Lifestream: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Better late than never.
Due to unforeseen snags with the new case I bought, I had to finally get a controller card. Longer cables would be sufficed but I thought it was time to put my Pioneer Slot-in DVD back into action. With three PATA harddrives and a DVD writer I’ve been short on PATA slots on the mainboard [...]
Sucks. Really. Especially when used to encode content that could just as well have been done in plain XVID. H264 isn’t that common yet though. And I suppose the end result depends on the bells and whistles used when encoding. But imagine my surprise as I discovered first hand that I couldn’t play a movie [...]
I finally got around to buying a new computer case. After much anguish and deliberation I settled for the Gigabyte 3D Aurora, an aluminium tower model with a modern and balanced cooling solution. Three 120mm fans included but ships without PSU. Mindboggling CPU cooling, average HD cooling.
Perhaps I should offer a few pointers on the [...]
I just realized I’ve been running essentially the same computer system for three years now. I ordered my last graphics card, the ATI (Sapphire) Radeon 9700 128MB at 2003-01-13 and the other major components upgrade, including the ASUS A7N8X and Athlon XP 2100+, arriving on 2003-02-05. You know what that means, don’t you? Resistance is [...]
Yes, I think it is clear now that yours truly was subjected to credit card skimming or some other sort of electronic theft at the end of last year. I sort of miss the old school robberies where you knew what was going on, as it happened. The upside here being that you can go [...]
Nationalism Ernest Gellner. 134p, paperback. 1995. Nya Doxa. Swedish.
A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly. Nationalism remains a powerful influence today; in the former [...]
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson. 240p. Verso, 1999.
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality – the personal and cultural feeling of belonging [...]
What a nightmare. I was working on the a new version of pangmusik.se needed to do two things that Wordpress wouldn’t let me. One: displaying only one post on the front page. The other: letting guests view posts dated to the future.
The first problem was solved by creating a special home.php template file and calling [...]
Desktop Blogging Clients is pretty much the only reason I keep blogging. I can’t stand browsers with javascript solutions (even if they have gotten better). Time to get a fresh perspective on the playing field. Is w.bloggar still the number one solution? Obviously price isn’t an issue for us immaterial non-believers. That is of course [...]
Beyond Chutzpah. On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Norman G. Finkelstein. University of California Press, 2005, 343p.
UC Press - In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of [...]
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