måndag, oktober 25, 2004
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Bloggstaffeten, "Vem äger språket" (In Swedish)

Så, nu har bloggstaffeten kommit till mig. (Den senaste listan med vilka som är med i Blogstaffeten finns antagligen här

Ämnet jag har fått är vem som äger språket. Men samtidigt är det en hel del underfrågor som jag inte riktigt ser har med ämnet att göra, så till att börja med så kanske jag ska besvara dem. Varför skriver jag på två språk i en blogg? Tja, jag skriver på engelska eftersom jag annars inte använder språket så ofta nu för tiden, och inte vill tappa kunskaperna, och naturligtvis för att få besökare, men ibland så känns ämnena för ointresanta för icke svenska besökare. Så mesta dels skriver jag bloggen för min egen skull, även om jag ibland kan vräka ur mig saker som andra kan finna nytiga och/eller intresanta, även om de mesta i den stillen blir för långt.

Nu till resten av frågorna, eftersom jag är en lat jävel för tillfället som vill spela discworld muden och lysna på folkmusik så tar jag och besvarar de frågor jag fått från valleballongs blogg...

Vem äger språket?

Som jag så är det de som talar språket som äger det, så enkelt är det, alla äger sitt språk. Mitt sätt att använda språket är lika mycket rätt som ditt eller svenska akademins (varesig vi pratar om bandet eller den ordboksutgivande varianten).

Hur viktigt är det att kunna artikulera sig, vad händer om man inte äger retoriska kunskaper, är språk en klassfråga?

I dagens skriftliga samhälle är det av yttersta vikt att kunna formulera sig skriftligt, men det är av yttersta vikt att även kunna forumlera sig muntligt. En välskriven platsansökan leder inte längre en till en interjuv (om änns det, jag anser att jag kan formulera mig skriftligt, men inte har jag fått något jobb på mina hundratals ansökningar (och med stavkontroll)) men om man inte kan prata ordentligt, eller får munhäfta när man behöver förklara något viktigt, så är man ila ute. Om man inte kan stå och prata för mycket mäniskor har man inte en chans att påverka sin vardag i många samanhang, den enda platsen där man kan påverka mer med skriva ord en talade är Internet. Både skolan och arbetsmarknanden kräver att man har en förmåga att uttrycka sig. Att bli utslagen och uttryckt är en effekt av det här, och samtidigt är det de som har de bäst ekonomiskt ställt som har störst möjlighet att uttrycka sig i ord, men ännu värre är att det att samhället ger sig på de redan liggande, de som lider av social fobi, de som rädds människor, de får ingen möjlighet att änns märkars. Och möjligheten til hjälp finns inte.

Egentligen skrev jag en massa till men jag råkade klumpa mig lite, och det är borta. Det var en lång utläggning om vem som äger ett fiktivt språk och att Quenya (ett av Tolkiens alvspråk) borde vara i publik ägo, och kan sägas är det. Desutom så kom jag fram till att den enda som kan äga en text är den som själv har skrivit den. Och så hade jag kommit på ett ämne till Dennis, nämligen "Varför använder så få företag och kommuner fri mjukvara?", så skulle jag länka till FSF-Europe där man kan läsa mer om vad Fri Mjukvara är, om man behöver läsa på, som kanske t.ex. Dennis behöver? (eller inte, vad vet jag?)


onsdag, oktober 20, 2004
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Im back

Hey, Im back from Stockholm. Really I came back Monday, but I havent felt like saying anything science then, and still don´t now what to say. Note, the two things I wished for that I got was 1) Ringarnas Herre and 2. The Seafarers from Catan (allthough in Norweigan or Danish edition, and I bought it myself). Oh, well I think I will go play the Discworld MUD, latley I have had a longing for playing MUDs, and nowadays I might be mature enough and have a fast enough internet conection. Hm... just posted this as Im alive sign, as I don´t now what to say, and have heard that quite many people read my blog (some of whom are family)

onsdag, oktober 13, 2004
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Going to Stockholm for my birthday

Im going to Stockholm for my birthday (on Sunday), leaving tomorrow, wont be back untill Monday. Probably I don´t have a chance to write hear before Tuesday. On notes on my trip, its amazing that my trip to Stockholm cost less than it cost to go from her to Gothenborg, almost, with travelling when you are in Gothenburg it is cheaper to goto Stockholm (but for sure, the travell in Stockholm is more expensive).

tisdag, oktober 12, 2004
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Obvously free speach is terrorism

Looking at some more of the last topic (updated information may be found at: http://indymedia.org/en/static/fbi ) and it seems that indymedias host put them down acording to them holding terrorists (this seems most probable)

"Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering."

What Indymedia contents are of course just news that wonder never got into the mainstream. Some might see news from things like the RNC or whatever it´s called for terrorism. I guess this is the same mentalaty that made soo many protesters taken to jail at demostrations. The fact that most of the countries affected are not real democracies and that the server hold linux distrubitons and such, is of course of no concern. Sigh. I miss the black-ribbon online campagin. Freedom of speach on the Internet, NOW!

