Escape from boredom

– Jeg føler at bunnen var på forrige fredag, sier Thomas Lande, meglersjef i Glitnir Securities, til E24. http://e24.no/boers-og-finans/article2711561.ece

Earlier this year

– De sitter på gjerdet. Det er usikkert hvor bunnen er, sier Lande og legger vekt på at fallet ikke har noe å gjøre med forventet inntjening i selskapene. Dette er først og fremst basert på psykologi, mener Lande

– Hvor det stanser er anybody’s guess, utdyper han (Thomas Lande) http://www.dn.no/forsiden/borsMarked/article1291892.ece?jgo=most_read&WT.svl=sistlest

He guesses and feels, not alone doing that the past few weeks. Soon Christmas, so now we can start wishing as well

My latest book, “High Society in the Third Reich” by Fabrice D’Almeida. The book is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis, and therefore I found it a bit hard to read. But even though, very interesting. Read more about it at http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745643113

Hillarious
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

Another funny quote

The movie Brokeback Mountain opened this week. yes, the movie is making history as the first western ever where the good guys get in the end

Try the link if the embedded video does not work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWjTcnLIyNw

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I’ve installed the b2evo 2.4.5 “Monument Valley”. Fast and easy upgrade, as just a reader of my blog you won’t notice the upgrade, other than it shall be even more stable.

Just had to a reference to this article which I found very good
http://e24.no/kommentar/e24-kommentar/article2686519.ece#AF

What is FRP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremskrittspartiet
What is “owned” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned

Two survivors of a Mega Tsunami tell their stories of the day the 1/2km high wave hit Lituya Bay.

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Today I took the test “Test 142: XML 1.1 and Related Technologies” which have the following test objectives http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/obj142.shtml They should really do something with this test, all the other ones I’ve taken have made me able to say that I’m for instance “IBM Certified Portal Developer”, but this one…not possible.

Passed it with a score of 86%, quite happy with that considering the fact that only two days ago when doing the sample test from Prometric I only managed 63% (needed 61% to pass…)

Anyhow, happy to have passed it, found the XML-stuff quite hard since it is a whole new way of thinking compared to for instance my Java programming certifications. And also a huge set of new abbreviations to learn: XML, XSL, XSLT, JAXB, SAX, DOM, DOM2, XSLT-FO, XPATH and the list just keeps on. I prepared by taking the class “Introduction to XML and Related Technologies”, following the tutorials at W3Schools, using sample tests from both Actualtests and Prometric and finally creating a html-presentation of our cd collection by using XML and XSL. Hopefully I will finish it with a nice look and feel and publish it here on my webpage.

Simen invited me to join him at the season premier of Golden Goal http://www.tv2underholdning.no/goldengoal/ today. So hopefully we will be able to see a glimpse of us in a day or two when they show it on tv. Want to know what happens, just ask and I can tell 🙂

I received the weekly newsletter from Pyro today, and I spent 5 minutes reading it. At the end they have a collection of links, some related to music and some just plain crazy. One that caught my attention being in the last category, just plain crazy:

Miniature dachshund gnawed off owner’s toe while she slept
…Linda Floyd said her beloved Roscoe has since been put down because of safety concerns….

Read the whole story at http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/…

Earlier today, just pictures, no text, even in the articles.