[Hedda]'s diary
Skål!
"Skål!" is Swedish for "Let's drink!", almost as "Cheers!".
Annals of Internal Medicine, 02-01-2007 has finally published yet another big study that confirms what has been known for a long time: Adult Europeans should drink 2 (male) or 1 (female) glasses of wine or the equality in another drink to lover the risk of health problems, mostly cardiovascular diseases and this is even true for people with too high blood pressure.
Another previous study has shown that if you drink alcohol, you're more likely to be smart.
Unfortunately both these studies also confirms that you shouldn't drink too much. The first says that the higher blood pressure is starting to cause problems starting with just one glass too much. The second study says that your memory starts to fail with hangovers (or being drunk).
I guess the positive results aren't valid at all for people who are alcohol intolerant, pregnant or are likely to get killed in a car-crash if they drink a glass of wine at lunch.
But well, Skål!
Christmas
Now it's Christmas Eve. For me that means that there is porridge (rice pudding) for lunch. Then we watch the Christmas Donald Duck (Swedish tradition), open presents, eat the Christmas table and then play with the present or play cards. It's only me, my parents and my aunt.
Tomorrow I'll go up to my cousin and her family up even more into the forest.
Merry Christmas!
I was about to make a nice christmas card for everyone, but when I did, my harddisk finally gave up. So I'll not get my own computer until the 28th or so, and then I have to install an OS on it again. Now I'm at my parents' place, so here I have access to some sort of computer at least, but I don't have time to fix stuff.
So here:
God jul from [Hedda] and Lilo!
Please note that I'm pretty busy here, so don't expect so much work from me until next year.
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Blender!
Whoho! I've bought myself a blender as an early Christmas present. It can blend stuff. All kind of stuff! Frosen fruit and milk or milkish things like Swedish "fil".
No more cooking for me! Just put stuff in the blender and drink!
And it can crush ice. How cool isn't that? There is no end to the possibilities!
I've always wanted a blender, but for some reason I never bought one. I'll bet I'll get one in Christmas present this year because of Murphy. But then I have two and can like blend twice as much!
Elfpack bigger than Elftown
Elfpack is growing faster than Elftown now. Elftown has twice as many active members though.
But Elfpack did grow faster before with about 600 new members a week. But that figure was not entirely true, because there were many people creating extra accounts and such. Nowadays I help members get into their old account instead, so the 109 new members are more real than before.
But it should of course be much bigger! Come on, tell a friend or someone else to join! ;)
Busy, busy, busy... Well not really.
But I there are still some things to fix here with competitions and stuff. But I'll not do it while I'm tired, because then I'll just mess things up ;)
Und jetzt wollen alle Mongolen Deutsch sprechen!
Und natürlich singst du auch!
http://www.2m3
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Hu Ha Hu Ha!!!
Sie ritten um die wette mit die Steppenwind...
1000 man Ha Hu Ha!
Usw.
Moralist pigs at Google
*sigh* Google thinks this ad is "adult content":
That was the worst bullshit I've heard today!
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Whoho!
Elfpack made a new income-record from ads yesterday it broke the previous record with over 100%. It was thanks to the ad in members' houses.
In case you wonder: The ads there are matched with the content of the house they appear in. If the house isn't exported, then they are matched towards that member's interests. They aren't updated directly, but if you change you're description you should be able to see that you get ads about what you have selected.
If you haven't written anything useful, then Elfpack will force ads on you anyway because I'm so greedy! ;) But I don't think those ads are in the way really. It would just have been an empty space without them.
Now my next goal is to make the Elfpackers 10 times more...
So what to do when you accedently drank two Belgium beer (Blue Chimay, 9%, not so much "beer", and it tastes crap and shit, but is never the less wonderful because of some strange magic. Most people don't like it.) in hour?
Well, as the beer was pretty expensive, I need a payback. So I'm trying to rewamp my Elfpack advertising.
My idea was to target the advertising to small towns where there already are many Elfpackers. Too bad Google thinks that "England" is divided into the area "England", like Scotland is divided into "Scotland". Little Sweden is divided into about 20 parts!
But I tried Waco, and that worked. We'll see if that is paying off. We have 69 Waco people here now (That have written "Waco", I guess there are many more) so hopefully there will be about 690 in a few days...
