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S T E V E · J O B S · will not make a keynote speach, as everybody knows, instead marketing manager Schiller will speak when the Macworld Expo 2009 starts 5 January. Will new multicore processors be on board? What will happening with the MacMini concept? Quadcore iMac with hyperthreading and new microarchetechture? OpenCL with higher level programming and easyer and faster app-development? Will we see a Netbook? What do a processor and hardware oriented advanced user think? Watch this initiated video on the topic.
Visit IDG:s MacWorld Expo 2009

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T O · Y O U · A L L · with childhood heros Twisted Sister including great singer and showman Dee Snider and bass-virtuoso and radioman Mark ”Animal” Mendoza from Animal Tactics Radio NYC. Thanx dudes you gave me a big laughter.

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M R · J O S E F · F A R E S · famous director for several hits in the swedish movie business will receive a grant of SEK 700.000 for developing a new video game. The Nordic Game Program supports the development company The Story Lab for their new fantasy genred game called Brothers. Erik Robertsson president of Nordic Game to the right.
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Picture The Story Lab

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K I S T A · S C I E N C E · C I T Y · Today 11 December Dogge Dogelito, frontman of leading swedish Rapper group The Latin Kings lectured at Kista Scince Tower’s Conferance Centre on Labor politics and integration in the swedish society.

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H E L D · B Y · S W E D I S H · R E S E A R C H E R S at IVA Grevturegatan 12 at 03:00 pm. Malin Gawell, Bengt Johannisson and Mats Lundqvist are the lecturers.
Learn more on ESBRI web

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W H A T ’ S · T H E · D I R E C T I O N · of the current IT-industrial development in Stockholm and Kista Science City? What has the future in store? The IT-sector is not as hard affected by the down turn as other more traditional industry sectors. The near future will possibly present a slow recovery. Software competences are attractive as specialists in general. More information on studies and analytical work on the IT-industry and further discussion, please contacting me by mail tomers66(at)yahoo.se

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S I N C E · 1 9 9 7 · exhibitions presented on video games, viewed as art and culture. The museum is located at Gubener Strasse 47 in Fredrichshain, Berlin.
Learn more at computerspielemuseum.de

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H E L L O · F R I E N D S · and neighbours of the web2.0 social sphere. Im back from a manic week in Berlin. I was attending the international Web2.0 Expo and continued my exploration of Berlin and the digital cultural scene in the European Metropolis.
In Berlin you have great opportunities to choose from a multitudeof experiences. First the Expo with lecures by intersting speakers like Tim O’Reilly founder of the O’Reilly publishing house, a wellknown litterature source if you are a computer science student. And Yossi Vardi the inventor of ICQ and the diacronic messaing client concept. I see the sector today as a sea of with ripples of new intersting positive internet bubbles in a time of bursts. Like in physics bubbles produces waves on the surface that intersects and interacts. Positive vibrations in a time of bursts.

Combining roles as a new media entertainer and teacher. Duande from Toronto succesdes in that for sure. He has over 200.000 regular wievers of his net-TVshow Duandes World on Adobe.TV. He showed up with his distincte positive apperance, listening, smiling and dressed in a black leather coat with a flex logo on the back. Referenced by the other more formal dudes as ”Billy Idol of Flex”

Adobes Flex 3 for easily production of Rich Internet web sides driven by interaction with applications. New books where available for sale. For example you can build dynamic stock analyst sites for NASDAQ

Cloud computing
The new company Soundcloud from Sweden was presented by Alex. This is a new place for all of us independent musicartists. Alex estimated that +60k individuals are producing music in USA and there is a great market for supporting them on the net. SoundCloud doing this with all kind of services like uploading, community etc.

Salesforce from USA delivers safe solutions for distributed customized client support. Salesforce

I will do a lecture of the risks of cload prel. called distributed or disrupted? A case study from a musicians perspective

iPhones of course, everybody put them up and use the different apps, like the photo apps making sounds and animation of a big shutter.

