Aug
11
2011
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Warp records in trouble in #London riots.

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Aug
06
2011
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Rullsand

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We are on our first camping trip as a family of four. A mere hour away from our home this great beach makes for a nice trial run. Water is amazing and everyone is happy so far.

Update:

Everything went well, and despite some complications (no pots to cook in, ants around the tent, no coffee until 8am) we had a great time and Aron is already asking for when we are going to go back. Can you believe we had the beach all for ourselves for the whole morning? Nobody was swimming util 10am! Also it seems that we missed saturday evenings entertainment:

http://arbetarbladet.se/nyheter/alvkarleby/1.3785509-misstankt-blottare-i-rullsand

 

 

 

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Jul
30
2011
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Greetings from Norberg

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We are at the norberg festival and these are our neighbours. Great times all around.

Here are some more pics:

 

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Jul
26
2011
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Scammer alert

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres

“Sir, I call you back because your wife told me she is not allowed to use the computer without her husbands permission”

I just got a call from a man with an indian accent following exactly the same call template as you can read about in the link above. My computer was at risk, it had a virus, but he could help!

Puzzled by this friendly stranger i let the call go on, explaning that I was myself working as a sysadmin, this did not deter his resolution in helping me in the slightest. It should be noted that this was the third of fourth time he called me, from a number in the USA. This might seem strange in itself, but I run a lot of internet sites so I have been getting a bit more love from US spammers in the past.

Here is what i was asked to do:

- click the start button
- right click on “my computer”
- click on manage
- click on event viewer
- click on Application logs

… and right there i stopped the call because i knew what was coming next. The pitch is that in the application logs there are quite a lot of Errors and Warnings. This is completely normal for a Windows computer, but look intimidating to the average user. If i had let the call continue I would have been offered a “fix” that would have involved me installing malware on the computer and handing over my credit card information.

So consider yourself warned! These are professional scammers and they sound very gentle and persuasive. I have notified the police and local media.. and my mom. And the quote at the top is genuine, i have the best wife ever.

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Jul
24
2011
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Changes to the blog

I made some changes to how comments work. Comments haven’t been working very well due to the large amount of spammers that are working the wordpress system. 500 spam comments in the few months i have had the system open.

So to rectify this i installed the most ridiculous captcha system i could find and enabled comments to be visible right away. If you comment with your Facebook account you wont have to bother with the captcha.

So enjoy! And if you are reading this and working on a spam-script. Go to hell!

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