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Usability on the wild side
From the IBM support portal. I must admit that I thought my current list was saved, but obviously not, but then again, in my current list all my saved products are present…confusing
Anyone?
Heavy duty protection for my cell phone
Got my Otterbox Defender Case here the other day. Superb protection for my phone, makes it waaaay more shock resistant, and also makes it water resistant. Note – not waterproof, just water resistant, but it cover my needs. I have a waterproof bag for moments when the going gets really tough (Birkebeinerrittet last year for instance).
I have access to all features of the phone without problems, loving it!
How to exclude files when using ls
Had a directory with > 150 *.properties-files and needed to check if there where any files not ending with .properties. ls lists all the files, combine it with grep and you are saved.
# See all files ending in .html
ls | grep “\.html$”
# see all files not ending in .html
ls | grep -v “\.html$”
Solution found at unix.com
Cycling season 2010 has started for real
Last Wednesday was my first bike ride not going to work. With my single speed bike I headed for Vestreng in +2, rain and occasionally strong headwinds. And when average speed is limited to about 20 km/h I was quite cold after 48 km. Got to shorter rides as well on Thursday and Friday, but with small changes in the weather it was not pleasant at all.
Yesterday I mounted my Thule rack, together with the summer tires, so now the car is ready for yet another cycling season.
Yesterday evening I mounted brand new SPD pedals (the old ones are on my commuter bike) and a new Selle Italia SLR bike saddle. Needed a new saddle since the old one soaked up water if it was raining hard, reason – to soft, who needs a soft saddle?
And today Espen and I enjoyed the nice weather and was out together for about two hours. Had a nice ride to Lillestrøm, via Skedsmokorset, Hellerudsletta and back home. Here we have a short brake nearby Hellerudsletta.
Summer tyres in winter
Yesterday I had planned to change to summer tyres, but did not find the time, but Lars Tormod did. Woke up this morning as saw this out of the kitchen window. Must admit this is one day I’m quite happy I was lazy the day before. Guess Volvo-driving is not the best thing to do today 🙂
Found a video on Youtube showing why not to use summer tyres on snow
[video:youtube:rFODBAr5q7M]Band of Brothers – tv mini-series
Finally finished all ten episodes of Band of Brothers and what a serie. A monumental documentation of Easy Company and their struggles from the D-Day until the end of WW2. Really enjoy how you get to know each one of the men, each episode have short interviews of men from Easy before it starts. Must also say that the last episode with the ending with one of them telling a story about a grandson asking grandpa if he was a hero in the war. “No, but I fought with a company of heroes!”. One of them being Major Dick Winters for sure!
A must see, again and again – like Generation Kill, another great HBO series. Also exited about the new series The Pacific, wondering if it will be as good as Band of Brothers and Generation Kill.
I’ve had a Gastroscopy
Yesterday I had to do a gastroscopy. Just a routine check, nothing major wrong with me, but it had to be done. I’ve heard so much about it, would not say I was worried, but I did not know what to expect. Ok, it was not nice, I would prefer not to do it, but then again it was not that bad. I was able to breath without any problems, and occasionally I wanted to throw up, but that is normal. If you want to find out how it is being done, take a look at this video at Youtube (I do not embed this one 😉 )
Actually, the worst part if you ask me is that you are not allowed to eat or drink the whole day. So I got to bed at about 23:30, and was not able to eat or drink before about 16:00…I guess I had been sleeping for about two hours when I woke up and was feeling veeeery thirsty…
And also, I’ve been told that a endoscopy is worse 🙂
Spotify
Must admit Spotify impressed me just now. I read about Jahn Teigen at norskmusikk.org, and with Spotify running I wanted to listen to some of his music. I already have “En Dags Pause” in my cd collection, but I wanted to listen to some of his really old stuff – Popol Vuh, or Popol Ace (they had to change their name). And to my surprise, Spotify does have Popol Ace, so if you have Spotify, just click on the following link http://open.spotify.com/track/3rRVXVbzvsI1JDOSkPZkd1
Senkveld yesterday
We where watching “Senkveld” yesterday evening and I must say it was one of their best shows I’ve seen for a very long time. The main reason for this being that they did not have any interview objects that where from other tv shows at TV2. I get so sick and tired of tv shows talking about other tv shows.