On not so related not, look out for postcard viruses. Got one my self, but as br is a strange place to get mail from I got that it was a spam or something. Oh, shit how many people are not going to get that.


söndag, oktober 10, 2004
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The US goverment steals Indymedias servers from England

Argh, Great Brittan is an part of the United States obvously (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml), well not acctualy it seems that it was Italy/France. This is still horrible, and truley against all common sense. But of 'course goverments don´t want the people to distribute indipendent media. And it´s not as only the news collective is affected:

"The servers (ahimsa) host the sites of more then 20 local collectives, radio streams for several radio stations, BLAG (a Linux distribution as well as miscellanous other projects."

This is a horible, but it also is the prove that there is no democracy in this age. Not in Europe, and defentlivy not in the US. The people shouldn´t be allowed to tell the truth, I wonder where all those liberal people dissing Chinas horible Internet policies are now, If they would be consent they should be upset about this. (And some probably are too. But I didn´t get this before I acctualy checked the Indymedia site in search for information on some demostrations).

I wonder if there is something todo, except of course to donate to Indymedia. I saw some link to it.

Ideas for "The settlers from Catan" scenarios/expansions

(I haven´t posted in a while I know)
Yesterday we saw "Forest Gump", Kata hadn´t seen it before. Sometimes the fact that she is some years younger then me, makes things intresting. But what we also did was played "The Settlers From Catan", and after that I started wondering about some scenarios/modifications you might do.

Rohan expansion (well most of this was Katas): You can build horses if you pay five grain (or whatever they use in the english version) , and if you put it on a grain field it makes it so that if you have one setlements you get two grains, if you one city you get four grains and if you have two settlemts you get four grains. This also applies to the fields from which you get sheep. But not the others

The five armies battle (needs 5-6 players expansion pack): It´s based on the battle in The hobbit (now I haven´t read it in English for some time, so I ain´t sure I got the name of the batle right). The tiles is placed som from the beging you only have one resource, this will force you to trade, we haven´t developed this more than that, I got it just before bed.

3 brothers story: This is taken from Swedish history, and im builidng it right now. What is sure is that you play one of 3 brothers how strugles over the power in Sweden or Norway (as one of them was allied with king Haakon the something, I think it was)
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Oh talking about games, can somebody please give Kata Magic cards so she stops playing with mine. Or buy me some new so I can build a better deck?

onsdag, oktober 06, 2004
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Den lovade uppdateringen om Vänsterpartiet.

(in Swedish, sorry)...

Jag vet jag lovade en uppdatering när andra delen hade sänts, men igår så ägnade jag istället tiden om att skriva en text om min tid i Ung Vänster och vad som fick mig att slutligen lämna förbundet, finns att läsa på min hemsida

Den lovade uppdateringen om Vänsterpartiet.

(in Swedish, sorry)...

Jag vet jag lovade en uppdatering när andra delen hade sänts, men igår så ägnade jag istället tiden om att skriva en text om min tid i Ung Vänster och vad som fick mig att slutligen lämna förbundet, finns att läsa på min hemsida

tisdag, oktober 05, 2004
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Blue Dragon answered me.

Whey, I wrote an angry letter in the weekend about the fact that the "Blue Dragon Simplysushi Kit" is trouble filled. Now verry quick I got an answer and an explanation, and also some freebies should come with the mail in somedays. Yeah, so we can eat vegansushi again soon. And on the mention on food, yesterday we googled for an chickpea soup and found one, then we had to translate some words to Swedish so we searched for a free translation and found one place, it was soo funny I have to let all swedish people hear it (the original is hear:

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ChickpeaSoup


Detta tjockt, stewlikesoup ätas i många länder av Mellanösten som bildar ofta höjdpunkten av enkla bondeskaffningar. Sallader, oliv, bröd och yoghurtmaträtter tjänas som på sidan. Även om blötta shickpeas är allmänt mjuka nog att äta efter en timme av att laga mat, är det viktigt här att de laga mat longer. Hitåt får chickpeasna sig själv något mer mjuk, gör tjockare flytanden betydligt, och soupen framkallar ett sammanhang som den skade annars brist.

Det might att vara en god idé att smaka soupen, innan det satte i lemonfruktsaften. Chickpeabuljong har en naturlig sweetness som du kan föredra för att lämna orört.


2 kuper torkade chickpeas som väljs över, tvättas och tömms
2 medelstora onions som skalas och huggas av
2 medelstora kokande potatoes som skalas och snitt in i tärning 1/2-inch
1 T. saltar, eller att smaka
1/2 t. slipad turmeric
1 t. slipat spiskumminfrö
1 t. slipat korianderfrö
1/8 t. cayenne pepprar, eller att smaka
Nytt mald svartpeppar
2 T. lemonfruktsaft
Blötning som chickpeasna i 8 kuper av bevattnar för 12 timmar. Avrinningen och sköljer grundligt. Sätt chickpeasna, onions, och 8 kuper bevattnar in i en stor kruka och kommer med till en böld. Täcka delvist, värmer puttrar vänden till lowen och försiktigt för 1 timme. Tillfoga potatoesna som är salt, turmeric, spiskumminen, koriander, cayenne, och en annan 3/4 kuper bevattnar. Komma med till en böld. Täcka och puttra på mycket sparlåga för en andra 1-1/2 timmar. Uppståndelsefåtaltider under denna period. Kontrollera seasonings. Tillfoga svartpeppar- och lemonfruktsaften. Uppståndelse till blandningen.

