the colors we learn that A is blue and B is green. How do you know that the way I look at A isn't the way you look at B? In other words what if the blue I see is the green you see and actually the red someone else sees?

How are we to know?

Where has the summer gone?

2005-08-10T18:16:00.000+02:00

Gotta love the Swedish summer. Took this 2 days ago with my phone. Look, the sky is totally messed up, but it was still very very bright outside.

Look at the houses and trees, they are so bright, yet the sky is so dark. Amazing.

Miss the summer, it is cold outside. :-(

Peace.

Where is the freedom?

2005-08-10T17:34:00.000+02:00

Some students in Kutztown, Pennsylvania got arrested for "abusing" their school computers. They found the administrator's password and used it to iChat, an instant-messenger program. Their going to juvenile detention camps.

What the hell is wrong with the police, or should I say the police in the country of the free.

Lets say that you are an administrator of a web-hosting company, and you set your password to "password". One day, someone finds the password by trying out several default passwords (such as "password", "admin", "1234"). All accounts get deleted and you didn't backup. You are a bad administrator. Who's fault is it? Yours, and yours only.

Getting back to the students, they installed a chat software. Wow. A real hacker uses your computer and bandwidth to do things far worse. Setting up ftp servers for spreading pirated software, sending spam, etc.

Talk about downloading a chat software, if you even block the students from chatting in the first place, then you must be pretty stupid. Chatting is a nice way of developing English skills and also exchanging information, and maybe even helping each other do homework. If chatting was blocked, then a lot of other things must also have been blocked. The students revolted against a system they thought was unfair, should that be wrong? Isn't USA the place where everyone should be able to do what they want, what they believe in? (At least when their not hurting others)

I know what is wrong, ignorance and incompetance. To a daily computer user, or even a half-trained network administrator, the things the students did would just be a joke, laugh and it's over. When you don't know about stuff, you panick, you over-react. Maybe it's the reduced money to schools from the government that is forcing them to cut back on competent staff, but I don't know much about USA politics.

Check out http://www.cutusabreak.org/, it's a site the affected students, friends and families have made. Maybe you can help them put this insanity to an end?

Link

I finished a caramel!

2005-08-08T21:02:00.000+02:00

Today, for the first time ever, I finished an entire caramel without touching it with my teeth. It took a long time, and when there was a little left I got annoyed because it lasted so long.

Why write blogs?

2005-08-06T19:53:00.001+02:00

Why the hell do I write blogs when there are practically millions of other things I can do?

This is how I see it...

I think a lot, often I just end up forgetting what I have been thinking of. As people grow up, they change, they forget. I want to keep something, so I can look back at my life, so I have something to look back to. Which will help me remember what made me, what I was going through, and also make my goals clearer.

As weird as it may sound, I am doing this to get to know myself, so me in the future can know me the way I am now.

It is hard to explain, but writing a blog at least seems like you have done something, when you could have done nothing, just killing time.

Also, it is a way for me to keep track of my thoughts and organize them, which helps me develop them further.

Hmm.. doesn't sound the way I wanted it to. Still, I hope I got the message across.

Ehhh

2005-08-04T09:54:00.000+02:00

Since my last blog broke by itself, and miraciously fixed itself later, I have been afraid to touch it. And now I am tired of it, so why not switch to Blogger?

This may be the shittiest blog every written, but I'm using Internet Explorer 7 Beta, and there is obviously problems with typing, about 10% of the keys I press do not have any effect.

Another reason to why this blog is so shitty is because I'm writing it in a rush, wishing to play something, you know. Like maybe a PC game?

Soon the vacations will have ended... gotta take your chance ehh?

..Omg that just sounded like some generic crap, anyway...

Promise to write better..
Peace

Test

2005-08-04T09:25:00.000+02:00

test.