I am not a good drawer, but when my son asks me to draw a self portrait I do try my best, pretty close or what?
I am not a good drawer
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Trans Germany – Now “Bike Four Peaks”
Just had to check, Trans Germany have not switched name to Bike Four Peaks. Had to check the website to freshen up the memories from last year. And what do I see, one of the banners
There he is, me!
Anyhow, good thing that we did not plan to go this year, the race is heavily affected by the flood . Freaking weather, scary!
Communal duty work on the rooftop ( shouting out )
Last Sunday – communal duty work together helping Kjetil out with his roof.
Nice weather, but weather forecast promised rain so we had to work hard to finish up. And in addition it was the fear of flood, see picture here http://www.rb.no/bilde/article6675265.ece Luckily we finished the root and no flood reached his house either.
…and standing on the rooftop reminded me of
[video:youtube:5yOCrXC8G3g]
A small piece of happiness
My oldest son had been playing with the scissors here the other day, cutting pictures from a magazine. After he was finished I found stuck on the chair a glimpse of all the happiness in the world.
First bike ride!
This year is not like the past ones, today I had my first bike ride, 5 months later than for instance last year. But, what is better is the weather when riding the bike in May than in January.
A quick stop overlooking Maridalsvatnet.
Blog updated to latest version
Smooth and easy as always, now running 4.1.7, mainly a security patch.
Things to do when in Rome
The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally “naval combat”) in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment and the basin (or more broadly, the complex) in which this took place….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naumachia
Or what about diving horses? [video:youtube:r8vIjuIeQpM]
More to learn if you listen to Sirkus at Radio Nova
Blog performance improvement
I started to get preeettyyy annoyed by the bad performance of my blog. Did some research and decided just give the two lines a try in the .htaccess file
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
And, damn! It seems to work immediately and provide a major performance improvement. Why have I not done this before?
@Update:
Also added
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
# Now we have Expires: headers, ETags are unecessary and only slow things down:
FileETag None
</IfModule>Just now I still have some performance issues, but I suspect that to be caused by the database server struggling, not the web server.
Spinning to Noah And The Whale
Yesterday, spinning to Noah And The Whale
While writing this I found a review of the album saying
. I gave it three out of ten for the first two songs and the last one. All the music inbetween is aimed at 12-15 year old girls. I thought I was listening to the best of Australian Idol. Songs have no depth and are aim at a quick buck!!
Utter crap and is the worst album of my collection. The only positive is that I also bought the new strokes album which is gold.
I do no think it was that bad, meaning, it was easy listening, but I must admit that I got a bit annoyed of the lyrics. And that does not happen often, me paying attention to the lyrics.
Spinning to Wannskrækk and Kung Fu Girls
Yesterday, spinning to two albums – first Wannskrækk and the album Riff (1980 – 1985). Good one, get better at the end as well, which is good when listening to it while spinning.
Then Kung Fu Girls and their album This is the Kung Fu Beat. Good one!
