Elwyn Jenkins: “Have you got your Google Word?”

I sure do. Google for “metagarbage” and press “I’m feeling lucky,” and this is the place you’ll find. For a while my picture gallery was ranked above the main site, but now it’s the way it should be. (via Scripting News)

I think I’ll start subscribing to Wired. I’ve found their articles very spot-on and insightful, though I mostly read their tech stuff. Subscribing from over seas would cost an arm and a leg, but luckily we have Press Stop here in Sweden, who import a large bunch of magazines from all over the world.

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I’ve noticed yet another ugly trend. The evening papers have started to use the word “spioneri” instead of “spionage,” which means, if you didn’t guess already, “espionage.”

Spioneri? Come on! That sounds like a game played by eight-year olds. It doesn’t sound serious at all compared to spionage.

…sitting at work, the clock not even six, and all work for the day done within two hours of arriving at work, albeit late to reasons explained elsewhere. Since I don’t have any work to do right now, I’m reading stuff instead. (I can’t go home either, since it requires two persons to open the [...]

The music mafia is at it again. A Wired post tells about a hush-hush company called Overpeer, whose secret mission is to infiltrate P2P networks and seed it with fake files — music of crappy quality (as in “low bitrate and poor sound,” not “Britney Spears”).

I can see exactly what will happen when they try [...]

The bus to work got stuck in the traffic jam from hell. Found out that there had been an attempted robbery at IKEA in Barkarby. Four masked men, at least one reportedly armed with an automatic weapon, tried to rob a transport. This perked my interest, since I happen to work at the place where [...]

Well, I’ve more or less decided to buy myself an iPod over a Zen. Computercity has a 10Gb iPod for 4491 SEK. Sure, the Zen is cheaper and gives you 20Gb, but I still think the iPod wins the race.

Still need a Firewire card, though. I’ll team up with Magnus and order two Safeway 3-Port [...]

Wired: “The electronics industry’s attitude toward the labels is summed up by an Apple slogan: Rip. Mix. Burn. Which, a music executive once told me, translates into ‘Fuck you, record labels.’”

RIAA and its ilk are certainly fighting an uphill battle. As mentioned in the article, the five record companies sold for $20 billion last year. [...]

Paycheck tomorrow.
A large list of books I want to read.
SF-Bokhandeln lies just 30 minutes from home.

Tim Bray: “Most people, once they start using RSS to check the news, just don’t go back, the amount of time and irritation saved is totally, completely addictive.”

I couldn’t say it better myself. I’m up to 50 feeds now. Time for some cleaning, though.