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But my dad's band recorded a song with a cameraphone, listen to it, it's Watermelon man, all you swing people know it. My dad asked me to convert to mp3, but said I should not give it to anyone. He doesn't read the forums though.

here: http://rapidshare.com/files/27884293/18042007_watermelon.mp3.html

Tell me whatyou think, I'll never let him know. The guitarist there is my teacher, he's great, my dad plays the drums.

You know, for the past few weeks, instead of drinking beer, I've been eating like 5 small citrus fruits a night. And today at the shop I started wondering. They're all Spanish, but why is the shelf full of satsumas, then the next day it's clementines and the next, it's mandarines.

Now I can tell an orange from a grapefruit and a citron from a kumquat, but who can really trell the difference between a satsuma, a clementine and a mandarine? See here, we've got pictures a, b and c.

abc

Can you tell which one is which? And no point checking the urls, I changed them to fool you.

Then we've got tangerines, tangors and tangelos :S

I think the clementines were more sour than the satsumas though, and they had a thinner peel. But that might be just an individual. Or a sour one because it's still a bit raw. argh, these are getting me all mixed up!

They're good though...

http://www.europe.bizrok.com/

It gives you 5 minutes to write all 49 countries! So test your geography skills now, and let us kow how it went. I myself could just not remember what Österreich was in English, (only german ), Austria that is... oops, that's a clue to you, oh well, don't make the same mistake I did.

Hi. I later tried to solve what most probably was a firewall issue, blocking p2p software from entering internet. I have a, what do you call it, shared modem with all the student flats here, and I think the problem was the central modem, so I gave up on that. But from yesterday on I've had a new problem which I want to be sure of if it's again a firewall problem.

See, yesterday I tried to log into MSN, and it gave me 2 errors, 80048820 and 80048439. I've done quite a lot of research on them, but couldn't fix it. The other thing is, that Opera doesn't work either. I open it, and nothing happens, it seems as if it's not getting through. Now I have ZoneAlarm, the updated version myself (probably unnecessary with the central firewall, but still) and I've made sure that it allows both Opera and MSN through, so it's not my software that's blocking them.

I was wondering if they have blocked more common ports perhaps, and I thought I'd try this. Is there a way of choosing which port Opera uses? Or does it do that itself, find an open one? I'm currently using Firefox, but I can't really handle it with this. For some reason whe loading certain pages, Firefox gives an error with the quicktime plugin, and shuts down, so basically I can only surf half the pages. IE is long gone, disappeared from my computer.

I've never really played anything, so basically the thing I use my computer for is now not working, and the whole machine has become more or less useless to me, all I can really do is listen to music and irc. Which reminds me, mirc does still work, so that's why I thought it might be a port issue, if it would use a different one. Dunno though, I just updated Opera, didn't help either. I was wondering if you had any suggestions on how to get them working, or how to get Firefox working because I'm not sure. Thanks.

So picture this:

   We were off to the club for some big party, but before that we were supposed to meet some friends at a coffeeplace. Now for some reason i took my skates, with wooden blades, because they go better on snow, and I wanted to be there fast, and show them off at people. I was first there actually, but the whole place was almost empty, I mean some of the customers, my old friends Miikka and Pyry were playing poker, and some guys I didn't know were watching football from the screen, or actually it was a small tv hanging from the corner. Anyway we sat with them, there were 6 of us as usual.

   So some girls arrived at the coffeeshop, but the owner just slammed the door against their face. I thought it was an accident because he didn't really look what he did and I told them to come on in. But then the coffeeshop keeper told me that they can't come, because the place is closed at 5 pm. And it was 8 already. Just makes me wonder how I got in.

   So the coffeeplace was a the harbour of our city. There were lost of lights hung everywhere because it was some huge festival going on here, something wintery, I don't remember. So the place was really full of happy people, when the footballgame ended, (dunno which teams thought) and we marched outside. We were supposed to meet some female friends of us outside, and they were there in the line to a ticket booth. You see, there was a theatre play or something like it as part of the celebration.

