Archive for the 'Internets' Category

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November 20, 2005

I’ve been keeping Néablog, off and on, since April 2002. (Check the archives to the right if you don’t believe me.) When I started, it felt a bit as if I was a lemming, jumping on a train that pretty much everybody had already embarked long ago.

The first years, I was slightly active in the Swedish weblog movement (well, maybe not a movement for that implies an organization with an agenda and a goal. The network of Swedish bloggers, perhaps) which included central people like Erik Stattin, Bengt O Karlsson and David Pettersson (who has since changed his name). Annica Tiger is arguably one of the most active bloggers in Swedish today, and she’s been at it since 1997 for goodness’ sake - I’ve never really read her blog but I don’t think it’s ever been inactive. Weblogs.se started in 2002, I believe - or did it already exist before I started blogging? My memory is a bit hazy. In any case, that was a great resource for finding, reading, bookmarking and recommending Swedish blogs, and it existed for several years before it had to be discontinued in mid-2004 for reasons of economy. These days, it’s Sweblogs.com instead, though I’ve never really familiarised myself with that site.

My point? That it is beyond ridiculous when media writes about weblogs as a phenomenon that cropped up in 2005.

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September 19, 2005

It is Talk Like A Pirate Day, so…

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

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September 8, 2005

This is what my desktop looks like at the moment. Yay Order of the Stick! (Seriously - if you are at all into role playing games, you need to read that strip, and the articles on the site as well. Very good stuff.)

Incidentally, while any pictures on the nea.pp.se are normally free to grab and use, that desktop pic isn’t, so please don’t. If you want the desktop Elan for yourself, check the OOTS site - you can donate to the Red Cross to get it.

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October 15, 2004

Tomorrow, I’ll go down to Stockholm to have dinner with a bunch of people, including one person I’ve known for years - six or seven at least - but never yet met. She’s part of the first online community I encountered, back in 1993. Come to think of it, she was there before me, so make that 11 years! Am looking forward to that. Other than that, I should be tidying the house right now, rather than leave it all to poor Johan. (He has to do the hoovering since it’s a back-killer, but that doesn’t mean he should have to do all the rest of it as well. Or does it?)

My string of colds seems to be over, or at least -ish. Am still all phlegmy and have slightly congested sinuses, but don’t feel ill which is a blessing. Instead I feel run-around-in-circles-and-scream panicked. Whee.

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October 29, 2002

Am having intermittent email problems - I wrote about that an hour ago but then the email started working immediately after I posted so I removed the posting again…. so hopefully the POP3 server will answer again, now!

I’m wondering rather seriously whether using home.se is worth it; I do like being able to access my email through a web interface when I’m not at my home or work computer, but the server isn’t very reliable at all.

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October 28, 2002

Babelfish provides hours of fun—but now I’ve found an online translation tool that transfers English into almost, but not completely, unintellegible Swedish. I entered a paragraph from this blog and translated it into “Swedish”. Here is the result:

I stället Jag har rättvis läsa Jane Yolen’s Briar Ros , en ovanlig Holocaust berättelse vävt tillsammans med en re - talande av Sovande Skönhet. Den er en ung vuxen roman , med en hellre uncomplicated , uppriktig jordbit ( och en kom framträdande vid staden av Torun ) ; så undersåten materia vinerna , ändå , den er icke i en uncomplicated bok , till vara placera ned obekymrad efter den er färdig. JAG vill inte försök till definiera vad göra den ovanlig I’ll behov till re - läsa den första , JAG tänka. Den central lokalerna om jordbit är en söka , en sökande av slagen , för historien av en gammal dam vem dör inne mitt om henne älskande familj , ingen om vem veta henne verklig namn eller var hon kom från originellt. En om dams bagen stor daughters—the ungast av tre syster , ja , för når det den här er på en måte en saga also—undertakes söcken , och så JAG omtalat det er icke mycket invecklat , en annan författare kunde har gjord den mycket mer besvärlig , utom JAG få kännanden så pass för Yolen grunden er icke den all - viktig sak. Vad er mer viktig de/vi/du/ni är den se en skymt av av historia , den inblicken in i vad göra en person en hjälte , en bov eller en på - såg i en desperat läge , och den fläta samman om gammal och den ny berättelse. Vilken är vackert gjort.

“Måte”? Since when is that a Swedish word? (Norwegian isn’t Swedish, you know.) And “ungast”. . . no, words fail me—I laugh ’til I cry instead. Let’s translate the paragraph back to English, using the same tool. . .

Instead I have just read Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose , a unusual Holocaust tale wove together with a territory expressive of Asleep Beauty. It’s a young adult novel , with a rather uncomplicated , frank plot ( and a arrived appearance wide cities of Torun ) ; so subject matter hints , yet , it’s by no means a uncomplicated book , to be put down unconcerned behind it’s completed. I will nots try to define what make the unusual I’ll need to territory read the first , SELF think. The central premises if plot is a search , a quest of down and out , for affair by an old lady whom dies in the midst of hers loving family , none of whom know hers substantial name ors each she came from originally. A if lady’s bag grand daughters—the youngest of three sister , yes , for after all this yourself in a way a f*** also—undertakes search , and so SELF mentioned it is not much good complicated , another author be able had made it much more troublesome , except SELF poll feeling that for Yolen grounds aren’t the all matters of importance. What is more important they / wes / yous / yous is the glimpse of stories , the insight into what make a person a hero , a villain ors a on saws in an desperate situation , and the interlace if stale and the fresh tale. Which is beautifully done.

As I say, hours of fun! The toy is found here.

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October 3, 2002

This appears to be too good to be true; one of my colleagues was praising it, he uses it all the time. An application that bounces your email address back to spammers? Nice! If anybody knows anything sinister about it, you are welcome to tell me…

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May 14, 2002

Dunx is a blog writer, too!

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April 20, 2002

The chat room at MCiOS was invaded by Slovenians yesterday; CdM wanted to demonstrate an Internet community during a lecture and so asked me to be there for a few minutes. It was fun, though I have no idea what kind of weird impression I made. . . still, they didn’t know me, and won’t be returning to the room so I guess it’s ok. As I say, it was great fun. Certainly not your ordinary chatroom experience.

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April 14, 2002

Sudden musing: What is it with bloggers and capital letters, or rather the lack of same, anyway? So many weblogs/web journals I’ve seen don’t use capitals at all; is it because they are written by people who care more about the graphically symmetrical look of things than I do? I have to admit, I don’t like it at all personally in running text. Capital letters are there for a reason — remove them and the text becomes difficult to read. Headlines are different though: I can understand and sympathise with the usage there, but, well, grump.