OpenSource organizations and community as the way of thinking development. You are dispersed and make developement with people all around the world. Thats the new organization of the workforce.

Start ups like mushrooms
Everywhere there where young men and women dressed in a suit maybee for the first time? presenting themselves as CEO, CTO, CIO, CBO etc. actually being you and your best friend starting a company in your flat. Thats pointing to the future. In ten years the chinese suit-dude whery keen on learning will be the new Bill Gates.
A good point for startups is in times of depression, according to wellrenomated Saul Klein of Index Ventures based in London. The key issue is not venture money is in what you and your company can with in much limited montearty found, especially right now in uncertain times.
The Berlin City Development Council was letting entreprenours know that they are willing to give their support. Berlin Partner

Danger! The triad of dead cold products, ok not dead yet
Desktop computers - mail - computer books
Avoid them if possible!

To sum up in a light way - The Web 2.0 Berlin paraphrasing a song popular in YouTube (search for Flee Market Montogmery and sing along).
“Its just like, its just like, a miniolympics, for the future, of internet and computing, oh yeah”

Image above, from the light and sound show of the opening cermony

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I M · G O I N G · to Berlin today. Visiting the Web 2.0 Expo. Who is going to attend you can see on Crowdvine. The event will be held in Berliner Congress Center in Mitte (downtown) some minutes from the Alexanderplatz.

Expo info can be explored here

Web 2.0 Expo is hosted by O’Reilly and TechWeb.
The weatherforcast for Berlin is exellent for monday an thuesday with +16–18°C.

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I · H A V E · been active as tutor and teacher coaching several people into reach for a new desirable employment. Below I give short advice for how to make a kick start to get a position in the video game industry.

Write a personal letter describing yourself and ansvering the following questions:
/ who you are / What you are verry good at / why you should be picked / what others think of you
Produce a CV/ or resume with:
/ working experience / practice / education / language skills / other relevant info
Datamine the web on companies you are interested to work for finding out info about*:
/ operations and acctivites /annual report / nuber of employees / professional roles
/ trends / sales / turn over
/ titeles / projects / production lines and time lines
Create contact and ask for an internship
Use a coach and get an inspirational book on the subject

*If you want info about a swedish video game company you could use allabolag.se

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T O · M A K E · an Andrew Loyd Webber citation:
“The sun will come out tomorrow, Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!”
A new low price Apple notebook will see the light. Probably a MacBook priced USD 1.000, in metal. Newer before there has been so much interest and rumours about a computers case.
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T O D A Y · I · V I S I T E D · an event called Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, an annual gathering for fans of old video and computer games. Gaming consoles and computers like C64, Nintendo NES, Sinclair Spectrum and Ataris. Lectures was presented by the early days enterpreneurs, today veterans. There was early conections between the music business and video games industry in the early days. CBS for example was involeved in the develpment of the PacMan game.

A video game quiz with 22 tunes was presented. Composer and game title you where supposed to remember. Music from C64, Nintendo NES and some remixes it was. I think of myself as a kind of video game music fan, but I got completely lost and succeded realy badly. I speaked with a dude that came as 6 in this competition and 2 in an overall retrogame competition. He was pleased with the day, two placements in the video game circuit in only one day. Old video game machines and subjects around them, have became objects for fashination just like old cars used to be.

The image above shows the price cermony and winner of swedich championships in original Pong video game at Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Martin Lindell from the Swedish Game Industry Association hosted the event. More than 200 individuals attended the event.

www.retrogathering.se

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V I S I T · European Commision’s researchers night web
Local activities in Stockholm starts 12:00 at Kulturhuset. Visit the event program

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I N · S T O C K H O L M · at Pub Anchor Sveavägen 90 at 09.00 PM the Swedish gigants of death/viking metal will release their new album. Check out their new widget beneath.