Otherwise the advertising I'm doing target all countries and buys the clicks where they are cheapest. That means poor countries or from really bad sites where there basically are only ads and nothing of interest apart from that. That is generally not a disadvantage though, but it does mean that people aren't likely to see the same ad again. And I think that's bad, because it takes some convincing before people register here.
So I should write a diary...
Someone put up a message that I should write a diary-note (well, it was me), so I better do that. I'm writing a diary-note on all my sites now, but am making them different everywhere.
I'm generally spending a lot of time thinking about how to make Elfpack better, and if I could make a different style of Elfpack. So far I think that Linkmeet should be that. It's also for "everyone" (For students actually), but is way more snobby than Elfpack. It's hard to get something new started though.
I have a problem to find new people for Elfpack also. The advertising doesn't work as far as I can see now. I guess new members will come eventually if it's just fun enough here, but I rather have them flowing in all the time...
I could actually do something to put on my brahof-site too... (See www.brahof.com) But, well, I'm lazy.
Otherwise I go to the pub 1.9 times a week and sometimes I've gone swimming. But now the weather has started to become coldish again. Which my computers and I like, but it kills the idea of outdoor swimming.
And a random fact: There are more members from Albania here than from France. Albania has 3.4 million inhabitants, and France 58, and in Albania Internet connections are way more scarce. Even if it's normal that abnormalies like this exists, I think that there is more behind it. One might be that there are plenty of sites in French and the French (also) don't speak English that well generally speaking. But there should be more French that know English well enough than there are Albanians of any kind...
Well, that's all of the babble for today! More unimportant information some other day!
Elfpackers...
Some Elfpackers are really smart and some aren't... Or they really lack the skill to read.
I changed so that when you log in, you'll get redirected to Mainstuff instead of your messages. This highly confused some members as they think they are still on the entrence-page and something went wrong.
So I write an alarm-message saying "Yes, when you log in now, you come to Mainstuff! It's not an error!". A few hours later I get a message from a member saying that there was some error logging in. So that member appearently read "error" and nothing else in the message and just gave up...
I also changed the register button on www.elfpack.co
"I saw the tab on the sign-in screen to register and become a member for free. Do you have to pay to be on elfpack?"
Here is the place where Elfpack crashed this Saturday:
(Elfpack was in the second floor)
Now Elfpack is at my place where I can keep a better eye on it.
Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
Finland has never ever done anything useful to the Eurovision song contest, and then suddently:
http://www.dai
If some lovesinger win over them, I gonna eat its babies!
Otherwise: Lithuania was great fun and reminded me about a Bluesbrothers stunt. Sweden competes with a song that is totally boring crap, but with a singer with eyes like Ozzy that has sacrified her soul to the devil (She call him "Jesus" and is awaiting his imminent return), I must admit that it rocks eventhough I hate it.
Apart from that it's mostly boring stuff that will be forgotten soon. But I'll still going to love to watch the competition on Saturday for once. And keeping all my thumbs against my country...
New home!
I've just moved and right now the new apartment is half-done. I just got the Internet fixed. I just need some time to get back into rutines now.
Busy, busy, busy...
As Shreya and Debby are having no computers and Nita is sent to Siberia (Oh, well, just west of Ural actually) I have a lot of things to fix at a lot of sites, so my mental presence might not be so good.
So if you're a crew or something like that, and are reading this, please take a look at things that might need attention and drop a line about it in the forum. I'm all behind you if you want to create something new, but I'm not very helpful at the moment.
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And there! I've got a Yahoo-account finally. But it did suck that the new Yahoo-messenge
But if you're running Windows, that should work great for you to talk to other Elfpackers, so download it a lot! Tomorrow I'll try to convince [Sunrose] to download it so that you can cyber with her... ;-)
It works
I changed the keyboard and the mouse, and now it works!?!
Computers... You just have to love them...
Damn server!
OK, so I've got the new server and finally the installation went through nicely. There are still some issues that it will not start up without resetting it, but other fine... It's just that it hangs during the start up. Or maybe it doesn't hang, but only take more than 30 minutes to do anything?!? It still responds, but it's doing nothing.
I'll search to see if others have the same problems, but I'm kind of out of ideas now :-(