The past

For some reason, I just remembered Latvia.

I was living with this extremely strange family, I've forgotten their name, in a fairly small flat close to the city centre. For some reason I'd gotten the youngest daughters room, whilst she had to sleep in the living room.

My time in Latvia was... fraught with life-changing experiences, but I just remembered a minor one: Going to the Black Market In Riga, buying Linkin Park on casette, and listening to it all night long. Go figure.

Change

Whatever else I may be as a person, I have always tended to be at least somewhat consistent.
When a thoughtprocess has been going on, when I am feeling in a certain way, when something specific has been bothering me; I've always been able to communicate my feelings, if nothing else, through writing.

I may get distracted, and several days may pass before I publish my intended message, but it always gets published in the end.

Usually.

It has been a long time since I've felt the need to write.

There have been ups and downs during the entire time I haven't been writing, have no doubt.

A lot of them.

I've been to Norway with Rolf, on a spontaneous trip arranged by my beautiful Cecilie. Not an unmitigated success.

I've been to a get-together with my old classmates, and on that occasion found out I had some old trauma, that I quickly worked through (superior drunk argumentation). Enjoyable yet harrowing.

I've been thinking deeply about my education, my place in society, the world, and how it relates to my family. No conlusions as of yet.

I am about to have my third child, due in the spring of 2009. Awed.

I have financial troubles, but seriously, meh. Who cares. Side-note.

I've been playing way too much World of Warcraft.

I've started a training regimen that has considerably increased my shoulder muscles, decreased back-pains, and improved my general condition, and it's Wii Fit.

I injured my finger rather badly, and had to stop working out every day as I had been doing for a month. Back-ache is back, bless it.

My two oldest living blood-relatives are both turning 80 this year. I am researching family history and making a narrative of their lives as a result, and Cecilie, the kids and I are going to Germany for christmas as a result.

I've decided to halt my university studies for a year.

I am still battling with my alcoholism, an ongoing fight.

I've started listening to, and enjoying, black- and deathmetal music, genres I've previously ridiculed.

And yet... I haven't felt impelled to write anything about it. Any of it.

And I can't explain why.

The kids, Andreas' first day of school, Halloween, politics, love, Clara's incredible improvements in vocal ability, Cecilie's pregnancy, my undying love for her...

Even minor stuff, like my first character in WoW gaining level 70, getting his first epic from Karazhan...

Nothing.

Hm. Weird.

News? No. Level 70 though.

And I've begun to enjoy black and deathmetal. Coincidence? I think not.

My third child is due at the end of april 2009. My gods. Do I actually have a purpose in this world? Apparently so!

I am taking a break from university in 2009, going back to VUC to better my grades, and winding down my studies for a bit. And, you know, being there to care for my children. No#3. Wow.

The past few months have been times of... meh. Being away from the world. Indifferent to the workings of everyday life.

Zing!

From The God Delusion, Douglas Adams impromptu speech:

Religion . . . has certain ideas at the heart of it which we
call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is
an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything
bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because
you're not!' If somebody votes for a party that you don't
agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you
like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels
aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or
down you are free to have an argument about it. But on
the other hand if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light
switch on a Saturday', you say, 'I respect that'.
Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support
the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans
or Democrats, this model of economics versus that,
Macintosh instead of Windows - but to have an opinion
about how the Universe began, about who created the
Universe . .. no, that's holy? . .. We are used to not
challenging religious ideas but it's very interesting how
much of a furore Richard creates when he does it!
Everybody gets absolutely frantic about it because you're
not allowed to say these things. Yet when you look at it
rationally there is no reason why those ideas shouldn't be
as open to debate as any other, except that we have agreed
somehow between us that they shouldn't be.

The Ugly Duckling

Random Character Sketches.5 Minutes.

Reenergized

I've been working fairly hard for the past couple of days, and am well on my way to actually finishing something i can be proud of. Goodness.

Next semester starts on the fourth, with my first bachelor-seminar. Whee.

Still completely blank regarding Design, which I am taking this semester, no information has been forthcoming. Bleh, I might just complain to the ministry of education, this is ridiculous.

On another note:

Metallica, last chance. The first album of yours I ever heard was Reload, which was an integral part of my teenage existence, and only recently, in the past few years, have I come to appreciate your "old" music. Needless to say, your earliest albums are now on my personal top ten list of best metal... ever. That being said, I don't hate any of your other albums. Not even St. Anger, I just don't listen to it.

But you pulled some seriously dumb shit back in the day, with the entire Napster incident. It has been a long while since then, and I've never really dwelled upon the issue, I've been to a few of your concerts, and they were good. Especially the one at Roskilde Festival, you know the one I'm talking about. That one was absolutely epic.

