Amy MacDonald – This is the Life (Deluxe Edition).
The song “This is the Life” as heard on the winter commercial for Hafslund
[video:youtube:3__plLgwegU]Amy MacDonald – This is the life
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Georg Wadenius – Reconnection
Georg Wadenius wikipedia/Georg_Wadenius – Reconnection. Mostly cover of other artists, with artists like Nina Persson and Frida from ABBA doing the vocals. I enjoy the songs he has done together with Anderas Kleerup, but also the Peter Garbriel cover “Don’t give up” (Spotify) where Silje Nergaard is doing vocals.
As I remember it, it was the Brothers in Arms cover with Nina Persson which draw my attention to this album.
Banana cake and the Waffle day
Yesterday Elin had her birthday and I made a banana cake. Got thumbs up by my parents-in-law, even Elin who initially said that she did not like banana cake enjoyed it.
And today on the 25’th of March it is the Waffle day here in Norway (and many other countries as well) – read more about waffles at Wikipedia, much I did not know. I have celebrated the day making oat waffles. Elin is skeptic, but she have not tasted them yet.
Hansa Pilsner Lite – Best in test
Yesterday Elin bought two Hansa Pilsner Lite
…beer along with spicy homemade tomato soup, a perfect combination. And according to the webpage klikk.no/helse/dinkost/tester/ the beer won best in test…competing against other lite beers (should have known). Nothing about taste mentioned, just “not much alcohol, less calories” and such.
I would summarize my rating with a link to the song “It’s no good” by Depeche Mode. Why fool yourself, either stay away from beer or drink the real stuff. Have never enjoyed Hansa anyway. And neither have Hamar Arbeiderblad
Upgraded blog to B2Evolution 4.0.5
Yet another successful and easy upgrade, now running 4.0.5 of B2Evolution. Had to spend some time uploading the files to the server due to very limited bandwidth this evening, but apart from that, no problems. Also used WinScp to move the media-folder on the server before upgrade and then move it back, in that way I could delete files and upload a fresh copy afterwards.
Tearing down the old grain drier
This weekend Lars Tormod and I teared down the old grain drier at Vestreng. We had planned to go and fetch firewood, but due to all the snow which is icy on the top and more like sugar underneath we where forced to do something else. We will wait until the snow is gone and then do another try.
I’ve plowed away the snow so we can get the firewood we made last year.
Found an old ski jumping helmet belonging to my father-in-law
Lars Tormod started working
My oldest son Anders and my father-in-law Anders checking the progress
Almost finished
All down, not we just have to hand it over to the scrap yard.
Back on track again after hosting server being hacked
Yet again http://hellem.org is up and running again after the hosting server was hacked last weekend. No real issues for me apart from a few days of not bothering to update my blog until they had fixed the security hole and rolled back to the needed backup. As I know they did not do anything other than change all index files as described here http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=546049.
Anyhow, I had a backup of my blog, did not loose any information, also thanks to an exact local copy of my folders and files.
Bash: Loop a comma separated list
Just perfect!
######VARIABLE DEFINITIONS#######
LIST=1,2,3,4,5
#################################
# Add a trailing comma to the list variable
LOOPVAR=${LIST},
# Loop as long as there is a comma in the variable
while echo $LOOPVAR | grep \, &> /dev/null
do
# Grab one item out of the list
LOOPTEMP=${LOOPVAR%%\,*}
# Remove the item we just grabbed from the list,
# as well as the trailing comma
LOOPVAR=${LOOPVAR#*\,}
# some action with your variable
#
# echo $LOOPTEMP
#
# for example
done
Thanks to “The Code and the Fury” for providing the script, see the blog post for more details about how the script actually works.
Want safer surfing at home?
I’m now testing OpenDNS at home. You get
- Web Content Filtering
- Anti Phising
- Malware protection
- Whitelist/Blacklist
- Block P2P, and more…
Have not noticed any drops in speed. Ok, a ping to the DNS server of OpenDNS is slower than to my “real” DNS, but that does not tell the whole story, since you do not surf on pages hosted on your DNS-server. It might also depend on the size of the DNS-cache on the server…have I been told…
A bit confused when it comes to verifying if I’m really using OpenDNS using the webpage http://www.opendns.com/welcome/ but it all turned out to be a need to just restart Firefox combined with a few minutes of waiting time.
Router firmware upgraded
My brother and sister are visiting us this weekend and while my brother is playing some online game I was checking the web console on my WRT54GL for ways to block the gaming. That was when I noticed that my firmware version was 4.30.7, and the latest was 4.30.15…so I decided that it was time to upgrade. Quite easy in fact, just verify hardware version, then download the .bin-file and upload it using the web console. Should work like a charm I my thought was, but nope…”Upgrade failed”, back to the manual. Noticed “Use Internet Explorer or Safari”, I was using Firefox. Fired up Safari, and tried again, about 20 seconds and “Upgrade Successful”, which also included a reboot causing my brother cursing…double success! 🙂