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Our glamorous Oscar-night
2007-02-26 14:09:02
What an Oscar -night we had. We stayed up all night to see it and we hade prepared with tortillas and salsa and some drinks. But the youngest son had to keep on with Coke.Anyhow: I was the only one who was wake all party through. The youngest got to sleep around 4 am and the oldest son around 5. But around 6 when the announced Best Motion Picture of the Year I had to wake him up. That was his favourite. I talk about Departed. I have not seen it (feel embarrased about that). But I am not always wanted beside my sons when they go to cinema these days. Thats life for a teenagermum, I suppose. The day before the Oscar we saw two nominated films: Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen. Little Miss Sunshine: A roadmovie about a family travelling through US with a young girl who wants to be in a beauty pageant. I love it. Its a wonderful alternative movie. By the way, here is the whole complete list of the winners. Guardian covers the Oscars:Martin Scorsese was finally honoured by the ...
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Serious shortcomings in respect for fundamental workers? rights in several
2007-02-26 14:09:02
Yes, I think we might now about the bad circumstances for the trade unionists in some countries "far away". But also in Europe there is a disrespect for fundamental workers? rights in several EU member states. A new ITUC report issued today on the European Union reveals serious shortcomings in respect for fundamental workers? rights in several EU member states. The document published today (Internationally recognized core labour standards in the European Union) coincides with the European Union?s trade policy review at the WTO on 26-28 February 2007. From the homepage of ITUC:The ITUC report shows that while both the main ILO Conventions on trade union rights have been ratified by all member states, in particular in the new member countries violations of trade union rights take place, and labour legislation does not always conform to ILO Conventions. Shortcomings appear particularly with regard to anti-union discrimination and the right to strike. Discrimination has als...
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You know my name (Bond-theme) and Welcome to the Black Parade
2007-02-26 02:08:05
You know my name with Chris Cornell is the number one sold singles in the category alternative in the Swedish iTunes Store now. It is the song from the new James Bond -movie - Casino Royale. The night between Thursday and Friday the film has its release here in Sweden. Guess who has tickets to the film on Friday? Even if my oldest son says that Daniel Craig  never can be a Bond as Pierce Brosnan, we will go the whole family. Chris Cornell, who sings the Bond-theme is the singer from one of my absolute favouritebands, Audioslave.Chris Cornell (born July 20, 1964) is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave. He began his musical career as a drummer, before moving on to become a singer and guitarist. He is often praised as one of the best rock singers of the last 20 years. (from wikipedia)I think life has been rather interesting when a singer from a progressive band as Audioslave can give voice to the theme to a Bond-mo...
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You'Tube filtes content and bites themselves
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces -- rampant piracy.'This is from Mercury. Of course both Google and the big record- and moviecompanies are biting themselves, in the longer perspective. All the videos shown in YouTube and GoogleVideo and other are spread around on blogs and other sites - that is a very fast and enormous channel for ads.And for free. A kid who can publish a short video in his blog with his favouriteband will be a great pelar of advertisment. And for no cost at all. The global companies in movies and music bite themselves with this way of protecting their copyright.Why YouTube is that popular is because of the power of the users. When this power is reduced and the giant companies will choose what to publish YouTube will lose its popularity.
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Britney attacks car and paparazzi with an umbrella
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Britney Spears attacks a paparrazzi-photographer with her umbrella, we can read on the tabloids in Sweden today. A video from this situation is spread on the net. After seen that I sort of can understand how she can get that mad. Imagine to wherever you are, you are haunted of flashes from cameras. Andra bloggar om: Britney Spears, YouTube, video, paraply, umbrella, mad, journalistik, foto, fotografer, paparazzi
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Discussion in Sweden: Ministerblogging
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Should a politician of higher grade blog? Thats an issue under discussion in Swedish media these days. Carl Bildt, Mini ster for Foreign Affairs in Sweden , is blogging. He blogs both in English and in Swedish. He was an early adopter of the Internet. He was one of the politician who first used email and had a lot of years ago a newsletter anyone could subscribe. He started blogging before he became Minister. Since he was Minister for Foreign Affairs his former business and owning of stocks has been discussed. Expressen, one of the tabloids in Sweden has written about some what the mean rather suspicious relations between Bildt and US. I will not explain about that, it is complicated and I am not sure I can explain that correctly in English. Bildt has choosed to comment his view in his blog. Some journalists dont like that and mean that his blogging is disarming the journalists. Instead of meating the media in pressconferences the minister explains in the blog. Thats a comfortabl...