But it all comes down to the music. Most reviewers are ambivalent about the upcoming album, but not entirely negative. It's hard to live up to the legacy you've created, I know, but just... try to do your thing. Be Metallica again.

Laissez-faire

Lately I've been feeling rather useless. Not much has been happening, and I certainly haven't been helping things along. And I don'r really seem to care all that much either. I've been playing World of Warcraft like a proverbial motherfucker, and basically that's it. The daily goings on of a household excluded, I've become the pinnacle example of a waste of skin. In Azeroth though, I've made more than 2000 gold on the auction house, and levelled my paladin from 48 to 62 in a month.

Recent activities:

Read my first Jules Verne ever (the shame) Journey to the centre of the earth, went to Oslo with Cecilie, planned a trip to Germany this christmas, at the moment reading Sherlock Holmes, different texts on logic and argumentation that will surely come in handy once I begin studying again. Taken up bicycling, which is much more fun than I remembered. Procrastinated.

We've been out and about rather more than is usual for us this summer, Cecilie, the kids and I.
Have rather a lot of photos lying about on my harddrive(s) that should by rights be online. These include but are not limited to:

Andreas starting at school, with his giant Schultüte, Clara reading a book with one eyebrow raised, Cecilie looking beautiful in the Norwegian capital. Me sitting on my couch gazing deeply into my navel.

Placidity

It has been an uneventful day.

The sun has been baking the earth, and my head, too.

I love when it is this warm. You can't think, therefore you don't have to think. It's like being drunk in that regard. Relaxing.

Just saw Wanted, quite a good movie, if a bit naive in its execution, the point was still driven home. There were quite a lot of leaps, both logically and in the narrative, but the whole experience made them less important. And Angelina Jolie is one of the hottest women on the planet.

Now the sun is down, my brain is cooling off... and I feel like doing something. Sitting at the beach all night with a lit fire. Something.

At lot of my life lately has been about mood. The other night I had to stay up with Clara, as she had fallen out of her bed, and we were scared she might have a concussion. I sat up until the early morning, and watched Jamie at Home. And I pretty much was in the english countryside during the summer.

I don't know. I guess I am just used to a bit more happening than it is right now, I am in between studies, I don't know anything about when my reexam is going to be, I don't know where I am starting this september... and there's not much for me to do about it, as everyone is on vacation.
Ergo I feel like doing something. Anything. Bleh, I'll just play some more WoW probably.

An old blogpost

From the year 2007, 31st of december:

Another year almost gone by. And, I have to say, not a bad one. I feel much better, in my self, than I ever have before. Well, over longer periods of time.

While browsing facebook, I asked myself the eternal (to me) question, why don’t I have that many friends? And it struck me, I do. My perception of what a friendship entails has just been skewed, in relation to the rest of the world. There are people I like to drink with, people whose humour I share, people I like to discuss with… and so forth. In olden days (the world according to Nils) I felt alone a lot of the time. Even while I was together with people. Validation seems to be a key issue for me, and, to be honest, having everyones attention. But this past year has been really parched of social interaction. And yet, I don’t feel sad. On the 22nd of december Cecilie and I went to see Crazy Christmas Cabaret in Tivoli with some friends, Anja, my old roommate, Hanne, and a lot of other very funny and intelligent people.

Thing is, I had fun while it lasted, but when we got home, and even while riding the bus there, I felt a shitload of melancholy starting to settle in. Gone now, thank the (non-existant) gods. The reason for it was that this group of people have been friends, closely-knit friends, for a long time now. Very much like the Tv-show of the same name.

For a while, while I lived with Anja, I tried to fit in the group, tried my very damn hardest to be one of them, yet never quite succeeded. At the time I felt I was being shunned, and wasn’t being given the same status as others in the group, yet now I realise; why should I? I hadn’t been there for very long, nevertheless I expected instant trust. I am just fairly socially… untrained, let us say. By the way guys, should you ever read this, sorry for being such an asshole. I do make friends, now and again, yet these friendships always seem to peter out. And a lot of it is my doing. I suck at keeping contact with people, and I am just not the kind of person who fits into a given role in a group. I did for a while in Latvia, Dzintars, Ivars and the rest of you guys, shout out, and other ghetto slang. But I was experimenting with my persona at the time, trying out things because I had never been able to do them in Denmark, leaving behind my real, and imagined, social stigma.

I didn’t really feel like I fitted in there, yet for a time I did. But the Feeling of not fitting in has ever haunted me. And now I come to realise… why? Because people don’t contact me all the time? When they do I usually blow them off. Invitations to parties, and so forth… I might feel to tired, lazy, or just too damn apathetic to go somewhere, or just have a rotten day… I let a lot of things go by, by my own choosing. The world isn’t shunning me, I just can’t use it when and if I feel like having contact with other people. Which I have. And I can’t expect people to need me, when I’m not there for them half the time. It just doesn’t work that way.

