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Scam the rich and get 150 years in jail

June 30th, 2009 Comments off

How ironic is that, the moment after I finished my last post, I read an article on BBC that Bernard Madoff gets 150 years in jail. Follow me and explore the analogies between Madoff and 15th century Hungarian mercenary Dózsa.

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely – has anything really changed since the middle ages?

June 29th, 2009 Comments off

Exploring aspects of people in power in the middle ages and in recent events.

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Tutorial on adding adverts to WordPress without plugins – Part 2

June 25th, 2009 Comments off

Following the last tutorial here is part two on how to embed adverts into your WordPress template code. This time I focus on where to put in the advert code on the page showing a single blog-posts.

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.htaccess konflikt mellan WordPress och AWStats

June 25th, 2009 2 comments

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Lösning på problemet att administratören för en WordPress sajt med AWStats installerat inte kommer åt att kolla statistiken utan får en 404 error. Problemet beror på att en .htaccess fil som WordPress skapar när man skapar SEO-firendly URL länkar blockerar åtkomst till AWStats installationen.

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Sverige klantar ifrån sig IT frågorna – igen

June 24th, 2009 Comments off

Att historien upprepar sig är inget nytt. Att den upprepar sig inom den IT-politiska sfären är väl ingen nytt heller men dock väldigt synd. Som bekant är Sverige ett ledande land inom IT utvecklingen inte bara inom den privata sfären och näringslivet utan även inom det offentliga. Man kanske tycker att det senare är en överdrift, men överlag anser jag ändå att den svenska byråkratin är ingenting jämfört med vad man hittar i andra EU länder och i synnerhet inte inom e-förvaltningen. I vilket fall som helst visar det sig nu att dem (inklusive mig) som för ett år sen drog slutsatsen att regeringen stängde ner Verva och skapade en e-delegation för att se till att Sveriges handlingsplan för e-förvaltningen skulle bli på topp så att vi skulle kunna exportera den till resten av EU hade väldigt väldigt fel.

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Counting our blessings – the trick to happy thoughts

June 23rd, 2009 Comments off

Ask any person about their problems and you will hear a long list of challenges and things that are bothering them at the moment. Ask them for their life?s story and you will hear all the difficulties they had to face. But why is that? Why do we always focus on all the bad things that have happened to us? Why do we define ourselves as a collection of tragedies?

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Tutorial on adding adverts to WordPress without plugins – Part 1

June 21st, 2009 2 comments

There are quite a few plugins available for WordPress that allow admins to display adverts on their WordPress site but most of them are quite difficult to understand how to use and rather limited in where they allow you to place adverts. Luckily, with the built in theme editor in WordPress you can easily add the code for an advert inside the template yourself without any plugins. Here is a tutorial on how to do that. The first part of the tutorial will only deal with how to add adverts to the first/index page of your blog. (NOTE – this is not for people having their blog on wordpress.com but for those who run their blog from their own domain or a web host.)

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Keeping greed in a box

June 19th, 2009 Comments off

The global economy is now a great source of power, and with power comes responsibility. The solution to the financial crisis lies thus in the same division of power that we have in politics.

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Greed in the black box

June 18th, 2009 Comments off

Why the ”black box” way of economist to look at the world is completely unrealistic.

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Star Trek the future to be – the contemporary mirror of Western existentialism

June 17th, 2009 Comments off

What does Karen Armstrong’s book “The Battle for God” have in common with Star Trek?

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