My Eurotrip

As previously mentioned I'm going on a small trip in march, so that's pretty soon. By now I've pretty much planned everything out. The main goal of the trip is to exprience some concerts with some nice bands and artists, and it has been planned around that. At one point I had ordered tickets for six concerts, but then in one day two of them cancelled their tours (Natasha Bedingfield and Sophie Ellis-Bextor) and a few days before I found out that I didn't get the ticket anyway that I'd ordered for Kelly Clarkson. However I managed to find a ticket for Kelly Clarkson on some other website, though more expensive, and I found one more concert.

Here's a schedule of my trip:

March 1: Leave from Denmark
2: Lyon
3: Alicia Keys at Lyon
4: Lyon
5: Lyon -> London
6: London
7: Rihanna at London
8: London
9: London
10: London
11: London -> Manchester
12: Panic! at the disco at Manchester
13: Manchester
14: Kelly Clarkson at Manchester
15: Manchester
16: Manchester -> Hamburg
17: Nightwish at Hamburg
18: Hamburg -> Denmark

As transportation I've ordered an interrail ticket. Today I bought 100€ and 100£. I've booked hostels in all the cities where I'll be. So I'm quite ready by now.

My gallery

I don't think I've mentioned this, but a while ago I bought a webhotel at dreamhost.com, mainly to get more discspace. They offer 500gb, a bit more than my old, where I have 500mb. It costs a lot more obviously, but not too much. Anyway I ordred a new domain along with it aswell, as I haven't moved kopasite there yet, because I still have some time untill it expires on e-studio.dk. Beside more space they also offer a lot of great things, such a posibility to make unlimited databases instead of having everything in one.

The domain I ordered was sshoyer.net, which I'm going to use as a portal for all my minor sites such as my movie reviews and this blog. It is more of less finished now, as I a few days ago managed to get some parsing working with php so that the newest blog post is on the frontpage of sshoyer.net.

A new page I've made recently is a gallery using the Gallery software. I've sorted most of my digital pictures and put the good ones on the gallery, which now has 752 pictures in 8 catagories.

Two XP reinstalls later..

In my eternal pursuit to reduce the noise level from my computer I ordered two sets of Harddisc stabilizer things along with a MicroSD card I needed. I bought a new soundcard aswell while I was at it, a Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio for PCI-express, but that's a whole different story. Tuesday I recieved it and opened up my computer to put it into use. That went without much trouble, except from getting one of the harddrives out of the old boxes I had them in to prevent noise aswell. I replaced these since they were ugly and caused the harddrive to become too hot.

As I booted up the computer again I got a System boot error, which I gotten before so I knew it had probably something to do with the cables not being attached properly. (I learned later that day it's because which SATA connector you attach them to on the motherboard decides which is master and slave.) When I switched them around I got another error however, some .dll file in windows missing. I tried getting the .dll from my fathers computer, but that didn't help, so I had to do an XP reinstall. Last time I did so I'd made a small partition for windows, so I didn't have much files to backup, which I did by attaching the harddrive to my dads computer.

Some nabness in windows installation caused some some trouble when XP was back up. It had made another drive than the windows drive C: and system drive. So the boot information and such were not on the windows drive. But it worked fine so what the fuck.

A day or two later the computer suddenly freezes totally and go blue screen, and it happens again and again. I soon narrows the error down to my oldest harddrive, a maxtor 160gb. The one that is C: but not windows drive. I couldn't access any files on it without the computer freezing. Couldn't run any CHKDSK or anything on it either. I tried getting a trial membership on experts-exchange.com to get some help. Didn't get much valuable help, but one suggest reinstalling windows, which I do after plugging out the cable to the faulty harddrive so it doesn't make that C: and system disc again.

And that is when magic happens. When I plug it in again after the second XP reinstall in five days there's no more freezing or blue screen \o/ CHKDSK however finds some errors and fixes.

The Kopa Globes

Sorry about the delay, but here are the winners of The first annual Kopa Globes! The nominees are ranked aswell.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

WinnerTransformers

NomineesEl Laberinto Del Fauno
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Kingdom
The Ron Clark Story

Best Motion Picture - Comedy

WinnerClerks II

Nominees
Cashback
CarsSuperbad
The Pleasure of Your Company

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

WinnerJohnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow) for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Nominees
Matthew Perry (Ron Clark) for The Ron Clark Story
Kazunari Ninomiya (Saigo) for Letters From Iwo Jima
Will Ferrell (Harold Crick) for Stranger Than Fiction
Hugh Jackman (Tomas) for The Fountain

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

WinnerJennifer Garner (Janet Mayes) for The Kingdom

Nominees
Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann) for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ivana Baquero (Ofelia) for El Laberinto Del Fauno
Anne Hathaway (Andy Sachs) for The Devil Wears Prada
Lois Lawn (Helen Dickson) for Out of the Blue

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy

WinnerJeff Anderson (Randal) for Clerks II

Nominees
Zach Braff (Tom Reilly) for Fast Track
Michael Cera (Evan) for Superbad
Michael Rapaport (Les) for Special
Andy Samberg (Rod Kimble) for Hot Rod

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy

WinnerAmanda Peet (Phoenix) for Griffin & Phoenix

Nominees
Isla Fisher (Katie) for The Pleasure of Your Company
Jennifer Garner (Gray) for Catch and Release
Lindsay Lohan (Rachel Wilcox) for Georgia Rule
Keri Russell (Jenna) for Waitress

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

WinnerJoshua Jackson (Wade Buckley) for Bobby

NomineesJason Mewes (Jay) for Clerks IIDon Cheadle (Alan Johnson) for Reign Over MeKevin Smith (Sam) for Catch and Release
Kenan Thompson (Troy) for Snakes On A Planes

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

WinnerNaomie Harris (Tia Dalma) for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Nominees
Isla Fisher (Denise) for Hot Rod
Amy Poehler (Fairchild Van Waldenberg) for Blades of Glory
Jenna Fischer (Katie Van Waldenberg) for Blades of Glory
Avril Lavigne (Alice) for Fast Food Nation


Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
WinnerGuillermo del Toro for El Laberinto Del Fauno

Nominees
Sean Ellis for Cashback
Zach Helm for Stranger Than Fiction
Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel for The Fountain
Christopher Priest (novel) for The Prestige

Oh the freedom

Last wednesday was my last day in the civil defence. Usually I go home in the evening but I decided to stay there tuesday evening, which turned out to be a good decision. A few guys from my platoon bought five cases of beers, which we started drinking around 20:00. Shortly before midnight there were no more beers and this one guy who wasn't drinking went to get another two cases. Even later when those were consumed aswell two guys went to the cafeteria, to which there were an unlocked door, an stole a case of beers. I went to bed a little past two, having to get up again next day at seven.

The last day consisted of cleaning our rooms, getting some papers and a few goodbye words from the officers.