   I realised I was wearing the skates still, and told my friend angrily that he should have told me not to take them, because they looked silly when everyone else had shoes, and then later on dancefloor I'd probably cut people's toes off, and I really wanted to dance. So I decided as the line was long enough, that I'd run home and change.

   I went down to the subway/metro/tube, (what'sit?) and noticed it was all empty, everyone were at the centre. So I sat for a while waiting for the metro, and only heard wind coming through the tunnel. Now here's the funny part, I saw leaves flying from the tunnel, though there shouldn't be, and I saw a couple walking to the stairs on the other side. Then I realised there was a white-ish hat with brims and a cut cleavage of somekind. basically the brim was wide on the other side and quite thin on the other. From where I looked, it was cut from the left side, if the wide part is in front. I thought it belonged to the couple, but they had disapperaed, so I walked on the dock for a while. I then realised a bum sitting behind a pillar, trying to keep warm. He was a strange looking thing there in the corner, all dressed up in everything he could find. And he looked exactly like Morgan Freeman.

   I asked him if it was his hat and tried to give it to him. But he said it was mine, that he had made it for me. I was so puzzled, I asked him why me, and how did he know that I was there at that time. He just answered that how did I know how to come there when the hat was there and no other people. Then he said I should wear the hat the whole night because it brought fortune to who ever owns it. The very minute he told me that I was sure it was from some movie, that he was just kidding around. But as I recalled it, in the movie the guy never took the bum seriously, and never really wore the hat. I checked out the hat again. It was sewn to look like tweed or something. The bum asked me if I didn't like it. but as I answered, I actually did. I told him I'd wear it tonight, because I had a white jacket and a white shirt and a black tie it would fit with.

   Only then the metro came, after what must have been 20 minutes, and I entered it, trying to figure out how to wear the hat correctly. There were some random people in the car I sat in, a single mom with a kid in a trolley, an old man and his wife probably, and then some youth, probably out on the same business as I was. I finally found a comfortable position to wear the hat in and noticed that everyone was staring at me.  I assumed it was the hat, but I wanted to wear the hat unlike the guy in the movie.

   So later I changed my clothes and returned. I couldn't find matching trousers, but jeans are always good. My friends were just walking towards the theatre. They told me they bought me a ticket too, but the act was going to start in any second so we had to hurry. Then they saw my hat, and most of them started to laugh, some of them said it was horrible, and someone took it off me and threw it away. So I picked it up again, and put it o me, a bit crooked. Then I stood there waiting for the rest and one of the girls, who then seemed to have a solid base in my thoughts that night slapped my bottocks with her hand, laughing a bit, and that's not at all like her. Then my friend Ville did the same thing and I asked what's the joke? Didn't get an answer though.

   So they had bought all these tickets in one red/blue card. Or it had like 4-5 detachable slices, and each had 3 tickets. This was because the place was very full and we had to sit in different rows. I was on row 10 with 2 of my friends. The friend who just had slapped me found out that his seat was taken, but he found a seat in the front row, and sat there alone. We felt pity for him, though it did amuse us at the same time. You know, how they always sell too much seats from the train because most times a certain amount of people don't come. So statistically if they sell 10 seats too much they'll make more money and have no problem. Well they did that here too, which doesn't really mean sense, i mean, if people come to the ticket booth to buy tickets a minute before the show, they're surely coming.

   So before the projected on a screen a new sitting order, which meant we, as in me and my friends had to move completely to the other side. no problem, our friend even got the same place with me. But there was a handicapped person on my new seat, and all the others were taken. And I noticed her place would have been unreachable, so some of us gave up and we went outside.

