Poped up earlier today, since they know I’m in Oslo, it must be true!
I’m a winner!
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Oh no!!! Berlusconis love songs are delayed
God damn!!
Financial crisis forces Berlusconi to delay release of latest love song CD
Rolling economic storm clouds scupper the publishing date of the Italian prime minister’s “True Love” album
Read it all at www.guardian.co.uk/../financial-crisis-berlusconi-love-song
Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit
Going from superfit to superfat and superfit again in one year, the story as told by Drew Manning himself:
My journey from FIT to FAT and how to get back to FIT again!
This is my story of how I plan on going from being obsessed with being fit, to fat in 6 months and how I plan on showing everyone how to get back to fit again in 6 more months.
Check out the pictures and see videos and more at http://www.fit2fat2fit.com/photos/
Huge difference
Inside 20 celsius above zero (68 Fahrenheit) and outside 20 celsius below zero (-4 Fahrenheit)…at least happy we are at my in laws. Must admit that I am considering buying stuff from http://www.pipeeksperten.no/ at home. Would have been nice with a brand new iron stove at home.
Wikileaks – friend or foe?
I must admit that I have found the first parts leaking out from the “Cabelgate” at Wikileaks was kind of boring – that some diplomat finds Berlusconi partying to hard and Sarchozy being easily offended, who cares? But when Hillary Clinton is ordering illegal surveillance of the U.N…ref. for instance http://bigthink.com/ideas/25172
Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats, the CIA, and the FBI to spy on highest echelons of UN officialdom, including Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and World Health Organization, the Guardian reports. The U.S. event wanted biometric information of UN officials including DNA and iris scans.
In the news today Clinton was angry, she is apparently having good reasons for that, and hurray for Cabelgate! (Until I decide otherwise…)
A sign from above?
Alone at home today, was watching “Two and a half men” when I decided during a commercial break to switch to “The Big Bang Theory“. There was a scene where one of the characters yelled out in a bar that his picture would be in Peoples Magazine, when Charlie Sheen turned around saying something like “Until you are on the front page it does not matter”… I took that as a sign and switched back to Two and a Half Men, feeling sorry for having left them in the first place…
Johan Theorin – “Nattefokk”
My latest book, this time not a documentary but a crime fiction, the story takes place at the Swedish island Öland. Easy to read, mixing ghosts, thieves, police and more.
Changing XML attributes using Python
Doing some work trying to update J2C resources defined in WebSphere using Rational Automation Framework, actually about the same thing as described in the article “A step-by-step guide to automating the deployment of a data source by using Rational Build Forge” and I needed to do some changes in jaas.xml. Won’t go into the details why editing XML using for instance “normal” Perl is hard, but I ended up using Python and ElementTree to edit the file with a structure like this
<jaas>
<JAASAuthData
alias="dmgr/databaseuser"
description="The database user"
password="thepassword"
userId="dbid">
</JAASAuthData>
</jaas>
Used plenty of sources to help me out, but I do think I did use http://effbot.org/ the most – super when it comes to figuring out Python, but http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/pyxmlfaq.html was also of great help!
The script I created is available here updateJaas.py The script is bound to changing jaas.xml-files, but it should be quite easy to change it for other needs as well.
How to compare files? Notepad++ to the rescue
Have been using Notepad++ for quite a while now, but have not dived into the various plugins to much yet. But today I needed to compare two files and had no available comparators, or…could have used Rational Application Developer – but that is overkill for comparing two Jython scripts. But then Notepadd++ plugins to the rescue. Found this blogpost http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/blog/notepad-compare-plugin/, downloaded the plugin and followed this simple how-to installing it. Up and running in less than five minutes!
Magnetic resonance scan
Today I tried Magnetic resonance scan for the first time (and hopefully my last). It was not that bad experience, I guess because I do not suffer from claustrophobia and also because I could wear ear protections. I was there to get a picture of my shoulder, and in a few days I will hopefully just get confirmed that my muscles are ok and I can start lifting without any fear of creating more damage to my arm.
Worst thing was that I had to remove my nipple piercing, but after having watched this video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2194395/mri_scan_accident/ I realized that it was a good thing to remove it…and I know that both Elin and my mother appreciate that it is gone…