Archives for: July 2007
Crazy farmers up north
July 31st, 2007Read the article in my local newspaper from back home
http://www.ranablad.no/nyheter/article2904667.ece
Farmers stopped the train to have a ceremony for their dead sheeps. How crazy can that be?? I thought it was their responsibility to guard their a… more »
Mum - take a look at the picture
July 31st, 2007Look, Alex Rosen does it as well!!
My mother does not like when I do like that with my mouth... more »
The Police - The Police
July 30th, 2007Sat listening to a cover of Every Breath you take and realized that I do not have anything with The Police, so straight to www.play.com I went!
A bit strange, but if I google "The Police" I get www.sting.com as the best hit, but by going via Wikipedia… more »
We saw Robert Plant live!!
July 30th, 2007Have totally forgotten to add a post in my blog - when in Split on vacation we got to see Robert Plant live at the harbor of Split. And would you guess what, he ended the concert with playing Whole Lotta Love, the old Led Zeppelin song...and it was like… more »
Dum Dum Boys - Ludium
July 30th, 2007For 20 NOK, yet another cd with Dum Dum Boys more »
Karpe Diem - Glasskår
July 30th, 2007Norwegian rap EP, very good indeed! http://www.karpediem.no/ more »
I've updated my skin
July 28th, 2007I've done a small tweak to my skin. Ok, I've removed the links to those people who actually made my skin and the blog and so forth, but then again, it is still there, but as a comment in the code. But, what I've done is to link to people I know and their… more »
Towing an old truck at Vestreng
July 28th, 2007Elins father, Anders, has bought a new combine harvester and since it is so big we needed to move the old spare part truck. It was a tricky project since the truck has no gear stick and ... no breaks. The way to do it was to manually get in a gear, that… more »
My blog is updated
July 27th, 2007I've once again successfully updated my blog, from 1.9.3 to 1.10.2. As always it went just smooth, thanks to Franqois Planque and all the others. more »
Beers tried when at holiday
July 27th, 2007Got to try a some new types of beer this summer, they where:
Platan - got this one from our landlady at Korcula, Paulina. It is a Czheck beer. It might be that Platan is the brewery and that the actual beer is Jedenact http://www.pivo-platan.cz/index.… more »
Michael Rasmussen - shut up!!
July 27th, 2007Read this article http://www.bt.dk/article/20070726/sport03/70726037/1039/a/ where a lot of Danish people supports Michael Rasmussen and feels sorry for him being thrown out of Radobank. But, as said in this article in VG http://www1.vg.no/sport/sykkel/t… more »
Back from holiday
July 26th, 2007Back from two weeks in Croatia. We have been to Dubrovnik, Split and Korcula. We have had a day trip to Mostar in Bosnia, we have sea paddled and been to the beach nearly every day...
Croatia was nice, and we saw very few signs of the war from a bit m… more »
Tomm Kristiansen - Afrika, en vakker dag
July 26th, 2007Last book I've read, written by Tomm Kristiansen "Africa, en vakker dag". Bought it as a follow up on the book about Kongo. It gives you a broad and good view of the many issues Africa are struggling with today (and before).
Read a review in Norwegian… more »
Still - raining
July 8th, 2007We went out to Nesodden earlier today and I took my bicycle so I could use it to get back home. Great plan, had it just not been for the rain. About 30 minutes before I started it started raining cats and dogs. I must admit that I'm looking forward to ou… more »
Øyern rundt with Espen
July 7th, 2007Espen and I spent a bit more than 5 hours on our bicycles cycling all the way around Øyern today. All in all almost 150 kilometers. I'm a bit tired right now, and Espens knee is hurting.
We passed Solbergfoss power station where we stopped for five m… more »
Bad weather
July 5th, 2007It started to rain quite heavily, as Elin said, if we had lived two hundred years ago we would have thought that it was the end of days... more »
New cellphone - Nokia 5500 Sport
July 5th, 2007My old 5140 have annoyed me quite much the past few week, turning itself of every once and then and leaving me with the need to take the battery out to unlock it, and then use the charger to switch it on. The use of the charger was needed because the on/… more »
King Leopold's Ghost: - Adam Hochschild
July 5th, 2007King Leopold's Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa or "Kong Leopolds arv" in Norwegian, my latest book. Such stories we never did learn in school, but really should have. By reading this book you get a much better understandin… more »
ICE Your Cell Phone For Safety
July 4th, 2007Store your loved ones on your cell phone as ICE
ICE is the brainchild of British paramedic Bob Brotchie, who told The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen Tuesday the idea came to him "just from reflecting on difficulties I've had in obtaining information a… more »
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