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Iphonenight with Oscar award 2007-02-26 00:37:59
IPhone - you know the new revolutionary telephone from Apple has got a huge attention around the western world.
From Apple:iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet all communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything´with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Now I heard rumours that iPhone will come in a version for 3G in the beginning of 2008. The blog iPhone World:Apple Insider reports that a Swedish firm received assurances from a local mobile carrier that Apple's iPhone will have 3G already in January 2008. While they ca Read more:Oscar
Free Kareem - the blogger sentenced to prison - the video 2007-02-25 22:10:04 Egyptian Government: A freedom and peaceful march song against President Mubarak's totalitarian regime, against police brutality in Egypt, against corruption and a whole bunch of sweet details that are hardly speakable.
This song is also a tribute to Ayman Nour, imprisoned for being an opposition candidate and to 'Kareem
', a blogger sentenced on Friday 23rd of February 2007, to 4 years... including 1 year for criticizing President Mubarak.
Thanks to Bureau Crash.
Andra bloggar om: Kareem, video
, freedom, yttrandefrihet, Egypten, bloggkultur, Internet, frihet, mänskliga rättigheter
Love is the winner with Sarah Dawn Finer and Andreas Johnson 2007-02-25 16:08:15 The Eurovision Song Contest is held in Helsinki this year, in May. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held between
active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in
which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on
live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries'
songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition.
In Sweden this event has grown and grown - and the interest among the newspaper to cover it and from the swedes to look at in enormous.
Each country has one contestant. To decide who is going to compete for Sweden we have four different competitions from which two are going to the finale round. Yesterday the fourth of these smaller competitions was held. The two winner
were rather good, ackording to my opinion. Both has love in the title of the song, well I suppose that how it use to be: Sarah
Dawn Finer
with "I remember love" and AndreasJohnson
with "A litte bit of love".
I found
Home on the range with president Bush 2007-02-25 03:29:16 Now I have started the countdown, it is just two weeks left till I will go to Washington to Politics Online.I suppose I also will take a guiding tour to the White House.My preparation: watching this Flash animated parody of Home on the Range featuring President George W. Bush.
Andra bloggar om: Home on the range, video, flash, flashanimation, George Bush, Bush, USA, Washington, politik
Six ways to find music for free 2007-02-25 01:48:23
Thanks to del.icio.us I found these tips about how to find a lot of good music free on the Internet.
Your digital music collection is crying out for new songs. Sure you could hit up the iTunes Music Store, or rip another CD, or fire up your P2P software and pray the RIAA doesn't eat your firstborn - but the plain ol' web is an untapped goldmine of audio. If you're willing to branch out beyond the Top 40, have a gander at six of my favorite places to find tunes on the web.But, the forgot this wonderful site:PodSafe Music Network
They also forgot to mention MySpace, there a lot of musicians today publish tracks and videos.
The war is on between the huge companies and the pirates. I dont think it is possible to stop the development. The music- and filmcompanies have to accept that the world is digital.
Neil Young live from 1971 - a song I listened to with a close friend late nights in the 1970:ths. We sat up late with a glass of wine with the vinyl-LP. Today I found it on MySpace. Read more:Six ways
Discussion in Sweden: Ministerblogging 2007-02-24 23:59:02
Should a politician of higher grade blog? Thats an issue under discussion in Swedish media these days.
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden
, is blogging. He blogs both in English and in Swedish.
He was an early adopter of the Internet. He was one of the politician who first used email and had a lot of years ago a newsletter anyone could subscribe. He started blogging before he became Minister.
Since he was Minister for Foreign Affairs his former business and owning of stocks has been discussed. Expressen, one of the tabloids in Sweden has written about some what the mean rather suspicious relations between Bildt and US. I will not explain about that, it is complicated and I am not sure I can explain that correctly in English.
Bildt has choosed to comment his view in his blog.
Some journalists dont like that and mean that his blogging is disarming the journalists. Instead of meating the media in pressconferences the minister explains in the blog. Thats a comfortabl Read more:Discussion
Britney attacks car and paparazzi with an umbrella 2007-02-24 15:32:13 Britney Spears attacks
a paparrazzi-photographer with her umbrella
, we can read on the tabloids in Sweden today.