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T H E · C O N C L U S I O N · from the Multicore Day is a upcomming great paradigm shift. After a digital age with single microprocessor, linear applications, bus architechture and networking, we are climbing ower to a multicore or many core era. Chips with thousands of processing cores with own dedicated cache and I/O-bus and swich will be a reality in only six or eigh years. Today 4 cores are available in comercial processors, and 64 cores in the research like Tile64 from Tilera that host 64 cores in a regular mesh architecture.
Two cores in a processor will give a 50% faster prosessor, but upscaling with additions of cores will limit the speed, unless the methods threading is not optimated with multi threading.
New processors are suitable for running several OS and applications simultaneus extremely useful for demanding multimedia like HD video streaming management. A clear pro with multi/many core is lowered power consumtion and meeting environmental issues.
Ericsson R&D:s Mats Karlsson know that their future is in software development. Today 80% are working on software. Heteregenous processors will probably be adopted for applications.
Acumem founder Erik Hagersten lectured over parallelzing compiling and Mr. Hagersten is representing UPMARC a research programme with 60 MSEK for 10 years.
Stanford research manager Kunle Olukotun talked on Stanford Perversative Processing (SPP), parallel object language, and aim for development of Virtual World applications.

New Questions
• How to optimate threading of multiple/many cores
• Development of new tools and methods are needed.
• The limitation of internal bandwith is a great problem
• Regular mesh or heterogenity
• Hardware or software definition of applications
• New ways of thinking for new programmers

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I · A M · A T T E N D I N G · the Multicore Days at the new opened Kista Expo in Kista Science City. Keynote will be presented by Kunle Olukotun from Stanford University and after him will Anant Agarwal from MIT and Tilera give a lecture. The event is hosted by Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Read the complete Program

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T H E · N E W · webbrowser from Google, Crome was released as a beta for Windows on tuesday 2 September. What is Chrome? Execution speed for javascript enhanced, adaption for webapplications, minimalistic design etc. But eyh, it's better to let the Google developers explain.

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T O · E V E R Y · C H I L D · is an educational project with Nicholas Negroponte from MIT involved.

“Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Visit the OLPC:s web

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S P O R E · V I D E O · G A M E · by EA released 4 September, here discussed by producer Will Wright.

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L I S T E N · T O · T H I S · keyboard shredder. Not only guitarists can play fast.

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A · N E W · M A G A Z I N E · for macusers with a maclifestyle perspective will enter the market soon. It’s Peter Esse from Macradion and Macfeber, one of Swedens most popular blogs, that is the founder of this new paper.
Visit iLove

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Y O U · C A N · F I N D · the statistics for the most popular and visited web sites in Sweden at Tidningstatistik. You can find out that Bonnier’s Dagens Industri and the IDG-cluster are the two biggest dragons at the web TS-controlled web-publication field.

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O F · B L O G G I N G · with a video from Ullevi, Swedens biggest Stadium from SVT with Iron Maiden playing “Run to the Hills”

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T H E · W I I · F I T · is a training device to put on your floor and step up on. You can train yoga, strenght, balance and aerobics.

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I · A M · R A N K E D · as #32 mac-irc-chatter in Sweden today. I write in avarage 40 words/day, every single day, on Mac and Apple topics (source: Buck@#macnytt@freenode.net)

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U P · 1 0 % · last 30 days. The Uppsala based swedish gamedeveloper with the Darkness and Riddick games, was last SEK 0,34.
Learn more
Read an interview with the CEO at Gameindusry.biz

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N O W · A T · L A S T , I have uploaded a new tune called "Casa Grande" on my www.allears.se site. Kind of experimental distorted electro latin style. I got inspired by a spoky house for sale in rural Smaland, Sweden, big scary with a over grown garden, trashed stairways etc - for short a house suitable for a mystical shock rock video. You dont want to know who the former residents was and for sure not what the did there. Well this scary house influenced me in some way when producing this tune.

Tunses by Tom Smoke’s Mountain Fire Wind at Allears.

