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What have I just tried to draw?

Well, that kinda sums it up... I got nothing to write about hence I'm reduced to try and make ascii art... Terrible, I could offcourse write about the fact that I have done my last ever exam two days ago... At least I hope it is my last ever exam, will know that soon I guess.. hmm, brb, gotto check my results..... nah, not up yet, should have been up late last week according to my teacher but such is life (not the exam I did on monday.. that would be weird).

Another thing I guess I could have written about, if not my ^%$@#^%$ alarm clock (read phone) hadn't decided that it wanted to sleep in and not wake me up at 4.15 as I so kindly had requested of it, is the game between Sweden and England.. 2-2 it ended after a late goal by Henrik Larson.. (and 3 other goals as well, among other thing a cracker from Joe Cole). But as I didn't see the game, being sound asleep because of my phone being grumpy, all I write about is the goals.. Oh, and that Matt said that both teams played crap.. don't think I would have cared much about that as I would have been chewing on my jumper until the end of the game (unless I somehow knew the result from the other game).

A third thing I could write about is that I sometimes wish that God would have made us guys a little more like women in that it isn't enough to see a woman to think she is really great and I would really like to know here.... Would be good if it required a little more than that, but such is life and it only to get over it.. but man where she cute... bah!

Got a dentist appointment today, where they want me to sign some consent form... Scares me abit..

Hope you have a good day and all your wishes about smurfs and christmas trees will come true!

Pets

As the plagiarism/copy stuff seemed to tough a topic for most of my readers I have decided to keep it a bit lighter from now on (unless I get some though interesting topics to write about that is). So, todays posts it about Pets!

I could have written about football (soccer for the uneducated) and say that Australia pulled out a rabbit of the worn out old green and gold hat, but that would only lead me to writing about how Sweden managed a magnificent draw against 10 men Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Now 0 - 0 against T&T is a result to be proud of! It set's up us beautifully for the game against Paraguay, they will be believing that we suck and cannot score even if they would go and have a coffee break (or fika as we would say) but Oh are they misstaken! Oh, forgot, I'm writing about pets, not football.. Rosicky seem like a brilliant addition to the squad for the Arsenal though.. eh, ok, pets!

"Are you a cat or a dog person?" is a question that people often ask's, I generally try to reply whatever I think would benefit me in the specific situation when the question is being asked, but less devious people than me may actually have an oppinion in this case and may take it seriously. So, here's a little something for you dog lovers out there..

What is generally a reason for having a dog? (except them being rather stupid and being very happy every time you get home) Generally it would be that they can protect you, if a burglar comes in they will bark and hence save your life. Cat's as we all know do no such things, unless they want to be patted and walks around the burglars legs, tripping the poor burglar. But! What would your dog do if a Bear enters your backyard? He would most probably make some whingeing noises, roll over and say "Bite me, I'm not threat to you Oh great master" a little cat on the other hand..... He would get pissed (pardon my language) off and thinking "Hey, who does this bear thing think it is? Coming into my turf!" and then chase the poor bear up into a tree, no only once but twice! And sit there and guard the bear he would as well.. Don't believe me? Take a look at the picture (you'll need to enlarge it a bit) and click on this link.

So, currently the score is:

Cat 1 - Dog 0

Btw, what do you like my newest addition to my blog? A random joke just for you (instead of an add for young campbell... got to many emails)

Plagiarism (sort of)

So, got like one topic to write about and that is Plagiarism...

What can I say about it? It get's you suspended from uni if they catch you doing it! So dont!

A more interesting topic that is sort of like plagiarism is copying stuff.. like music, movies and things like that. Have you ever done said thing? If you have, well, criminal!!!

They had this big site in Sweden (very popular and I won't give you the address) that got shut down a week or two ago. Consequently the Swedish police's website and the government website got DOSed (Denial of Service). Apparently the US government had put some preassure on the Swedish police/government to shut the site down and that was not popular at all.

