Archives for: February 2011
Dødsdømt og fri - Arvid Møller
February 27th, 2011Have had a few days of vacation at Sjusjøen, where I found the book "Dødsdømt og fri", the book about Arnulf Birger Lund, who was part of Milorg during WW2, and was captured by the local Nazis and tortured. The book tells the story about his life before… more »
"Elitesoldat..." - Thomas Rathsack and Dennis Drejer
February 27th, 2011Thomas Rathsack is a former member of the Danish special forces unit, Jægerkorpset. The book "Elitesoldat, i krig på fremmed jord" (Hunter - fighting with the elite) is about his experiences from the armed forces, but also about why he choosed such a lif… more »
Cold engine making dirty snow
February 27th, 2011Today we finished our winter vacation, Elin and the kids have been one week at Sjusjøen, I have been there from Wednesday. Last night it snowed about 10cm of the finest powder so everything was all white and shiny when I backed the car to where I could t… more »
Nordic World Ski Championship and True Grit
February 22nd, 2011Me and Espen agreed to go and watch True Grit today just after work. Took the bus to the National Theater and when walking towards the subway I noticed some loud music playing. They where rehearsing for the opening of the Nordic World Ski Championship in… more »
Keith Richards - Life
February 22nd, 2011My latest book, the Keith Richards' autobiography Life. A long life as a rock and roller equals a very thick book. Enjoyed parts of it, other parts...not my cup of tea - to much talk about playing the guitar and such stuff which went way above my head. B… more »
Lovely winter's day in Oslo yesterday
February 21st, 2011While my skis where miles away from me I needed some other excuse to get out and enjoy the nice weather yesterday. Decided to take the bus out to Fornebu to pick up my bike there. more »
I'm a nerd and I'm proud!!
February 21st, 2011Had a folder with about 350 property files, but with only 150 of them having a valid file name. No problem finding the files with a valid file name using find in combination with regex
find . -regex '.*__.*properties'
Problem is that I do not want… more »
All by myself
February 21st, 2011Managed to mount my Skiguard all by myself...mostly because I have a 750, anything else and it would have been impossible... more »
From me to ...
February 17th, 2011Elin, my wife My mother My mother in law My colleagues who has complained :-) more »
Säkert! - Facit
February 17th, 2011Known as Hello Saferide abroad or Säkert! in her home country Sweden, this is the second cd by Annika Nordin. more »
Biking in cold weather
February 15th, 2011Today when going to work in just below -10 celsius I realized that my glasses where gone, so I had to test the googles I have bought for days like these. Combination of snow and cold weather is a bit hard if not having glasses. But to my surprise it turn… more »
One teaspoon is enough!!
February 14th, 2011This weekend while cleaning the dishwasher I learned the hard way that one teaspoon of Zalo is enough. more »
Old habits die hard
February 12th, 2011Same fault as yesterday more »
Because I'm worth it!
February 12th, 2011Yesterday evening, kids asleep, wife sick... more »
And my next phone will be running on Android
February 11th, 2011Nokia + Microsoft. Here we go! 11.2.11...and my next phone will be using Android...why? Just because! more »
Cycling home from work yesterday
February 11th, 2011Yesterday I broke my own record with something between 5 or 10 minutes "the wrong direction" setting the new longest time home record, due to heavy snow. Started out from Fornebu I had to struggle quite hard, but from Lysaker to the opera building the pl… more »
UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory
February 10th, 2011Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own lapto… more »
About 12 hours of downtime
February 10th, 2011Yesterday my homepage experienced about 12 hours of downtime due to the hosting server host.hostean.com being unavailable. Not a good thing, but always good to figure out that it is not my fault. Have not seen any explanations of what the root cause was,… more »
Morning view from our living room
February 5th, 2011Elin took some pictures here the other day. more »
Imperial State Electric in concert yesterday
February 3rd, 2011Yesterday me, Espen and Sigurd went to see Imperial State Electric live in concert at John Dee with their lead singer Nicke Royale, formerly known from the great band Hellacopters. Really love the energy they created on stage, very limited small talk in… more »
Serena Ryder - Is it O.K
February 1st, 2011Bought by chance, mostly because she did a cover of Bruce Springsteen and his song Racing In the Street. A bit country I would describe it as, kinda like Melissa Etheridge maybe. more »
Mac OS X: Yet another update on the issue of corrupted home folder
February 1st, 2011After successfully getting access to all my files using the install DVD I did a reinstall. When finished I created a user with the same user id as before. Then logged on and became a bit confused by the fact that it had the same wallpaper as before the c… more »
Mac OS X: No need to kick it....yet!
February 1st, 2011Must admit that I'm still mad because our Macbook Pro decided to crash and not give me access to all our files, but at least I've just found a workaround.
Using the Install DVD, insert it and reboot while holding the c-button (makes your Macbook boot… more »
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