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R O B E R T · W E L L S · from Sweden is the composer of the 2008 Olymics theme song “We Are Ready”. Over 100 songs competed for the job. The song will be played for over 1300 times at the Olympics. The Olympics will start at friday 08-08-08 at 08:08:08.
Visit theOlympic web

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S W E D I S H · N E T · R A D I O · on mac os related topics.
How are Steve Jobs health condition? MobileMe, iPhone and other subjects are up to discussion and penetration.
Visit and listen here

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T H E · N E W · Asus eee PC 900 seems to be a nice small palmtop to use when you are computing in the open air. It’s small, soundless, energyefficient, is delivered with bundled softwares and priceworthy. Go visit TrustedReview for a review on the machine. >

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T H I S · W E E K E N D · it’s metal festival in Wacken, Germany, EU. I listening to the Wacken event radio at Last.fm right now. Do it at: www.last.fm/listen/event/278782

A little story. When I was a kid I had a dream that Iron Maiden walked on the St:Eriksgatan in Stockholm and Bruce Dickinson came up to me and asked if I wanted to join them as a drummer. Guess if I was disapointed when I waked up. St:Eriksgatan btw is the musical district in Stockholm.

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G E N U I N E · Swedish hula hula rock n roll music video and movie track from the happy 50ies staring famous movie star character Asa-Nisse,played by John Elfstrom, actor in more than 100 movies. Singer Bertil Boo acted in the Asa-Nisse movies in the role as himself, the singing farmer. I have to say that swedish rock n roll have developed since the golden days back then.

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Q U O R T H O N (Tomas F) · was one among my best friends in Vinsta school and Spanga Gymnasium school in the 80ies. He was completely obsessed with music at realy early years. Kiss was the favorite band at this early stage. He put up posters (teared out from music magazines) outside the classroom, posters that covered the walls completely. We choosed group music in “fritt valt arbete” (free school subject), as the only one from the class that dared to play when we where 14. The group music class (two pupils) was conducted by the music teacher, an older man with a grey goatie(called Carl Henry, if I remember right).

D R U M S · A N D · K I S S · Quorthon lived in a big white stone house near the school and I lived at a greater distance and had to travel by bus every morning. My parents and I chosed this scool because it was the best in this part of Stockholm. Unfourtanely I could not spend much time with my schoolmates after school because I had to take the bus home to my district and also studied a lot. Quorthon talked a lot on musical topics on the lunch breaks, like what the intention of a musical solo was, what it meant, and on how to play drums, the members of Kiss. He played Pearl drums that he practised on at home. He was quiet, tall and skinny and I think he had a verry strong and cloes knit family at home, so he didn't took much contacts with mates in school. His dad run a musical business operation called Tyfon that focused on swedish dance bands originaly and I remembered that his dad was young, much younger than mine. I do not know when Quorthon picked up the guitar but I think he had a lot of opportunities to play what ever he wanted at home.

T H E · C L A S S · from school had a reunion on a boat trip to Mariehamn at Aland in the 90ies. Quorthon talked a lot and we shared cabin. He had started out his international music career with the Hammerheart album, was sad for some unsolvable difficulties with his ex-girlfriend from a south European country, Italy I think it was. Most of our classmates did not understand and apreciated his extremly high musical ambitions and his great talent. Music was something you could do on your spare time but not do for a living was the middle class perspective around. Quorthon did not like school much, expect from music of course. I remember that he also was a bit interested in sports and had a bag with the 1980 Moscow olympics logo printed on it.
He used to pick on me because he was almost a year older than me. He was so much more experienced, also tired on school and I was far behind, in his oppinion. He didn't found comfort with the life in school and wanted to be inspired by real life and grown ups outside the school setting.
I remember a travel with the class down to a lake where we used canoes to experience the wild nature. I fell of course out of the canoe and into the water, something my class mates found verry funny. I used to have a picture of all mates in canoes somewhere in a photoalbum.

T I M E · went on. I studied a lot and worked at different sites at offices. Quorthon was 100% focused on music. Mine and Quorthons paths went on diffent directions. We lost contact. After a lot of years I got information that Quorthon lived in an appartment just some kilometers away. He had experimented with his stage name and changed it several times. When I got layed of from my old work I got a lot of time to think and I thought a lot on music and started to think what Tomas was up to. Maybe I should call him up, after all this years and go visit him?

