Intressant politisk diskussion.
Jag håller mig visserligen inte till de
normala “blocken” men vissa
personer kanske bör överväga att A:
tänka igenom sina åsikter innan man
skriver eller B: sluta att skriva saker
utan att våga stå för dessa.

Tyvärr ger en politiskt inriktad blogg
en ganska stark reaktion.Jag misstänker
att detta beror på nätets illusion av
anonymitet som tyvärr går åt båda hållen.

Jag håller inte riktigt med dig partipolitiskt men jag kan hålla med om att dom
som har det sämst på samhällsstegen har fått det sämre och de klyftor som fanns
redan innan alliansen började sitt styre har växt. Jag ser dock väldigt ofta
folk som utnyttjar systemet med socialbidrag och liknande och tycker själv att
den saken är vidrig.

Nej vi ska inte torka de som inte arbetar i arslet som det så vackert skrivs, men ska
vi verkligen stampa på dom som ligger i stället?

Vi har haft en social standard som har varit rätt hög, vi har trots allt sjukvård, skola
med mera som har gått på skatterna, men dessa har fått mindre och mindre pengar gentemot
vad som behövs. Skolan behöver skatter. Skolan behöver mer material, fler behöriga lärare
och framförallt aktuellt material så att utbildningen kan göras mer aktuell.

Utan behöriga pedagoger och lärare sjunker skolan allt mer ner under ytan och blir en
förvaringsplats för yngre och det verkar som om yngre mer och mer tappar insikten
om att kunskap behövs.

Att försäkra ut personer som inte hittar jobb, tja, vad tjänar det till förutom att
tvinga de som inte _kan_ jobba att försöka slita ut sig i förtid. Det enda positiva
är att man får ut en del iglar på köpet. Men, dom som antingen är för sjuka eller
helt enkelt inte är attraktiva på arbetsmarknaden, vad gör vi med dom?

Självklart kan man utbilda sig, men för att göra det krävs det flera saker.
Det krävs tid, det krävs pengar och det krävs ork. Om man är sjuk har man troligen
inte den orken till att hålla den studietakt som en normal utbildning har idag.
Har man dessutom små barn så går mesta tiden åt till dessa vilket tär ännu mera.

Så, vad göra?

Möjligen att ändra bidragsformerna och reglerna för sjuk samt A kassa?
Tja, möjligen.

Min personliga åsikt är att för sjukkassan ska personens EGNA läkare kontaktas så att
dessa får ett utökat ansvar mot både stat och klient istället för att en bedömning ska
göras utifrån ett papper som kanske inte har all information om patientens hälsa.

Jag fick lära mig när jag gick omvårdnad att empati var en av dom viktigaste egenskaperna
i vården men hur kan man få en känsla för en persons tillstånd om man aldrig träffat
personen? Vill man neka sjukpenning kan man då konsultera en annan läkare som BÖR
träffa personen för att kunna ge en helhetsbild.

Vill man utbilda sig ska man givetvis ha möjlighet till det, men även där krävs
insatser från samhället. Listan kan göras hur lång som helst men jag stannar innan
jag snöar in mig totalt.

Varför inte ha bidrag mot prestation. Inte som det är nu, “visa intyg på sökt jobb så får
du pengar” utan snarare “Ok, du har kommit in på en utbildning, vi hjälper till så
att barnomsorg finnes, och ser till att ni har råd med mat, hyra med mera”

Idag har vi det till en stor del, men vi har inte den typ av kontroll som skulle
behövas för att förhindra bidragssnyltarna dvs dom som tar bidrag utan att ha en
anledning. Jag tror att de flesta som idag går på någon form av bidrag hellre
skulle försörja sig själva men av någon anledning inte kan. Varför inte
ha hjälp till självhjälp men med mera kontroll?

Maud Olofsson, the leader for the swedish center party had an idea that either
is A: completely out of sorts with what will eventually happen, or, have not
thought of the consequences whatsoever.

