New collection of poems by swedish poet Bruno K. Öijer

Well, this blog post is far beyond what I usually write about here, but when my favourite swedish poet Bruno K. Öijer today is publishing a new collection of poems I must tell my readers about it.  The book is called “Black as silver”. You can read his translated poem “I thought someone came” [PDF].

Here’s a translation of today’s review of “Black as silver” in Dagens Nyheter.

Paid Links beggers

Every now and then I get lovely offerings by mail. This is my latest one:

“Hi,

We’ve seen your website at http://www.ub.umu.se/eng_infosok/eng_ebooks.htm
and we love it!

We see that your traffic rank is 12889
and your link popularity is 67.
Also, you have been online since <Online since>.

With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month
to advertise our links on your website.

Sincerely,

Jeroen Segerink
The ContactThem Network”

Selling paid links from web pages at my university??!! That would be a business, wouldn’t it? They’ve made their traffic analyze from Alexa and as I blogged about before, that statistics from Alexa isn’t the most accurate. Hey guys, I don’t want to loose public employment and don’t you know I’m very afraid of Matt Cutts.

View from Mannerheimvägen in Helsinki

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originally uploaded by Nabot.

They are building something for the moment at Mannerheimvägen about 13 in Helsinki. Don’t know what?

Interlibrary loans box

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originally uploaded by Nabot.

This is a beautiful box with printed orders of interlibrary loans.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Middle class life in Baghdad, Iraq

Just read about a site called Hometown Baghdad who shows video clips from Baghdad. Everyday life for a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad. Yes, it’s middle class life but although an insight in the situation in Iraq.

Hacker using Google Sitemaps and Google Code Search to attack servers

A great blogpost from Shoemoney called “How Hackers Are Using Google To Pwn Your Site”  shows a good example on what happens if you use default settings in Google sitemaps and have old exploitable code on your server. Blog posts like this are invaluable, thanks! 

Guide to Google-competitive sources from Online Education Database

Do you think your local or university librarian uses Google? Sure, but certainly not exclusively. In order to start researching like a librarian, you’ll need to explore more authoritative resources…

Quoted from a guide put up on Online Education Database called “Research beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources”. The beginning paragraphs to explain the value of Google-competitive sources is brilliant.  But hey, according to trustworthiness of websites, why this sparse information about the origin of the website? Yes, I understand the purpose but who’s in charge? Okay, here’s a press release from PR Leap, says Jimmy Atkinson is the lead developer. Does he also update the website with content? Hmm, why this vagueness? It started September 19 2006 at least.

Wikipedia or NE – who’s faster and deeper?

Just read about Indian IT city number 1 Bangalore that changed name eralier this month to Bangaluru (Bangalooru), though the decision to change was taken a year ago. I searched Wikipedia for Bangaluru and found out that the name is the pronunciation in the Dravidian language Kannada. Further down in the text from Wikipedia tells:

On October 7th 2006, the Government of Karnataka accepted this resolution and decided to officially implement the name change on November 1st 2006.^[5] However, the name change still has to be approved by the central government, a process that is expected to take a few months.

Searching Ne.se – the Swedish national encyclopedia – returns no hits on Bangaluru but suggests Bangalore. The article on Bangalore says nothing about Bangaluru and Kannada spelling of Bangalore.

Who’s faster and deeper?