I · D I D N ' T · even know the name of his band at that time. I started to search on the net and I googled around a lot and found out that he had founded and run a metal band for several years and published a complete catalog of albums, had international success, made several promotion trips abroad, most most important of all – invented two musical genres all by himself with his own ears of creativity. Bathory and Quorthon (sounded like a sort of cream cheese to me) at the beginning.

T H E · C O N C E P T · of a branching out or differentation of hard rock to what we today call extreme metal (speed, grind, trash, hardcore etc. etc.) started to be popular in the early 90ies with bands like Slayer and Megadeath. Bathory was influenced by Motorhead. The studio equipment and later musical applications for computers developed so one person could compose, play and produce all music by himself. Bathory was a band that bacame a oneman band with a great recording artist, supported by new technologies.

A T · T H E · S U M M E R · of 2005 I thought of taking up contact, but a big issue crystalized among the rich information on the net. Quorthon had hart failure and he had got a deadly stroke just seven weeks before. That was the irony of destiny, that we never should talk again. I would liked to say hello, but now I only can bow and say thank you alot for beeing such a great person in my early youth and thanks for all your effort you brought into you music that will live on for a long time in the future.

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T H E · A P P L E · I P H O N E · 3 g · was released in Sweden today. The doors of Telia Mobile Phone Shop in Vällingby City opened at 10.00. A security guard let one customer from the long line come in at a time. The first buyer waited from midnight when the iPhone was sold out in the Flagship store at Kungsgatan.

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C O N D O L E E Z Z A · R I C E · US secretary of state met up with Kiss at Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm May 29 and became a Kiss Army member. Kiss Army Kiss official suporter club relaunched in 2007.
Learn more from this AP article and this New York Times article

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(Kiss at Södermalm Thu 29 May) Category: Music

Eric Singer Drum Solo Part One

R I G H T · N O W · 5-6.30 PM Eric Singer (d) and Tommy Twayer (g) from rockband Kiss are at 4 Sound Music Store in Stockholm at Folkkungagatan. Go there and have their signature. Tomorow Kiss on their great Alive 35 tour in Europe will play at Stockholm Stadion. Eric Singer also plays with Alice Cooper as in this fun video from 2007.

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I S · A · H A R D · B A N D · from Northen Europe. This excerpt is an interview from National Broadcasters TV4 Sweden.

TV4 interview with Xbone Pirates

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T H E · B E S T · S O N G · in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrad was Spains tune "El Chicki Chiki" aka "El Robocop" spanish rap nerd bitpop with nice girls dancing. I gave nerd-Elvis Rodolfo Chickilukuatre a 12.

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T H E · L O W · D O L L A R · compensates the rising sallary for top artists. The big music events and festivals are predicted to sell out with a lot of great names. The biggest event thsi summer in Sweden is Sweden Rock Festival, the hard rock and metal festival in Blekiinge. Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Whitesnake will all rock your ass of there 4 to June 7.

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B I G · E V E N T · W I T H · D I C E · May 22 05.30 PM at SoStockholm Kungsträdgården. Per Strömbäck from Dataspelsbranchen.se Björn Norberg from MejanLabs and Peter Henriksson HR manager at Dice. Food and drinks and discussions.

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T H E · A N U A L · premium game event in Malmo Nordic Game
with Career Expo for development of the working force, with HR pros etc.

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G T A · I V · has reached a new Guiness World Record in fastest selling entertainment product ever with 3,6 million units sold in the first 24 hours. Read more at Gameindustry.biz.

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N O W · P O L I T I C S · gone wild and crazy in Sweden. A new forum called Public Service is the platform for discussion between the next gen future government. At wednesday Karl Sigfrid (m) and Martin Andreasson (fp) will discuss the intelectual property rights for the future, at Street Södermalm at 06.00 PM, and it’s free.

