Betoniporsas - Unkka Donkkaa

I used to like Rölli. Not love him, but somehow like him. For those of you that don't know who he is, he's a troll character appearing in popular Finnish children's shows and was recently made into a cartoon feature film that has almost nothing to do with the original. Has a lot of good original songs, so why not.

But, recently as my kids have been listening a lot to Nappularadio, which is a Finnish commercial FM and Internet radio for kids. And practically half of the songs they play are Rölli. Now I am totally sick of…

Here are some songs that say the opposite thing, who should we believe?

Nobody Knows - Everybody Knows
It's alright - It's not alright
Just Say Yes - Just Say No
Hell Yes - Hell No
Go West - Go East
White Room - The Black Room
Clockwise - Counterclockwise
Jump - Don't Jump
Get Up - Get Down
Good Man - Evil Woman
Well well well - Sick sick sick
Go to Sleep - Wake Up

Once, the Internet was a serious place. Then someone thought: "Wouldn't it be nice if we could express emotions in this cold world of written text?" So they realised, if you write a colon followed by a parenthesis, the reader wil see a smile when tilting their head 90 degrees and know the sender wrote it with a smile on their face. This was fine, and smileys prevailed.

But then someone else said: "What about the really funny stuff, the things that made you laugh out loud?" So they decided they could write "LOL" whenever that happened. This was also…

Yesterday I managed to deal with my podcast backlog (why do they all have to update at the same time?) so I needed something to listen on the way to work. My music listening is going through a slow period right now. The only good chance to listen to anything is when I bicycle to work, at I usually do podcasts then. Worktime is usually out of the question, as I sit in the customer premises again and need to lend my ears to all the information that is being passed around. (I remember blogging about this before).

Anyway, I…

Kirjoitanpa vaihteeksi suomenkielisen blogikirjoituksen. Tämä on nimittäin jotakin, mikä katoaa joka tapauksessa käännöksessä.

Oletteko koskaan huomanneet, miten sanoittaja tuntuu pari säkeistöä kirjoitettuaan unohtaneen, mitä tulikaan ensimmäiseen säkeistöön laitettua?

Yksi esimerkki tästä on I'll be There for You. Ensimmäisessä säkeistössä sanotaan:

So no one told you life was gonna be this way

Your mother warned you there'd be days like these

Keitä te ootte te nuoret pojat, kun en mä tunne teitä?

Hyvästi, hyvästi, hyvästi,…

I went browsing through my neighbourhood, in a hunt for someone who doesn't listen to They Might Be Giants. I found none. In fact, I think womble_timsk was the only one who doesn't have the Johns as their top artist. Scary.

I manage to salvage some of my earlier SID works I thought I'd lost completely (thanks to archive.org and luckily it occured to me to search there). I decided to put these back to the public domain via last.fm. They can be found in the online album "SLO's SID covertunes". I plan to make streamable files out of my more recent SIDs that are included in the HVSID collection. Of course I'd be quite happy if someone would record them on a real 6581, but I'll settle for emulated sounds, too (anyway, I made them on an emulator).

It seems customary to post an entry when you pass a certain "milestone" in scrobbling. I just realised I had gone above 10 000 tracks listened (or rather, scrobbled).

I have no idea what was my 10 000th scrobbled track. I didn't remember to watch it coming, so I haven't made a note of it. Another reason is it that at the moment very little of my scrobbling represent what I actually listen. Currently, the only scrobbling players in use are my iTunes and Front Row on my Mac at home. Those are mainly being used to listen to my…

The most part of my home scrobbling will start coming from iTunes again. The real thing, so to say, as it is running on a Mac Mini. Yep, I got some cash for my graduation and I invested it in a new computer, which needed to have a picture of a fruit on it.

As I was trying to build a home network, I had to change some network settings on my old PC running Windows XP, at which point it instead that the PC needs to be rebooted. After rebooting, Windows noted that the hardware had changed "notably" and…