There are a lot of people I have let down in the past, and should any of you read this damn thing (I doubt it), I would like to apologise, from the bottom of my heart. Søren, I stayed with you for the best part of a month when I had broken up with Michala, we drank loads of beer, which I needed, and listened to far too much Elvis.

Rob, you have been a good friend to me, even though you play more computer than listen, you listened more than enough. And you rock at MMORPGs. Thank you for getting drunk with me at Cafe Woody in Lyngby, and paying for the whole damn thing too. And, for the record, you can hold more liquor than I.

Ivars, I am sorry we lost touch, you were a great friend to me, in a land that was foreign to me (although that changed with time) and we had some genuinely good times. The party at the Academy, when we were going crazy at that unnamed band’s metal concert was damn fun!

Robert, we met up at Roskilde, and you just kept the contact… I borrowed your electrical guitar, we had some fun, you payed for fucking Metallica! And I just lost touch, like I always do, and made up some excuse to myself…

All of you, a lot of you unmentioned, through the times, thank you. I have tried at times to trivialize our friendship, because it was easier for me, I made myself believe it didn’t really matter, that you didn’t really like me. But why the hell would you spend so much time with me if you didn’t!?

See? This is how much I apparently have loathed myself. I never stopped to think that the lack of my presence might hurt someone, I just thought “they can’t possibly like me for who I am”, or even worse, “I don’t like them”, because of some imagined slight, or what some unknown people might think.

And to my family; I love you. Everyone of you. Cecilie Andreas Clara Pia Signe Rolf Walter Mette Guldborg Lene Peter Gertrud, Kläre Ernst… And all the rest.

I can’t put into words how much each of you mean to me. Cecilie, my darling wife, you are my soulmate (not in a trite way either) the best friend I have ever had. My children, my little darling orcs, you are the light of my life. Mum, siblings, Dad, uncles, aunts, grandmums… All of you.

I am sorry for ever being unappreciative. And I am truly appreciative of what you have done for me, without you, all of you, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. And I’m not all that bad.

Every choice we make influences us, and our path in life. But remember, it influences everyone around you too. Now don’t go all religious on me, just think before you cut someone from your life for no good reason.

Happy new year everyone.

Return to World of Warcraft

I just reactivated mine and Cecilies WoW account. And I don't really know why!

Last time I played was in december last year, for a month, the same madness that has gripped me now was in effect.

Fun is to be had playing it... I just can't put my finger on how, or why. When playing, I have my laptop open on the table, to play flash games, check email, or blog, as I am doing this very instant.

MMORPG'ing is full of dead time, scanning auctions, travelling, waiting for mob respawns... and you get tired of it, and vow never to waste your time with it again.

But then, a time will come, when you are inexorably drawn into the game again, at least for a while.

Sigh. There's just no helping some people I expect.

Now, Melthar, my level 46 Shaman, will journey off to lands far away, trying like hell to remember his attack macro, or for that matter what skills he needs from his equipment, and what it means when a monsters level is represented by question marks.

Amazing

I'm sitting in  the bus on my way home from my dad's. Rolf, my dad and me just watched Germany vs. Turkey in the EM semifinals. And really got into it too, it was a fairly nervewracking game... and had an all around good time. I've just spent quality time with my dad. Now, to keep the ball rolling; If being interested in some kind of sport is what it is going to take to reconnect to my dad, then so be it.

Deadline

So it seems I won't be making the deadline for my current exam, which has to be delivered on friday.

The kids have been home for a bit over three weeks now because of the strike, and my workflow has suffered because of it. You can't just sit them down in front of the TV the entire time, and even if you could they will not exactly be quiet, and we live in a very small apartment (by western standards).

Ah well, a bit of a weight off my shoulders for now, I just hope I can get it rescheduled so everything fits together, and I have time on my hands to actually get some work done. Yeah, that would be nice.

Addiction

I get drunk now and then. As I am at this moment.

Why? To myself, the reason is to relax. When drunk, and alone I might add, I can abstract from the rest of the world.

When not, a pervasive bitterness flows through me at times of stress. Be this a sign of my sickness or of the world being sick, is merely a matter of the individual point of view.

The matter of my addiction is not up for debate however. Whenever I have been drinking, I crave another drink, unless I am overwhelmed by nausea.

When I do drink alone, introspection is my constant fellow.

Now, when I get sleepy, I will go to sleep. But, at the moment, I do not feel like that at all. Breaking whatever boundaries, breaching all barriers... this is what I crave to do. The only problem with this is that the only limits exacted are those I put upon myself, in whatever way. Blast. I feel like loading up some music on my mobile phone, putting on some warm clothes, and walking off into the night, to just think.

But then what? What of the day after, and the people it will affect?
Thus, existence takes its toll.