   It was a bit dark by then, and we were waiting for the show to end and pondering werther to go to the club now or later. I don't really know what happened, but we stood there for at least an hour, and at some point the girl I mentioned ended up kissing me, and not just on the cheek. I felt all fuzzy after that, I mean really, like high on something. And then I saw Morgan Freeman smiling at me. I thought I was drunk, but I hadn't taken anything. but it occured to me, if there was a movie, and I think there was, the way I remembered it, the guy in it after finding out what it could do, like makes dreams true of wishes or something, well he tried to take advance of it. He got a lot of money and all, and he got lots of busty girls around him and a huge car and stuff like that. But the thing is, he never got happy. And I realised he never did because that was not the point of the hat.

   Those were really not his dreams, he never dreamt of houses and money and cars and stuff. And I thought I'd keep my hat on for the rest of the night, just for the sake of it. And we went to the club, and danced together, and you know, everytime I saw one of my friends smiling, I sort of knew it was because of a wish I had developed in my head while wearing the had. And every other time there was Morgan Freeman smiling too. After the night, it was way past little childrens bedtime, we decided to go home. It had been the best night for me at least. And then I though, bloody hell, have I been in that very same movie just now. I mean, you don't meet Morgan Freeman every day, and it was exactly like in that movie.

Though I don't even know if there's a movie like that, but you know what, you get the best dreams when you're in VERY high fever and dehydrated like I've been the last few days. Just passing out here and there. Now I'm going back to bed, because all this typing did no good for my hellish headache!

So this one's new. Making it was an experience. this friend of mine was complaining on msn that she was bored. So i told her to write a poem and then I'd compose something over it. So she did. The poem turned out to be really good, here it is:

Ruumiisi kylmä ja eloton.
Lumihiutaleet ripsiisi sulaneet.
Elämä julma kai on,
rakkauden sanat eivät viimeisiksi jääneet.

Vei talvi kylmä sinut mennessään,
ja sammui tuli silmiesi.
Vain ruusu kaunis kylmissään,
viimeisen reittisi yksin tiesi.

Viho viimeinen hymysi,
se kauan kirkkaana mielessäni leimusi.
Kosketuksesi, ihollani niin kevyt,
oli silloin maailmani vielä täysin ehyt.

Jos vain edes kerran tieni luoksesi johtaisi,
missä kylmä, kaunis tähtesi hohtaisi.
Syliisi vaipua tahtoisin.
Eikö rakkauteni riittänyt, kysyisin.

Yeah, pure Finnish, but it'll help you with the lyrics. See, I recorded this with my nylon acoustic guitar this time. What I did was taking the headset with the microphone, Placed the mic inside the hole on the guitar just under the strings, and then I taped it so that it wouldn't bounce or go off. Then I plugged in the mic, and started playing. Once through, and then a solo. well, the mic had a problem with the small solo, it broke some of the sounds. So with 2 tracks, one recording each, here it is.

I made my brother sing for it because obviously I can't as heard in my earlier thread http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=30068.0, and he went for a kind of (if you know) Pekka Streng/Petri Petterson, as in the Finnish 60's-70's accent clear singing, which I very much like, so kindly Peder hosted the song for me, and here you go, tell me what you think. I know it's a bit slow, I nowadays play it quicer, so it annoys me, but it doesn't annoy you I hope...

Music/composition/guitar: Tuomas Renvall
Lyrics: Elina Kolehmainen
Singing: Lauri Renvall

http://www.sonsofgaia.net/AGS/valmis.mp3

For the time has come to start preparing yourselves for the great tournee. Yes indeed, once I finally get out of the army, I'm going to gather a mob and go around Europe bicycling all the way! And We're going to make this official. And once it gets official, that means we'll need more people from everywhere, so how about a mittens on wheels, starting from Finland on early 2008!

So show interest, be in touch, and sooner than you realise, we'll head off the whole lot of us. That includes you too . The wonder event of 2008, it's not like you have anything better to do.

Note that until I have more secure attendants, I won't be making it public, but I do have potential sponsors already! And remember, it's amateur, so no competition, and only the route is certain, so no need to keep up or wait for others! YAY I'm so excited!

