Escape from boredom

• Ida Maria http://www.myspace.com/idamaria From Nesna, actually my father who told me about her the first time I believe
• Ghost Dog http://www.myspace.com/dogsghost Still as impressed as the first time I listened to them, go Ivan go!
• Maria Solheim http://www.myspace.com/mariasolheim Been a long time since the last time I’ve listended to her
• Serena Maneesh www.myspace.com/serenamaneesh Not my cup of tea
• 120 Days www.myspace.com/120days Not my cup of tea, coffee or anything else … but, I have a tendency to stay away from bands being to hyped and then return to them years later, so maybe…one day, but more than 120 …
• Lene Marlin http://www.myspace.com/lenemarlinpedersen Contemporary. She has categorized herself as rock, that must be a lie
• The Mono Sapiens http://myspace.com/theemonosapiens Seen them once live, lifetime experience!
• Nikkeby Lufthavn http://www.myspace.com/nikkebylufthavn Found the name so funny (Nikkeby Airport, Nikkeby being a place somewhere and meaning something like the noding city airport) that I had to follow the link I found at The Mono Sapiens webpage. Rock’n roll!
• DIO http://www.myspace.com/dioofficial Holy Diver and Last in Line, need I say more??
• Kristin Asbjørnsen http://www.myspace.com/kristinasbjornsen She is a really good singer
• Krøyt http://www.myspace.com/kroyt Kristin Asbjørnsen sings, a bit to much computers and such sounds to be my cup of tea
• The Caesars http://www.myspace.com/thecaesarsofsweden Plain and simple rock, as I like it. Got two cd’s with them as well I think
• Pixies http://www.myspace.com/pixies Really alternative, and kudos to my cousin Andre who I remember listened to them waaaaaay back then, Surfer Rosa was released in 1988
• Go Go Dolls www.myspace.com/googoodolls Adult rock I guess the genre is or something…
• OASIS http://www.myspace.com/oasis The old giants
• Motorpsycho http://www.myspace.com/motorpsychopage Grand oldies here in Norway
• HGH http://www.myspace.com/hghhello Some Norwegian bluegrass

…to be updated during the day

I guess he had a bit of rush, the journalist writing this article http://www.kjendis.no/2008/01/17/524200.html because I can’t seem to figure out why on earth he have placed the picture of Janne Formoe and Synnøve Skarbøe at the beginning since they are not mentioned anywhere else in the article…

Here is the Awstat report from last year for my website. Not sure what was so special about February, but there must have been something…

Sometimes malicious pleasure might sometimes be the best kind of pleasure. Today when driving to Årvoll for the weekly spinning with Rye I was overtaken by an old Saab. It was for sure not the place to do it, the speed limit was 50 km/t and I drove with that speed. Just up ahead there was a roundabout, so why bother to go that fast. I wish I was a cop so I could stop that idiot when approaching the next roundabout having to break hard because a big car came out from a side road….and YES!!! It was the police, who drove after the Saab…malicious pleasure…. 🙂

Wanted to reset my Polar S210, but was unsure how to do it since I’ve lost track of the manual long time ago. Thanks to http://www.pulsklokke.no I managed.

Gå inn i den siste filen i File menyen. Bla deg frem til Tot.Time-trykk på den røde ok knappen-reset vil komme frem i displayet-hold så inne knappen nede til høyre til den går til 0

Read an article about Tor Erling Staff and his client, also known as Lommemannen. It has gotten a lot of attention the past few days, which also the cell phone belonging to Staff has taken notice of

Pågangen på telefonen til Staff har vært massiv de siste dagene. Mobilen hans brøt sammen, så i går måtte han skaffe seg ny.

It is not easy to manage to handle the information overflow, when even the cell phone breaks down. Wonder why the new one will handle it better, larger battery?

We have spent the weekend together with my colleagues in Prague, as alway a very nice city. In January much better than during high season in summer, you are able to walk around without 100.000 other people around you at all time.

I’ve taken pictures off course of the different beer brands I tried, first Gambrinus http://www.gambrinus.com/

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Pilsner Urquell off course

Krusovice http://www.pivo-krusovice.cz/en/

Here is a picture from a traditional beer serving tavern we visited, funny enough just across the street where we stayed on our VOT-03 tour. We also drank the dark beer they served there, not sure what brand that was.

Found this “thing” beside the sink in one of the restaurant. Not sure if it was to freshen the air in the room, or if it was perfume for free…

At Gardermoen, wearing the new _tent_

My latest book is Berlin by Anthony Beevor, the same author who wrote Stalingrad. As for that book this one is really good, the author is well known for weaving together the basic facts with personal histories. What I did not know, and found the most shocking fact was the huge amount of women that was raped by the Red Army on their way from Russia to Berlin and how the leaders of the Red Army ignored it. For Stalin found the “worst” threat to be that Russian soldiers should get “western thoughts”.

I especially found the last pages of the book very good, where he wraps up how many of the Wehrmacht generals (and others) refused to admit that what they had done was wrong. Instead they tried to explain what they could have done otherwise to win the war. For instance, some said it was wrong to start a war on two fronts, if they had not, they could have beaten the Bolsheviks…