Published March 12th, 2008
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This weekend my partner had arranged a secret trip for me. He took me up to Gävle to meet up with my family to have a nice meal at a Greek restaurant. After that it was time for a nice concert with Jill Johnson. Not a big fan of her, but I like the music. The best thing was that it was mostly covers of other female country singers which helped to identify the songs a bit better.
What I liked was that she shared memories and thoughts about the songs she was gonna perform which made the whole performance a lot more personal than commercial like concerts normally are. Apparently she also been standing outside greeting everyone to the concert as well, nothing I don’t see many artists do unless you buy their CD with a signature (if even then). She has a lovely voice and it worked wonderful on the old countryhit Jolene by Dolly Parton.
To sum it all up; very pleasant evening with good company, tasty food and lovely music. Only harsh thing was the 2 hours drive there and back again.
Published March 4th, 2008
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So, the site is still alive. It’s recently been moved to another server, since the old one is about to hit the grave. Might not be the fastest hosting, but it’s damn cheap and more than the site really need.
Some development have been going on with the Synology box I mentioned in my previous post. I now have rtorrent running and currently working on a web-interface to get some more control. There are a couple of them out there already, but none of them has the functionalities I need so slowly creating my own.
While making a post, I just have to add that all my classes are now done! Only thing remaining of my school years is a LIA (practise while working thing). Currently located at an IT consultant firm until the end of May.
Published November 3rd, 2007
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Just recently got this new toy I can play with, a NAS with features such as Bittorrent, streamingserver and a webserver (apache with PHP Support). Sure it can also store my most important files nicely and secure, but who needs that when you get so many other features to play around with. Synology (the manufacturer) also recently decided to open for telnet access to the machine, meaning it got even easier to install your own services and software. Right now I’m just learning how everything works, but so far it feels like a good choice of a NAS. Was looking on a QNAP which had about the same specs, but only supported 2 drives where this one supports 4 (total of 3TB). I seem to get some more time soon, so I will most likely take on some projects surrounding this box in the coming weeks.
Published August 22nd, 2007
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Once again, had about a 2 months break from blogging. Wasn’t really intentionally, but been busy with real life issues and just haven’t felt motivated to spend time writing. Now school begun and with it comes the inspiration again.
Summer been busy, had a couple projects keep me occupied most of the summer. Most of them was work, but at least one of them was related to our home. We redecorated a room upstairs and made it our new computer room instead of the old room downstairs. Feels great to be in a fresh room (although it’s completly done yet) and also not have to deal with all the neighbors looking in at you every time they walking by. It’s nice and private! 
Published June 17th, 2007
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This took me a lot longer than it should have, but I finally completed the legendary Wii game “Zelda - The Twiligh Princess”. I lost my way a couple times, things distracted me away from the game. But then my sister spent some days here and she started playing. This gave me motivation to continue where I last left of and now been playing all the way to the end.
The game is really nice, it works great with the Wii remote/Nunchuck. In the future I hope we will see an exclusive Zelda title for the Wii with more advanced graphics and the use of the controllers even more. Comparing to the earlier games in the series, they succeeded to remove some annoying elements like constant switching of shoes and suits. A really nice addition to this game is also the small variation of game plays, like fighting while on horse and small minigames like “snowboarding”. This doesn’t just add an unexpected twist, but also brings a nice variation to the gameplay. So all I say is; Play it!
Published June 5th, 2007
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We been lucky enough to have this nice fellow sleeping in our backyard for a while. He built a nice little house under some leaves and most likely been there all winter. Last weeks, we seen him raiding our backyard for stuff to eat at the evenings. Since he’s as cute as he is, we only been happy to have him as a guest. He even let us touch him a couple times.
However lately he’s not been around and the other day I found a dead hedgehog on the road not to far away. Hopefully this was not our beloved “neighbour”.. I’ll keep my hope up a while longer and keep waiting for him to show up!
Published May 31st, 2007
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On the last evening on our Tunisia trip (6th May to 13 May), they had a dragshow at the hotel. If I remember correctly, their group name was Golden Ladies (but the night before they were presented as “Men with Makeup“). It was a guy from Germany who started this group with two other tunisian men and was now touring all over Tunisia. The show was fairly good - especially when they entered some more humour into it than just plain mimic to a famous song.
One of the numbers, was a not so fancy (see left pic) man in drag that wasn’t afraid to give himself away. He involved the audience in his singing number (can’t remember the song, I must still be in chock) which made it all so much funnier.. until he selected me! He usually picked one out, sang a bit then walked up to the selected “target”. He then sat down in the targets lap, facing the target and along with the rythm he pressed his fake boobies in the targets face.
As I mentioned earlier, this was a very good number until he came up with the idea to select me. The number was almost over, so I was the final target. What I wasn’t prepared for was that instead of just doing the boobcrush once as he did with the other targets, I got to taste them 5-6 times. Believe me when I say this.. Fake boobies smells bad!
Published May 3rd, 2007
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I guess most interested people have an invite by now, but if anyone still missing one.. Just leave a comment in this post and I’ll send you one.
Joost is the new way to watch TV - streaming on the net. It has good quality, it’s free and loads of channels. Last time I checked, the “quality” of the shows wasn’t that big but I can see the shows getting better as the company gets more money in the future. Right now they are still in BETA test, but will be released to the public not to far away.
My name is Pate Hansson and this is my place on the net. I'm living in Stockholm, Sweden in a house me and my partner Juha recently bought. Don't hesitate to send me an email if you have any questions about me or stuff posted on this page.