Or just... would that not be awesome? I mean, bicycling IS cheaper than trains and cars and such...

Dear sirs X & Y

My representative asked me to contact you personally first, as to what it comes to my salary. I have been forced to take legal advice after still not getting what belongs to me, so currently there is a lawyer from my union cooperating with a lawyer from the European Union that represents my own party, and my member of the parliament, currently starting a research in Spain. This is because I still after over 6 months haven't recieved my transfer from my bank account, and therefore lack up to 500 euros. My lawyers are currently investigating the bank and my working conditions under which I worked for you, so I'll let you know, that should someone contact you any day within the following month, you'll be aware of the situation.

And looking forwards my representative asked me to appeal to you, that you would check again, if it is possible that there has been a simple mistake. There's still no contact with the bank, they refuse to answer, and that is why he found it better I ask you since it was you who were dealing with the bank earlier, last time just before christmas, but after that I didn't hear from you. We were hoping to save time and resources by making a plea for you to check once again and then letting us know about it. Otherwise we'll have to search the account details, if it's still available, and the transfer details, because there is also a possibility that the bank has transfered the money to a false account, which would make them responsible. This we would find out, but it'd take time and money as I said, and as you were the ones that opened the account, you would have easy access to it. I would really appreciate this, as an employée and as an individual.

yours

TR(me)

There's been some dealing with them in the past, which all ended up in empty promises, and huge costs for me. Say 11 hour working days, almost half the wage, no proof of working except for the contract etc etc, now I'm trying to get my money back. You reckon this would be taken seriously. I know neither of them are native english speakers, nor am I, neither of them are very clever either. I just put a complaint of them in the working ministery of Finland so that they wouldn't get new employées from here, but I think it was in vain, the bitches. All I want is my money.

Hi again

I bought a set of bongo drums. The point is to use them to create music for my game-to-be. Now I was wondering if anyone had ever recorded this before at home. You see, I do have a mic-headset, which I use for the flute, but it's not ideal either, and by no chance with bongos. I mean,Ã,  I considered getting one drum mic, that is if they sell them one at a time, but is it really worth it? I'm still going to record straight to my computer through the mic hole and with Audacity because I don't know better. I do though have the feeling, that the headset-mic won't take in the bongos.

Now I know there's people here who've done recordings more or less. I also want to record my flute, but don't want the microphone to cost more than the flute did . Which leads me to the next question. Should you know one and be able to help me, what would the cost be. If it will go to spending lots of money just to make a small difference, then I'll rather just use midi, which I really really hate (can't emphasize enough).

Thanks for ideas in advance.

Go easy on me, please. So I tried recording voice this time with my mic. Before that I made a track with my guitar, so basically it's a guitar-singer-song, since it's lacking the flute I was planning. It's quite long also, but bear with me

http://upload2.net/page/download/t2xlahPOE6OR1c3/sailor.mp3.html
http://www.sonsofgaia.net/AGS/sailor.mp3 (Thanking Peder for the second link, a better one)

Not rapidshare this time, and it's 18kb/s... I'm not really fond of my singing, but I think I did well enough for you to catch a melody and the words. It's a bitch singing home alone, it's completely different when you have an audience. nevertheless, I thought I'd provide lyrics too, so here they are:

AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  G
We sailed in the night to the harbour.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  GÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Em
It's us, the raiders of the sea, did you miss us.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  G
We set sail months ago.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, G
travelled lengths beyond imagination.

CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Am
It's so good to be home again,
FÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, G7
the echo on the streets it fills my ears
CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Am
the scent of the trees, and plants
FÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  G
and the waiting dinner at home again.
Bm7Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, F#7Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Em
Oh I've been so lonely, dark nights on the open water
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  GÃ,  Ã, AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  G
nothing to dream of, no-one to meet.

Yet soon again we're off.
Hard bound sailors, we can't live without the sea.
Soon we'll ride to adventures
And only then can we be free.

