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Heavy duty protection for my cell phone

Got my Otterbox Defender Case here the other day. Superb protection for my phone, makes it waaaay more shock resistant, and also makes it water resistant. Note – not waterproof, just water resistant, but it cover my needs. I have a waterproof bag for moments when the going gets really tough (Birkebeinerrittet last year for instance).

I have access to all features of the phone without problems, loving it!

How to exclude files when using ls

Had a directory with > 150 *.properties-files and needed to check if there where any files not ending with .properties. ls lists all the files, combine it with grep and you are saved.

# See all files ending in .html
ls | grep “\.html$”
# see all files not ending in .html
ls | grep -v “\.html$”

Solution found at unix.com

Cycling season 2010 has started for real

Last Wednesday was my first bike ride not going to work. With my single speed bike I headed for Vestreng in +2, rain and occasionally strong headwinds. And when average speed is limited to about 20 km/h I was quite cold after 48 km. Got to shorter rides as well on Thursday and Friday, but with small changes in the weather it was not pleasant at all.

Yesterday I mounted my Thule rack, together with the summer tires, so now the car is ready for yet another cycling season.

Yesterday evening I mounted brand new SPD pedals (the old ones are on my commuter bike) and a new Selle Italia SLR bike saddle. Needed a new saddle since the old one soaked up water if it was raining hard, reason – to soft, who needs a soft saddle?

And today Espen and I enjoyed the nice weather and was out together for about two hours. Had a nice ride to Lillestrøm, via Skedsmokorset, Hellerudsletta and back home. Here we have a short brake nearby Hellerudsletta.

Summer tyres in winter

Yesterday I had planned to change to summer tyres, but did not find the time, but Lars Tormod did. Woke up this morning as saw this out of the kitchen window. Must admit this is one day I’m quite happy I was lazy the day before. Guess Volvo-driving is not the best thing to do today 🙂

Found a video on Youtube showing why not to use summer tyres on snow

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Link

Band of Brothers – tv mini-series

Finally finished all ten episodes of Band of Brothers and what a serie. A monumental documentation of Easy Company and their struggles from the D-Day until the end of WW2. Really enjoy how you get to know each one of the men, each episode have short interviews of men from Easy before it starts. Must also say that the last episode with the ending with one of them telling a story about a grandson asking grandpa if he was a hero in the war. “No, but I fought with a company of heroes!”. One of them being Major Dick Winters for sure!

A must see, again and again – like Generation Kill, another great HBO series. Also exited about the new series The Pacific, wondering if it will be as good as Band of Brothers and Generation Kill.