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Buying a Dist-Pedal for the Guitar

The past day or so I have been actively browsing my favorite music-apparel shops in search for a dist- and overdrive-pedal for my guitar. I currently own a Peavey BANDIT 112 amp at 80W, a wonderful amp with a lot of customization and an unbeatable sound quality. But, but, but… It lacks the kind of […]

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HLTV.org is Covering Dream-Hack Winter 2008

HLTV.org, most likely the worlds biggest site launched to promote HLTV (Half-Life TV) broadcasting of matches and tournaments is covering the Dream-Hack Winter 2008 event, held in Jönköping, Sweden. For us Counter-Strike 1.6 fanboys and all you other gamers out there HLTV.org features broadcasts with high bandwidth (good speed and little lag) for free. I […]

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Google SearchWiki

Was surprised to see that there suddenly were two buttons alongside my Google results – “Promote” and “Remove”. Did some research about it, and this is what I found: Google SearchWiki on Blogspot. Sounds interesting, does it not?

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Tourist or Traveller – an Essay on Modern Tourism

“The tourist takes his culture with him, the traveller leaves his behind.” The quote above, taken from a paper lying in front of me, describes the relationship between tourists and travellers. It describes the impact they cause on the country they visit as well as their general attitude towards another country, culture or other people. […]

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What is Protectionism?

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the soon-to-become President of the USA, Barack Obama, and his views on “protectionism”. Protectionism has been by the republicans labeled as ‘dangerous’, and most people believe this has a negative effect on developing countries. I decided to do some research on the subject and this is […]

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Call of Duty (5): World at War Fix for the No Profile Error

Have you been trying to start the game, only to see that there are no profiles for you to choose? Does nothing happen when you try to start a new game? Are you unable to save your controls and graphics settings? You’ve most likely been a victim of a recent bug with some Call of […]

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Call of Duty (5): World at War LAN Hamachi Co-Op Fix

Here is a short guide, put together with help of some but mainly myself, on how to be able to play Co-Op with your friends over Hamachi. You do not need any dirty settings, you do not need to disable your firewall, you do not even need to be able to ping your friends over […]

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Tried Call of Duty (5): Word at War

Yet another game I tested today, Call of Duty: World at War. It’s the fifth installment in the Call of Duty series, a very well known and popular series of games, renowned for their great realism. I completely the fifth installment, World at War, in a few hours of straight playing. The story plays out […]

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Left 4 Dead Demo

Tried the Left 4 Dead Demo out last night, found it to be some good fun. The graphics are not bad, the animations are perfect and the gameplay suits the name (and game) very well. Left 4 Dead is a FPS (first person shooter) where one chooses from four different characters in a squad with […]

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Social Studies: Demography and Colonialism (and Imperialism)

Demography Demography is the study of population changes. I will describe two general views, the Neo-Malthusian and the Modernization view, on the matter, starting with the former. Thomas Malthus, a late demographer and economist, believed that food production would increase over time but not as fast as population growth. In his studies, he assumed that […]