Archive for July, 2003



Bad, bad cookie!

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 [...]

Spam me baby one more time

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 phiberweb\.com [OR]

RewriteCond
{HTTP_REFERER} kooqoo\.com [OR]
RewriteCond beterbeter\.com [OR]

RewriteCond
{HTTP_REFERER} yellowpagesnationwide\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} wholesale4\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

May all spammers have their balls [...]

Status

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

I scream, you scream…

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.

Of men and phones

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. [...]

Schedule

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
GÃ¥te

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.

Festival

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
GÃ¥te
Interlace
Mesh
Ministry
Necton
Project Pitchfork
Statemachine
Tyskarna från Lund

Now I’ll try to make a schedule for when they are playing, then [...]