A video from this situation is spread on the net. After seen that I sort of can understand how she can get that mad.
Imagine to wherever you are, you are haunted of flashes from cameras.
Andra bloggar om: Britney Spears, YouTube, video, paraply, umbrella, mad, journalistik, foto, fotografer, paparazzi Read more:Britney
You'Tube filtes content and bites themselves 2007-02-24 13:10:20 Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces -- rampant piracy.'This is from Mercury. Of course both Google and the big record- and moviecompanies are biting themselves
, in the longer perspective.
All the videos shown in YouTube and GoogleVideo and other are spread around on blogs and other sites - that is a very fast and enormous channel for ads.And for free.
A kid who can publish a short video in his blog with his favouriteband will be a great pelar of advertisment. And for no cost at all.
The global companies in movies and music bite themselves with this way of protecting their copyright.Why YouTube is that popular is because of the power of the users. When this power is reduced and the giant companies will choose what to publish YouTube will lose its popularity. Read more:bites
You know my name (Bond-theme) and Welcome to the Black Parade 2006-11-19 18:54:32 You know my name with Chris Cornell is the number one sold singles in the category alternative in the Swedish iTunes Store now.
It is the song from the new James Bond-movie - Casino Royale. The night between Thursday and Friday the film has its release here in Sweden.
Guess who has tickets to the film on Friday?
Even if my oldest son says that Daniel Craig never can be a Bond as Pierce Brosnan, we will go the whole family.
Chris Cornell, who sings the Bond-theme is the singer from one of my absolute favouritebands, Audioslave.Chris Cornell (born July 20, 1964) is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave. He began his musical career as a drummer, before moving on to become a singer and guitarist. He is often praised as one of the best rock singers of the last 20 years. (from wikipedia)I think life has been rather interesting when a singer from a progressive band as Audioslave can give voice to the theme to a Bond-movie.
Th Read more:Welcome
, Black
, Parade
Iron Maiden - the discography 2006-11-18 21:39:09 Iron Maiden
visits Sweden right now. Yesterday they played here in Stockholm. Unfortunaly I did not have ticket to the concert.
The Swedes and Iron Maiden
do have a special relationship. I read about this in newspapers today. The concert yesterday got high points of the Swedish music-reporters.
Iron Maiden is not my favourite rockgroup at all, but I do like their latest album very much - A Matter of Life and Death.
So I would have liked to been there yesterday, at the Concert.
Anyhow, it is such gray weather here now. It is not as cold as it should be in November in Stockholm and Sweden. It is around ten degrees. And now I am talking about Celsius and not about minus-degrees.
This just too mild weather is one reason why so many here are talking about and worrying about the climate-changes.
I am worried too.
Back to the issue Iron Maiden.For me, and everyone who missed the Concert yesterday: enjoy this video with their Discography:
Andra bloggar om: Iron Maiden, rock, hårdro
I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker 2006-11-11 16:33:46 I dont care if it is a international commercial hit, I do like this song anyway.
Myself, I was not too young when it was theh right thing to be a punkrocker, but I missed it anyway, because I was concentrated on other things. I wish I could be a punkrocker now instead. But I dont know, what people would say then a lady in my age come around as a punkrocker. Anyhow, here is the lyrics to the song:
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hairIn '77 and '69 revolution was in the airI was born too late into a world that doesn't careOh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair
When the head of state didn't play guitarNot everybody drove a carWhen music really mattered and when radio was kingWhen accountants didn't have controlAnd the media couldn't buy your soulAnd computers were still scary and we didn't know everything
[Chorus]
When pop stars still remained a mythAnd ignorance could still be blissAnd when god saved the queen she turned a whiter shade of paleM Read more:Rocker
Sweden take a seat in the space and Video blogger Mike McIntee may has lied in his YouTube video 2006-11-11 16:19:53 Maybe I will change the name for this blog. Or, well, that is not maybe. I will change the name. Today I choose the namn Global Viking. Thats just a try. I have not decided yet. But Global Viking may say something about my intentions with this blog.
Anyhow:Here in Stockholm it has been grey all day. Grey heaven and rain, rain, rain...I like it. I can stay inside without bad conscience. Stay inside and visit all my favouriteblogs.
