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Games with a purpose and the subway today

Leisure

If you want to try out games with a purpose go to http://www.purposegames.com/ Instead of just jumping over barrels while you shoot bad guys you can instead test your knowledge of countries, cities and more.

Another thing, at the subway today a guy sitting on the other side was obviously talking someone sitting opposite of him. At first I found his way of talking quite strange, I was never sure if he was singing or talking. Then when I had a closer look I realized that he was infact all alone, and he was sitting there singing. Not whole songs, just bits and pieces. Obviously a bit weird. Almost scarry when things like this happens, never sure what to expect of such guys…

Den Store Styrkeprøven

Sport

Saturday morning at 07.34 we where 27 guys who started on our bikes towards Oslo from Trondheim. 16 hours and 46 minutes later I passed the finish line in Oslo, after having been all by myself the last 260 kilometers, about 1 1/2 hour behind the rest of my team. All in all I am satisfied, but I must admit I would most of all prefer to be there with the rest of the guys. But, then again, that was part of the plan, better to maybe not be able to keep the pace than go for a “slower” team 🙂

I guess that people who have done this race numerous times can confirm that this year was super. We had about 15-30 minutes of rain between Berkåk and Oppdal, that was all. The wind was blowing right in our face when we passed Dovre, that was hard – but after that was partly cloudy and the wind blowing our way.

At 00.30 the 22’nd of June I said “never again”, but now two days after I’m not able to confirm that…

A rainy day

Anything but the other

On Monday I was walking down Karl Johan when the gates of heaven opened and it started raining cats and dogs. Luckily both I and the woman in front of me had umbrellas, but not the guy a bit further ahead. He undressed and with no clothes on his torso he ran towards Grand Hotel.

2 years of hard work now finished at Vestreng

Leisure

This picture is three years old, available at http://www.norgeibilder.no It shows how much trees it was back then.

If compared with the above picture this one is taken in the down left corner facing upwards.

And this one is taken in the down right corner facing updwards. As you can see plenty of trees are now available as fire wood.

But finished is maybe a bit wrong to say, still all the trees must be chopped to fire wood. And about 400 meters of fencing needs to be done…then – we can let the horses out…

No more space in the dishwasher

Sport

Preparing for Mjøsa Rundt on Saturday. Think I had eight bottles in it, but still need to buy more before Styrkeprøven, because I was missing two when I came back home. One was thrown far away, and one was lost among all the others.

UD 17-1 Håndbok for soldaten

Books

My latest book is UD 17-1 Håndbok for soldaten, a soldiers handbook from 1965. It was Elins uncle who got this book when doing his service back then. Kinda funny to read it, is is without doubt some years ago. Here are some quotes from the book provided in Norwegian

En mann som på grunn av militærtjenesten kommer til et sted hvor han ikke er kjent, f.eks under permisjonsturer til en by, kan lett være fristet til å søke omgang med kvinner av den type som er villig til å innlate seg med ham uten forutgående bekjentskap. Han bør da være oppmerksom på at straffeloven setter meget streng straff for utuktige handlinger overfor piker under 16 år, og likeledes overfor åndssvake.

..Uansett hvilket transportmiddel som blir nyttet, er det klart din plikt å vise lojalitet og positiv reaksjon på ordrer og retningslinjer som transportbefalet måtte gi…

Din egen oppførsel avspeiler din modenhet…

Beware of MSN-phising

Anything but the other

Yesterday I was chatting with a friend when all of a sudden he went off line for a while, then came back online. When he did I received a link to a site {his name}.b4ng.info. The page has a look and feel as the picture shows. I found it a bit suspicious, and did not provide my uid/pwd, but instead tried to google the address. Found nothing that could provide me with more information, so I sent an email to Microsoft here in Norway. Got the response earlier today and they told me to stay away – this is a phising-site. Luckily I’m paranoid!!

Read more about this at
http://www.yeasir.com/blog/2008/04/30/msn-virus-msn-phishing/
I would also suggest if you are able to do it that you block those addresses in your router at home if you have kids using MSN!

Mjøsa Rundt yesterday

Sport

Yesterday we did Mjøsa Rundt which is 225 kilometers around … Mjøsa… the largest lake in Norway. We managed to do it almost at our target which was 5.59, we did it in 6.00.59. A hard day because it was temperature was already above 17 degrees Celsius at 08.00, and 27 degrees at 14.00 when we passed the finish line. I almost got cramps when we passed Moelv, but luckily it passed away.

I did by the way pass 3000 kilometers on my bike last week…

Max Manus – Det vil helst gå godt

Books

My latest book is written by the Norwegian WW2 hero Max Manus. This is the story about the years before the war and from when the war started up to about 1943. He tells about his military career. As said here http://arkiv.poeten.no/default.aspx?pID=5&aID=80314 the book is not well written, apart from obvious typos the language is his own, written like he spoke. It is important to remember that the book was written just after the war, if that is not taken to consideration the book is … not a good one.

I must admit that I did not get the feeling of reading the story of a great war hero. He was brave without no doubt, but sometimes thanks to the bootle of whiskey. And talking about whiskey, there are many stories from various bars in the book…

As I remember it, it must have been Svein Blindheim http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svein_Blindheim who said that the members of Company Linge agreed that they would not write their memoirs until after the treason trials where finished. Max Manus did not follow this agreement and wrote the book and published it without telling anyone else…why would I then ask?

And at the end, referring to Hans Petter
http://www.fosseng.info/2008/05/20/123-meme/

Vi lærte her om det nye sprengstoffet plastikk; det var dengang svært hemmelig, og det ble oss fortalt at oppskriften til det var stjålet fra italienerne av det engelske Secret Service. Vi lærte å forme de riktige sprengladninger ved å bruke plastilin. vi fikk flere hemmelige bøkser som det stod “Secret” på over alt, og de var fulle av de mest djevelske måter å sprenge jernbanelinjer, broer og maskiner på