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Sony BMG that has practiced all sorts of nastiness (mob style hunting of music users, installing root kits to their users’ computers…) in order to capture unauthorized listeners of their recordings, whom they call pirates has been engaged in rather interesting practices namely unauthorized software usage , it seems. This has been reported in wired with a Finnish translation at Piraattiliitto.

According to the news, it would seem that pirating software is a standard operation procedure at Sony’s, now how quaint is that. One more news source on the matter, this with a lot of interview material from the infringed party.

Art with one, have a look.

I’m going to write about our wonderfull weekend, but before that entry something else needs to be said. Since I found something, in lack of a better word, pretty. Something nice. Something ideological. Alliance for new Humanity bumped to my face from a link by A.Greenberg. Check it out. It seems to be one of those movements that actually are doing something and that might have a chanse to do something even in the world that has moved past the era of great stories.

http://www.stopbolkestein.org/

For this analysis is making way too much sense. Last year I bet that the war will begin 2006, close and most likely prior to the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse (ok, I do admit to see, why in Washington this act may be interpreted as hostile and a declaration of war) and now the date is drawing close and looking at the media tells me, my odds are disgustingly good.

There’s also an intresting article on how it will go. So my friends, anyone like to second guess? Perhaps make some of your own scenarios on how it will be, when the war starts?

Been busy and almost too much has happened lifewise to cover in this kind of an update entry. So at first without even attempting it, here comes a test-result.

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
brought to you by Quizilla
via [my beloved]

Not bad result, quite fitting come to think of it. Then to other matters close to home. With the end of the year coming up, some reflection obviously starts to take place. The thing I’ve noticed its been good with music. We’ve found a few rather good bands. First M spotted Chingon from Kill Bill’s Extras, and this latino-rock just is marvelous Their Mexican Spaghetti Western stuff, just hits all the right chords (pun almost intended ) .

Second Band was something I found, with a little help from friends. Corvus Corax is just brilliant stuff, medieval music with attitude or bagpipe-rock as H called it. Absolutely love the stuff and don’t mind at all getting more of it.

Then M spotted Theodor Bastard,… can’t quite describe it, but Orient Lux as they say. Can recommend this too as well as Qntal, xmas-gift we opened early and enjoyed thoroughly last night (We had a permission from this particular xmas-elf, so there). Lastly I’ve been searching the web for gaming music in few of FS-campaigns currently going on and slowly starting. Russian/soviet military music has been found in abundance (Wheeee) and it has provided not only gaming inspiration but also work inspiration. Good marching music, Kossack songs and the Hymn of Red October seem to do wonders for coding , which has been going worryingly well (try to say that fast three times, I dare you).

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On Christmas, we took an early start last weekend when visiting Helsinki. I got to see first person who opened a gift, homemade by your’s truly. God truly blesses the happy giver, her face was so worth it. After meeting this person we enjoyed Mom’s company, introduced her to Corvus Corax, showed wedding pics and had good time. Sun we met grandparents and Aunt-Tuula, had a very warm and nice christmastime with them, it is always great to see them

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Meanwhile elsewhere I spotted this bit of very good news. The sadly famous ID-dispute obviously had a very good judge as the decision was imho of excellent quality.

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Finally updating this entry from the day before, I can report that we made the drive to M’s parents’. Christmass didn’t turn out as planned, but I think that this can be made up, as we intend to go on with the celebrations with Mum next weekend.

A Very merry Christmas to all who come by these Letters.

…by Dragon, also in other news.

We’ve been thinking about this with a couple of friends. My personal bet has for a while been, that US will attack Iran by the end of 2006. This is a sad thing, Iran isn’t a model state in too many ways, but they sure have had plenty of spunk which has been displayed over the years. My personal favourite being the dethroning of the Shah.

It sure was.

The end of last week was spent on studies and a project that I do for scientific community (Sounds cool, eh?). When the work was done (at least some of it). I headed to town to pick up Anni, who joined us for a dinner (Coyote was good, as always), the premier of Charlie and Chockolate factory. The movie was good, I really can recommend it. The experience was nice also, this time nobody chatted loudly or kicked the bench (this is a note for me, to check upon the next time I rant about how always…).

After movie, we chatted to the wee hours of morning, much fun as there was no point in start gaming that late at night or just after movie. (Even if the movie was good, it would have influenced gming wrongly). We took it back on saturday having one of our usual apr. 8 hour gaming sessions. It works. They play beautifuly together, both characters have developed distinct and intriguing personalities and a relationship that is truly worth it. The story advanced as they arrived on Severus, did a few fabulous blunders and survived the outcome. Now anything seems to be possible for them and I’ve started new storyline(s), that will have intresting impacts on characters in near and far future

Now I’m back to work, things are proceeding, still fun. I just found out that the copyright-shit has been put on table in the parliament, which is extremely good.

Weddings coming, but it’ll work out nicely.

Life is good.