I just read that now finally it seems as Sweden
will be represented in the space:With the arrival this week of space shuttle Discovery at its launch pad, Nasa has begun the final round of preparations for a critical space station assembly mission that promises to test the mettle of the seven-member crew.The launch is set for 7 December.In the thick of a complicated series of tasks to rewire the station - hopefully without serious interruption to the resident crew aboard - will be Sweden's first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.He is a 49-year-old particle phys Read more:YouTube
The birth of a new international trade union confederation and Leopold Museum 2006-11-05 09:04:12 I know. I have not written here for a while.That is because many different reasons.
First: I dont think it is such a good idea of mixing writing about Martial art-issues in the same blog as politics in hte view of working class. And at the same time write about the life in Sweden and about rockmusic.So I have moved my Martial Art-blogging to an own blog, you find it here.
About issues of politics I am trying to find a way of creating an international blog with different contributors from grassroot-level in trade union
s or something like that.
So now I decided to now use this blog for writing about the life of a Swede in the global world of today, of how it is to continue struggling on with life in the cold northern part of Europe, or something like that.
Second reason to why I have not blogging here for a while is that I two months ago got a sore back because of to much sitting in front of the computer. It is not fully good yet, but much better anyhow.
So here I am sitting in a wo Read more:birth
, confederation
, Leopold
, Museum
The day in Japanese 2006-09-29 18:33:15 I have just published a post in the new blog, which is going to be instead of this one. Read more:Japanese
Going to Finland 2006-09-26 12:39:05 I am going to Helsinki, Finland
, in my job some days.
This time I am not going to bring my laptop with me.
So there will not be any blogging for me until Friday.
By the way, I am slowly moving to http://sodergren.com/dojo Read more:Going
I am moving 2006-09-25 16:44:38 I have just published a post in my other Martial art-blog about Bassai Dai.
I think I will move all my posting in English to that other blog.
The thing is that I and my family are planning to do a long journey to Japan next year and we want to save money in all way that is possible for make this travel reality.
This blog in Typepad cost some dollars every year.I already have space at sodergren.com and will collect all my blogs in one place.
Who said karate is not dangerous? 2006-09-21 14:56:03 Well, have good laugh.
Tonight I will walk to the Karatepractise, because I have been sitting in front of the computer and writing all day throgh.Anyhow, I it not as in this video. I hope.Have a good laugh.
Andra bloggar om: karate, video Read more:dangerous
I cry for you Sweden 2006-09-20 07:12:27 I cried for you - a wonderful song with Katie Melua.
Listen och let the feeling of sorrow for Sweden
rule.
Sweden has choosed a very right-wing government in the election Sunday 17 september.The swedes has forgotten the meaning and the power of one word: solidarity.
Andra bloggar om: Sweden, Katie Melua, rightwing
Congratulations to shodan and a hundred years old dojo 2006-09-16 10:24:12 This Photos are from a hundred year old dojo for Kendo in Tokyo.
My husband and my youngest son, 15 year, came home from their journey to Japan last week.
They went there for a two week-travel, most for practising Kendo.
My husband has an friend in Japan, Kurihara Sensei, who is a very expericenced Kendoinstructor in Japan. Well, Kendo is big there - so of course there are many good kendokas.
It was a big expericence and a huge adventure for my husband and youngest son to go there together.
One day they were invited to practise in Kobukan, which is a private Dojo. The Dojo is old and the feeling it gave to practise there is impossible to tranform to written words, my husband says.
He was so impressed of that Dojo. The floor consists of very big wooden boards. In Sweden the Kendoclubs mostly is in sporthalls with dirty rubbenfloor with traces from basketball or other ballsports.
Anyhow, in this special Dojo in Tokyo, named Kobuan, my husband and youngest son practised with Kur Read more:Congratulations
Bryan Ferry makes Dylan better 2007-02-26 17:30:48 Bryan
Ferry will soon release an album with Dylan
songs: Dylanesque.
I know Bob Dylan is an important musician who has had and still has a big influence on the world of rockmusic.But I have never been a big fan of him. Not that I dont like him at all, I can stand listening to him and some songs are better
. I think it is something with his voice that make me dislike it.