The idea is that all men who are convicted with spousal abuse and gets a restraining
order will also wear a digital tracker device of the same type as you give people convicted
but allowed to serve their sentancemat home. The article can be found here:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/valet2010/article7639474.ab

Now, the thought of the matter is that as it is now, the women who are abused
gets a little restricted since broken restraining orders are a common think for
the swedish police, and a thought regarding this is laudable and commendable,
but… wait a minute, After an EVENTUAL sentance, what then? Shall we continue
to treat the men that albeit being scum, have served a sentance and in effect
“paid their debt to society”?

Wouldn’t that undermine the system of these electronic trackers in themselves since a lot
of people will be convicts without a sentance? How many of them will report that they are
being unfairly treated as criminals AFTER served time and without “just cause”?

Now, lets take a second to clarify here. I do not condone spousal abuse in any form and my
personal conviction and believe is that men who beat women and children are weak
individuals with a lack of impuls control and morals that makes them too low on the scale
to even pity HOWEVER they do have a right to be treated like every other person in the society
when not proven guilty or after served time. I know that this is a repeat behaviour, but still.

Wouldn’t it be better if we GAVE these abused women a counter part to this tracker that really
only starts tracking as soon as a button is pressed,  lets say put it on the side of a purse, and
when pressed this does the following:

Sends an instant alarm to the police with exact coordinates. After this is done, emit a blaring
sound signal that makes people aware that something untoward is going on, aswell as educate
the population in this particular signal and what that means so that the general public can help?

Not everyone has the civil courage to do so, but there are some of us who would. You cant
enforce civil courage with laws, but you can encourage it.

According to CopySweden, Home burned CDs are at a new low and they
are looking to generate income from other storagemedi…..
WAIT A MINUTE.

We already pay unknown people to be able to store our vacation photos
and whatnot just for the sake of the “Possibility to use to store copywrited
material” and we also get flooded with the latest commercials when
listening to music on the radio. Now they want to add the SAME PENALTY
ON MEMORYCARDS?!? They have got to be joking but alas, I am pretty
damned sure they are not.

Seriously, just because YOU CAN doesnt mean YOU WILL!
I have the equipment to rape hundreds of women every year, aswell
as with my bare hands strangling and beating people to pulps but
does that mean I should serve a preemptive lifetime sentance in
jail, or better yet, seeing as you could count it into possible
thousands of victims, be dragged to the tribunal in Haag
and condemned to death for crimes against the human race
just because I HAVE THE ABILITY TO?

We already pay a license to HAVE a TV, regardless if we watch it or not
or, even if we only have it plugged in to the TV to have that GLORIOUS
image when playing games, but hey … we have to pay for 2 channels that
hasn’t produced anything viewable since the late 70′s when Lennart Hyland
went into retirement aint that good for something?

Either way I turn, there crops up new fees for this and that, I am sure that
pretty soon there will be an “arm bending tax” wich will be calculated on
how many times you lift your arm to speak into your mobile phone, and a hefty
fee will be added to the bluetooth headsets because they make it possible to
circumvent the tax laws. Hows that for a treat?

So in essence, if you can store ANY data on a device, you will, in the future
have to pay a fee for the filesharers that potentially may use this device
to store copywrighted material. Just so you know, in theory, you could store
information in a standard digital wristwatch…….

Wich means, anything that has any form of storage, as long as you in one
way or another, will be getting this new fee… lets hope pacemakers doesnt
have any chips that you can access.

I wish I knew what was up but for some reason today I have a melancholy day and I feel like
maudlin and just sitting by myself and sort through all the ideas and statements that has managed
to form inside my head, but alas, I cant seem to understand why nor can I banish the feelings.
I think I need to vent some more, but to be honest, I dont know how and I guess that I will
have to let music suffice. Heres the mood of the day:

Dia Psalma – Det döende barnet.

