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Or if you prefer English: Merry Christmas
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Hey everybody,
Just noting the fact that I managed to get a more or less functional version of http://www.gandoon.com up and running again. Most likely not online at all times, but at least more frequent than previously imagined.
Welcome to all my spaces… Especially to my DeviantART and Picasa galleries, with material not necessarily available at the local picture gallery. Of course flickr is still available, but due to the 200 image cap for free accounts it will probably not be extensively updated, but what is there will remain.
New developments:
http://www.gandoon.com will probably not be up as much as intended due to power outtake constraints (server will be down most of the time once again). Updates will instead take place at http://gandoon.wordpress.com. Unfortunately that means my private image gallery which I have 100% control of will not be available. I suggest following the developments on DeviantArt and Picasa instead (they would probably be updated more often anyway).
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Never, ever take the last bus in the evening from Malmö during the Malmö festival, no matter how tempting it may be…
The best way to describe it is to imagine the most cramped commuter trains in Tokyo you can find (yes, just like the ones you have seen on TV, the ones with the guys pressing people into the cars) but with rude, drunk and noisy teenagers instead of middle aged salarymen trying to get home.
Maybe I could wish this treatment for my worst enemy, but then again I have precious few enemies to put through this purgatory.
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Annoying as it may be, some day soon now I will have to get a grip on my life. The title of this post is adopted from a traditional sea shanty called “High Barbary” and it sort of pinpoints exactly how I feel right now, the pirates being my careless prolonged life as a student and the frigate being a “real” adult life… I dreaded the day, but now I am running out of options, only lacking my masters thesis’ completion and a handful of exams for my engineering degree. (Anyone who knows me, also knows that this is an old cliché, coming from me, but now I think it might actually be true. Keep any fingers available crossed and lets see about this graduation business…
I will be back soon I believe. Images reviews and such stuff will be reposted as time allows.
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Well, then it is final… The last post on this server has been made, it will be the last for probably quite some time. I loose my flat now, I didn’t get the job in Japan and nothing seems to go the way I would like them to.
So, now I need to get my degree, get a job (preferably not in Sweden) and just get away and be someone. Keep all fingers crossed and hope for the best. I haven’t given up on Japan, but there has been so many disappointments now: Three applications in the course of three years and three consecutive backlashes. Well when three comes to four, that might be the time to stop… or is it?
I still feel so lonely though 
The site here at http://gandoon.wordpress.com will in the mean time act as a temporary stand-in for the site (provided that I actually post anything here).
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The conformity I want to declare is that this page will roughly reflect the content in http://www.gandoon.com. This page will be used as a stand-in, a similar page was hosted earlier by the Computer Society at Lund University but it is now defunct.
I still have hopes to go to Japan, no change there. I will have my Masters degree by May this year, and right now I take a course in industrial environmental work to finish off my studies.
Within a few months I hope to migrate the main page once again, this time hopefully to the Computer Society at Lund University’s newly acquired server pool. A personal physical or virtualised server might become available there quite soon. That would be really great since it has become a little bit annoying with a server running around the clock at home. Further I will move quite soon, to Japan or elsewhere and then it will not be feasible to run a private server at home.
I also have a page at http://gandoon.wordpress.com nowadays. The reason is that I might use it as an intermediate while setting up the new services and when the main http://www.gandoon.com is down (as might have been noticed) is quite often. That server is mainly running daytime CET until further notice.
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The idiocy from airlines about restrictions on what is and is not allowed onboard keeps getting more and more absurd: nail clippers = dangerous object??
What about the alcohol bottles bought after checkin in approved taxfree shops? They are still allowed, and they are more dangerous than any set of nail clippers I would say. Just think about how easy it is to blind someone with 40% alcohol (up to 70% ABV is allowed according to the Swedish board of transportations). Not to mention the obvious possibility to use the bottle as a blunt weapon (with or without the contents) or a cutting weapon by simply crushing the bottle?
Anyone can see these holes in the rules, but most simply ignores them, or at least pretend there are no inconsistencies. The 100 ml maximum for liquids in hand luggage is just silly, when a bottle originally containing 150 ml but is obviously containing less than half its content is forbidden whereas the full 100 ml bottle that may or may not have been refilled with whatever is perfectly fine (random testing schemes will be extremely unlikely to catch anything dangerous).
Medicines are also fine in larger quantities if you can show a prescription or physicians note that you are allowed to carry it. Hypodermic needles are also allowed in this case. Anyone seeing the potentials here? I know at least a few very common medications that are routinely allowed onboard without much hesitation that are extremely dangerous if administered to someone that is not supposed to have them (e.g. insulin, adrenaline and so on).
When will the airlines realise that PEOPLE are more dangerous than any of the household appliances or hygiene articles they try to bring on their journeys?
I would not be surprised if very soon the time comes when they want to force people to be restrained throughout their flights so that they cannot harm anyone.
The seatbelt will in a few years be securely locked during the flight and only if you are in extreme need, the flight attendants may have some mercy and allow you to (of course wearing handcuffs and under gunpoint from the onboard safety officer) go to the loo.
Its true, used correctly, hands can be more deadly weapons than a nail clipper…
Can the world come to its senses again please?