tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73691422919849074432012-01-27T11:33:17.415+01:00My little corner off the web ... it's a bit dusty but it is mine.Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-9209622088391653032010-05-25T21:35:00.002+02:002010-05-25T21:53:30.428+02:00

At least that's how I feel at the moment. The internet has been buzzing for a couple of days about the Lost finale and I've yet to see it. What can you do when you live in such a terribly backwards country as I do. Well, not terribly backwards actually. At the same time as we get these kind of things long after the internet has deemed it ancient history we still get things like mobile broadband

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A while back, or if we should be really honest I should probably say a few years ago, I fiddled around with a service called Twitterfeed. Which essentially is a service that 'automagically' link your blog feed (as an example) to Twitter, among other things. I even wrote a quick note about it on this blog. I came to talk to a mate of mine about this the other day as he's a politician and it's an

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I must admit that I blushed a little when I noticed a link to this blog on a mate's site. Especially considering that I haven't updated this site in about 6 months. Somebody less stubborn than me would probably come to the conclusion that if I haven't updated this site in 6 months time I really should just abandon it all together but I'm afraid I'm way to stubborn for that. So instead I'll bore

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In Sweden we have church elections on the 20th of September. This means that everybody that is a member of the Swedish Church has a chance to decide who will lead the Swedish church. "Representatives are elected directly to the Parish Assembly or Parish Council in parishes, to the Association Vestry in an association of parishes, to the Diocesan Council in dioceses and to the General Synod at the

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I spoke with a collegue at work yesterday and found that a Swedish ISP (Bredbandsbolaget) is working together with a small company in Sweden to develop a movie streaming service (Voddler). The news (in Swedish) about it so far is that it will be similar to an other Swedish streaming service called Spotify. Which in my opinion would be great as I love Spotify. Something that is still lacking

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I know this isn't really new stuff but I've been thinking about this for a while so thought I'd put pen to paper or maybe I should say fingers to keyboard, rather. Which is exactly what I've been thinking about, the problem that "old" media is facing.I listened to a program on the radio about this a few weeks back and they mentioned an old teacher of mine when they spoke about the start of

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Ok, so it's been a while since I posted something on this site. One might wonder why but then one might not know me all that well. Fact is that I usually get into stuff at a 110% and burn the candles at both end just to burn out really quick. Granted I never really went into this blog thing at a 110% but at least I did post more than I was asked to at the beginning (I did after all start this

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I recently bumped into this question for possibly the 10th time in a pretty short time. When the question is posed by an every day person, just like me, you could actually answer the question with "why not?". Because if you already use other social networking tools such as Facebook or you already have a blog and on top of that already read and contribute to various online forums then what is the

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Ok, it's almost been 5 months since I've posted something on this blog. Partly because I haven't had anything interesting to say and partly because what I've wanted to say I'm not so sure I want to put in black and white on the internet and this is what leads me to do just that.As the topic together with the above suggests I've been thinking a bit about democracy, freedom of speech, personal

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I've already written a review of this game but to be honest that was when the beta ended and the NDA was lifted so the game I'm playing today is very much different than it was back then. Of course the mechanics and all the other things are the same now as they were then but when beta ended I had little hope that this game would be able to compete with the, then upcoming, Wrath of the Lich King

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-49112232119574158322008-12-05T09:24:00.003+01:002008-12-05T09:51:06.526+01:00

I recieved my invite for the free (but with ads) version of Spotify the other day and all I can say is wow.For a person that love music but has a pretty low income I have been batteling with rising prices on music for years and so I've ended up listing mostly to internet radio and youtube to get to new music. It was probably almost 10 years ago that I actually bought a new album (except for the

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My internet connection has been down for the past 48 hours and while I have lived without an internet connection since I first got one at home back in 2001 this is one of the first times I have really felt what has to be described as an itch to get online. I can only conclude that it has to do with the fact that while it has happened before (that something has broke down and I've been forced to

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This past weekend a Swedish 15 year old boy collapsed in his home (or his parents home rather) after playing WoW for about 24 hours straight. He was brought to hospital and found to suffer from sleep deprivation and malnutrition. Here is a link to the Swedish newspaper 'Dagens Nyheter' that runs the story.Now as a gamer myself I really have to ask, what the hell is wrong with his parents? To me

