I guess you’re familiar with The Pirate Bay. It’s a torrent tracker. Under the law in their country, they are not doing anything illegal. But the funny thing with internet is, that it has no boundaries in the traditional way. So legal in one country, can be illegal in another, still you can connect to the content anyway. Mind you, the content on TPB is not illegal. Sure, there are torrents pointing to illegal material, but TPB is not hosting that material. Until it’s illegal to point to illegal software or other copyrighted digital content, they just use the holes in the law.

In every country there are numerous holes in the tax laws. Some countries even put tax on items that already are taxed. Nobody ever complains. The rich just use these holes to get richer and the government just keeps increasing the taxes and nobody ever complains.

It’s a strange world we live in.

I’m not sure how long my fingers and my patience will survive, but I’ve started an attempt to play the guitar. An electric guitar, that is. Because I don’t know whether I really like to play it (I like to listen to it though) I didn’t go off and buy a guitar, but lend one from my brother in law. We’ll see how things go.

The main idea behind this is that I want to do something with music again. When I was young (so much younger than today) I played the piano, which I liked very much. But a piano is not really an instrument that you are likely to take to a party and play some music. Since I like guitarmusic (not rockmusic, but the more musical variants) and I know some people playing the guitar actively, I thought that was a sensible choice.

As 2008 was a year of pain and suffering for me, I’m already beginning to suspect that 2009 will not be so great as I hoped it would be. For starters, I did not win the 25M euro in the lottery. I started 2009 with the flu. And I didn’t get as drunk as last year (there’s no hole in my memory). Fortunately I didn’t make any resolutions, so I can do whatever I want this year.