The thing is though, that it took the site a couple of days to get up again, in a different country (actually a few of them for some redundancy) and all the effort spent to shut it down was wasted. Now if I were an artist och movie maker or something I would offcourse want money for the stuff I make so I would therefore be against all kinds of copying.. But, there is always a but, is making it harder to copy, shutting down sites, making stacks and stacks of people into criminals, putting out fake files with messages (Madonna) and tracking devices in them, the way to go?

I don't think so, take the Madonna example, there they put out this fake song that had the name of the real song but instead of music they got an angry Madonna telling them "What the F*** do you think your doing?!" now had I been someone that wanted to listen to a song and figure out if it would be worth buying the album... I would have said ^%#^%$ you Madonna and never bought anything of hers in my life. Now I'm not a Madonna fan and would never even go through the trouble of downloading a song of hers, but that is beside the point. So I don't think this is an especially brilliant thing to do... Unless you want to loose customers (fans?).

Neither do I think putting all this effort and money into copy protection is especially brilliant either as there will always be someone that manages to crack it and the one's that generally get hurt by it are the ones that actually go and buy the CD (or whatever it is).

And buying songs online? Well paying almost as much as you would for a CD, without getting a cd case, an actual nice looking cd or a little book with the lyrics? On top of that you can only copy the song about 3 times (depending on where you buy it from).

Why not try and find the REAL problem? The real problem is not that people copy things, it is WHY people copy things...

My theory (most probably flawed but still a theory) is that people copy because:

1. It is cheap (can't competed with $0)
   
2. It is convinient (you can get any song)
3. They don't want to give money to the record companies (artist ok, record company bad)
   
4. There are more smurfs then there are smurfettes (?)
   

So, in my world, the best way to go around this is to

1. Organise some kind of organisation that may be run by all the record companies around where almost EVERY song that is or have been released is available. Now places like napster (which is a pretty good online music store) or any other onine music store, can use that DB and for every song people buy they pay a certain fee to the main company.
2. Not putting any restrictions on the files
3. Selling them rather cheap (better to sell many cheap than a few expensive as a famous artis will get more people on their concerts)
4. Reward people for buying stuff (if you buy 50 songs you get something cool)
   

What do you guys thing about this?

Suggest a Topic

I have been approached by some certain someones (!#:) that I should have "suggest a topic" section.. Now I think that would be very much copying nathans idea but who am I to say no? So here it is...

My Own: "Suggest a topic and there is a small (very small) chance that I may write something about it" section!

To make this a bit easier let's use this post's reply section to suggest topics (at least it makes it easer for me to figure out what to know what you suggest I write about)

I'm wondering if there should be some rules about what topics you could suggest, but I'll figure that one out later (when I get topics that are , as Sara would say, "inapropriate")

So, feel free to let your creative juices (stole that one from my lecturere) flowing and gimme some interesting topics to shed some Swedish light on!

Lift Me Up!

Hello to you bloggreader!

When you are feeling low and the world conspires against you to bring you to your knees and push your head into the gutter while laughing in your face with spit flying everywhere while your loosing your breath while reading along meaningless sentence with no commas or stops, what music do then put on?

I'm now talking about music that lifts you up and convinces you that, no matter what, you are still Gods gift to everyone on this planet!

I have two songs that I like to listen to then (both of them being by Swedish bands, but in English):

• Biggest & The Best By a Swedish band called Clawfinger
• Carry On By another Swedish band called Insania
  

Click on the link to go view the lyrics (the Insania website is pretty crap...).

So, now when you know my "lifte me up" songs, which are yours?

Found a website with songs that "make your heart sing" although not exactly what were looking at here (as were more looking at ego building songs) still close enough and has it's place in the world...

Another site I just must share is Launchcast, pretty awesome site I think. It makes you create your own radio station.. Not working perfectly, but still quite ok. Only downside is that it is American, so most music is from the US or the big artists. But still is pretty awesome though.