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Working with Microsoft products is more or less a constant pain. A personal favorite among stupid things is the fact that if you have two Excel documents (in different folders, obviously) with the same filename, you can’t open them at the same time.

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What was that all about? Well, it was about the recent security hole in php, php2shell that had me take down this website. That post was me celebrating it being back online.

There have probably been a few minutes of downtime here and there over the years but other than that, this site has been up continuously since 2009. The server that runs it has been in dire need of some updating for way too long but I have kept procrastinating on that. Now, fortunately, I had started an upgrade process a week of so before php2shell was publicized but I had shelved the project again. As the shit hit the fan, I took down the web server component of the server so it’s been offline since maybe Thursday (it’s not Sunday.) Today I got a bit of free time and with ample help from Claude, I managed to get it patched, fixed and back online.

This has been a case where I’ve really benefited from AI assistance. I am capable of setting up a server by myself (as long as I’m allowed to make heavy use of StackOverflow), but it’s not something that I can do fast. Had I not been able to have Claude holding my hand this project would have taken the better part of a week, rather than a few hours.

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Hello boys, I'm back!
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posted this note on and tagged it with Movies Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Movie poster from Resident Evil: ApocalypseWell, I decided to watch ”Resident Evil: Apocalypse” and I don’t know what I expected but I honestly think this one was even worse than the first one. I said about the first one that the editing and the flow from scene to scene is so poor as to make it almost incomprehensible. This one is better in that respect but that makes it less car-crash fascinating.

And I am surprised by how bad the sound mixing is. Not in the way some people complain about a Christopher Nolan movie and the lack of speech intelligibility in those. This is more a lack of punch in everything. There’s this scene fairly early in ”Apocalypse” where Alice takes out some monsters with a motorbike. It’s clearly her first big hero scene in the movie. Parts of it looks cool but it sounds more like a wet fart than as a bad-ass action scene. Such a missed opportunity.

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Movie Poster for Resident Evil (2002) Yesterday I watched Paul W.S. Anderson’s ”Resident Evil (2002)”. I was not expecting a particularly good movie but what I got was bordering on an art film in its incomprehensibility. Scenes don’t flow naturally into each other. There are no actual characters, no real plot, no clearly established stakes. Nothing. It’s just noise, and not particularly loud or interesting noise either.

Several times during the watched I wonders if I’d gotten hold of an unfinished version or something because of the way certain parts of it are structured.

So why did I do this to myself? Well, it was Darren Mooney’s fault. Hopefully the true revelations of this will come as I movie on to the sequels.

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Ett meddelande från det förflutna. I oktober 2025 lovade Liberalerna att rösta nej till en regering 2026 där Sverigedemokraterna ingår. Samtidigt lovar Sverigedemokraterna att rösta nej till en borgerlig regering där de själva inte ingår. Det innebär en stor risk för att antingen L eller SD har visat sig vara lögnare (även i den här specifika frågan också) när det här publiceras. Den som lever när det publiceras får se.

Mohamsson (L): Kommer rösta rött till Kristersson om SD ingår i regeringen (Sveriges television)

Åkessons löfte: Då röstar vi nej till en M-regering (Expressen)

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Det här är ett meddelande från det förflutna. Nu är valet här. Har Hatt stått fast vid sitt löfte?

Men en sak är säker, vi kommer inte att ingå i en regering där SD ingår. Vi kommer inte heller att stötta en sådan regering och bidra till att den kommer till stånd, säger Hatt.

Anna-Karin Hatt, i intervju ett år innan riksdagsvalet 2026

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I tend to forget how much Use Your Illusion I sags in the middle. At their worst, Guns N’ Roses are just a more distorted version of The Rolling Stones, with a lot less swagger.

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posted this note on and tagged it with Count Zero On Writing Stephen King William Gibson

I started reading an actual, physical book today. ”Att skriva”, the Swedish translation of Stephen King’s ”On Writing”. I also keep listening to ”Count Zero”.

I’m thinking about Bobby Newmark’s mother, filling her mind with the life of others trough ”sim stim”. I’m thinking about myself, almost always with AirPods in listening to podcasts and audiobook, filling my mind with the life of others. I’m thinking about these thoughts, about blogging them. About how the very structure and rhythm of the sentences are influenced by whatever I’m currently mainlining into my brain.

I’m hearing these very words narrated in my head in Jonathan Davis1’ voice.

  1. The narrator of ”Count Zero”. ↩
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posted this note on and tagged it with Count Zero Neuromancer Reading William Gibson

I finished Neuromance yesterday. What a thrill ride!

As I wrote before, it’s a novel that I’ve read a couple of times but I’m pretty sure this is the first time that I read the English original and not a Swedish translation. Also, it was a really long time ago that I read it last time so I’ve grown a lot as a person since then. I think I’ve grown to appreciate the setting, the world and the descriptions of thing more then the plot, whereas before I was very plot focused in reading. And the plot of Neuromancer is, truth be told, not that much to write home about. But it’s exciting in the moment and it’s a canvas to paint the world, the themes and the characters on.

I am so glad I re-read this, and I’m very much looking forward to the AppleTv show based on it. If done right, it could be a really good show.

Also, I went straight into ”Count Zero” afterwards.

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