But know, a friend of mine works with musicreviews and I have listened to Dylanesque, the album with the Roxy Music-leader Bryan Ferry. And that is what I would call Dylan.
Bryan Ferry transform songs of Dylan into more genuine rock.
Read more about Bryan Ferry in Wikipedia:
Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occassional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style, who came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with Roxy Music. He is also noted for his alternative highly successful solo career.Born Read more:makes
Serious shortcomings in respect for fundamental workers' rights in several EU member states 2007-02-26 13:53:38 Yes, I think we might now about the bad circumstances for the trade unionists in some countries "far away". But also in Europe there is a disrespect
for fundamental workers' rights in several
EU member states.
A new ITUC report issued today on the European Union reveals serious shortcomings
in respect for fundamental workers' rights in several EU member states. The document published today (Internationally recognized core labour standards in the European Union) coincides with the European Union's trade policy review at the WTO on 26-28 February 2007.
From the homepage of ITUC:The ITUC report shows that while both the main ILO Conventions on trade union rights have been ratified by all member states, in particular in the new member countries violations of trade union rights take place, and labour legislation does not always conform to ILO Conventions. Shortcomings appear particularly with regard to anti-union discrimination and the right to strike.
Discrimination has also occur
Our glamorous Oscar-night 2007-02-26 11:36:08
What an Oscar
-night we had. We stayed up all night to see it and we hade prepared with tortillas and salsa and some drinks.
But the youngest son had to keep on with Coke.Anyhow: I was the only one who was wake all party through. The youngest got to sleep around 4 am and the oldest son around 5.
But around 6 when the announced Best Motion Picture of the Year I had to wake him up. That was his favourite. I talk about Departed.
I have not seen it (feel embarrased about that). But I am not always wanted beside my sons when they go to cinema these days. Thats life for a teenagermum, I suppose.
The day before the Oscar we saw two nominated films: Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen.
Little Miss Sunshine: A roadmovie about a family travelling through US with a young girl who wants to be in a beauty pageant.
I love it. Its a wonderful alternative movie.
By the way, here is the whole complete list of the winners.
Guardian covers the Oscars:Martin Scorsese was finally honoured by the Ho
Discrimination in Oscar (Oscarsgalan continues) 2007-02-26 03:51:41 What a discrimination. Cameron Diaz was on the stage and should annonce who was the winner of the Best Animated Feature Film of the Year in the Oscar
award. - And I must just remember: no animated person may come up on the stage, only real living persons are allowed to get up here, she said.
Is that not discrimination? The cars were there, pinguins from Happy Feet and the animations from Monsters.
Happy Feet got the award which made my sons happy, they did like that film very much.
- But mum, I think you got to many drinks, my sons said.
And I thought I was funny.
Andra bloggar om: oscarsgalan, happy feet, tecknat, animerat, animerad film, film, video Read more:Discrimination
Australian workes call for help to win a collective agreement 2007-02-28 16:14:13 Thales is a French-based multinational company with approximately 2.700 employees in Australia. It is operating under the new anti-union legislation recently passed in Australia, where individual contracts are favoured over collective bargaining. At certain major sites employees have been told that the company will not re-negotiate collective agreements with them. At other sites the company is seeking to weaken collective bargaining arrangements or is stalling negotiations.I read that on the homepage for Australian
Manufacturing Worker´s Union.Thales has pledged support for the United Nations' Global Compact, which includes a commitment to the "effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining". Employees are now calling on Thales internationally to stand behind this commitment and ensure that its employees in Australia are guaranteed their right to bargain collectively with their employer.Click this link and join thousands of others in the international email campaign peti
Cambodia: Another Trade Union Leader Murdered 2007-02-28 13:02:44 Another example of violations against trade unionists around the world:
Cambodia
: Another TradeUnionLeader
MurderedThe ITUC has called today on the Cambodian authorities to open a proper investigation into the murder of Hy Vuthy, 36, a leader of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of Cambodia (FTUWKC) who was shot to death on February 24. This latest murder follows a series of attacks on trade unionists in the country, which has a reputation for severe violations of trade union rights.
The FTUWKC received information that Hy Vuthy was killed shortly after successfully negotiating with a company for a one-day holiday on the occasion of the Khmer New Year.