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Six ways to find music for free
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Thanks to del.icio.us I found these tips about how to find a lot of good music free on the Internet. Your digital music collection is crying out for new songs. Sure you could hit up the iTunes Music Store, or rip another CD, or fire up your P2P software and pray the RIAA doesn't eat your firstborn - but the plain ol' web is an untapped goldmine of audio. If you're willing to branch out beyond the Top 40, have a gander at six of my favorite places to find tunes on the web.But, the forgot this wonderful site:PodSafe Music Network They also forgot to mention MySpace, there a lot of musicians today publish tracks and videos. The war is on between the huge companies and the pirates. I dont think it is possible to stop the development. The music- and filmcompanies have to accept that the world is digital. Neil Young live from 1971 - a song I listened to with a close friend late nights in the 1970:ths. We sat up late with a glass of wine with the vinyl-LP. Today I found it on MySpac...
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Home on the range with president Bush
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Now I have started the countdown, it is just two weeks left till I will go to Washington to Politics Online.I suppose I also will take a guiding tour to the White House.My preparation: watching this Flash animated parody of Home on the Range featuring President George W. Bush . Andra bloggar om: Home on the range, video, flash, flashanimation, George Bush, Bush, USA, Washington, politik
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Love is the winner with Sarah Dawn Finer and Andreas Johnson
2007-02-26 02:08:05
The Eurovision Song Contest is held in Helsinki this year, in May. The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held between active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition. In Sweden this event has grown and grown - and the interest among the newspaper to cover it and from the swedes to look at in enormous. Each country has one contestant. To decide who is going to compete for Sweden we have four different competitions from which two are going to the finale round. Yesterday the fourth of these smaller competitions was held. The two winner were rather good, ackording to my opinion. Both has love in the title of the song, well I suppose that how it use to be:  Sarah Dawn Finer with "I remember  love" and Andreas John son with "A l...
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Free Kareem - the blogger sentenced to prison - the video
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Egyptian Government: A freedom and peaceful march song against President Mubarak's totalitarian regime, against police brutality in Egypt, against corruption and a whole bunch of sweet details that are hardly speakable. This song is also a tribute to Ayman Nour, imprisoned for being an opposition candidate and to 'Kareem', a blogger sentenced on Friday 23rd of February 2007, to 4 years... including 1 year for criticizing President Mubarak. Thanks to Bureau Crash. Andra bloggar om: Kareem, video, freedom, yttrandefrihet, Egypten, bloggkultur, Internet, frihet, mänskliga rättigheter
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Iron Maiden - the discography
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Iron Maid en visits Sweden right now. Yesterday they played here in Stockholm. Unfortunaly I did not have ticket to the concert. The Swedes and Iron Maiden do have a special relationship. I read about this in newspapers today. The concert yesterday got high points of the Swedish music-reporters. Iron Maiden is not my favourite rockgroup at all, but I do like their latest album very much - A Matter of Life and Death. So I would have liked to been there yesterday, at the Concert. Anyhow, it is such gray weather here now. It is not as cold as it should be in November in Stockholm and Sweden. It is around ten degrees. And now I am talking about Celsius and not about minus-degrees. This just too mild weather is one reason why so many here are talking about and worrying about the climate-changes. I am worried too. Back to the issue Iron Maiden.For me, and everyone who missed the Concert yesterday: enjoy this video with their Disco graphy : Andra bloggar om: Iron Maiden, rock, hård...
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I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I dont care if it is a international commercial hit, I do like this song anyway. Myself, I was not too young when it was theh right thing to be a punkrocker, but I missed it anyway, because I was concentrated on other things. I wish I could be a punkrocker now instead. But I dont know, what people would say then a lady in my age come around as a punkrocker. Anyhow, here is the lyrics to the song: Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hairIn '77 and '69 revolution was in the airI was born too late into a world that doesn't careOh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair When the head of state didn't play guitarNot everybody drove a carWhen music really mattered and when radio was kingWhen accountants didn't have controlAnd the media couldn't buy your soulAnd computers were still scary and we didn't know everything [Chorus] When pop stars still remained a mythAnd ignorance could still be blissAnd when god saved the queen she turned a whiter shade of pa...
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Sweden take a seat in the space and Video blogger Mike McIntee may has lied
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Maybe I will change the name for this blog. Or, well, that is not maybe. I will change the name. Today I choose the namn Global Viking. Thats just a try. I have not decided yet. But Global Viking may say something about my intentions with this blog. Anyhow:Here in Stockholm it has been grey all day. Grey heaven and rain, rain, rain...I like it. I can stay inside without bad conscience. Stay inside and visit all my favouriteblogs. I just read that now finally it seems as Sweden will be represented in the space:With the arrival this week of space shuttle Discovery at its launch pad, Nasa has begun the final round of preparations for a critical space station assembly mission that promises to test the mettle of the seven-member crew.The launch is set for 7 December.In the thick of a complicated series of tasks to rewire the station - hopefully without serious interruption to the resident crew aboard - will be Sweden's first astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.He is a 49-year-old particle p...
