I have a problem with Deskscapes. I like to switch between desktop backgrounds. Some days I will want a .dream running, and some days I just want a picture as my background. Now that is where my problem is, because when I try to set a picture as my desktop background, Deskscapes won't let me do it. Or rather, the dream still appears as my backhround - even after a reboot. How do I get my PC to accept a picture as the background....short of uninstalling Deskscapes, because I still use it re...

So, Sunday marked the start of the eagerly anticipated start of the Open Beta for EA/Mythic's huge MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. But all is not well in the kingdom of Denmark. In fact, things are downright rotten. While the start of the beta went almost without hitches in the U.S. and Oceania, the European beta start has become an ongoing nightmare for developer Mythic and their European customers. To maintain the server infrastructure and handle the accounts and billing for...

Inspired by comments made on Island Dog's blog in his article on Obama's speech, I thought I would write a bit about how different a conservative European is from a conservative American. Sure, there are some similarities, but, at least on the issues that dominate the American election, the differences seem to outnumber the similarities. 1. The economy The context: In Denmark, welfare is a given. If you don't have a job, you are guaranteed money from the government. Not much, sure. But eno...

Read external link, before reading this article. It will help understanding what I mean. Now, there can be no doubt that were Russia to go ahead and price oil in Euros, instead of Dollars, that would be a huge blow for the U.S. It could possible be the start of a wave of countries (perhaps even some of the larger OPEC countries) making the same move. If a growing number of nations start keeping their currency reserves in Euros instead of in Dollars, the U.S. has no choice but to start ta...

So this is my first go with having a blog. I'll probably not be the most active user, here on JoeUser.com, but expect my European rants to appear every now and then here, for all you Americans to flame About myself, I can say that my name is Morten, and that I come from Denmark - that tiny little piece of Northern Europe, that most people elsewhere in the world always seem to think is just a small part of Sweden, or a province of Germany. I am 34 years of age, and I am married to Nitt...