Servar 6.

Från ”denÖst vegetarianen som laga mat” vid Madhur Jaffrey "

In the end it was quite good however. We did get it by using some online dictonarys. It showed up that tumeric was what is in Swedish called "Gurkmeja". Allthough we did add some freshely choped tomatos and some soycream.

lördag, oktober 02, 2004
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The horrible state of swedish movietheaters

So we went to the movies this evening. It was me, Kata, Katas Father and Katas litle sister. Her mother is away on some course or other. First of we were going to prebook the tickets via SFs (SF is one of the two cinemacompanys that is spread in Sweden, and is the most common one. There is some small indepent cinemas too) homepage. First of it sucks, Kata wrote a review of it for her webdesign course and it was a great one. First of, Flash for booking is not good, allthough you might choice where you want to sit, there is simpler methods that don´t demand that much download. Secondly they charge you for the booking via the Internet. If we booked it via the Internet we would get the best seats according to the computer, obsouvlsy there was something wrong in the algorithm as out on the left corner is not the best place. Instead we bought the tickets in the theater and got great places, middlerow, middleseats. Oh, now lets get to the movie it self.

Its hard to talk about it without maybe spoling it, but I should try. First of the end would be really nice to discuss it was made for that I felt. The movie is about a famous conductor how gets burnt out and returns to his childhoods village, with a new name. So no one will know he once where there. It portrais the life in the countryside of Sweden quite good, but some part is probable verry much of the North. It´s also have that sort of apeal to all clases as Elizabethian drama somedays have, the director/writer seems to have thought of all kind of publics and those have some fore all. There is a wonderfull scene where a priest stands and scream something like "i am
humble!". The movie drifts with the stress of modern society, village peoples way of closeing their eyes and dislikeing newcomers (this part I have personal knowledge of) and of the churhes way of impending sin on everyone. The movie really holds the classist way of building up for a catastrophy, it happends three times. The inspirations feels like the classic dramas and the bible, probably some old 1960´s dramas may have have an impact. I got two lusts after coming out of this movie, one was to sing in a choir (but I cant sing, allthough I was in one schoolchoir once, but I can´t sing anyway) and the second was to write drama. Well, together with reading some of Wildes stories that is.

Tolkiensardas Pagerank

Wow, someday ago when I was going through my hitstatics it showed that someone searched for "Kofferdi Secker" on yahoo and got this page, that made me abit worried so I tried to search for it on Google, and my page got there than too. This made me verry upset as Tolkiensarda is the homepage where Swedes wondering something about the new translation should come, and Indeed they does that now, at least at Google but no, Yahoo still links to me. Arghh... "Tolkiens Arda" is the best Swedish Tolkien homepage and really should get high in searches, the two best are "Tolkiens Arda" and "Skallman.nu". Personally i prefare Tolkiens Arda but that may be some personal views.

Well on other notes, I acctualy don´t have so much to say now. Except I just published an Swedish article about Eddings vs Kerr and Tolkien (I hate Eddings). You can find it on my normal homepage, there is a link to it down on the right side bar.

fredag, oktober 01, 2004
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First of October, 17 days left.

Oh, greatness today is Friday and I have realised I can´t goto Borås tomorrow for the big demostration. It´s "The day of the animals" (Djurens Dag) tomorrow, but due to the bloody expansive so called collective traffic in this part I cant afford to go there if I want food for the rest of the month, well food and fun. Allthough it´s my birthday in seventeen days, and I will try to get to Stockholm to celebrate that with my family, if I can get the trip from some of them. Howsoever the bigest problem with celebrating together with my family is to decide which side of it to meet. I.e either I am with my mums side, with sisters and brothers and nices or I am with my fathers side, this means rather my grandparrents and maybe cousins. My father I haven´t seen in years, this will probably make my mother glad, not sure if it makes me glad though. Im going towards grandparrents as it´s to hard to remain sober when I meet family on my mothers side. I can take my mum alone, but thats about it. Heres the wishlist for this year:

  • Ringarnas Herre
  • Terry Pratchett´s Monsterus Regiment
  • Terry Pratchett´s Going Postal
  • Some shell account for homepage and codeing
  • New own computer
  • Clothes for LARP sewing (i.e medival things)
  • LARP-Tent
  • Thick sweater
  • Money
  • Expansionpacks for The Settlers Från Catan
  • People to play The settlers från Catan with
  • That the AXIS printerserver starts running with both this computer with Debian and the Win ME computer.
  • but mostly I want WORK
Humm... That became quite much, I guess that I will get nothing of it. Comments are welcome as ever.