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Recently, there has been a lot of media coverage on stories that regard muslims. One story was about an art gallery in Berlin(Galerie Nord) that showed a picture of the Kaaba, with the title ‘dummer stein’. Note that the Kaaba is the holiest place in Islam. Well, angry muslims made the gallery owner remove the picture. The gallery closed the exhibition but today it was reopened.

Another story, its not that unique, but certainly, it does demonstrate my point. The dutch bank Fortis has removed the piggy bank, their mascot, so they no longer give those to children. The reason: they are afraid to hurt muslim peoples feelings by using the pig as their mascot.
Fortis is not the first one to act like this.

The point? Muslims tend to rule the world. If something doesnt fit to their culture, even though they live in a western non islamic country, they make it fit. They move to our countries due to war and other tragedic sad stuff, and the idea is to integrate into the cultures of their new countries. Somehow they tend to make us fit into their cultures though it should be the opposite way around.

This tendency may not be all that clear, not yet. But it will grow in the future and Islam will get more power within our so called ‘free’ countries, where we ought to say whatever we wanted to, without having the risc of threads. Thats no longer the situation. It’s a sad world!

Sometimes I like to fool around with graphics and designing tools. Recently I have drawn a tiger using Photoshop’s shape tools.
I like the result and I just wanted to show it.

Link to drawing
Link to original

Ten days ago I heppened to sit very unfortunate, in that the result is my right foot partly paralysed. So its not possible for me to lift my forefoot in the way you do when walking on heels (who ever walks on their heels? how stupid isn’t that).

Because of this I have adopted some slightly different style of walk. I have a tendency to look handicapped when I walk plus I am making a clappy sound when I put my right foot to the ground. In the beginning I moved my leg very very strangely, because I didn’t want my toes to touch the ground in the middle of the step. Worst is that you can’t help it. I feel totally helpless about that muscle that used to lift my foot. It simply wont respond when I in my head send the corresponding signal to my foot.

Fortunately, it’s only temporary. My doctor has told me that I will get my feelings in my foot back in a couple of months, so I have to live with it so long. The term used by my doctor was some latin words I didnt understand. Anyway, the explanation is a specific nerve in my leg that has been exposed to abnormal pressure, thus the signal being cut off and I have to wait to get it back.

So if you see someone walking very weird in the next couple of months it might be me

The fourth commandment in the bible tells us that we must keep the sabbath holy. Though, I must admit its hard to distiguish between what I can and what I cannot do on the Sabbath to keep it holy.

Last weekend I was attending “NPF”:http://www.npf.dk, a netparty dedicated to computer gaming the whole weekend. It was a great weekend and seeing friends that you do not see that very often is also great.

Yesterday Sabbath I went to this football tournament which was part of a project I have running in school. We, the students, were given the assignement to arrange and host an event. So I somehow ought to be there since I was part of the crew.

But I keep asking myself for the limit, because some things seems to be fine to do on the Sabbath while others dont.
I felt ok participating in the netparty, but didnt with the football tournament. The event with foodball tournament might be categorized as school and work, though at the netparty I was a participant and not organizer, does that make any difference?

When I went to the netparty I was doing it mostly to see my friends and have have a good time, I wasnt gonna work or anything, though on the other hand I make a whole lot of other people (the netparty crew) work.

I’m not clear or confident in this matter at all and I keep asking myeself and God what to do(or not do ).

Its kinda been a while since my last blogpost, so here we go again.

The last semester I’ve had a course about making business on the Internet which I find quite interesting. The finishing project for that course was to integrate e-business to an existing company. So we had to use all the models and theories that we ought to know from the course lessons an readings, though our teacher didnt teach us very much. Mostly, she’d gotten some guy from an outside company to be the lecutrer of the class, a new guy for each lesson. The people mostly talked about how they practically worked with integration and building of webpages for companys, an totally left out the theory.
Thus we didnt really know our theories enough. Even though we managed to pass the final test in the course, which was the project where a webpage had to be developed and the reason for everything on the page and in the e-business strategy had to be thoroughly explained.

Yesterday I was to the final exam of the first year of my study. I have this feeling that I did some very poor answers. It was a 6 hours long exercise consisting of 3 different course’s material. The case was very poor on useful information which made it harder to point out anything detailed and analysing was hard.
Now I can just wait for the letter that tells me I didnt pass