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Election stands

Anything but the other

This year we have the general election here in Norway. Due to that many of the party’s have a stand on the main street of Oslo, Karl Johan. The one I find most noticeable is the one belonging to Demokratene. The reason for this: It is not the most eye-catching one, making sure that you at once knows which party it represents. No, Demokratene seems to be sponsored by Bautas, which is the largest equipment rental and outsourcing company in Norway, providing associated planning and rigging services. The first day I passed it I thought it had something to do with some construction work, but along side it an old man is standing handing out pamphlets. The best thing was one of the days it was pretty heavy rain, then he just stood inside with the door slightly open, with just his hand and the pamphlets showing.

At the right hand side you see the stand to the senior citizens party here in Norway, way more cozy.

AIM Multisport challenge

Sport

Espen and I participated in AIM Challenge yesterday. 6 hours, 60 markers with different amount of points if you reach it. Currently not sure how many points we got, but if we have counted correctly we should have got 279,5 points. The results are not available yet.

Anyhow, much fun and we learned a lot, it was our first time (at least mine), but next time we will really go for…not gold, but a least more points

UPDATE: The results are now available – #13 of 87 🙂 !!!

Espen climbing

I was there just few minutes before

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I…went…down to the river

Leisure

Wed go down to the river
And into the river wed dive
Oh down to the river wed ride

Earlier today I had a meeting in Nydalen, and when walking back to the subway I noticed something out in the river, art? I don’t know, but I had to take a picture at least. I immediately had to call my friend Kent telling him that he should have been working in Nydalen as in the past. Then we could have had lunch out in the river.

And…the text above, Bruce Springsteen

Wipeout

Leisure

Today Anders got to bed early, and Elin and I was just sitting in the living room doing nothing in particular when I just wanted to show her some funny clips I had seen on Youtube. I had seen the first episode of the American game show Wipeout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(2008_game_show). It ended up with us watching four entire episodes, it is hilarious. And now we are about to get the Norwegian version as well http://www.tvnorge.no/programportaler/wipeout/wipeout

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I am certified

Anything but the other

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.

Hjem