The soul of a sailor is a peculiar thing.
You try to understand your man, but you never will.
They sail from harbour to harbour.
Some for their love, some for money.

chorus 2x

Rest your eyes on this, a glorious sight.
We set sail again, in peace, during the night.
I wave my hand, women on the dock yell to their men.
But you can't hold a free heart.

The soul of a sailor is a peculiar thing.
You try to understand your man, but you never will.
They sail from harbour to harbour.
Some for their love, some for money

chorus x2 I think.

Because someone said it'd be cool to know how to draw manga, and I thought, why not, checked up some tutorials, released the beast within me and drew this a while ago:



I just loved drawing the hair. All curvy and big! Yeah, she needs a shower and a beating. (some cleaning on the rough edges)... and a longer tie perhaps  : but tell me, have I got the hang of it or should I give up and consetrate on watching hentai movies

Hi. I thought, why not post this here too. It's a song I made hmm, it's ready now, so 2 AM... inspired by Annie and Babar who were wondering what Matlab ki Duniya would be in English. So they ended up with A Mercenary World:

<Annie> perhaps mercenary but that implies money
<scotch> mercenary seems fine to me
<Babar> "a mercenary world" sounds funky
<Tuomas> I'll make a song of that!
<Tuomas> give us a key, please

And the key was C major. I know, it strays to F in the b-section, and sounds a bit horrible, but hey. This was after all composed and recorded in 20 minutes or so, and it was the first real recording I managed to do with this machine. So if there's wrong notes, crappy chords anything, feel free to tell me. I'll most likely spot them in the morning anyway, but for your joy, I present, A Mercenary World by Tuomas Renvall. (Please don't steal this from me )

http://rapidshare.com/files/13865969/a_mercenary_world.mp3.html

yeah, and feel free to recommend a place to upload better than rapidshare. Afaik, it works for me always.

Hi. I know there are some of you here who use blogger more or less, people who have blogs there. I was just wondering, does this thing ever work?

I mean, since I've had a blog, that is almost a year now, it refuses to publish posts, it tells me there's a comment to be moderated, but doesn't show. Now I logged in this once, and it always popped out that there's a new google blogger which is completely the same apparently, but I took it because I hated the ads that made the page even more lagging.

Now it asks if I want to sign in with my blogger account or my google account. When I try blogger account, the old one, it says I can only use the new account. Then it asks for the new username, and I type it in, and the password, and it gives an error. Then I type the old one again and it logs me into the new.

Although now I tried to log in, and pressing the log in button made it go to the start page, or the index page. I tried it again, and again it reloads the page. I tried once again, and it started repeatedly reloading the page. So I closed it. It does this reloading the page thing quite often.

Then about the posts. I write a post, let's say I wanted an image in my post. see, my sister has a blog, and she has no idea, she just uploads and everything is visible. I upload and nothing happens, it just says the image is uploaded. So I tried editing the text html fromt he edit html. for that it gives a huge error, and no, my tags are right, I've checked with loads of people. And another thing. I try to insert a link. I do the basic html tags for a link, but as for that, it just leaves a blank. And if not that, it just ignores linebreaks sometimes and continues the sentence on on the same line and if I press enter it leaves a whole line clear there between cutting the sentence.

So what the hell is wrong with this shit? Is it really this crap or is it just with mine because I don't hear people complaining. But still, I recommend this shit to no-one!!! and never!

Yeah, I moved in here early december. They guy or girl downstairs plays piano. Ok, no problem with that, the couple of first days I thought it was relaxin in a way, listening to the songs. but after some time I realised he(I'll assume it's a man) keeps playing the same tunes over and over again. So I asked my roommates about it, and they said, yeah, the same tunes have been on for 6 months now. And what strikes me most, the guy sucks, really. I mean, here's the thing. He can play this song where the low pattern and the melody take turns until a certain point, and then he loses it, and starts over. So for fun, I listened to him, learned to play the beginning with my guitar, and sometimes play it really loud when he's playing too, at the same time anyway, I recorded the beginning of it, before he loses it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/12436782/annoyingtune.mp3.html

I was wondering if anyone could recognise this song. Because I think the tune is quite catchy, even though I've never heard the full score.