Moder, jag är trött, nu vill jag sova
blott jag vid ditt hjärta slumra får
gråt dock ej, det skall du först mig lova
ty på kinden bränner het din tår

Här är kallt och ute stormen tjuter
men i drömmen allt emot mig ler
och när jag mitt trötta öga sluter
jag det söta änglabarnet ser

Ser du ängeln, hör du hur det klingar
moder, en musik så underbar
se han har så vackra vita vingar
dem han säkert från vår herre har

Grönt och gult och rött, mitt öga bländas
det är blommor ängelen strör ut
får jag vingar ock förrn livet ändas
eller får jag, moder, sen jag dör

Säg varför du mina händer trycker
varför lägger du din kind mot min
den är våt, men jag den glödhet tycker
Moder, jag vill alltid vara din 

Men du får ej mera tårar gjuta
gråter du, så gråter jag med dig
O, jag är så trött, vill ögat sluta
Moder, se nu kysser ängeln mig

Click here to view the embedded video.

Well, as you know I keep a lookout for things that might interrest me in several ways
and recently, a personal object of distaste goes out and says he cant feel good about
about things he has succeeded with, but instead, he feels bad about things that
didn’t go his way, the article is found here: http://www.expressen.se/noje/extra/1.2058648/thomas-bodstrom-avslojar-sin-livssorg

Now, I wouldn’t feel good criminalizing about 75%  of the youth population and on top of that, put the rest
under the same surveillance that USED TO BE RESERVED TO CRIMINALS!

Aaaaw, come on Thomas, isn’t that something to be happy about. Even the artists themselves are using
illegal filesharing, but the difference is that they have a get away free cards from the record labels and
the rest of us doesnt. Now, did I miss something ….. actually I did.

How about this for a change. The man actually wants a minister seat WHILE HE LIVES IN THE US
and the seat is in sweden, AND he still wants to get paid, even though he most likely was receiving
government pay while staying at home finishing writing a book. Sheesh. My vote will go to ANY party
that can promise me that Thomas Bodström will never ever have any government function as long
as that party is in the parlament. There. I said it. Lets go.

Not been a good morning today. As you know, most often I take a train to work
and swedens railroad companies are, well, lets just say their time tables isn’t
exactly accurate and leave it at that.

I leave home in good time, drive to the trainstation and park the car, walk to the ticket
machine and swipe my card. No admittance. Well, this was kinda expected as its about time
to renew the monthly card. So, went inside, and what do I see? The train is, as usual,
delayed. It’s time is now 7:41. Well, that it is an “OK” time as that makes me pretty
much get to work just a few minutes late, about 5 or 6. My bosses are understanding
to my late comings due to trains but really, it bugs me to be late. So, I walk
out to the platform, and start to wait. And wait…. And waaaaaaaaaait. 7:52 the
train rolls in. A quick door opening and off we go. By now, I am pretty steaming
due to the lateness, but I am as always, polite to the personel at the train.

I start to listen to a popular radio station, Mix megapol, the reasons are that
they are the ones who have the best reception if you want to listen to anything
but classic music or foreign languages, and the pleasant voiced host talks
about this and that between songs.

I roll into Västerås waay to late for my taste and pretty much more or less runs
towards work (have I mentioned that I hate to be late) And when I do, I cross a huge
gravel parking lot. About this time, the host of the show starts talking about
trainrides and I feel that spark of ire reach some tinder and starts to smoulder.
Then comes the kicker.

“There has probably been a lot of good things with train rides, text message us
with your story of how good trainrides are”

I almost exploded then and there.

The reason for this is that the entire winter, the swedish railways have had problems,
Multitudes of trains have been cancelled and not a single one has left on time as it
should, when they have left at all, and since then, the entire infrastructure has been
shot to hell in a handbasket. An estimate is that about 1 in every 5 morning that I
go by train, the train leaves on time, and someone wants me to sit down, relax and
have a good time on a train ride? What the hell.

If my boss starts to withdraw from my paycheck, can I demand that from the swedish
railway companies. Noooooooo. Let’s say that I was my own employee as a consultant,
would the swedish railways hire someone that is late more often then not due to
someone elses fault? I mean, after a while it just sounds like a bad excuse, no matter
how true it really is and that rails me.

Imagine the consultant who lives by the three pillars of “Punctuality”, “Thouroughness”
and “Completion”

First off, he will loose some of his reputation for not being able to present the first,
the second will take a hit because you cant be thourough if you constantly worry about time
and the completion will be suffering because every week, 1-2 hours will mysteriously dissapear
due to commuting problems and that could seriously hamper critical systems. And what does
the railway companies do? Not a frigging thing. Not even, despite having a large IT
section, do they continously update train departures so that people would be able to
see if it is a waste of time to wait for the train, OR reimburse costs for gasoline
due to being forced to take a car to work. How’s that in your eye, enviromentalist party?

