Archive for August, 2003



Corporate retards

precisionintelligence.com. Referral spam. Killfile. I also noted that my old pal globoads.com made a visit. Same treatment.

It won’t make them stop, but at least I don’t have to see them in my log files.

Yes, I’m on a crusade.

Madness

“Greek mythology says that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I’d never been sure whether ‘mad’ meant crazy or angry. Either way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now.”
— Darien Fawkes, The Invisible Man

Tools of the trade

The tools I use for my digital music enjoyment.

No longer fair and balanced

It appears that Fox gave up the fight concerning their stated ownage of the phrase “fair and balanced.” Good riddance.

Googling for the phrase lists Fox News as number one, but the rest of the hits on the first page appears to be blogs. Good work, grassroots!

Apparently, this robot is too scary for kids to see. But letting them see the Terminator movies is OK?

And now for something completely different.

On Friday the 22nd, I went to Academedia in Kista and personally delivered a bunch of papers where I applied for their media programming education (link in Swedish). Today I got an [...]

Recently watched

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — I’ve seen plenty of people write bad stuff about this movie. I fail to see the bad parts. Were they expecting something other than an all-out action movie? I expected action and nice special effects, and T3 certainly delivered. Ahnuld returns as a Model 101 Terminator, once again [...]

A blast from the past

Today, August the 6th, it was 58 years since Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. In the words of Plastic: Those who forget the blast are doomed to repeat it.

Let’s hope that the anniversary of the bomb will survive long enough to see its 60th anniversary before another atomic device is detonated. Though my hopes [...]