Aahhh. Has it really been such a long time since I listened to Front Line Assembly last? Well, I’m ripping all my FLA CDs to ogg format as we speak. I guess a new hard drive will get priority on the shopping list, I want to have all my music on disk so I won’t have to fool around with switching CDs all the time.

Well. I was planning to write a longer post, but I’m tired. I think I’ll move to the bed and IRC from my laptop and then continue reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. My sleeping habits have adapted to my work times now… Just in time for me to switch to the evening shift. Argh.

…feels like I ran out of things to write about, all of a sudden.

Well. I’m currently running a Peercast stream, available primarilly for friends but also via the Peercast network. You can find it here, though I’m not making any guarantees on it being available. If I need my computer for something else it will go down.

To listen, right-click the link, press Ctrl+L in Winamp (or however you do it in the player of your choice), paste the address, and listen. Or, if you’re one of the other three Peercast users in the world, the stream name is Sacrosanct with channel id 5A0019F9EE50011BD8DD0B0C99AEC2D1.

The style is mainly EBM, with a wee bit of synth and other electronica.

Martin went to the Cave Club. Maybe I should have tagged along, I’m bored…

Halley’s Comment: “A weblog is my head, open to you, day and night, at your convenience. Come on in. Please take your shoes off at the door, I hate having to vacuum after you leave.”

That is exactly why I’m writing all this crap on metaGarbage.

We can note that W3C’s new validator is live now. My page currently doesn’t validate, but that’s because I’m too lazy to make links in my posts XML compatible. Maybe I’ll write a module template for MT to automate it. Other than this minor nitpick, it’s clean XHTML all the way.

And if I can’t have that, here’s a list of other stuff. I’ve separated it into two lists: one labeled want and one labeled need. There’s really not much overlapping… I’ve already covered the want list.

Stuff I need

• Saucepans. Two more would be optimal.
• Bed sheets. I currently own three (3) sheets now that I’ve moved away from home.
• A toaster. I love toasted bread.

Other than that, we really need a new couch for the living room here, but that’s a bit much for Christmas. But some day I really want to decorate here…

Update: We can add a scanner to the want list. I’ve seen a cute one that can take up to A4-sized items. USB interface, costs about 1000 SEK. Maybe I’ll get one sooner or later. I already have an old scanner with parallel port interface, but I’ve lost the drivers for it, and I doubt I could find drivers for Win2k or a kernel module for Linux…

Guess what? I fell asleep as soon as I got home after work today. Again. I suck.

I need to fix something to eat at work tomorrow. I don’t feel like cooking tonight. Tomorrow I’m buying a large bag of Gorby’s or something… great as backup food when I don’t feel like/have time to cook something.

I want an iPod right this minute. I need music while working. Music makes me work better. I’ll probably buy one within two months. I need one!

Well, I need a Firewire card too. Ipods only speak Firewire.

Still no new layout. I’m not likely to be awake enough to fix one while working… so you’ll have to keep up with it until January.

Ugh. Me getting a job has a negative effect on the update frequency around here. I’m usually dead tired when I get home. Sorry about that, especially now that it appears that someone syndicates my RSS feed using Aggie. I wonder who that might be?

Time for some blogrolling. A post by Mark Pilgrim cracked me up. I really like cats, as long as they don’t pee everywhere.

This is how I turned 30: standing in my bathroom wearing nothing but a pair of latex gloves, holding a wet cat in mid-air. [...] So this is how I turned 30: surrounded by loved ones, and cat urine. Loved ones and cat urine. It could be worse.

There’s a Swedish site called Svenskt Webloggindex that somehow found me and listed me there. I’ll browse through the list there and see if I find some interesting blogs in my native language to read. This was also my first trackback. Woo.

Friday: applied for a new id card. Saw a bunch of movies with Puh. Blade 2, Jeepers Creepers, Spirited Away and Austin Powers 3. As well as “Up for it” with/by Henry Rollins.

Saturday: went to Tech Noir. Did some dancing, but then it got too crowded and my mood went from “dancedancedance” to “kill all humans” and I left. Too bad Astrid couldn’t make it this weekend. Also, got a Covenant single with Call the ships to port and a bunch of remixes from a guy who gave them away at TN. Very danceable song. The remixes were so-so.

Sunday: nothing.

Yaaaawn. Sorry for the lack of updates. My sleeping habits got a swift kick in the nuts when I started working. It will probably take me a while to get used to going up early again… I’ve been slacking off for the morepart of a year now.

Still no new layout. Let’s see if I can make it this weekend. Nothing planned for the moment, other than dying my hair again this Friday. I like having red hair. Assault red.

There are several different layout styles that inspire me. The last one I used was very similar to Textism or Typographica, and I’ll probably aim for something similar again. Only with Smarty templates, this time.

Well, a little more about the work. I’m a “money handler” at Pengar i Sverige. I count money. Lots of it. Companies and stores (and a bunch of bank ATMs) send their money to us to have them counted, sorted and verified that they’re real, and then deposited to their accounts.

Today I counted two bags with 1,450,000 SEK and 850,000 SEK in them. Took about 20 minutes. Before that I registered deposit bags for a total of 4,6 million SEK. Before the clock hit 10.

I have a very keen interest for typography, and by extension also phonetics and language history. So when a story about the origin of the English word “ye” (as in “ye olde shoppe”) appeared on Kuro5hin, I was merrily delighted. Much link-clicking ensued.

þe conclusion is þat þis whole “ye” history was a big misunderstanding. þe Olde English had letters þat were based on runes, including þ, pronounced “thorn,” and ð, pronounced “eth.” Wye did þis happen, þen? When þe printing presses appeared, þey were all based on þe Latin characters. þey didn’t have any letters based on runes. þhe letter “þ”, when hand-written, looks very much like a wye (þat would be a “Y”), so þe printers simply used a Y instead of carving a new letter. þe signs outside of þe olde shoppes didn’t change at once, however. So when people got used to seeing Y instead of þ, ðey simply assumed that þe signs said “ye”.

If it wasn’t for þe printed word, we would still be saying “thou” (or rather “þou”) instead of “you” to ðis very day.

Well. Enough with the runes, already.

Here are a bunch of articles on k5 that I’ve bookmarked. I found them interesting; perhaps you will too.

• Ye Is Not, And Never Was, an English Word; the one I just ranted about.
• Got parody? — about an ad campaign with a twist.
• Lord of the Swastika: Political Backgrounds in SF and Fantasy — what if Hitler wrote science fiction?
• The Man Who Invented God
• Entrenched Technology, from The Culture — Iain M. Banks’ excellent Culture series.
• Alternative Logic — impress your friends by not having them understand a word of what you say.

I like food. Both eating it as well as cooking it. I’m a far cry from professional in the kitchen, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying it. Dean Allen’s latest entry makes me realize I would love to be a guest at his table. Salads are nice. Eat more salads, people! Blockquoth the recipe:

When it’s salad time, assemble at the table. Theatrically toss the lettuce and the dressing once or twice while carrying on a conversation, and then leap up and lob the croutons in from across the room. Stand on a chair and grate Parmesan four feet above the bowl. Toss. Run around the table grinding pepper randomly into the air as you chant oh you lucky people oh you lucky people. Toss. Serve.

The store just closed, otherwise I’d go and buy myself some black olives, red onion and feta cheese and make a Greece salad (though I suppose “grease salad” is also an acceptable spelling). Salad, feta cheese, red onion, black olives, and some balsam vinegar and olive oil to top it off with. Mmmm.