Escape from boredom

This easter we where at Vestreng, not being able to go skiing. People who knows me knew that and especially Elins cousin, Randi, where eager to send me pictures letting me know how nice conditions it was at their place. I did just do a clean up of all the pictures on my cell phone, and I’ve collected all the “look how much snow”-related pictures in this post.

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Ivar testing his new skiis

The day after, Johanne 3 years old at Appelsinhaugen all by herself

And the day after that, Jørgen at Stranda

Another picture from Stranda, off course from Randi

Skiing at Sætra, Atle preparing for next year and Alperittet.

The last picture received from Randi telling me that being a farmer is niiiice

Espen sent me this picture from Toten

The last picture is from Kent who cursed all the snow in Tromsø…cursed it…why and why?

Kent was in Oslo for two days earlier this week and we went to visit Simen. Simen had borrowed Guitar Hero from Are, and we had to try it. I’m very bad, Kent was better and Simen had blisters due to a lot of playing the past days.

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Kent looking like he is part of Level 42, could the guitar be any higher?

Level 42…

Simen, the Guitar Hero

Simen had done all songs on the easy level except of Raining Blood with Slayer (his favorite, see the irony 🙂 )

This one is expert level…

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My domain is hosted by http://hostean.net, an ISP which I would really recommend. I realized that I needed a newer version of the Zend Optimzer to be able to upgrade to the latest version of my blog. So I sent an email to support, and after just one week they have moved my entire site to a new server running Zend Optimizer v2.6.2 without any problems at all.

So, if you need an ISP, I say again: I would really recommend Hostean…excellent service!

I passed the 829 test today “IBM WebSphere Portal 6 Application Development”, so now I’m also a IBM Certified Instructor when it comes to WebSphere Portal 6 Application Development…yuhu!

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/services/cweeducation.nsf/wdocs/exam829preppage

I finally managed to find an episode of Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigs iiiiiiiiiinnnn spaaaace

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Did watch part of the movie “USA vs Al-Arian”. It makes me feel very bad, sad and all that realizing what now is considered ok to do after 9/11. Being a muslim, from Palestina and disagreeing with the US Government was all the US Government needed to arrest Al-Arian. I do not care whether or not he has done what he is charged for, considering the evidences they have used to charge him, he is only guilty for …being who he is, and what he is… I do not want it to be like this, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, not the opposite!!

Read more at http://www.usavsalarian.com/ and http://www.freesamialarian.com

Elin, Johan and Johan had their release concert yesterday at Kampen Bistro. The concert was a success, there where a lot of people, from all the way up north down to Milan.

I figured out how to get the date showing, so now my posts are grouped by date pr. day. And I also found a PHP-script giving me a random background picture on the header. Had to struggle a bit, but by doing it …not entirely by the book… it worked.

You are now able to buy Elin’s record, or more correctly John’s Epic’s record at Platekompaniet…løp og kjøp!! http://www.platekompaniet.no/artist.asp?id=00062782

On Saturday I was supposed to dump a load of firewood when the trailer jumped off the hock as shown on the picture. Luckily the trailer was stopped from flipping backwards of the rig on the tractor.

I kept calm, lowered the trailer and got the real equipment