Magic.

Do you remember the first time you saw ET? (insert life-altering pop-culture reference here)

Every once in a while I'll wake up, and that sense of... something more is just tantalizingly out of reach. I can remember how it used to feel, and will inevitably try to catch that feeling again, yet the more I strive to do just that, the more quickly it eludes me.

 

Things that recapture that feeling for me:

Steampunk, for some reason.

Playing old Monkey Island games.

Walking in nature will at times get me there too. Twilight seems to work best.

 

Microsoft customer support...

Is a very interesting experience, to be sure.

After finally purchasing an Xbox 360 about 1½ month ago, I was looking forward to being trashtalked by american teenagers, while having my ass kicked at every game ever created. Such was not to be my destiny however.

In a benevolent move, the Microsoft Customer Support Team of Denmark decided to spare me the aforementioned mental anguish, and simply make online acces impossible.

In 1999, i first registered my new hotmail address. I've been using the same address since then, without any significant internal changes made to my account. Said account has thusly been active through quite some drastic changes, Windows Live ID, and so forth.

Which is where I believe my current problem lies. But enough blogging, should you be blessed/cursed enough to understand my native language, here is a transcript of my mailed correspondence with microsoft, beginning at the end of march with their telephone support:

Jeg har et meget bizart problem. Jeg har haft min konto i snart 10 år, siden 1999, og ikke skiftet kodeord i den tid. Jeg bruger samme kode og login til alle mine microsoft services, hotmail, live messenger, xbox osv.
Og de fungerer næsten alle upåklageligt.
Men da jeg, efter at have erhvervet en xbox360 for et par uger siden forsøgte at bruge min windows live ID til at recovere et gamertag jeg havde oprettet i forvejen, påstod den hårdnakket at jeg brugte den forkerte kode.
Jeg har brugt sammenlagt 3 timer i telefonen med xbox-live support, og vi fandt sammen ud af at problemet ligger hos live/passport-tjenesten. Jeg kan som sagt sagtens logge ind på alle tjenesterne. Men når jeg er logget ind på passport.net, og prøver at ændre på en indstilling, siger den at jeg bruger den forkerte kode. *Imens jeg er logget ind*

Hej Nils,
Tak for din henvendelse til Windows Live Support.
Mit navn er Thomas og jeg kan forstå på din henvendelse at du oplever problemer med at ændre dit kodeord.

Når du prøvet at ændre dit kodeord, skal du gøre det ved at gå til http://account.live.com.
Prøv først at optimere dine internetindstillinger og forsøg derefter at ændre dit kodeord igen.
Følg disse trin, for at optimere internetfunktionerne for Internet Explorer 7:
1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Klik på "Internetindstillinger" i menuen "Funktioner".
a. Klik på "Slet" i fanen "Generelt", og klik på "Slet alt". Vælg "Slet også filer og indstillinger, der er gemt af add-ons" nederst på siden, og klik så på "Ja". Klik på "Luk".
b. Klik på fanen "Sikkerhed", og klik så på "Nulstil alle zoner til standardniveauet".
c. Klik på fanen "Avanceret", og klik på "Gendan avancerede indstillinger".
Hvis du ikke allerede har installeret Internet Explorer 7, bedes du opgradere til denne. Dette kan du gøre ved at gå til denne side:
http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx
Tak fordi du benytter Windows Live. Jeg håber at dette besvarer dit spørgsmål, ellers er du meget velkommen til at vende tilbage til os.
Med venlig hilsen
Thomas
Windows Live Support

(Det gjorde det ikke)

Hej Nils,

Mit navn er Line.

Jeg har været inde i vores system og rette en fejl på din konto. Dette skulle gerne have løst problemet inden for et par timer.

Ellers er du meget velkommen til at vende tilbage.

Med venlig hilsen

Line

Windows Live ID Support

Hej igen,
Problemet er der stadig.
Med venlig hilsen,
Nils Ververs Lübke

Hej Nils,

Kan du prøve at tage et screenshot af problemet? Det vil gøre det nemmere for os at forstå og løse problemet.

Med venlig hilsen

Line

Windows Live ID Support

Hej igen,
det kan du tro, det kommer her.

Hej Nils,

Tak for dit svar.

Jeg vil gerne have dig til opdatere til den nyeste version af Firefox og derefter optimere Firefox internet browseren til brug af Windows Live Hotmail og andre MSN tjenester, som angivet herunder.

For at få adgang til Firefox indstillingerne, skal du klikke på "Indstillinger" under "Funktioner" i menuen. Følg disse trin for at optimere dine indstillinger:

Forbindelsesindstillinger

1. Klik på "General".
2. Klik på "Connection Settings" knappen
3. Klik på "Direct connection to the Internet", og klik derefter på "OK".

