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Jag tänkte bara ta tillfället i akt och varna för it-sajten (itsajten.com). (more…)

I have added some pictures of Japanese model Yuko Fukudome (福留佑子) to the gallery. I first heard about her a few weeks ago when I was browsing around on YouTube and found some clips of her. She’s very cute and goofy. I bought her second photobook 17-sai no live shortly after that. There are some very nice photos in the book, but I was a bit disappointed that there weren’t more pictures of her being “goofy”. Anyway, I like her and thought I’d share some pictures. (more…)

I watched the latest episode of The Ultimate fighter earlier today (season 5 episode 8 ). In this episode two of the eliminated fighters got into a “street fight” where they pummeled each other in the yard outside the house where the fighters live. The following day UFC president Dana White came by and held a speech about how disgusted he was with their behaviour and how this ruined the image of MMA fighters as athletes that he’d been working to establish. In fact, he was so disgusted that he decided to include the entire fight in this episode and even showed the fight in the trailer to boost the ratings.

I was just clicking around on IMDb and saw that Jeon Ji-hyeon is filming an American live action version of the anime Blood: The Last Vampire where she’ll be playing the role of Saya. I hadn’t heard about this before. I hope it’s a good movie. You can tell that Ji-hyeon is moving into the American market because now she’s credited as “Gianna Jun” on IMDb. It sounds kind of strange to me though

Well, I’ll have to watch this movie. I’ve seen all her movies (except White Valentine, I have to watch it) and even a drama series she was in. It will be interesting and strange to see her act in English.

It seems that my web host is becoming slower and slower. I’ve installed WP-Cache that caches the output in the blog which results in shorter loading time for the visitors. I’m using Counterize for website stats and to be able to run that together with WP-Cache I’ve had to make my own stats script that adds the stats without using any Wordpress functions. Since I had to make this change I took the opportunity to collect stats by loading the script via an image tag instead of loading it directly in the PHP. This is the way I did it back in the day. A benefit of this is that most bots aren’t logged since they don’t load the images, so there’s less maintenance needed for the bots exclude list.

The gallery is not a part of this caching yet. I’m going to make my own solution there when I have the time. Until then I’m afraid the long load times is something you’ll have to live with.

I’m happy to report that since I made my little alteration to the comment form I’ve had a total of zero spam comments. A couple of bots have been caught in the traps I’ve laid out, but most bots don’t even get that far. I know how I would develop the idea further, but I don’t have to worry about doing that until the bots figure out how to post the spam.

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A few weeks ago MTV Europe had an Avril Lavigne special where they showed interviews, music videos and such. It would all end in an MTV exclusive live performance recorded at one of Avril’s concerts in Paris. I like Avril so I thought I’d watch it. The problem was that the concert was censored, meaning that every time Avril sang a “bad” word, they cut out all sound for a second or so. If I didn’t know better I would have thought there was something wrong with my speakers or something. This lame “censorship” completely ruined the show. (more…)

A while ago I posted a trailer for Kim Tae-hee’s latest movie The Restless. The movie will be available on DVD with English subtitles by the end of the month.

I’ve listened to YUI’s new album on repeat all day and it just hit me that the song It’s happy line that she sang in Midnight Sun isn’t on the album! The movie and the songs had such an impact on me that I think I’ll have to buy the Good-bye days single which contains all the songs she sang in the movie. I looked at the OST of the movie too, but as far as I could tell not all songs are on there.

I’ve been getting an increasing amount of comment spam on this blog. You probably haven’t seen any of it since I use the Akismet spam filter, but it’s still a bit annoying to have to check the spam box for false positives (so few comments are made, so I want to keep every single one). I’ve been looking at different plugins for Wordpress that fight spammers in different ways, but they all have the same problem: as soon as they become popular, spammers will upgrade their bots to work around the protection. (more…)