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First bike ride!

Rune Hellem — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:00 +0000

This year is not like the past ones, today I had my first bike ride, 5 months later than for instance last year. But, what is better is the weather when riding the bike in May than in January.

A quick stop overlooking Maridalsvatnet.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Blog updated to latest version

Rune Hellem — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Smooth and easy as always, now running 4.1.7, mainly a security patch.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Things to do when in Rome

Rune Hellem — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:27:00 +0000

The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment and the basin (or more broadly, the complex) in which this took place....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naumachia

Or what about diving horses?

More to learn if you listen to Sirkus at Radio Nova

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Blog performance improvement

Rune Hellem — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:17:00 +0000

I started to get preeettyyy annoyed by the bad performance of my blog. Did some research and decided just give the two lines a try in the .htaccess file

Code:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

And, damn! It seems to work immediately and provide a major performance improvement. Why have I not done this before?

@Update:

Also added

Code:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
       ExpiresByType text/css        "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/gif       "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/png       "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg      "access plus 1 month"
 
       # Now we have Expires: headers, ETags are unecessary and only slow things down:
       FileETag None
</IfModule>

Just now I still have some performance issues, but I suspect that to be caused by the database server struggling, not the web server.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Spinning to Noah And The Whale

Rune Hellem — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Yesterday, spinning to Noah And The Whale

While writing this I found a review of the album saying

. I gave it three out of ten for the first two songs and the last one. All the music inbetween is aimed at 12-15 year old girls. I thought I was listening to the best of Australian Idol. Songs have no depth and are aim at a quick buck!!

Utter crap and is the worst album of my collection. The only positive is that I also bought the new strokes album which is gold.

I do no think it was that bad, meaning, it was easy listening, but I must admit that I got a bit annoyed of the lyrics. And that does not happen often, me paying attention to the lyrics.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Spinning to Wannskrækk and Kung Fu Girls

Rune Hellem — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:59:00 +0000

Yesterday, spinning to two albums - first Wannskrækk and the album Riff (1980 - 1985). Good one, get better at the end as well, which is good when listening to it while spinning.

Then Kung Fu Girls and their album This is the Kung Fu Beat. Good one!

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Windows - the SnippingTool

Rune Hellem — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:30:00 +0000

I was not aware of this tool, the SnippingTool. After spending years using MsPaint when taking screenshots, I have now turned advanced.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Spinning to Astroburger

Rune Hellem — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:36:00 +0000

Found the album on the newly released list on Wimp, needed an album that did not last for more than about 30 minutes, spot on. Have heard of them before, did not remember that I had heard them, not my cup of tea.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

	`<IfModule mod_expires.c>`
	`ExpiresActive On`
	`ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"`
	`ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"`
	`ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"`
	`ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"`
	`ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"`

	`# Now we have Expires: headers, ETags are unecessary and only slow things down:`
	`FileETag None`
	`</IfModule>`

	`AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml`
	`SetOutputFilter DEFLATE`