After a long, long time without blogging on my own wordpress.com hosted blog I figured it woul dbe time to relaunch my blogging effort. To underline this effort I chose to host this revived version on my own server to be able to try more things and bring this blog alive.

I have to admit the initial thought to revive my blogging experience was not created by my desperate need to share my usually very confusing thoughts, but was triggered by 2 external events:

a) the begin of the paroli project. Paroli is a community effort and should be treated as such. Already in its early stages many people contributed directly by providing code, design input and ideas for functionality. There are too many to name here, but there names will appear in many of my posts I am sure.

b) thornet asking where one would find regular updates on what I am up to and how it all plays out. (to be read as a comment on one of my earlier posts). I went inside myself and realized that I use other people’s blogs to see what they do and how they manage in this very confusing time we live in. So I figured, get moving and join the endless discussions, meet like.minded people, have conversations and discover new friends.

I know all this sounds very idealistic and romantic, but that’s the way I am - I believe in the good in the world, in every human being actually, love to work for a greater cause and am full of optimism that one day all the hard work so many people invest will pay off and we live in a world that can truly be called “Free”.

The more I work with the FSFE and the CC here in Sweden and read mailing-lists used by activists the more I realize that it there are many of us and that we do in fact do have a lot of power, if we combine our forces.

Working on FSCONS 08 (http://wwww.fscons.org) which is a combined effort of the fsfe, CC-Sweden and Wikimedia Sweden I see every day how much synergy can be created if people looking from different angles come together and create something.

I also follow discussions of activists planning to bring new aspects such as the whole environment topic to conferences and meetings that usually only deal with licenses or software. It simply shows once again that our interests range further than our most visible allegiance.

I mean that there are many people interested in the environment and how we can preserve it aligned with other organizations and I am also sure that many Free Software activists do care about alternative licensing for artists and vice versa.

I was told early while talking about this, that it is a big task and YES it certainly is, but it is a worthy task! I also believe it is the only way we can actually win against the individual forces each of the movements face.

So, let’s do all we can to create combined projects and join in to a common effort!

even the debian installer failed on me…

I tried, I really tried…

It all started yesterday when I realized that my good old IBM notebook (a31p, if anyone cares) began to slow down. I figured, might as well do a reinstall, haven’t done that in a long time and by now there are many programs installed which I actually don’t need…such as an apache, an asterisk, several xml databases and so on…

As I am constantly under the influence of the FSFE and thus the FSF an once again thus Richard Stallman, I decided to check what really “free” gnu/linux distributions there are…(I recommend an FSF page)…

I settled for the first and my fight began…I don’t usually burn CDs so I don’t have any CD-Rs, but I remembered, that I had solved this problem before by simply using my USB stick…to cut a very long story short…it took me 5hrs…probably a fancy combination of my stupidity and the simple fact that I had to combine several tutorials in order to make this work…

Anyhow, it did work and I even pressed the “install”-button and a more or less fancy installer GUI opened…I answered some simple questions (name and computer’s name is still doable) until I reached the partitioning screen…as I had to save some data on my harddrive I couldn’t let the script take care of this, but had to hit the “manual”-button instead…big mistake… I do not consider myself one of the smartest people on this planet, but I am usually not completely daft. I was simply not able to understand how it wanted me to divide the partitions i.e. the hard-drive…So despite all efforts and a detour to ubuntu, which I didn’t get to boot from my USB-Stick (very mcuh due to my stupidity, there are very good how-tos) I will remain a debian user…not that it works out of the box, it just told me that my laptop does not have an ethernet card, but I know what I get myself into and I can stick to reiserfs…

I should stop being emotional about my OS…

I wanted to blog about the Figure Skating Championship, which took place in Gothenborg last week, on Friday already, but didn’t get around to it, so here come my thoughts a bit later than expected.

I had the pleasure and looking back on it, the great joy, to see the world elite in this very demanding sport.

I went with my mum and my sister, who were here to visit, to the women’s final. And as they began with numbers 24-18 and worked their way up, the performances became better and better. I think it was with the second last group that I really began to enjoy myself and stared with fascination at the athletes down on the rink.

I would love to post pictures, but we sat too far up, so I think there weren’t any good ones.

I have to admit that I am not really a sporty person and usually don’t enjoy watching sports, but this was truly amazing. I had forgotten the beauty of the sport and the true art it represents. If there is ever a figure skating championship around  again, I’ll make sure to buy tickets.

So, this is it. My first Blog-Post. I have tried to withstand the power of blogging, but now my time has come.

I am not even quite sure what I will blog about, probably whatever comes to mind…. my mind. Or maybe I will be inspired by other people’s comments. I remember one on the creativecommons.se page that was not necessarily nice, but it got me thinking and I learned i.e. researched his claims.

I began the day with nothing special. And as bad as this beginning sounds, I can top it - I didn’t do anything all day. I went back to bad, watched some documentaries, which I am very fond of, and fall asleep again. When I woke up it was 6pm and I hadn’t done anything. So, I thought of writing a book or an essay titled: “How to waste a day, in 24 hrs” … Probably not particularly funny, but it amused me…for a while at least. Then I remembered I had this account for a blog at wordpress.com and since I am very much a wordpress fan I decided to not let my weired thoughts rotten on my HD somewhere, but give every internet-user in the world the choice to either read it or not. I am not keen on high numbers in reader. I mean of course every human is happy about attention, but this is mainly for me to get my thoughts out of my head. In short - don’t expect great thought, at least not clearly stated. But if you have fun to poke around someone’s head and read weirdness - this is you place ;)

Talk to you later…