I’m currently watching the program “Extreme Oil: The BTC Pipeline” Read more at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/journey/btc.html . You can also read about the pipeline at this webpage http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/oil-m31.shtml . I found it very interesting! Oil and water will make wars, no doubt!
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Thin Lizzy – Whiskey in the Jar
It’s been a while since I bought this album, just haven’t found the time to publish it here. Bought it when driving to Sunnmøre this easter. Thin Lizzy is still playing, just see http://www.thinlizzylive.com, but if you ask for my opinion Thin Lizzy is Phil Lynnot, and since he is dead, Thin Lizzy is best to be remembered for their old hits. Their story can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Lizzy
The most fattening coctails
You won’t be drinking after this, or at least, you realize that when drinking you don’t need to eat 🙂 http://www.forbes.com/health/2005/08/10/cocktails-calories-lifestyle-cx_sy_0810feat_ls.html
Renovation – New doors
Today we have had help from Per, the carpenter they used when renovating Elins home. The door bell rang at 06.50 A.M!! God damn that’s early to start working, especially since we sat up late last night watching Magnolia. Anyhow, the doors are now mounted, and I just needed to go to Maxbo seven times!!
Just started, one door mounted
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From inside the bathroom
Per and Anders working, this door gave them quite a lot of headache
The main entrance door, finally!!!
Regain control of your computer
Wondering if you should install a programe, check this site first, for instance Kazaa…no, no, no!!! http://www.stopbadware.org/
Banger Racing at Eksismoa
Today, or more correct – yesterday, Espen, Elin and me went to Eksismoa http://www.eksismoa.no, despite Anders Glende lack of acceptance, to watch banger racing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banger_racing. We had a lot of luck, it rained cats and dogs right until ten minutes before we arrived, after that it was no rain and a bit of sun. We also meet Bunæs there, and joined him and his friend. Elin loved it!!
Espen explaining Elin about Banger Racing
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Elin, Daniel and Kjetil
The cars speeding around the track
It’s raining frogs
In the film Magnolia it rains frogs at the end of the movie. I had to search the Internet and find out why – here is an explanation http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/6315-idiom-raining-frogs.html.
Elins opinion was that this was mentioned in the bible, so I had to do a new search. So from this site “The secrets of Magnolia” http://kempa.com/articles/mag82/ I found
Exodus 8:2 in the bible reads: “And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.” Supposedly there are over 100 occurances of the numbers 8 and 2 within the movie, foreshadowing the coming ‘storm’. The ‘100 references figure comes from the following interview excerpt:
In Norwegian:
Fra Andre Mosebok 8.2:
Da sa Herren til Moses: «Gå til farao og si til ham: Så sier Herren: La mitt folk fare, så de kan tjene meg. 2 Nekter du å la dem fare, vil jeg plage hele landet med frosk.
Fant dette på http://www.bibelen.no, jaggu var de glade i frosk i Andre Mosebok gitt!!!
Release concert
Yesterday we went to the release concert for the band Orangos new EP. Quite good, read more about them at their own webpage http://www.orango.no It was down by the time I wrote this, hopefully they get back up and running real fast…
E-Norge and Open Standards
From a mail I got here the other day
Hei
Jeg er lei meg for at det har gått så lang tid før du har fått svar fra oss.
Spørsmålet om bruk av åpne IT-standarder er noe vi arbeider intenst med her i departementet om dagen. Som du har sett av rapporten fra i fjor (og høringssvarene) så har det vært stor interesse omkring dette. Det er mange statsetater og kommuner som er opptatt av om det kommer føringer og krav som vil koste penger. Mange utenfor offentlig sektor blir også berørt. Derfor må vi passe på å vinne forståelse for saken i relevante miljøer og legge til rette for gode analyse- og beslutningsprosesser som instansene kan ha tillit til. Med andre ord er det et betydelig forankringsarbeid som må gjøres. Regjeringen har behandlet saken, se pressemeldingen fra 7. april:
http://odin.dep.no/fad/norsk/aktuelt/pressesenter/pressem/071001-070013/dok-bn.htmlNeste steg er, som det fremgår av pressemeldingen, å etablere et eget standardiseringsråd som kan utarbeide anbefalinger på konkrete problemstillinger. Jeg regner med at du vil se flere nyheter om dette i løpet av sommeren/høsten, men jeg kan ikke være mer konkret akkurat nå. Etterhvert som vi får dette apparatet til å “rulle” vil vi ganske sikkert legge opp et nettsted hvor alle interesserte kan følge med på det som skjer angående IT-standarder i det offentlige.
Takk for interessen!
mvh
Henrik Linnestad
IT-politisk avd
FAD
Jet – Get Born
PeA introduced me to this band when he came back from Australia a couple of years ago. Now I’ve bought it. http://www.jetmusic.co.uk