I'll let him play, why not, he has the right to do it. I often play my guitar here. the guy upstairs plays trumpet, and he's good, my roommate plays europop very loud so all I can hear is this song and boom boom boom every now and then. But it really annoys me, I'd really love to know the name of this tune. thanks.

Ok, this is a biggie, and I was wondering if anyone here could give me new ideas.

Some of you remember, I was in Spain, well Ibiza working at this German hotel for a month and a half, quit for some er... misunderstandings and left. This was during mittens. Anyway, my wage was 700e/month + accomodation and food, not a bad deal if you don't mind eating bad food and Romanians listening to house next door and a broken toilet. Still, I got pissed in my eye. I let them know I wanted to leave because of my employee, and they gave me 350 euros to cover my wage after they took off 2 weeks of practise and 2 weeks of who knows what. Then I left. I assume they covered some of my travel expenses, at least they said so.

The problem is, this is all on my account at Banco Santander central hispano or something. hear this. A month after I got home I got a letter stating I had 330 e on my account. So I contacted my employee and he said he'd take care of the transfer and the rest of the money. Later on he called from the bank, told me he had transferred all the money, the 330 and the expenses to my account in Finland. this was in September I think.

After that I've sent the bank e-mails, in English and in Spanish, none have been answered. I have sent my employee e-mails, they said they'd take care of it just before christmas. I thought they would, but haven't heard anything. earlier I contacted the Finnish consulat and the embassy in vain. All they said was it's between me and my bank. I asked my Finnish bank, and they said they can't do more than what I did. I think they should.

What most annoys me is, that even though money transfer should be easy now that I have all IBANs and SWIFTs and EU and all, but I see my only solution right now as travelling to Spain to ask the man at the counter. But then, I did that in Ibiza, and the guy didn't speak any English, imagine, in a place full of English people. Ok, so a 500 euros isn't that much, but for a student without a job it is. I could for example pay for the expenses of the trip back to my dad. But I'm hopeless. I even got someone to translate my e-mails to Spain since my English mails weren't answered.

So I was wondering if someone had any ideas at all how to get my belongings back without having to travel abroad, that's another 250 again, and then getting back the money would be kind of useless. If anyone has experience in banking policies or knows of such situations, or is willing to help me at all, well, I couldn't think of any other place after nearly 6 months. The bank doesn't even send me information related to my account.

So yeah, here's the thing. For starters, I was more than able to do this, but after a while, say, a week, I can't find myself cabable of proceeding with such manners anymore. You see, I have a 100Mb connection, divided betwwen the whole building, a couple of flats that is. Now, I used to downlad stuff with P2P style for 900kB/s or more. Then suddenly it all ended like a life for a misguided hedgehog travelling over the motorway.

Basically one would think it's the firewall or so that the host has set, but as it is, I used to be able to download ILLEGAL stuff for an unbelieveable speed and it got me all turned on. Think of all the porn and stuff. Anyway, nowadays it just says connection timeout. I can't even dcc stuff to people while I can recieve stuff thusly nevertheless. I was wondering if anyone knew the reason for this and was willing to be a partner in crime, because damn, it's getting expensive to buy all the stuff I used to just, you know, steal. It's like going to the shop and actually pay for the grapefruits you're taking away with you, which is just silly. Now I know that I don't have a router, or at least, someone said I would know if I had one, so I know it's not that. My guess is, that there's a firewall blocking my pleasures, but I can't really get it into my head as it was before that I was able to download in such satanistic speeds.

Yes.

EDIT: yeah, the point ws to ask you're advice on this, because I really feel like fighting the power right now... there

I was supposed to start this on 1st december, but because I was moving out that day and only got my internet working today, and no-one else did so here it is.