Beskyttelse af personlige oplysninger

1. Klik på "Privacy".
2. Klik på "Cache" knappen.
3. Klik på "Clear Cache Now".
4. Klik på fanen "Cookies".
5. Klik på "Clear Cookies now".

Sikre sider

1. Klik på "Content".
2. Klik på "Allowed sites" ved siden af "Block Popup Windows".
3. I tekstfeltet skal du skrive "hotmail.com", og klik derefter på "Allow".
4. Gentag trin 3 med følgende domæner:
msn.com
passport.com
live.com
5. Klik på "Close".

Sikker (browsing)

1. Klik på "Advanced".
2. Klik på fanen "Security".
3. Tjek at der er sat kryds i følgende bokse:
- "Use SSL 2.0"
- "Use SSL 3.0"
- "Use TSL 1.0"
4. Sæt også kryds i "Select on automatically".
5. klik på "OK"
Luk "Indstillinger" samtale vinduet, når du har optimeret dine indstillinger.

Tak fordi du benytter Windows Live. Jeg håber at dette besvarer dit spørgsmål, ellers er du meget velkommen til at vende tilbage til os.

Med venlig hilsen

Thomas
Windows Live Support

Hej igen,
Jeg har fulgt anledningerne (som det skal siges er til en forældet version af FireFox) , og optimeret min installation til at få adgang til jeres sites. Det har ikke gjort nogen forskel. Men det burde det heller ikke, da jeg, som det fremgår af tidligere mails, har forsøgt mig med de nyeste version af internet explorer, hvilket ikke fungerede, og at problemet ligger på jeres servere, og ikke kan have noget at gøre med de lokale indstillinger eller cachen, endsige cookies, på min maskine.
Passwordet som er lagret inde i min konto stemmer simpelthent ikke overens med det jeg aktuelt bruger til at logge ind, hvilket tyder på en intern database-fejl på jeres servere. Endvidere ville jeg også sagtens kunne bruge mit Windows Live ID til at reclaime mit gamertag på min xbox 360, hvis fejlen lå lokalt på min PCs browserindstillinger, hvilket heller ikke er tilfældet, hvilket også fremgår af tidligere mails.

Hej Nils,

Tak for dit svar.

Jeg kan se at din profil på http://account.live.com ikke er fuldstændigt udfyldt.

Jeg vil derfor bede dig om at prøve og udfylde denne, da vi har erfaring for at dette kan løse sådanne problemer.

Du skal sørge for at udfylde alle oplysninger omkring land, postnummer, region og lignende.

Tak fordi du benytter Windows Live.

Med venlig hilsen
Thomas
Windows Live Support

Hej... igen.
Jeg har nu så vidt jeg ved udfyldt alle tænkelige felter der er at udfylde. Det har ikke ændret på det faktum at jeres server har en intern database-fejl.
Er der mulighed for at du kan rykke mit problem højere op i hierarkiet? Jeg tror ikke vi kommer længere ved at afprøve alle løsningsmulighederne fra checklisten. Det virker til at problemet er relativt unikt, og eventuelt er noget en af jeres teknikere skal se på.
God weekend,

Nils Ververs Lübke

Hej Nils,

Jeg har sendt problemet videre i 'hirakiet'. Der kan gå op til 48 timer før vi modtager svar. Vi vil kontakte dig så snart der er noget nyt.

Med venlig hilsen,

Leonard

Windows Live ID support

Hej Nils,

Du må undskylde jeg skriver igen.

Før jeg vil sende sagen videre ville jeg lige bede dig om tilladelse til at få adgang til kontoen.

Hvis vi får brug for at gå ind på kontoen vil vi gøre det ved at nulstille adgangskoden til os selv, og derefter når vi er færdige, nulstille kontoen tilbage til din alternative email addresse. Jeg bemærkede at du ikke har angivet en alternativ email addresse. Jeg vil bede dig logge på siden http://account.live.com og angive en.

Selv om jeg ikke har hørt at dette skulle kunne være problemet, vil jeg også bede dig checke om om du stadig oplever at du ikke kan skifte adgangskode efter at du har angivet en alternativ addresse.

Alle nye kontier kan kun oprettes når profilen og sikkerheds oplysningerne er udfyldte. Gamle kontier med mangelfylde oplysninger kan skabe problemer da Microsoft løbende har udvidet sikkerheden omkring Live ID kontier.

Med venlig hilsen,

Leonard

Windows Live ID support

For at kunne angive en alternativ email adresse skal jeg indtaste adgangskoden, hvilket er et problem, da den IKKE FUNGERER NÅR JEG ER LOGGET IND. I kan få adgang til kontoen alt i har lyst, rod rundt med den lige så tosset i vil, bare jeg langt om længe kan få lov til at bruge alle funktionerne i den igen.