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Johnny Cash - Hurt | Lyrics and tabs
“what have I become? / my sweetest friend
everyone I know / goes away in the end”

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T H E · B U Z Z · W O R D · at Web 2.0 in SF was Corporate Machups. Portals that presents content produced on other sites in a new way. John Musser from Programmableweb presented web oriented architechtures. Microsofts Amit Mital lectured on MS Mech tech that connects computers.

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L I S T E N E D · T O · S T A R B R E E Z E · HR Manager the other day. He lectured on the Starbreeze production organization, who do what and when. He also payed a tribute to the demoscene where Starbreeze originates from. Right now their in the production of the sequel of the first Riddick game.

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T H E · W I N N E R S · yesterday of the ishockey series HV71 is from Jönköping the hometown of Dreamhack computer festival and LAN/Demoparty. Congratulations HV71, Jönköping and Dreamhack for that matter.
Read more on the final 6th match

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J O S H · K L E I N · down to the left held an most entertaining keynote speach on Swedish Institute of Computer Science Day 2008 in Electrum at Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. Josh lectured on training of crows and cats, his work as SF author etc. Other lecturer talked over the development of intilligent lighting and displays in public places.
Transcripts form all lectures could be asked for by a comment or email.
SICS day info

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Y E S T E R D A Y · I attended the computer newspaper Computer Swedens Career Expo at Berns in Stockholm. Several companies where represented. I talked to IT-Resurs, Sandvik, Softronic and IBM representatives.

One of the most interesting highlights of the evening was the lecture by headhunter/senior HR expert, managing partner Per-Allan Karlsson at Heidrick & Struggles Stocholm office. He presented inside thoughts on the recruitment process, do and dont’s.

Visit CareerXpo Stockholm

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I · A M · J U S T · B A C K · after two days conference on the contry side outside Stockholm. At an old military base a new conference center has been established. Discussions, group assignments and a lot of food and wine etc had been a daily matter. Now it's time to rest and maybe run i the forrest.

Visit the conference center www.gallofsta.se

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I · H A V E · R E L E A S E D · a demo album called "Expost Nuus" in Februar. A sample with short exerptions could be found here on allears.se. The theme is travelling and is comprehended as a concept album for a travelling video game where the main character visits different exotic places. The album is in an orcestral instrumental genre.

Visit AllEars.se and listen to the Demo

Click on the image to see cover art in high resolution

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W H O · I S · T H E · G R E A T E S T · nintendo weirdo of the world? The Angry Nintendo Nerd with his outrages and graphical effects? Members, not only making SIDs, of the minimalistic famous Swedish demogroup FLT that was nominated for a prize for best demo at the annual Scene Award at Breakpont in the Frankfurt Metro area? The completely insane Nintendo Girl that writes on her rantings and bad behaviour on her USA visits. Telling you stories that Astrid Lindgren could dream of. Or is it the demoscener/musician from d4rkn3ss in Linköping based demo group that used to shout and mess around in his ugly shirts, making new school tunes in nsf-format just like NYC based Nullsleep. I wote for finnish hardcore sceners making extreme minimalsitic metal on nsf. Or maybe Ron the Hedgehog dressed as Mario.
Btw, here is a fun game tune cover to jam to recomended by the Nintendo Girl.

Visit the demoscene comunity on www.scene.org

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B O (S) (S) E · B Y L U N D · who will finish his job as boss for the Arbetsförmedlingen. He was an example of the old habit to place leftist SAP people on leading posts in Swedish State administration, and in this conduct strong ideologicaly based leadership of different sectors of the state.
Source: Realtid.se

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4 0 0 · E M P L O Y E E S · at SVT, will be sacked declares CEO Eva Hamilton. All production except news will be closed in Norrköping and the production will be centered to Stockholm, Göteborg , Malmö and Umeå. Sveral titles will change production location. 150 over 65 will leave the company. I hope SVT will produce more independent and free television as their device says. Maybee not so much extremistic content anymore.
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T H E · J O N S H U L T · F A M I L Y · A L B U M : V O L U M E · 1 · release party and concert in the dungons of Kaffegillet Trångsund 4, Old Town Stockholm, Sunday March 31 01.00 PM. 8:14 PM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit -