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Congratulations to shodan and a hundred years old dojo
2007-02-26 02:08:05
This Photos are from a hundred year old dojo for Kendo in Tokyo. My husband and my youngest son, 15 year, came home from their journey to Japan last week. They went there for a two week-travel, most for practising Kendo. My husband has an friend in Japan, Kurihara Sensei, who is a very  expericenced Kendoinstructor in Japan. Well, Kendo is big there - so of course there are many good kendokas. It was a big expericence and a huge adventure for my husband and youngest son to go there together. One day they were invited to practise in Kobukan, which is a private Dojo . The Dojo is old and the feeling it gave to practise there is impossible to tranform to written words, my husband says. He was so impressed of that Dojo. The floor consists of very big wooden boards. In Sweden the Kendoclubs mostly is in sporthalls with dirty rubbenfloor with traces from basketball or other ballsports. Anyhow, in this special Dojo in Tokyo, named Kobuan, my husband and youngest son  practi...
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I cry for you Sweden
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I cried for you - a wonderful song with Katie Melua. Listen och let the feeling of sorrow for Sweden rule. Sweden has choosed a very right-wing government in the election Sunday 17 september.The swedes has forgotten the meaning and the power of one word:  solidarity. Andra bloggar om: Sweden, Katie Melua, rightwing
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Who said karate is not dangerous?
2007-02-26 02:08:05
Well, have good laugh. Tonight I will walk to the Karate practise, because I have been sitting in front of the computer and writing all day throgh.Anyhow, I it not as in this video. I hope.Have a good laugh. Andra bloggar om: karate, video
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I found a dojo in San José, but too late this time
2007-02-26 02:08:05
If you never try you will never know if you could. If you never seach you will not find. Well, I just find, but too late.... This summer I and my oldest son visited San José in California, US. I went there for BlogHer. My oldest son and I practise karate. We talked before we went away on our journey if we should bring with us our karate-gis (the clothes we use when practising Karate). Karate is divided into different styles. We practise Shotokan and that style is divided into different under-styles or categories or what I should say. The head of our Shotokan-organization is, or was because he died some weeks ago: Asai Shihan. My son and I decided before we started our long journey to San José and Californa not to bring our karate-gis. - The chance that there is any dojo there practising our style is not that big, we said. How wrong we was. Just a very short walk from our hotel there is a Dojo , practising exactly Asai-karate. I found there homepage on Internet today, mor...
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I am moving
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I have just published a post in my other Martial art-blog about Bassai Dai. I think I will move all my posting in English to that other blog. The thing is that I and my family are planning to do a long journey to Japan next year and we want to save money in all way that is possible for make this travel reality. This blog in Typepad cost some dollars every year.I already have space at sodergren.com and will collect all my blogs in one place.
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Going to Finland
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I am going to Helsinki, Finland , in my job some days. This time I am not going to bring my laptop with me. So there will not be any blogging for me until Friday. By the way, I am slowly moving to http://sodergren.com/dojo
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The day in Japanese
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I have just published a post in the new blog, which is going to be instead of this one.
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Iphonenight with Oscar award
2007-02-26 02:08:05
IPhone - you know the new revolutionary telephone from Apple has got a huge attention around the western world. From Apple:iPhone combines three products ? a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet all communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching ? into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything´with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone. Now I heard rumours that iPhone will come in a version for 3G in the beginning of 2008. The blog iPhone World:Apple Insider reports that a Swedish firm received assurances from a local mobile carrier that Apple?s iPhone will have 3G already in January 2008. While they can?t e...
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The birth of a new international trade union confederation and Leopold Muse
2007-02-26 02:08:05
I know. I have not written here for a while.That is because many different reasons. First: I dont think it is such a good idea of mixing writing about Martial art-issues in the same blog as politics in hte view of working class. And at the same time write about the life in Sweden and about rockmusic.So I have moved my Martial Art-blogging to an own blog, you find it here. About issues of politics I am trying to find a way of creating an international blog with different contributors from grassroot-level in trade unions or something like that. So now I decided to now use this blog for writing about the life of a Swede in the global world of today, of how it is to continue struggling on with life in the cold northern part of Europe, or something like that. Second reason to why I have not blogging here for a while is that I two months ago got a sore back because of to much sitting in front of the computer. It is not fully good yet, but much better anyhow. So here I am sitting in a...
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