Undskyld mit tonefald, men det kan da ikke være rigtigt at jeg gentagne gange skal forklare en kundeservice-repræsentant hvordan jeres eget system fungerer. Jeg ved ikke om i har fortløbende email-backlog kørende per individuelle kunde, men det burde i, da det ærligt talt føles som om jeg skal forklare mit problem igen og igen, eller rettere hvorfor jeres forskellige løsningsmodeller er nytteløse.

Hej Nils,

Vi har nu sendt sagen videre til vores specialister, som gerne skulle finde en løsning på problemet inden for et par dage. Vi vil kontakte dig, så snart de vender tilbage til os.

Vi takker for din tålmodighed og undskylder for eventuelle misforståelser.

Med venlig hilsen - og god weekend

Line

Windows Live ID Support

Tak skal i have, det lyder rigtig godt :)

Hejsa,
Sidst jeg hørte noget fra jer var for 10 dage siden, hvor i sagde i ville sende sagen videre til jeres eksperter. Sker der udviklinger i sagen?

Hej igen Nils,

Vi har stadig ikke fået svar fra vores specialister. Jeg prøver at sende sagen videre endnu engang.

Beklager ventetiden.

Med venlig hilsen

Line

Windows Live Support

Hej Niels,

Vores specialister ønsker at få klarificeret følgende:

Bruger du automatisk login når du logger på Hotmail/Windows Live?

Hvis ja, er du sikker på at det kodeord du bruger er det rigtige?

Har du prøvet at nulstille adgangskoden til dig selv, og set om du kan skifte den af den vej?

Med venlig hilsen,

Leonard

Windows Live ID support

Hejsa,
1. Jeg har forsøgt at flushe cachen i firefox, og da det ikke virkede prøvede jeg med en nyinstallation af internet explorer, altså auto-kodeord er ikke problemet.
2. Jeg kan ikke nulstille adgangskoden, når jeg modtager mailen, (hvilket sker inde i hotmail, da jeg jo sagtens kan logge ind uden problemer), og klikker på linket, siger den det er udløbet.
Jeg vil gætte på problemet ligger lokalt på microsofts servere. Jeg har haft kontoen siden 1999, og der er sket en del ændringer i jeres services. Det er den eneste forklaring der giver mening, da jeg jo kan logge ind, og bruge alle de forskellige services (passport, live ID, hotmail etc.) uden problemer, men ikke kan ændre adgangskoden inde fra live ID. Jeg vedhæfter et par screenshots af problemet, for at klargøre.

[samme screenshot jeg har sendt før]

Hej Nils,

Jeg har sendt dine svar tilbage. Vi kontakter dig så snart vi høre fra dem.

Med venlig hilsen,

Leonard

Windows Live ID support

Hej Nils,

Du må undskylde jeg skriver igen. Jeg ville lige bede dig skrive fra hotmail kontoen så vi kan være helt sikre på at du er ejeren.

Med venlig hilsen,

Leonard

Windows Live ID support

Hej igen.
For kontinuitetens skyld er her Hotmail-samtalen:

RE: SRX1063693547ID - RE: SRX1063693547ID‏

From:
Microsoft Customer Support (LV_ID.WNLV.WW.00.DA.GEM.BFS.TS.T01.SPT.00.EM@css.one.microsoft.com)

Sent:
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:37:53 PM

To:
Nils Ververs Lübke (nilsvl@hotmail.com)

Hej Nils,

Vores eksperter har vendt tilbage.

De har sendt dig nulstillingsemail til din alternative adresse nillerus@gmail.com. Prøv om du kan ændre din adgangskode på denne måde.

Med venlig hilsen

Line

Windows Live Support

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--- Original Message ---
From : "Nils Ververs Lübke"
Sent : 26 April 2008 09:26:06 UTC
To : "lv_id.wnlv.ww.00.da.gem.bfs.ts.t01.spt.00.em@css.one.microsoft.com"
Subject : RE: SRX1063693547ID

Hej Leonard,
Det her er min hotmail-konto.
Mvh,
Nils Ververs Lübke

Og nu vi snakker kontinuitet; Det ville være HELT FANTASTISK hvis i rent faktisk læste jeres mail backlog! Jeg har, som det tydeligt fremgår af tidligere mails, SELV FORSØGT AT NULSTILLE mit password adskillig gange uden held.

Det her er begyndt at ligne en farce. Jeg henvendte mig første gang i slutningen af marts, og der er stadig intet sket. Jeg har aldrig oplevet noget lignende.

Her er et pro-tip: Giv hele dette læs mail til jeres "eksperter", jeg har i forvejen sendt dem et screenshot der gennemgår problemet, (to gange) med de to ting i baghånden burde det kunne lade sig gøre at jeg kan få normal adgang til mine konto-funktioner igen.