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I N V E S T I G A T I N G · F O R B E S · annual list of the world’s 1000 richest (men:) USA dominates overall, but a new trend is clear as diamonds. Russia is rising. Young russian business-men is poping up like muchrooms and they are welleducated and building up their own business in sectors like banking, property development, real estate, oil etc. Sergey Polonsky (born 1972) of Mirax Group serves as one example. The americans are big in IT development and investment like hedge funds. One example of an rising young american business-man is Peter Thiel, aged 40, born in Frankfurt am Main, living in San Francisco. He is the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. He is also gay, if that is of any significance.

Sweden resides 1% of the hyper rich individuals in a population that is 1‰ of the world population.

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B Y · U B I S O F T. According to Gamasutra has the french video game publisher acquired rights to Tom Clancy name for games, media. The Tom Clancy brand is worth USDM 20. I am willing to sell out my name Tom Smoke for just a fraction of that.

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“Web 2.0 technologies are empowering us in ways we could only have imagined even just a few years ago. We're able to build more, connect more, have more fun, sell more stuff, share more than ever before—and do it all faster.” (Web 2.0 Expo 2008)

T H E · O P E N I N G · T A G · L I N E · for Web 2.0 Expo above, an expo to be arranged in San Francisco 22–25 April. Companies like Intel, Google, Disney, Sun, Adobe, Yahoo, Amazone, Citrix will present their web 2.0 solutions and Strategies.

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I · H A V E · G O T · a new stage outfit: a skull'n'bones hat, black pinstripe suit, skull'n'bones shoes, black shirt. Pictures to be up soon. Not exactly looking as good as the gentleman to the left but almost. Go visit my pictures at my Flicker site btw.

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S A T C H U R A T O R · a new effect introduced by Vox Amp. and master guitarist Joe Satriani at Musikmesse Frankfurt 08 12–15 March. The gadged is in a simplistic red retro design.
At the fair is Lamb of God and Swedens own Arch Enemy and Mattias ”Snackis” Eklund from Gothtowns Freakkitchen.

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T E C H · M A N A G E R · A N D · D E V E L O P E R · Mr. J. Lindfors at Microsoft Developer Network, runs his own blog, where he discusses technological aspects and topics related to development on the Windows plattform.

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P U B L I S H I N G · on your myspace/facebook status line is a new oportunity for writing development. Several myspace artists like Metal Sanaz and Snakemannn are using this method. You have to uptade often and write a lot of fun stuff. You change your main image often and make it entertainng. A lot more valid and relevant than ordinary boring trad. printed media that where born to die.
Btw if Snakemannn wants to develop his silver business I have an unemployed goldsmith from Bagdad who wants an internship and searching for employment opportunities.

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A T · T H E · E V E N T · snack and breweries was served. After the lectures the attenders socialised. Lee Sandberg programmer from Sightline Vision and Johan Lindfors Tech. Evangelism Manager from Microsoft.
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O D D · A H L G R E N · from Avalanche Studios the developer of the Just Cause video game and right a game that sold 1 Meg. exemplars world wide. He is now working on the sequel Just Cause 2. Right now Avalanche has three projects under development. Odd lecturing on Intelectual Property development and management.

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N O R D M A N · T H E · B A N D · performing with the traditional nyckelharp instrument and with a text about witchburning are ready for the Eurovision song contest national final in Stockholm Globe Arena next Saturday.

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M R · H E D E L I N · at Excitera. He was born and raised, in the industry city Borås, in a family of entrepreneurs. He started up the company boo.com a online reseller of sporting goods active on the internet at the rim of the Internet bubble in 1999. He speaked on the company and that the financial experts having right in their predictions on the oportunities on trade on the net. Today Hedelin works on his own compay Hedelin & Co.