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I'm sure a lot of people has already noticed that Spotify has opened up to the public by now. It's a iTune-like thing that lets you browse through and listen to music from all over the world. However you only pay a relatively small subscription fee to get access to all this music. To me this sounds like the best way to combat piracy so far, granted that I've not red that much about the different

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Ok, so I get it. I am alone. Every time I login to Facebook I'm met by the question 'Alone?' from some bleedin' ad. Yes I am alone, does not mean I'm lonely though so stop bugging me already.I do understand that Facebook need to have ads, capitalism and all that, but if they don't want people to stop visting the thing they should either allow you to just remove the ads or cycle them more or

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Paul Newman passed away at the age of 83 on Friday the 26th of September. He had been suffering from Cancer for quite some time and so even if I, together with many other people in the world, feel that we have lost a great man I do hope that he is in a better place and pain free.Newman was a very interesting actor in many ways, for one he was plainly a good actor that took part in many memorable

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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning had an open beta launch this past Sunday 7th of September, in the USA it was handled by the company that made the game, namely Mythic, while in EU the launch has been handled by the company GOA (sorry, that is the best link I can find for GOA).Now before I start criticising I have to say that I have not personally been involved in this open beta launch because

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Ok, I know this tune isn't really new or anything but I was just sitting around browsing the genre Punk on YouTube and stumbled on Sandi Thom's 'I Wish I was a Punk Rocker' and so I watched it. In all honesty I do like the tune but what the *insert strong word here* is up with the lyrics? She sings and I quote "I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair ...". I have to admit that I wasn't

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Those of you who have anticipated the release of this game has most likely already read about this and you may also have read some of the comments from the beta testers around the world. If you have then you will have noticed that there is a huge difference between what the US beta testers and the EU beta testers have experienced. But in case you have not read anything or if you want to read yet

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I just red a piece by Peter Bart, the editor in chief of Variety. He wrote in his column this past Friday about 'Fear and loathing in the blogosphere', it's a piece about how the news flow works in Hollywood today. He describes how the executives marvel at the fact that they can fire somebody at 10:15 and read about it on the web at 10:14. Something that might seem a bit disturbing and something

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As an old 'The Cure' fan it is hard not to notice that they still produce new things even if I have not really listened much to their stuff since their 'Wish' album in 1992. It is not that I do not like what they do any more but I have to admit that I was a lot more into their early 80's music than I was into their later material. Possibly because I was in my mid teens when I discovered them

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In the USA the film 'Tropic Thunder' premiers tonight and since I have to wait until at least the 18th of September to see it I thought I would have a look around the internet and see if there is any more news about the film and I soon find out that yes there is.For starters they have made a "mocumentary". Actually, they have not made a complete one but at least they have made a trailer and a

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I have to admit that I'm not an avid blog reader myself. Well, some blogs I read every day but I'm quite bad at checking the general blog flow through ping services and such and so I have totally missed this as it is something that has not been a big thing in traditional media for some very odd reason. That could also be the reason why the Swedish blog community has pretty much exploded around

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Ok, so it is not really news any more for a lot of people but to me it is. I first read about it today and I have to say that I am excited. It is Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, the producers behind the successful 'Lord of the Ring' films, that has decided to rework Isaac Asimov's work and release the Foundation triology through their rather newly created company 'Unique Features'. Asimov happens to

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I live in a town in Scandinavia, a part of the world that is not really well known for having massive rain ... and so that is not the case here either. However it would seem that drain on the street is really down at the corner next to where I live as it took about 20 minutes for the street to flood today when it started raining all of a sudden. I tried to snap a picture of it but as I only have

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Just thought I'd post something on this blog since tomorrow it will be one month since I posted something. I wanted to post something since I haven't decided yet whether I'll keep blogging or not but obviously I don't have much to say on a blog or I'd have been posting a lot more. Fact is that I have such an active life on the internet in other places that there isn't much stuff left for a blog.