According to reports, he was shot three times by two unidentified assailants on a motorbike as he drove home on Saturday morning.Read more in the homepage of ITUC-CSI
Andra bloggar om: Cambodja, mänskliga rättigheter, frihet, fackligt, fackförbund Read more:Union Leader
Canned Heat - On the road again 2007-02-28 12:26:09 Canned Heat, the legendary bluesrockband, is on a worldtour.In March the band is touring in Europe:MARCH 200707. Austria, Vienna, Planet Music08. Austria, Kufstein, Kulturfabrik09. Austria, Graz, Orpheum10. Austria, Linz, Posthof11. Austria, Innsbruck, Treibhaus12. Germany, Augsburg, Spectrum13. Germany, Wuppertal, LCB14. Luxembourg, Luxembourg-Ville, Sang a Clang Theater15. Belgium, Lessines, Cultural Center Rene Magritte16. France, Leffinckoucke, La Poudriere17. Germany, Aachen, Musikbunker18. Germany, Metzigen, Kulturverein Glems19. Off20. Switzerland, Pratteln, Z721. Germany, Freiburg, Jazzhaus22. Germany, Frankfurt, Sinkkasten23. Germany, Hameln, Sumpfblume24. Germany, Leer, Zollhaus25. Netherlands, Uden, De Pul
After that they go on to US and Australia.If you dont have their album you can start with The very best of Canned Heat.
Here you can enjoy their music in a flashmovie: Living The Blues.
Facts from Wikipedia:Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Ange Read more:Canned
, Canned Heat
Live forever - Magnus Carlsson - most sold right now 2007-02-28 11:36:24 Magnus Carlsson
was supposed to be one of the artists in the finale round of the Swedish trial for Eurovision Song Contest.His song - Live forever - is a very typical Eurovision Song Contest-song in the Swedish way.I think the reason why people did vote for other songs is that a lot of us are bored of the glamourish style and we want more rocksongs, even in this ESC.
In the tabloids they wrote a lot about how angry and disappointed Magnus Carlsson was that he did not go to the finale round.In tv some days after I heard some of his musiciancollegues that they had not seen him that angry. It was just the journalists who saw that, they said.
By the way, he has got some sort of revenge: Today this song is the most bought and downloaded song in the Swedish iTunes-store.
Live forever is although a good song, it was just other songs that fit better this time.Here it is:
Andra bloggar om: Live forever, Magnus Carlsson, Melodifestivalen, schlager, glamour, video, music, musik, hits, youtub Read more:Magnus
The view from my blogging space - I am a spammer 2007-02-28 00:07:18
This is the view from my window in my working room, the space there I usually sit with my laptop, surfing around the cyberworld and visiting blogs and post in my own blogs.
Now it is around Zero (Celsius 0) outside - so that is not that badly cold.
But snowy. This morning I walked to the commutertrain and it was nearly half a metre of snow. My winter-Converse-shoes have a hole in the side. It is a hole in the design, not something I made, it was there from beginning. I can surely say Converse are not created for Scandinavian countries.
I am sitting here and I am amused in one way but angry or confused in another way.
Amused of two reasons: I just found a nice site, not a blog, but good anyway which I will continue to visit regularly: The site DailyZen there I read this quote for today:Because you grasp labels and slogans,You are hindered byThose labels and slogans,Both those used inOrdinary life and thoseConsidered sacred.Thus they obstruct yourPerception of objective truth Read more:spammer
Trade Union issues in Sweden 2007-02-27 21:52:21 When I meet friends and acquaintances from US and other countries they often ask me to tell them more about Swedish politics and TradeUnion
issues. They have often heard that we have a
So well, here in some new reports and such things from the Swedish Trade Union Confederation:LO demands commission to investigate statutory unemployment insurance On February 14, the Minister of Labour announced that the Government intends to make a thorough investigation of statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system instead of submitting a premature proposal. The issue concerning statutory affiliation to the unemployment insurance system is controversial and it is a very central issue for the trade union organisations. LO says in a letter addressed to Minister of Labour, Mr. Sven Otto Littorin, that it is therefore of vital importance that this issue be thoroughly investigated and is accepted in a broad sense. New LO report: Women's wages are too low A great majority, 86 per cent, of Read more:Sweden
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