As of this weekend, this blog now sports a brand new design as well as the WordPress software! After a week of careful planning and researching themes and plug-ins, I decided to make the switch from my good old ExpressionEngine suite to the popular WordPress blogging platform. As I’ve already used WordPress for another blog of mine, Thy Old XBOX, I am very familiar with the workings of WordPress....

The clock ticks at 5:59, 6:00 and then reaches 6:01AM. What a thrill! The adrenaline pumping, the eyes flickering, the fingers rapidly pressing the keyboard trying to get that special username… After trying /douglas and actually getting a message that the name was available – miliseconds later chaning status to taken – I finally rested my mind on /dstridsberg. Not too bad, but perhaps...

Definition The study of organic chemistry is the study of the chemistry of carbon compounds. Not all carbon compounds are counted as organic, the rule excludes carbonates (x-CO₃), carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO₂). Hydrocarbons contain hydrogen (H) and carbon only. They are divided into groups such as alkanes, alkynes, alkenes and alcohols, and are homologous series. Homologous...

I’ve wanted to let you know about what I’m doing for a long time, but I just haven’t come around to doing it. Currently I am developing the new design for the site which really will include everything you’d ever dream of. I will introduce every kind of link rel=”" available to suit as many browsers and engines as possible. I will launch a mobile version of the site with...

The Beerhall Putsch of 1923, Hitler’s first attempt to take power, had failed, and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. While in prison he wrote “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) which was to become the Bible of the Nazi movement. It is symptomatic that Hitler had been allowed to make a grand speed at the trial. This shows the sympathetic attitude of the court system towards his ideas....

After a wonderful week, both regarding the weather and the happenings, in Zermatt I am finally back home. Zermatt is a well-known skiing area in the southern parts of Switzerland, just close to the Italian border. The ski-system consists of 313km snow-covered pistes including a snow-park, a beginners area and pistes on a glacier (the Theodul Glacier). Amongst other things I brought my camera, a Kodak...

The Weimar Republic was the constitutional system, the state, that ruled Germany between 1919 and 1933. Because of the insecurity in Berlin after the war where both left- and right-wing extremists tried to take power, the new democratic government was set up in Weimar, judged to be a safe place. As Germany had been forced to disarm her huge army, the country was now filled with unemployed ex-soldiers,...

“iykwim”. “iykwim”. “iykwim”. My bet is that none of those abbreviations (ha ha, they’re all the same) mean anything at all to you. At most it might look like a cryptographic sequence of letters that allegedly mean something cool. Want to know what it means? It’s a lot simpler than you thought, it simply means “if you know what I mean“. I...

The past day or so I have been actively browsing my favorite music-apparel shops in search for a dist- and overdrive-pedal for my guitar. I currently own a Peavey BANDIT 112 amp at 80W, a wonderful amp with a lot of customization and an unbeatable sound quality. But, but, but… It lacks the kind of distortion I am looking for… The roaring kind of dist, lifting the whole room when you strike...

“The tourist takes his culture with him, the traveller leaves his behind.” The quote above, taken from a paper lying in front of me, describes the relationship between tourists and travellers. It describes the impact they cause on the country they visit as well as their general attitude towards another country, culture or other people. What exactly does it mean, though? I believe it means...