Hej Nils,

Tak for dit svar. Jeg skal beklage at vi endnu ikke har været i stand til at løse problemet.

Da jeg ikke umiddelbart har en løsning på dit problem, har jeg været nødt til at sende problemet videre til specialisterne endnu engang.

Tak fordi du benytter Windows Live.

Med venlig hilsen
Thomas
Windows Live Support

Gu fanden skal du beklage det. Her er mailen jeg har modtaget fra jeres eksperter idag:

Hej nillerus@gmail.com
Du har for nylig anmodet om at nulstille din Windows Live ID-adgangskode via e-mail. Følg vejledningen herunder for at nulstille din adgangskode eller for at annullere anmodningen om nulstilling af adgangskode.
SÅDAN NULSTILLER DU DIN ADGANGSKODE:
1. Marker og kopier følgende internetadresse.
https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?emailid=f685117f28ec239f&ed=B41uOZuwB9HBA8QmV4O0Po1k7z3BAr8Y6t08paJX8WWjFRCdIzvNXZZM/VkU&lc=1030&urlnum=0
2. Åbn en webbrowser, indsæt hyperlinket i adresselinjen, og tryk derefter på Enter eller Return på tastaturet.
HVIS DU IKKE HAR ANMODET OM AT NULSTILLE DIN ADGANGSKODE:
1. Marker og kopier følgende internetadresse.
https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?emailid=f685117f28ec239f&ed=B41uOZuwB9HBA8QmV4O0Po1k7z3BAr8Y6t08paJX8WWjFRCdIzvNXZZM/VkU&lc=1030&urlnum=1
2. Åbn en webbrowser, indsæt hyperlinket i adresselinjen, og tryk derefter på Enter eller Return på tastaturet.
Tak!
Windows Live ID-kundesupport
BEMÆRK!
Undlad at besvare denne meddelelse, som er sendt fra en e-mail-adresse, der ikke er overvåget. E-mails, som sendes til denne adresse, kan ikke besvares.

Jeg håber i efterhånden kan mærke hvor frustreret jeg er over jeres nytteløshed. Hvis jeg får flere generiske mails, med ubrugelige beklagelser over jeres ubrugelige "kundeservices" uduelighed, eller endnu værre, ENDNU EN NULSTILLINGSMAIL fra jeres "eksperter", på det nærmeste sekunder efter jeg har påpeget at jeg selv har prøvet at nulstille, dette ikke har fungeret, at jeg HAR PÅPEGET dette for jer, og FÅET FLERE NULSTILLINGSMAILS efter dette faktum, for derefter endnu en gang at indskynde jer at påtalte mails simpelthent ikke fungerer, og så videre, ad nauseam... ved jeg ærligt talt ikke mere hvad jeg skal gøre.

Hvad laver i derinde? Hvad i helvedes skyld har i gang i?

Thus continues my woeful tale.

Summer

I love the summer dearly, and hate it with a passion.

The air has certain textures at different points during your typical hot summer day. Sometimes cool and refreshing, at others hot and stifling. At times dry, the taste of dust, hot sun baking your skin, the air deadening every sound, at others wet, sweltering, making your body drip, and sleep an impossibility.

No idea why I am waxing all poetic, I think might have brained my damage with all this unaccustomed traversing of sunlit cityscape.

Imbecility

All the small, boring people. Why does size matter? Indeed, if it does not, why try to make yourself smaller? Fucking dimwit. Get a life. Oh Jesus how I hate

you. Die. Just die. I hope you die.

Your... idiotic, petty, inane rivalries mean nothing, you mean nothing. Why even bother? You or me, it's all the same. Die. The end result. Just... cease to

exist. Stop it. Why? Why won't you die?

Why am I so anal? As I type, I correct my errors. Bitch. Live your life. We're all the same, us in the human race.

Pause.

Just because. Whoops, more errors creeping in, more erasing. Not exactly honest, are we? And why elude to Victorian sentiment? Just to feel more noble, more

uppity? Bitch.

Shadows, skins, the scabs, what song lyric? Bitch.

Crawl you damn motherfucker, just crawl, get it out. Is this helping? Then why do it?

Yes! The change.... no, just my imagination acting up. Everyday has gotten the upper hand.

When did you last bleed, laugh, feel ecstatic? Eh? Wallow, wallow you sorry motherfucker.

It's all so... what? More? You want more? And then what? Will it change anything tomorrow, or just make it worse? Make what worse? You know. Birch. Hey?

What?

No. Just no. Don't even. Please? Why aren't you taking this shit seriously? Because everyone could do it? Am I that ordinary, that insignificant? Why even

try then? Just let me sit here, forever typing incoherence.

No blood. Fuck you, that's why.

Yes. Yes! LOUD. Transporting. 501.

Basini is the fucking man as well.

