It’s the truth. The best home made lightsaber duel I’ve ever seen! A bit long perhaps, but well worth the time to look all the way to the end! The special effect are impressive! I loved it! It get’s my vote 
The movie: Best home made lightsaber duel ever!
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I’m a sucker for games, of almost every kind. Board games, cards, chess and of course: Computer games.
The latest one I’ve been trying out, on top of Battle of Wesnoth that I’m still hooked to, is called Evil Genius. I get to play an evil madman who plots for world dominance! I build my own hideout and acquire henchmen, minions and commit acts of infamy to build up my notoriety rating. Of course the pesky forces of good are at large as the worlds nations get more and more angry because of my acts toward them, so they send their agents, infiltrators and troops after me.
The game is easy to play, and reminds me a lot of Dungeon Keeper, except here I don’t build up my lair, or secret hideout on a unspecified island, every time the scenario ends. Instead the hideout keeps growing as I finish off goals and tasks the game presents to me. That confused me, so I started the game over once to make a better layout for my hideout. And of course it’s built underground 
I also get to set up traps for infiltrating agents, which is lot of fun, especially when building combo traps, like a wind machine that blows an agent into a gas trap. Too bad there are so few traps (1 trap that actually kills, the rest confuse or move an agent), but I’m hoping for a wider variety of traps once the game progresses.
So the game is basically lots of fun, especially the music which seems to be a potpurri of Bond movie music. But it has some nagging drawbacks. Agents sometime infiltrate the base by digging themselves into my base, and even though I have security cams set up, and alarms linked to them, if the agents emerge in a room where there are no minions, noone rushes into that room to battle them. I have to direct my henchman (you get a henchman in the beginning, and as the game progresses you’re getting more of them) towards them instead. And that is a lot of manual work.
Also, when adjusting an equippment I’ve placed in an awkward position, I can’t move it to a new position that includes the position where it is currently standing. That is highly annoying! So I have to first move it to a new location and from there move it back to where I wanted it in the first place! But, ah well, the sounds and moves the minions make when interrogating a prisoner are worth the few glitches 
So I give this game a 4 out of 5 as it seems to have a lot of potential! Especially when you get more and more notorious and evil.
Link to site: http://howevilareyou.com/us/
Technorati Tags: Evil genius, PC game
I’ve reached 0 messages in my mail inbox! WEEEHAAAA! 
It has been an arduous task, but I’ve finally done it! I had to sacrifice some goats and paint some IKEA furniture pink, but the result was worth it! O heavens. Now I just have to make sure noone ever emails me and I’m free from email the rest of my life! 
It’s time for Easter! And what better way to spend the Easter holidays than training aikido? What? I’m nuts? Ah, yes, I knew that already! Tell me something new! There’s bird poo in my shoes!? Wait a minute… You’re pulling my leg! *goes to check his shoes*
Every two years there is a large Aikido seminar in Sweden called Sverigelägret (Sweden camp; we use the swedish word for camp for our seminars). It brings together aikidokas from all around Sweden. It’ll be 4 days of training with a bunch of different Swedish instructors. 19 instructors and hopefully over 200 participants. Wish it was larger. 2 years ago it was over 300 participants and over 30 instructors, if I remember correctly.
Tons of fun is about to be had! But boy will it hurt after a while… I have to remember to bring my earplugs because some of the aikidokas have very loud nocturnal kiais (snoring).
So I wont be posting in my blog for a couple of days now, you will have to find something else to read!
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Yes, it’s an online turn-based adventure game! With campaign and multiuser modes. And it’s free! Strangely addictive. Maybe because I get hooked for any game that gives me some mental stimulus for a while. When I know a game through and through and there is no plot to keep my interest up, I rapidly lose my interest in it.
I will make a prediction about this game: I will lose interest in it after a while! There. I’m a bonafide futureteller now! But for now, it has me hooked. Since the campaigns are quite extensive, and I’m a very poor strategic, it will take me a while before I get bored with it. Perhaps I will even learn a little about strategics that will come in handy in other areas of my life?
Here’s the site: Battle for Wesnoth
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I’ve got to admit that since I stopped working with computers it has become more fun to play around with them on my spare time. And since I’m currently unemployed I got lots of spare time!
Surfing the net and getting my bloglines aggregator working has been a real productivity booster when it comes to this area of my life. Some of the things I’ve found I want to share with you. Especially these two pages detailing how to tweak your Firefox to become less memory consuming and having some tips about good plugins to use.
Both pages have descriptions and recommendations for plugins and some tweaking of Firefox. I found a couple of plugins that I myself now use. Wonder how I could live without them!
And my favourite tweaking of Firefox and it’s memory usage:
When I minimize Firefox it drops down to 10 MB of used memory! Mmmm! *cuddles with the tweak*
I try to keep up with different aikido forums around the world using Bloglines as an aggregator for all the RSS-feeds. Today I ran into a funny thread from the AikiWeb about Aikido doh’s, funny things that you or others have done regarding Aikido.
If you train aikido, or other martial arts with pinning techniques, you’re familiar with ‘Tapping out’. That is, hitting the mat or something else with your hand to signal to your partner that it’s enough, you can feel the pain and give up. Well, one of the funniest doh’s I ran into was this one:
Only last Monday I went to see a dentist. I was in the chair in horizontal position; and when the pain came on … I tapped out.
Oh the laughter I had at the image of that!
Here’s a link to the thread. Enjoy
Soon I think me little blog will be ready to take on the onslaught of the world! Some things I still have left to fix:
That’s it, I think! When I’ve done these things my blog should be up and running!
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Cheesus! I was up till 7 am yesterday, playing around with wordpress. It’s like a drug! I spent several hours learning how to make a widget out of the module Simple Recent Comments written by Raoul. He also kindly offered to link to my site if I put up the widget on my homepage.
So here it is! To use it, you have to install the widget-plugin from wordpress.
Requirements: Wordpress 2.x
Here’s how you install it:
Simple as that
UPDATE 2006-05-03: Raoul made some changes to his code to allow the use of non-standard table names for wordpress. I’ve included his fix in version 0.2.1!
UPDATE 2006-05-04: I got a report that an error is returned if there are no comments. Fixed it in version 0.2.2. Thanks to anshul!
UPDATE 2006-09-06: Paul Hampson reported that if the title contained HTML-elements, the html would be displayed in the hover text of the link to the post in the comment. This is fixed in version 0.2.3. Thanks Paul!
I’ve got a habit of beating myself up for things I forget, and remember later. What I’m saying to myself is something like this:
How could I forget that? It was on my mind all day that time, and now it’s been gone for several weeks, and it was important! And I remember it now? Am I stupid, or what?
That is a brilliant example of Not So Creative Thinking! I’ve first told my brain that the thing I was thinking about was important. And when it gets to the task of reminding me about it, I start to beat it up. What will it learn from this?
If I remind him of things, I will be beaten up!
Will this increase the chanses of my brain reminding me about things when they pop up? Most likely not! Surprised?
So, I’ve tried to install a new way for me to please my brain once it gets where I wanted it to be in the first place. I say to myself, mentally:
Thank you, brain!
and try to feel gratitude towards myself and my brain for delivering to me what I once asked for! That will increase the chanse of it doing a better job in the future, and I dont have to beat myself up for it!
It also reminds me of starting with Getting Things Done again, to try to create a system outside of my mind that keeps track of things I wish to have focus on. More about that later, when I’ve finished configuring my blog.