As usual, in year 2006 some of us celebrate christmas. But how do you do it? Like me who has great time and only good experiences, or like someone I know who thinks christmas is boring and travels out of the country every time?

My christmas goes basically like this: I go home, to the country, where we have a big house. Usually there's a lot of snow, none this year, it's the first time when I've been alive. Anyway, we burn wood in the fireplaces to keep the house warm. We go get a christmas tree from the woods, and no, it's not stealing because we own the land. then we let the kids decorate it. Kids being my brother and sister, 7 and 5 currently. They're funny when they're waiting for father christmas. Usually we eat in the afternoon before the big guy comes. Ok, this is christmas eve, so that you won't get confused. A 11 kilos ham, and all these traditional finnish foods, made of liver, carrots, turnip, etc, in the oven. And stuff.

Then we have some wine and get bored waiting for the paid FC. When he comes my brother and sister are scared of him, and he gives out shitloads of presents, usually, well for them, not for us, we're pretty much grown up nowadays, so the point is not to have as much as possible, but maybe something small and useful. This year will be different in a way since my big sister is in Hungary with her boyfriend, so it'll be just us 6 there.

Now let it flow. I could have done better, but I'll change it later if I must.

And not to discriminate, we have people here who don't celebrate christmas, tell us about what you do this year instead, or how do you feel about christmas, I'd sure like to hear.

Hi, I thought someone here could perhaps help me a bit. I've been listening to quite a lot of pop lately, and got frankly pretty bored of it. So I thought I need some serious ramming and tried some of my heavy rock albums and notived the volume is really low.

So I'm using my headset/microphone thingie, you know, that you can easily skype with. And, hmm, I tried some other stuff too, like Jefferson Airplane and Emiliana Torrini, and it's all very quiet. Well, I thought the problem was winamp, and checked it, volume was as loud as possible. Then I thought, well perhaps it's the computer settings. So I opened the sound settings and everything is on ful volume. But I still can't hear nothing, and I'd really need some hard ramming in my brains after a month of quiet cheesy pop.

I checked that my headphones were connected correctly and the plug was all the way in. Could it be that my soundcard is somehow messed up, or is it just that I don't notice how loud the music is. I thought it could be because most of the noise doesn't stay in my headphones, they're so loose, but I tried pushing them at my ears, did nothing. I just want to ram my brain out sometimes, is that too much to ask :'(

EDIT: That and I tried setting the preamp higher on winamp and it breaks the noise without making it louder.

Are you going? Because I am. I was going to write the schedule here but then heard they're starting from Helsinki - Finland and got excited. I'm so there.

Watch the press conference video here http://www.genesis-music.com/ . It's a 37 minute video.

We all know Genesis, just watch the beginning of the video. Ok, so the reunion will not be featuring Peter Gabriel (due to lack of time) nor Steve Hackett, just the 3 of them, the later pop era. But for me it's still a chance to see one of my favourite bands and 3 of my favourite artist live here in Finland with a bunch of old people. No new material, but they will be performing songs from the Gabriel are too. Hmm, yeah, they're also doing US shows later, not next year though. The first show, in Finland will be in June, just before the army for me 

God, first Jethro Tull, now Genesis. All I need is The Flower Kings and King Crimson and perhaps Rush now that they're making an album too \o/

Meh, the tickets are not for sale yet

Hi, my dad bought this new mobile phone, well, not exactly new, but new for him. Anyway, there is a possibility in connecting it with Linux (he has Suse, the new version) and getting the files fromt here to it and vice versa. Hmm, so he appointed me to find out since I have nothing better to do, so I thought well, maybe someon here knows something about Ericsson phones or Linux in general, of about connecting phones to Linux or whatever information will be useful. While at it, I'll go on googling. Oh, I'll paste a pic of the phone.

Yeah, it's crap, but the only on google gave me. Thanks for your help in advance.