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Biking in cold weather

Anything but the other

Today when going to work in just below -10 celsius I realized that my glasses where gone, so I had to test the googles I have bought for days like these. Combination of snow and cold weather is a bit hard if not having glasses. But to my surprise it turned out to work just fine, no condensation and also no pain in my forehead due to cold weather when going downhill from Tveita.

Our street today, pretty bad conditions, but on Thursday it will be better, then they will come and remove all the snow.

One teaspoon is enough!!

Leisure

This weekend while cleaning the dishwasher I learned the hard way that one teaspoon of Zalo is enough. Just used it to clean the valve, but should not have…

But it could have been worse

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Should have watched the movie with Mark Newman-Kuzel…a CEO showing the way… ehow.com/..clean-dishwasher.html, who also can show you have to clean the shower and much more 🙂

Cycling home from work yesterday

Sport

Yesterday I broke my own record with something between 5 or 10 minutes “the wrong direction” setting the new longest time home record, due to heavy snow. Started out from Fornebu I had to struggle quite hard, but from Lysaker to the opera building the plows had been working pretty hard. From the opera to Bryn I had to use the road, so that went without any problems…but then it got worse. Had to walk up from Bryn to Hellerud, then using the road to Haugerud and yet again walk the last kilometer since no one had done any attempt to remove any snow in Haugerudhagan.

Stopping at the harbor, there is a boat out there

Pretty good conditions alongside the harbor.

Passing Middelalderparken, had to walk about 100 meters, not easy to cycle here

My bike starting to get more and more heavy due to all the snow and ice

Had to walk…

UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory

Work/Geek

Got the error yesterday while trying to install WebSphere using RAFW on an old Linux installation, having the media-folder mounted from a network share on a Windows XP-box. I had unzipped the tar-files containing the installation binaries on my own laptop, then just copied them using Windows Explorer to the pc where I had shared out the folder. Apparently it should be no problem doing this, I could without any problem navigate down the folder structure on the Linux machine viewing all the files. But still I got errors such as the

UNIXProcess.forkAndExec native error: No such file or directory

and later while changing the log level to =ALL, I found

/usr/RAFW/product/actions/install/was/common/install_update_was_common.xml:89: /usr/RAFW/media/linux/X32/was/70/patches/was70_fp13 not found.
but, it was there, I know…

So, after receiving a tip from my colleagues, I deleted the media tree, using ftp transferred the tar-files containing the binaries to the pc with the share, installed Cygwin and unpacked the files using the tar command. Voila…problem solved…stupid, stupid!!! But problem gone, on to the next…

About 12 hours of downtime

Work/Geek

Yesterday my homepage experienced about 12 hours of downtime due to the hosting server host.hostean.com being unavailable. Not a good thing, but always good to figure out that it is not my fault. Have not seen any explanations of what the root cause was, but as I could see MySQL was struggling pretty hard.

Imperial State Electric in concert yesterday

Music

Yesterday me, Espen and Sigurd went to see Imperial State Electric live in concert at John Dee with their lead singer Nicke Royale, formerly known from the great band Hellacopters. Really love the energy they created on stage, very limited small talk in between songs, play one then on to the next – just as it should be. Just like when Nicke performed together with Hellacopters at Hove some years ago, they played about five songs, then he said “Tjänare Norje”, and kept on playing!!! How cool is that??