Archives for: April 2010
The King of Kong
April 30th, 2010After a tip from Atle I bought "The King of Kong". If you found "The Story of Anvil" worth watching, you will really enjoy The King of Kong. How can someone put so much effort into video games is beyond belief is you ask me. Some disputed facts of course… more »
New crank mounted on my commuter
April 29th, 2010Two days ago when biking from Ullevål back home, just about 400 meters from Spinn at Storo my bike broke down. The crank gear had a massive breakdown. As the picture shows, on the left just after the break down, the pedal is way to much to the left. Comp… more »
Drinking on kid's tv show?
April 29th, 2010Anders was watching a cartoon on the morning tv show, when I realized that there was a hidden message trying to promote alcohol (could not possibly be something else)...an owl sitting with a green bottle, definitely beer or wine...scary, someone please n… more »
Most crazy Mythbusters stunt I've ever seen...
April 26th, 2010They are trying to pancake a car...by using a rocket sledge!!!
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Me and Iver
April 25th, 2010My second son was born yesterday, named Iver. Everything according to plan, healthy and hungry... more »
Russ - I'm getting old
April 24th, 2010I've marked the map where I live and where the Russ have their party right now at Tryvann. By car that is 22 km, but still I have no problems hearing the music they are playing. And if I go out to the balcony I am able to hear what song it is. The reason… more »
Ships at the harbor today
April 23rd, 2010On my way to work today I had to stop and take a picture of KNM «Fridtjof Nansen» and KNM «Helge Ingstad» down at the harbor. There was also another ship there more »
Bilia at Fornebu - that little extra
April 23rd, 2010Had my car at Bilia at Fornebu yesterday for the 60.000 service. Everything according to our agreement, the service and some stuff I extra I had asked for, such as air conditioning anti-bacterial cleaning. They gave me a good explanation of what was done… more »
From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle V
April 21st, 2010Yesterday was my fiftieth time going to work with my bike this year, and also the fifth leg on my virtual trip to Nordkapp from Lindesnes. I have now arrived at Arnes in Ballangen. Apparently not the place to be, since the only thing I have been able to… more »
Bash - Insert content of one file into another file
April 16th, 2010Had to insert a XML-snippet into another XML-file at a given location in a Bash-script. Reading the snippet into a variable is quite easy, just by using cat. The trouble was how to find the tag to replace most efficiently, then replace it with the xml-sn… more »
The volcano incident
April 15th, 2010Flightradard24.com shows live aircraft traffic in the airspace above Europe. Check out the title field right now, when the volcano is doing the job spreading the ash more »
Lost property
April 15th, 2010Tine has lost some property more »
Usability on the wild side
April 12th, 2010From the IBM support portal. I must admit that I thought my current list was saved, but obviously not, but then again, in my current list all my saved products are present...confusing more »
Heavy duty protection for my cell phone
April 9th, 2010Got my Otterbox Defender Case here the other day. Superb protection for my phone, makes it waaaay more shock resistant, and also makes it water resistant. Note - not waterproof, just water resistant, but it cover my needs. I have a waterproof bag for mom… more »
How to exclude files when using ls
April 9th, 2010Had a directory with > 150 *.properties-files and needed to check if there where any files not ending with .properties. ls lists all the files, combine it with grep and you are saved.
# See all files ending in .html
ls | grep "\.html$"
# see all… more »
Cycling season 2010 has started for real
April 5th, 2010Last Wednesday was my first bike ride not going to work. With my single speed bike I headed for Vestreng in +2, rain and occasionally strong headwinds. And when average speed is limited to about 20 km/h I was quite cold after 48 km. Got to shorter rides… more »
Summer tyres in winter
April 3rd, 2010Yesterday I had planned to change to summer tyres, but did not find the time, but Lars Tormod did. Woke up this morning as saw this out of the kitchen window. Must admit this is one day I'm quite happy I was lazy the day before. more »
Band of Brothers - tv mini-series
April 1st, 2010Finally finished all ten episodes of Band of Brothers and what a serie. A monumental documentation of Easy Company and their struggles from the D-Day until the end of WW2. Really enjoy how you get to know each one of the men, each episode have short inte… more »
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