This only concerns those few who have legitimate user accounts on my site.

When the web host I use upgraded the PHP version on the servers a few weeks ago, it suddenly became impossible to log in to my site. Well I finally found a fix for that, so everything is back to normal again.

I have now rebuilt all the pipe music in the archive. There are two reasons for this: To have all the music built with the same version of Lilypond, and to recreate all the thumbnail images to give them a somewhat bigger size better suited to the new web layout.

You can see the result of all this in the sheet music archive. Enjoy!

There! The bagpipe sheet music archive has been brought back to life. It was actually easier than I thought to port it to a Drupal module. I might do a write-up on how it works later. But for now, go here for all your music pleasures.

OK, ToDoList users, I've created a new download section just for you. Seriously, I noticed that I got quite a few referrers from abstractspoon, so obviously someone must still be intersted in this stuff, even though I haven't updated it in a long while. So, enjoy!

Sven Axelsson was born in the Swedish town Uppsala in 1962 to parents Per and Maj Axelsson. He has a sister, Gunilla Bergersson, and a brother, Gunnar Axelsson, both considerably older than himself (15 and 12 years respectively), so in practise he grew up as the only child in the family. At the age of 6, the family moved to the small town Enköping, and then at the age of 8, they moved on to Karlskrona at the south east coast of Sweden.

He moved to Göteborg at the age of 17 and is still living there after brief excurses to Dublin, Ireland and Lowell MA, USA..

Below you'll find some more specific information about Sven's achievements in life.

Well folks, here it is; my all new, brilliantly shining web site!

Yes I know, I didn't keep the old site up to date. Posts were scarce and functionality was lacking. I have now reimplemented everything on the site using the very exellent CMS Drupal. I have also dumped Menalto Gallery and am instead using plain Drupal functionality for my image gallery. This means that some functions from the old site are lost, e.g. the slide show, but who cares, nobody looks at this stuff anyways, right?

Another thing to note: All registered users from my old site have been removed. At the moment the only function that requires registration is posting comments, but there may be more in the future. If you want to take full advantage of the site, you should register again. Come on, it is easy!

And this was answering truthfully, mind you!

Svenax is a "computer person", who has at times worked as a programmer/developer, database designer, web programmer, cable runner, button pusher, question answerer, and all that jazz. At the moment he is responsible for coding and database design for Bok & webb's web sites.

Sven Erik Axelsson was born in Uppsala, Sweden, o­n the 23:rd of May 1962 as the youngest child of Per and Maj Axelsson. He has a sister, Gunilla Bergerson, and a brother, Gunnar Axelsson, both considerably older that Svenax, so, in practise, he grew up as the o­nly child.

The family moved to Enköping when Svenax was 6, and then to Karlskrona in southern Sweden, when he was 8.

In Karlskrona Svenax started to develop his life-long interest in music and he learned to play the Oboe and Bassoon. At the age of 17 he moved to Göteborg at the west coast of Sweden, where he soon connected with the Murray Pipes & Drums and started to play the Highland Bagpipe. Svenax has been doing just that ever since and is just now perhaps starting to understand a little of how piping and pipe music works.

He plays a fully mounted silver Hardie, ca. 1960, heavily refurbrished by Rolf Littorin, our local pipe maker. Svenax also owns a Naill Scottish lowland pipe and two Swedish pipes, o­ne by Leif Ericsson, Insjön, and another by Alban Faust. In addition he plays a beautiful Scottish smallpipe made by Rolf Littorin.

Maybe you're wondering what this Svenax business is all about? Well, as you may have figured out already, it is just my first and last name, Sven Axelsson, put together. It was the user name I got when working for Microsoft IPG in Dublin, Ireland, many years ago, and it has sort of stuck.