Flickr: hoohoonick’s photos tagged with woodfestival

Flickr: hoohoonick’s photos tagged with woodfestival

Speaks for itsself, pics of the woodfestival.

EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages

EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future.

A European Parliament working group is reviewing the idea, tabled by Alain Lamassoure, a prominent French MEP and member of the centre-right European People’s Party, the assembly’s largest group.

Lamassoure, a member of Jacques Chirac’s UMP party, is proposing to add a tax of around 1.5 cents on text or SMS messages and a 0.00001 cent levy on every email sent.

Well good luck to them. Good thing I don’t live in an EU country. I don’t understand why the email messages are so cheap though, you can get like 100,000 messages for 1 cent. If they would charge 1 cent per email, they might discourage spammers a bit more.

Shakedown at MySpace?

Shakedown at MySpace?

LOS ANGELES Two teenagers in New York State have been take into police custody on charges of illegal computer access and attempted extortion after they allegedly threatened to shake down the Web site MySpace.com unless its operators paid them $150,000, prosecutors said.

I love how these douchebags thought they’d get away with these mafia tactics.

Google is starting to suck!

More and more often, I get search results that are not relevant because google found keywords on the page that were not really in the content, but in the google ads of the page. Why the hell would I want that? And why doesn’t Google fix it?

Pub urinals use tech to warn drunk drivers

Pub urinals use tech to warn drunk drivers

POLICE in Nassau Country are installing plastic censors in pub urinals that lecture punters about the perils of drink driving.

According to WCBS 880, the device is a Wizmark Urinal Communicator which has a 3.5-inch plastic screen that displays digital files. The device recognises that it is being ‘Nintendoed on’ and plays an MP3 which suggest you get a cab if you have been drinking.

Imagine being so drunk that the toilet starts talking to you! I’d beat the hell out of that toilet.

I wonder whether it responds to puke, too. I wonder how well the screen can be read after it’s being puked on a couple of time! I wonder how well the alcohol-in-pee-sensor works, after being puked on.

Personally I never use the urinal anyway, i like to sit down when I pee, take my time. Especially after consuming alcohol.

Theoretical Blueprint for Invisibility Cloak Reported

Theoretical Blueprint for Invisibility Cloak Reported

Once devised using exotic artificial ‘metamaterials,’ the cloak will have numerous uses, from defense applications to wireless communications.

Finally a way to hide ganja from the cops.

Windows XP Home

My acer laptop comes with Windows in Danish, Norwegian, and English. Nice of them, though the English and Norwegian versions are three discs, while the Danish one is only two.
Wonder what the Danes are missing out on?

“I’M TIRED OF ALL THE BUSHIT” Bumper Sticker Gets Woman Ticketed

Link outside blog:Dvorak Uncensored » “I’M TIRED OF ALL THE BUSHIT” Bumper Sticker Gets Woman Ticketed

I usually do not want to mention Bush-related stuff here cause I don’t have anything to say about that creature that somebody else hasn’t already said. This is not really about bush though, but anything that has slightly to do with him, is stuff I do not want to put here, so consider this an exception:

Apparantly an police ocifer(intentional typo) fined the woman because of her anti-bush bumpersticker.
So here’s the deal: If you’re a police ocifer and you see something you like, just make a big deal out of it, tell people you hate it, and abuse your power against it. That’ll surely get the word out bigger then ever. How big are the chances that the police ocifer in question really hates bush too and wanted to just get the word out? She’s a genious hero.

I am back!

Finally, internet again.

Some of you might have heard that we moved. Again. About four weeks ago, we ordered internet and they promised connectivity any moment between three to five weeks from that date on.

I must say, they kept their promise. Right now, I have internet any moment. And, any moment, I haven’t. It turns itsself off every few minutes. Of course, we got the connection on a friday and I didn’t have the chance to ring these guys before friday afternoon, so we can wait until monday for an engineer to take a look at it. Excellent. Right now, I’m just crossing my fingers that it will actually post this message to my blog, instead of showing me a dreadful 404.

As soon as the problem is fixed and I have real internet again(I can’t even access my IMAP mail cause the server will time out 50% of the time, and even if it loads my inbox it will time out 90% of the time whenever i open a message, and I haven’t had a chance to reply to a single mail yet).

Thanks for sticking with me.