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Piratpartiet / The Swedish Piracy party gets over 7% of Swedish votes

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: June 8, 2009
The Swedish Piracy Party recieved over seven percent of the Swedish votes, SEVEN percent. Now to a funny quote from an established politician in Sweden: ”Men samtidigt är det ett fattigdomsbevis ur demokratiskt synpunkt att ett parti som har en agenda som inrymmer en promille av det politiska spektrat kan få en sån valframgång”, sade [...]
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Summer Office

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: June 2, 2009
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Knappnytt rapporterar om TPB domen

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: April 25, 2009
Känns som knappnytt börjat hitta sitta nya format, senast om piratebay domen nedan: Ingen har väll missat SRs nyhet om domarens kopplingar till SFU heller, riktigt festlig historia det här … nästan så man tror det är regisserat … storyn har ju allt som en fiktiv film/bok ska ha.
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New Server Istheshit

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: April 2, 2009
Since our beta site of istheshit needs a new home when it goes live, the Bytelove traffic is increasing and due to the fact that our current managed server solution seems to be managed by kids (who gave us like 3 days downtime the last 3 months of which 1.5 was purely due to their [...]
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Development

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: March 18, 2009
  via: Wolst
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Office Update

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: March 1, 2009
So I just got my camera back (after like 6 months grrr) and have nothing better todo while the packing continous during Sunday but to take some pics of the office. Workplace Still a bit of ice on the pond outside Took over a week for the Germans to realize they could skate on the [...]
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Marx Prophecy

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: February 24, 2009
Karl Marx is showing up around the net with this quote from Das Kapital: “Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of [...]
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German cultural assimilation 5% complete

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: December 22, 2008
picture from LittleNelly Nicely made goose with knödel (weird potatomix that is quite delicious when properly made) and red cabbage (usually I go for the duck but for christmas the goose is the thing here). Gänsekeule (above) is a very traditional German christmas meal. Other interesting stuff appearing quite a lot during christmas is the [...]
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God save the borrowing Swedish middle class

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: December 17, 2008
Funny thing in Sweden, the largest voting group on both the right and the left side is house owners and apartment owners ranging from lower middle class to upper in terms of income. End result in these times of crisis, chocking decrease of the repo rate for the swedish krona keeping the current house and [...]
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Le geek est chic according to 9irl5.com

By Mikael Palmstedt | Published: December 1, 2008
The french girl geek blog 9irl5.com has decided what is the best way for geeks to dress with style. Apparently these girls seems to know what they are talking about since Linus new Space Invaders Attack shirt is on the list . The selected stuff is shown below, or just read the whole 9irl5 post [...]
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