
Jul 25, 2003
Today my web site became illegal.
Today marks the day of a new Swedish law (article in Swedish) about electronical communication, stating that it is illegal to use cookies on a web site without informing the user that “I” store “information” about you.
Retarded bureaucrats.
I’m sure they’ll be vary happy with us law-abiding citizens if we gather a list of a couple of thousand sites that break this law, so they have some work to do.
Update: Slashdot has a story about it.

Jul 24, 2003
The retard of the week is yellowpagesnationwide.com, who gifted me with about 5,000 pieces of referral spam. Blocked in my htaccess file. So far, the “referrer retard”-part of my htaccess looks like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} phiberweb\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} kooqoo\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} beterbeter\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} yellowpagesnationwide\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} wholesale4\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
May all spammers have their balls chewed off by a rabid chihuahua.
Update: A comment to this entry leads me to believe that they didn’t intend this sort of “marketing,” so I shift the blame to a clueless marketer they hired. I hope they don’t use the same marketer again.

Jul 18, 2003
T-shirt: off. Coca Cola: 4 liters. Music: loud. Photoshop: started. Let’s make Ben Hammersley a kick-ass site, baby.

Jul 17, 2003
Yay! Bostream can deliver their Scream service to our area! This means we’re looking at at least 8 megabits synchronous 8Mbit/s downstream, 1Mbit/s upstream. We can probably get 13Mbit/s, and if we’re really lucky and are very close to the nearest phone junction, 26Mbit/s.

Jul 17, 2003
Yesterday I bought myself a new cell phone: SonyEricsson T310. My old Nokia 3210 started to feel boring and old.
It seems like a very nice phone and has a 101×80 color display. In all, it cost me 349 SEK plus 12 months subscription to Comviq at 79 SEK/month, but I can live with that. It will have a new number as soon as the account is activated; contant me via your preferred method and you’ll get it. (Well, at least if I know who you are.)
The old number will probably still be available for a while, but once I have my new number I’ll leave the Nokia at home with the old SIM card in it.

Jul 9, 2003
OK, here’s where you are likely to find me during the festival. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be wearing this t-shirt.
Thursday
Time |
Stage |
Artist |
16.00 |
Apollo |
Tyskarna från Lund |
20.00 |
Impetus |
I-F |
21.00 |
Andromeda |
E-Craft |
02.00 |
Lyran |
Interlace |
Friday
Time |
Stage |
Artist |
15.00 |
Lyran |
Alice in Videoland |
17.30 |
Andromeda |
Statemachine |
19.30 |
Andromeda |
Colony 5 |
21.00 |
Vintergatan |
DAF |
23.30 |
Vintergatan |
Ministry |
01.00 |
Apollo |
Front 242 |
Saturday
Time |
Stage |
Artist |
17.00 |
Impetus |
Necton |
19.00 |
Andromeda |
Gåte |
22.30 |
Apollo |
Project Pitchfork |
23.30 |
Vintergatan |
Mesh |
This table looks weird with my current CSS. I’ll look at it when I get home.

Jul 9, 2003
Dyed my hair assault red again. This is how it looked the last time, this time it’s a slightly darker shade.
Tomorrow I’m off for the Arvika festival. Back on Sunday. Artists/groups I would like to see:
- Alice in Videoland
- Colony 5
- DAF
- E-Craft
- Front 242
- Gåte
- Interlace
- Mesh
- Ministry
- Necton
- Project Pitchfork
- Statemachine
- Tyskarna från Lund
Now I’ll try to make a schedule for when they are playing, then I’ll go to bed. Until Sunday.