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Since I'm home sick today I thought I'd put together a quick note with the points I believe my teacher wants to know today about my final paper in the course 'information retrieval and new new media' that I am taking.My topic is 'Real Life on the New Web' and it will take a look at how we use the web 2.0 features and how it affects us as people. Of course this might seem as a very broad subject

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If you for some reason happen to follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that I have been to a seminar on Science Fiction (SF), actually there has been two of them. I have to say that they have been quite interesting, mostly because I really enjoy SF and try to at least see as many films as possible in the genre and also read books from the genre that I hear are good. But my interest for SF

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Since I have fairly recently been on a seminar about science fiction and because I'm a computer gamer I had the urge to check up on the progress of Fallout 3. The Fallout series happens to be one of my absolutely favourite computer games. Not only because I really like sf and neither because I'm a die hard fan of post apocalyptic stories but also because the Fallout series happen to be pretty

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-77116048644814201052008-04-12T11:12:00.004+02:002008-04-12T15:27:28.101+02:00

Continuing on with my posts from my course 'information retrieval and new new media' we have now reached the community phenomena and discussed a few things that has to do with communities. So here I'll take a look at those and discuss around them a bit.Quality versus quantity and what is quality?Gated versus open?Free versus fee?Moderating styles, dictator style versus democratic style versus

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To be quite honest I'm surprise we do not have a clear cut law against this already. Especially considering we usually outlaw things like these before the Americans do and there are already five states in the USA that have clear laws that prohibits you from speaking on a handheld cell phone while driving. In Denmark, Finland and Norway (our neighbouring countries) there already are laws against

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A girl asked me the other day why it says that I'm from Peking, Sweden in the 'About Me' section of this blog and if that was because I'd lived there or something like that. The truth is actually far from that, but possibly a bit more interesting.Peking is an old local nickname from the town I'm from in Sweden, Norrköping. The literal translation of Norrköping is norr = north, köping = market

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-70590298485700817802008-04-04T10:00:00.001+02:002008-04-04T13:22:20.293+02:00

Today it's 40 year since Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, Tennesse. I have to admit that I do not know as much as I would like about Dr. King but what I do know is what kind of symbol he is today and just as Gandhi might have had his faults I'm sure Dr. King had some too but that matter very little today because today he is a symbol of anti-violence and the world definitely needs more of

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As I have mentioned before I take a course in 'Information retrieval and new new media' and in that course we have had a discussion about EULAs (End User License Agreements). More specifically we spoke about Facebook's EULA (or Terms of Use) since that one has some really interesting parts. A quick Google on "facebook eula" gives back some interesting results that pretty much lets me know that

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I've always liked the look of them and so I finally got around to adding one to this blog. I Googled for some code and found one over at the Phydeaux3 blog. It comes with a very easy to follow step by step guide on how to "install" it and to configure it the way you want it and since I'm happy with how it turned out for me I can only recommend it to anybody who wants to have a label cloud.

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In the last seminar we had in the course 'information retrieval and new new media' (that I've mentioned earlier in this blog that I'm taking) we discussed what effect bad design can have on good content and how good design can affect bad content. Since I've studied usability a bit and try to incorporate that in everything I do I went to see if my good buddy Jakob Nielsen had anything to say about

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-15739185354717853202008-04-01T19:42:00.004+02:002008-04-02T10:27:50.496+02:00

After spending an hour or so trying to find out how to make my blog posts from blogger show up as a tweet in my Twitter I finally came across a post in the Search Engine Journal about Twitterfeed. Being a bit lazy as I am (and hungry as a wolf at the moment) I just scrolled past most of the text and basically filled in what seemed to be needed and pressed create. So I have no idea if it will work

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-33132428484491347362008-04-01T12:02:00.007+02:002008-04-01T20:09:53.317+02:00

Why is it that every food item or candy ever produced was wrapped in packages designed by morons?I don't know how often I've had to tear packages apart violently out of frustration because it's absolutely impossible to open them where it says they should be open. Take the above candy wrapper as an example. You see down to the right where it's clearly pointed out that that is where the package

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This weekend I've had a bit of an 80s revival, as an example I watched Rumble Fish last night. A Coppola film that anybody that grew up during the 70s and/or early 80s should have to watch in my opinion, so if you haven't seen it then find it quickly and see it.As with all 80s revivals there is of course music involved but for me it is for some odd reason not the usual music. Something I come

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Since I'm currently taking a course that dives into the social networking phenomena that has developed through the new media technology I try to sniff out new things that show up in that area. However this site I hadn't seen before and I have to thank one of my mates on one of the sites I frequent regularly for brining it to my attention.LinkThe site speaks for itself really.

Ralphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10918934986351318332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7369142291984907443.post-87843956265373643932008-03-06T21:58:00.007+01:002008-04-02T13:32:14.988+02:00

When reading through Sherry Turkle's book The Second Self (which I reviewed just a moment ago on this blog) I started reflecting about myself and my own interaction with the computer. Granted that Turkle's book is quite old and thus my interaction is hardly nowhere near what Turkle describes in her book but thinking back to when I was much younger I came to realize that I've always kind of

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The Second Self: Computers and the Human SpiritTwentieth Anniversary Edition, by Sherry TurkleSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a clinical psychologist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948. Professor Turkle is also the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on

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And not only will there be a 4th Bourne film but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass will be staring in it and directing it respectively, according to Variety.Personally I really like the Bourne trilogy. I think it's one of the best series of films about a spy/hitman out there. So to me this is fantastic news, especially considering Matt Damon said last year that he was "definitely done" with playing

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I found this on a forum I frequent and it feels good to know that I'm not alone.Well, I might not currently be living together with anybody but my quest to correct people is a life long undertaking. Seriously though, I don't know if I'd say that I'm a know-it-all but I like to add my opinions whether they are asked for or not and many a time that has been viewed as me being a smart arse.

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... when religion controls the world?I watched a video on Youtube the other day, it was an act by Marcus Brigstocke concerning religion. While it was funny it also got me thinking, which I'm sure was also one of Brigstocke's goals when he made the thing. While thinking is usually something that I detest and that makes my head hurt it made me rather sad actually this time. Because the more I thunk

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Saab's old steam engine technology has been awoken again. The technology is today owned by Ranotor and it is that company that will develop the new BC-hybrid (bottoming cylce) technology together with Saab and Volvo.Basically the engine means that gasoline consumption will be lowered to 20% of what is used today in large lorries. Not only will this save money of course but also more specifically

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So there it finally is, the director of CIA finally admitted to what the rest of the world has expect for some time now. That the USA has been subjecting their prisoners to enhanced interrogation methods, to use the words of director Michael Hayden himself.My gut feeling is that using, what I would call, torture techniques to get information from your prisoners is to sink to the same level as

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The rumour mill has been turning a lot lately and yesterday WGA finally acknowledged the fact that they are moving toward agreeing to a tentative deal with the majors, which in my TV junkie mind is great news.I sincerely hope they get what they want since I believe in their cause but I also really do hope the strike end soon. So far we (here in Sweden) hasn't really been affected by the strike

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I have to admit that once upon a time I really liked Avril's music and considering I'm a sucker for the Punk genre I also liked the attitude she was selling her music with. But I haven't been blind to the reports over the years about her behaviour, earlier I just blew it off as immature but considering she now is over 23 that can't really be done any more.I recently read an article in the Globe

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I have to admit that "Rocky Balboa" was actually a pretty decent flick and although Sly felt old in the beginning his age was well fitted in to the story line but come on, "Rambo"?Sly is 62 years old this year and he will be doing the role of John Rambo, the special forces dude that kicks all kinds of ass. Judging from the trailer it doesn't seem to be a mellow film with lots of reminiscence in

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As I mentioned in an earlier post on this blog I'm taking a course called Information retrieval and new new media and so this post is also an assignment in that course. Just so you that happened upon this blog get an idea of why I would sit around and write about my cellphone.I've got a couple of cells but the one I'm currently using is a SE K750i. I bought it a few years ago because I don't own

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Finally I found somebody I can agree with regarding the Witcher and again it's Yahtzee Croshaw over at The Escapist that both agrees with me and does his Zero Punctuation thing that he does so well. Even if you don't play computer games but do have a slight idea of what it is watch it because the stuff he does is pretty funny.Anyway, my point is that everybody I know (and their mothers) have said

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Really there is!Or maybe not. It really depends on your level of imagination and possibly wishful thinking. BBC have an article today that discusses the topic that is apparently making some of the corners of the interweb buzz with excitement over proof of extraterrestrial life.At first glance I have to admit that the picture does awake some imagination and deep hopes of that the proof is finally

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To make this a bit more reader friendly I'll try to refrain from just listing stuff from top to bottom and instead write a bit of a biography (in lack of a better word) of how I use and partake in different kinds of media. Mostly because I personally think it's more interesting to read it like that.So where to start? Well I'm older than most people studying so lets start there.As most people

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This blog is created for one purpose and one purpose only. To learn about blogging.I'm currently taking a course at Linköpings Universitet called "Information Retrival and New New Media". One aspect of that course is to learn about blogging. Both about creating a blog and getting people to read it and comment on it. Something I obviously need help with ;)

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