Too sober.

Disharmonic, in the best possible way.

Transmit your meaning, your thoughts. You can't, can you. Bitch. Just get on through. Don't go quoting on me, just do it. Fuck you, goddamn intermissionist.

Keep to the bloody point. No centrisms for you, eh?

That’s what started it all you know. Always the family.

Analyse. Analyse everything, then, you will have your answers, your life will be happy and perfect.

Dreaming of stinkbombs in trains. Public transport will suffer. Why not, why even bother, don't fuck with me. Nothing is too loud.

So impersonal, the written word, Digital.

I will leave, just go nowhere.

Obligations, happily accepted and obliged.

CPH:DOX

On saturday Cecilie, Clara and I went to Copenhagen. Andreas spent most of the day with Cecilies mum. I was pretty tired, having (urged on by Cecilie no less) been to KUA for a bit of a party with some brits and fellow students the night before. Good times.We strolled around in the most excellent sunshine for a while, just enjoying each others company. We met up with my mum and Signe a bit later on, as they had planned a shopping trip for some time. I managed to take some quite decent pictures, macro is your best friend, especially when tired.

A cosplayer dressed up for the 25th anniversary of Warhammer.








Bit of detail, famous towering structure in Copenhagen.






Kongens Nytorv, street vendor hawking silken scarves.







Kongens Nytorv, cutest sticker art ever.


On Strøget, a knight of the open road campaigning for equal pay.










Cecilie smiling at Clara smiling at sitting on Signes shoulders.






Me mum, a bit out of frame.

Looking very cool indeed.

Our bloody cat...

Which is to be taken literally, just jumped off the balcony. Hell. Our downstairs neighbour came running up asking if she was ours.

She's fine, nothing broken, no obvious pains, just a few superficial scratches and a sore butt. Luckily we really don't live very high up, I'd say 7-8 metres or so, and she landed on grass. Still gave us quite a fright though.

Surf!

I'm slowly beginning to get into surf music big time. Well, it seems I have been for some time, I just didn't now it.
I've always been a fan of evocative instrumental music with an eerie undertone, one of my first experiences was from old Lucas Arts adventure games (Okay, so not strictly instrumental, you catch my drift though).
Hearing the first few notes of the Monkey Island theme, or even better, some of the background music from Sam & Max Hit the Road, can still send shivers down my spine.
While browsing Last.FM, i stumbled across a very unknown band from south america, Os Pazuzus (the sloths, or so I am informed) with a most delightful twang to their sound, redolent of beaches, waves, and a bright sun shining down on you. Only on Mars, and the aliens are coming in fast on their boards.

They only ever made a demo CD apparently, which they have kindly made available online. Check out the Twilight Zone in the blogroll for more of the same. Oh yeah.

Flowery... powery?

Outstanding

I can't sleep. Yet again. It's damn near two o'clock at night, and I can't sleep even though I'm tired.
My hyperactive brain is to blame I'm afraid. It keeps on going, worrying about things that aren't really to be worried about. Not yet at any rate. There, now I am fully awake, Morpheus will be waiting for me in vain. Durn synapses, firin' all the time. Sigh. Might as well drink some Cola or something.

Macro Shots

Just bought a Sony Cybershot off of Rolf, who just got himself a canon 40D, (the bastard). It performs really nicely, very fast shutterspeed, which is a right therapy for my soul, after having spent years of missed photo oportunities with my olympus mju. I swear to whatever god you would care to name: 3 seconds delay when using the automatic settings. I ask you. I mean really.

A pendant some of my friends bought me when they visited Ireland a few years ago, on a replica wax-seal from Berlin, 1245.

Measuring tape, rolled up. What are you, blind?

Old timey christmas candle box.

More tapemeasure.

Back to Blogger

Well, I'm back.

I started blogging on my website using Wordpress about a year ago, mostly because I wanted my posts, pictures and so forth to reside on my own server, and I wanted full control over what I was doing. As it turns out... that hasn't really happened. I like to post pictures. which I haven't been able to get to work properly on the other blog, which shall from now on be known as the old blog. And since I use Picasa anyway, and am not disinclined to post the odd video now and then. and basically just want it to bloody well work... here I am, back using blogger, throwing all pretenses at credibility to the wind.

If you want to check out what I've been writing for the past year or so, go to the old blog.

Here's a gratuitous picture:

Oh, by the way, I've started a family blog, here, or check the blogroll, mostly with news and pictures of the kids.

In other news, I am in my final semester of the basic ethnology course, next semester I've chosen design. After that, digital design & communication. Can't wait. Ethnology is still fun as hell, but the courses themselves have been lacking a bit as of late. The two that make up the current semester are fairly experimental, and not all that succesfull either. One is a bit superfluous, the other a very young experiment indeed. I am looking forward to something a bit different.