A whole month has passed since the start of the new year.

A whole month dammit! I'm still nowhere near finished with all the things I wanted to be finished with at this time of the year. Actually I wanted to be finished before there even was a 2012, but this year more things seem to be happening than ever before. The trial against TPB ended a few years ago, but their appeal to the supreme court here in Sweden ended yesterday; their appeal rejected. Next step is the European Court of Justice. Hope the people there aren't bribed and corrupt like they seem to be in the Swedish court.

Sweden speaks well about caring about the Internets. They spend a lot of money and time on helping activists all around the world. But who are these people that they’re so proud of helping? TPB has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.

All of the people involved in TPB at some time have been involved in everything from famous leaks projects to aiding people in the arab spring. We’ve fought corruption all over the world. We’ve promoted equal opportunities to poor nations around the globe. We’ve crushed the monopoly on information. Our close ones, many who have helped building TPB, have been mentioned as possible winners of the nobel peace prize.

I’m not bragging – I’m saying this to make sure that people understand who’s doing the right thing here. I haven’t seen the entertainment industry help anyone but themselves.

You said it. Did I mention the largest filesharing site in the Ukraine was shut down recently? Ex, a site boasting about 6000TB of mostly pirated content. In difference to MegaUpload the files were publicly accessible, and the place has been called a pirate haven, people from all over country using it to download music and other media. The filesize limit was a whooping 50GB! I didn't even know about the site before it was taken down, but it seems that the takedown of MegaUpload has caused a tidal wave, the whole net is being purged of all that is unclean. This is purification on a global network level. Can't say I like it, but in the case of the site above it was clearly breaking the law. The employees have all been arrested and sentenced to a few years of jailtime each.

So, there's a lot of things going on in the world. Here in Sweden a hospital has been occupied by angry citizens that don't want it shut down. Maybe it's finally time for a global protest this year? The system won't last forever, but for now every day is a day. Later.

A new course started for me today, one about IT and it's both negative and positive effects on society. Foror this specific course I bought a book, Introduction to information systems : enabling and transforming business (2010) by Rainer, R. Kelly & Turban, Efraim. I went to the bookshiop (online) I usually buy books from and looked it up, and it turned out to be the probably most expensive book I've ever bought, with a price tag boasting the shocking amount of 488KR!

I went to Amazon instead and found the same book for 67 SEK. What a difference, huh? Thank god (or whomever I/you believe in) there's international trade going on... and that the dollar instead particularly expensive at the moment. That price includes shipping btw, something my 'normal' bookshop tends to provide for free, but anyway, I was going to post about how I bought the book at a fraction of the originally shocking high price, and all ended well, but this is the real world so there are no happy endings. Turns out Amazon didn't allow international shipping on the particular item I wanted, and after a thorough search it turned out that my regular bookshop was the cheapest available store after all. I felt cheated. Just hope I get the book before the first assignment deadline... on Sunday... but that'll be another story.

In another story, I've been programming.

So far I've thrown together a bunch of simple programs that do simple tasks like add together the sum of two numbers or calculate your age in months and days when you enter your age in years. C++ seems like a fun language so far, and I'm actually getting pretty hyped up about my studies for a change. Been typing a lot, too, practice. Been ordering a Nintendo DS and a bunch of games for it, too. Yeah I know I'm about 5 years behind schedule, I was waiting for the price to fall down. It did, so now I am (or will be in a couple of days when my order arrives) the proud owner of the almost latest Nintendo portable gaming system and a bunch of hopefully equally entertaining games. That's all for now. Later.

I still haven't bought a flatscreen TV though. :)

Savor. It won't last.

Yupp. It's been a sunny day. I've been typing. Stats below.

If you read the previous post on the typing subject you'll know I've been getting better, and 111 WPM is the new all-time high. :) Not good enough to get me on any highscore tables, but still mighty good speed if you ask me, and I'm the one blogging so of course you are (asking me). ;) I even got it twice in a row! What a lucky streak huh?

Other than typing I've been writing, and I took a couple of long walks. Though it's winter it feels like spring today, or did, when the sun was up. Warmth radiant and shimmering on nature's snowy Colgate smile. New week of work tomorrow, see you then!

Ugh. I'm tired. Spent most of the day walking from Bro to Kungsängen, from Kungsängen to Kallhäll and back from Kallhäll to Kungsängen. Just to make sure I've had enough exercise for the day I took another short walk when I got home. Almost 3 miles, 30 kilometers. My buddy Bear was present all the way to Kalhäll, and so was his cell, so here's a map of our tour for the tell. And show. Below.

I'll see you later.