Finally.

After a pretty long wait the wordpress 3.0 version is released so now, lets see what this baby can do

How is that even possible? Well, it is for a good cause and a few of my coworkers
seems to like fruitsalads,  so here goes. You, yeah, you *points with the entire hand*
have the chance to win a free iPad and will get it delivered as soon as they have
reached the swedish apple stores, you will however be requested for something for it.

No, it has nothing to do with surveys, reading advertising, spreading on facebook or whatnot.
It requires that you know a geek friend that is very good with computers and servers,
regardless of OS on said computers, has experience with different programming languages
and who will answer correctly if someone suddenly yells “SYN!” A person devoid of social life
is pref.. never mind,that it was a lame try at a pun, seeing as I myself doesnt have much of a
social life anymore.

But if the person that you recommend to us gets an employment as a server techie you will get
your own flashy (i cant believe I am doing this!) and neat iPad. Sounds too good to be true?
I know, it actually does but for a change, it’s is actually true and I will put my solemn word down
on this, aswell as my never before used consience (so its as clean as a whistle)

Oh, and I know that some of you think that having ECDL or similar makes you an excellent candidate,
I can assure you that you need a lot more then that. Try to explain what cascade constraints are for
MySQL, or how to do a backup on a Linux machine with RSYNC. Click HERE to see the answer in syntax form

Or how to create a two dimensional array from two single dimensional array in perl
Answer is HERE

Do you think that you know someone who can solve these kinds of things without cheating
and looking on the answers? Visit this page: Arbeta på Loopia and fill
in the details for us and *puts on his best gameshow host voice* YOU! could be the winner of a brand
new, shimmering, glittering iPad, packed with the latest OS from Apple Computers!

*Switches into TV-Shoppers mode* So, what are you waiting for, if you dial in today, we will also
throw in this extremely honorable thought from the staff! As if that was not enough,
we will also throw in a free supply of air *its being created in the amazon as we speak and will be delivered
via standard air currents*.

Yes, I am serious, but not to fight crime, but to be above the law
as is the current suggestion. In an article in Aftonbladet (http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7275045.ab)
Maria Larsson suggests that policemen will be able to confiscate material
that is currently legal but MAY BECOME classified as narcotics. Ok, the
scare here isn’t that people might loose their prescription meds but rather
the corruption that this invites to. If someone gets into their heads to
confiscate something, regardless of substance type without support of
the law, you are inviting the fact that this will escalate, some people
take the common “Car parralell” that the police will impound sportscars
to reduce speeding and such nonsense, I am more worried about another scenario.

Since the police doesn’t need the support of the law to conduct certain things,
What happens if someone, anonymously, calls in that you are having your
own little meth cookery down in the basement? You are sitting there, with
your family, your door gets knocked down, before you know it, you are down
on the floor, hands cuffed to your back and you are hoisted outside to wait,
cuffs on and all while the police searches your house and comes up empty.

Beside the obvious trauma of the handling of you as a person physically, your
neighbours will start to gossip about what happened and since human mentality
is what it is, the snowball of rumours will start to fly.

I think you may have noticed the blog being down for a while, well, unfortunaly, my serverprovider
managed to get tons of hardware burned out and the as… wait a minute.. thats me!

Seriously though what happened was that I was working on something from work, and suddenly the machine
started getting more and more sluggish and I figured something was up but couldnt pinpoint it straight off.
I had Linda reboot the machine and it came to the loading screen and there it froze. We tried a few times
more when she said, and I quote: “It sounds a lot less and smell burnt”! So naturally I told her to shut it off.

I came home and started scrounging up every spare piece of hardware I could lay my hands on and changed
pretty much everything in the damn chassi but it refused to boot, so today I went and fetched another little
heap and moved over the discs and voila .. case closed, server online.

Lets hope this thing holds the same time that the old one.. 3 years on 500 SEK aint bad.