Friday, July 7, 2006 – 10:13
The world’s largest meeting for American Cars takes place this weekend in my town Västerås. Power Big Meet usually attracts at least 10 000 cars and thousands and thousands of visitors. This week’s weather has been hot and sunny with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, so there are perfect conditions for 2006 to become the best year ever.
I went to Power Meet yesterday during the lunch break to see what it looked like. Cars everywhere! The whole Johannisberg airfield was occupied with all sorts of vechiles, and along the runways there was a long market selling everything from Chevrolet coolers to T-shirts and icecream.
During Power Meet, the whole city is transformed to a sort of 50′s/60′s city with old cars seen on every street. Not seldom do the owners fill their cars with twice the people it can take, meaning that there usually are people in the trunk.
Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my camera yesterday as I went to see the event, so there are no pictures I can show.
Monday, June 26, 2006 – 14:11
http://moon.google.com/ (zoom all the way in anywhere on the map to see a funny thing)
Sunday, June 4, 2006 – 22:58
I joined the Piracy Party (Piratpartiet) today. It cost me 5 SEK (€ 0.6) and a few minutes of work. I feel strongly for the issues that Piratpartiet brings to discussion, and I hope that they get over the 4%-limit required to get into the Swedish Parliament.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 – 16:42
As reported by slashdot, thepiratebay.org, a Swedish bittorrent tracker, has been shut down by the Swedish police. Servers have been confiscated and two operators are in custody.
It is a funny situation, since linking to illegal material (as a bittorrent tracker does) is NOT illegal in Sweden. I hope justice will find its way out on the right side, and that some sensible person changes the filesharing laws in this country to be a lot more liberal.
Monday, November 21, 2005 – 20:30
How to make yourself irreplacable at your company by writing unmaintainable code. As seen on Slashdot.
Monday, November 21, 2005 – 14:09
I love spending a lot of time on Wikipedia articles. Feels like contributing to something really big. Today I continued to work on the Laser dinghy article. Yes, that’s me on the pictures.
Thursday, November 17, 2005 – 05:23
In a few minutes the tickets to the school’s Christmas Prom will be released. They cost 380 SEK (about $42 ), and hopefully I will get a ticket.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 – 17:01
Found an old friend of mine that runs his own blog on blogspot: http://karlandin.blogspot.com (Swedish site)