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4 Mar 2001 (updated 4 Mar 2001 at 23:29 UTC) »

My computer was cracked today.
Sigh.

I don't have the knowledge to make sure nothing was tampered with, and certainly not the time to do it (exam tomorrow and on Thursday). I guess I have been too lax about security issues.

Well, there was something good about it: Now I'll finally realize my project of setting up a linux box from scratch (something like Linux From Scratch, but I'll use environment modules as much as possible). I believe it will be a very valuable experience. I'll wait until after the exams, though.

I finally took the time to write a few things about myself. Seemed stupid to have an empty account :)

I'm in a state of deep misery. I have two five-hour exams next week; in "Graphics and Interaction programming" and "Artificial languages and syntactic analysis". It's funny how two very interesting subjects can be transformed to something awful just because you know you're having an exam soon.

I guess they'll be very interesting again after I've had the exams.

One thing lit up my day, though: I went to the book stores in town, becuase they have the annual "bokrea", when book stores all over Sweden are selling lots of books at lowered prices.

I bought 9 books:

  • Eddan: The foundation of nordic mythology.
  • A book with nordic myths and old stories.
  • Two books by Agust Strindberg, a famous Swedish writer.
  • A book about whisky.
  • A book about beer.
  • A book containing classic swedish lyric and poetry.
  • A huge book about the great philosophers.
  • The Human Beast by Emile Zola.

I got interested in nordic mythology after I read "Tolkien's Ring" by David Day.

Well, it's time to sleep.
See you! (as if anyone is reading this :)

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