The World of a Penguin

Normally I write about tech related things on this blog. Since there a massive interest in todays topic I write about it here instead of in my Swedish blog . The other day the Swedish evening paper Expressen had a full page article about Erik Hassle and that he had signed a world wide record contract. Erik has only released one single in Sweden earlier. His first album will be released in April in Sweden. According to the record company boss will Erik be one of Sweden's greatest artist. Well, last night did I attend a concert organized by the Swedish UN-organization to collect money to remove mines. There were several bands playing, but for me Erik Hassle was the main event. The crowd were screaming and dancing. The sound were terrific. The music and the lyrics, good as ever. It was a great gig and it is exciting to know that it is Sweden's next big artist. (Sorry for the very bad picture taken with my cellphone.) The music on Eriks myspace-page is good, but he is even better...

I have bought a new toy that is connected to the computer. It is a Pinnacle SoundBridge , which is the same as Roku SoundBridge . It download and plays music from my Ubuntu Server and can also play internet radio. I have installed Fire fly media server on my server to stream music using the daap-protocol. There is an Ubuntu/Debian package in the default repositories that is called mt-daapd, which is the old name of Fire fly. A nice thing with Fire fly is that it converts music files that are in formats that SoundBridge doesn't understand so they can be played anyway.