So finally our authorities, preassured by the lobbyist from the big multimedia megacorps, got enough of PirateBay and raided their server datacenter. It was a good idea I guess, I mean Pirate Bay has certainly made it easier for everyone to download movies with BitTorrent, but afaik they haven’t done anything really illegal. But this good idea is turning worse every hour because they didn’t only take the Pirate Bay’s servers, they took all the servers they could find, including tons of servers running “normal” sites, and worse of all, some politcal parties had their websites there too. And the police just took it all. And then we’re getting into one of the fundamental issues of a democratic society when they do that. Not to mention if they open them up and try to get at the information stored there!
And the even worse part of it is that they’ll probably not be able to prosecute them at all since hosting torrent-files that anyone can submit isn’t illegal, and that’s bad legal precedent to set.
The other day, me and Ricki was invited home to Eva’s place. It’s been awhile since we got together just to slack a whole day and being uselss. They had bought a new game called “master of movie” which was kinda like trivial pursuit but all movies all the way. When she had played it with her husband and friends it took them a few hours to complete. But I won it in less than 45 minutes. Then during the weekend I did another round of trivial pursuit with my family and by the time I called it because it was getting late I was a close 2nd. If only I could fill my head with usefull things like they are trying to teach me at this MS Exchange course than I’m attending right now…
So for no good reason I was sitting at work yesterday not really wanting to go home. I didn’t leave until 17.15, 45 minutes after I could and guess what I ran into? The huge homecoming crowd preparing for a party in Kungsan to honor our hockeyplayers. Eventually they showed up, Carola did her thing and it was a pleasant event.
Then today as I’m sitting questioning the meaning of existence a woman comes in with her digital camera. “I hear you’re good at these things?” “Yeah…?” “Good, ’cause I was at this party last night and I have some pictures I was hoping you could mail to me”. And sure enough I loaded them over and I can’t help but to take a sneak peak… does this guy look familiar? That’s the coach of the swedish hockey team in full swing after winning olympic gold medal and the world championship in the same season! “I was at this party”, yeah, understatement of the year… it was like THE party…
Yesterday sweden pulled of a first ever by winning both Olympic gold medal and world championship in ice hokey!! I guess that means we’re really good at it, huh? Well, any excuse to throw a party I guess 🙂
You know how I keep saying that I’m not 20 anymore? Well this weekend I kinda felt it! First we had a spring part on friday evening with classy dinner and then free bar open till 3 am. Got home around 4. Then up again at 12 and out to my parents to celebrate my fathers birthday. Then starting it up again at 6 when I met up with a few friends in a pub watching the hockey and having a few beers. Got home around 2 am. And then up at 10 am on sunday and felt GOOD!!!
I miss those days when that was an ordinary weekend for me…
I saw Flatley’s new danceshow Celtic Tiger on DVD the other day. I loved “Lord of the Dance” and “Feet of Flames” but I had no idea what to expect out of this. Since it’s the same guy & crew I knew it was gonna be some of the same stuff….
At first I was wondering what tha hell this was and if there was a story anywhere but after a few number it really picked up speed and by the time it crossed the atlantic I was so digging it and it just got better. Some awesome numbers in there and the 2 favorites where the dance-mixing that made the producers of “Let’s Dance” feel like newbies, and the stepping to rock music number that felt very original. Overall a good investment and I’m sure my neighbors agreed cause it was loud…
I’m gonna hit 31 this year, but I still love the drama “Pump Up The Volume” from 1990. I shouldn’t, especially since one of my favorite quotes was “society is mutating so rapidly that anyone over the age of 20 really has no idea”..
But I still love it..
And in less than a week we went from a chilly almost spring kind of weather to a full out summer and that resulted in a huge and sudden increase of pollen here and everytime I went outside I felt it. Badly. When I walked to the train this morning, when I walked out for lunch and when I went home… I’d almost forgotten how much I dislike spring… but then again, as I was sitting at Fridays in Kungsan enjoying my lunch I was reminded of how wonderful spring can be too…
So you’d think that our WoW guild dying would make me stop playing WoW. Well, it kinda had the opposite effect since I stepped up and took on even more responsibilities and stuff to make things work.
I wonder if there’s a WoW detox program somewhere…