Category: rants

Peaceful coexistence »

I just keep babbling about Tibet like i knew anything about the place or the situation. But you know what, that’s how i cope with the situation. Babbling and speculating.
I just watched this video on YouTube and in a way i understand the two points Dalai lama has tried to make a bit better. [...]

The Olympics in a civil war zone? »

China says that there is only one China. China are sending thousands of soldiers to Tibet. Do we really dare sending our athletics to a country which is in a civil war?
Just a thought.
(I probably should expand that i admire many aspects of China, the old Chinese culture, the grand Chinese nature, the [...]

612 thousand signatures and counting »

Nearly 2/3 of a million signatures on the End the violence in Tibet rally. Not bad! If you aren’t among them but feel like you should be, add yourself!

The cost of war »

According to Pentagon, the five year invasion in Iraq has so far cost 600 thousand million US dollars (is US, this would be called 600 billion dollars). The war has been going on for five years, which translates to 1827 days. This means that the invasion has on average cost of US$ 328 407 255 [...]

Daily politic »

The bad news: Today is the five year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. 85′000 dead, most of them locals. Shove that in your oil barrel.
The good news: China is taking Tibet seriously. The bad turn: It will probably be ugly.
I’ll write a longer post when i have the time. [...]

Quo Vadis, Yleradion? »

Update: Sidubara. Precis som man publicerar den här, så kommer ens kollega (Hej Niklas!) och skickar mej en länk till en address. Alltså en såndärn man kan skriva under.
På YLE har man länge suckat över sparhyveln. De som bestämmer över sparåtgärderna får inte tillräckligt resultat av sina hyvlingar, och de som blir hyvlade får [...]

How not to get your ADSL installed »

Update: Picture added, and the paragraph of text next to it.
We’ve moved. And since we’ve moved to the darker regions of Espoo, it’s goodbye to my Welho cable modem connection and roll in with some competing technology. Where we now live, that’s ADSL (which like its predecessor ISDN, also sounds like a sneeze).
After some research, [...]

Repulsive post on The Times »

Roger Boyes wrote an analysis on The Times Online that i can only find repulsive.
The crazed marginalised teenager who takes out his frustration on his teachers and schoolmates, who chases them through classrooms like mice in a maze, has become a universal phenomenon: the massacres at Virginia Tech, Columbine and Erfurt in Germany conformed to [...]

EU meeting on Burma this Monday - spam your foreign minister! »

This just in from Avaaz:
This Monday, October 15, the foreign ministers of the 27 European Union states will meet in Luxembourg–and decide whether to live up to their warnings to the Burmese junta.
Three weeks ago, the EU vowed to step up sanctions on the Burmese regime if it cracked down violently on the protesters. [...]

The space race »

MS Hot Live mail now offers 5 GB of free mail space. Google GMail offers 2.9 GB of mail space. Yahoo! has no caps and offers an unlimited mail storage.
I don’t want to sound like “640 kB should be enough memory for anyone” or “I believe there is a world market for about five computers” [...]