Escape from boredom

I’ve once again successfully updated my blog, from 1.9.3 to 1.10.2. As always it went just smooth, thanks to Franqois Planque and all the others.

Got to try a some new types of beer this summer, they where:

Platan – got this one from our landlady at Korcula, Paulina. It is a Czheck beer. It might be that Platan is the brewery and that the actual beer is Jedenact http://www.pivo-platan.cz/index.php

Click More to find out the other beers I tried

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Karlovacka – beer from Croatia http://www.karlovacko.hr/

Ozujsko – beer from Croatia http://www.ozujsko.com/ The best Croatian beer we thought…

Zlatorog – beer from Croatia http://www.zlatorog.hr/ There is a Stella behind the bottle as well, that one was Elins…

Bavaria – beer from Holland, really good, had not tried it before http://www.bavaria.nl/

Sarajevska 0% – the only beer without alcohol. This due to the fact that we had a day trip to Bosnia, so when served at a Muslim restaurant we do not get alcohol. But, the beer was quite ok… http://www.sarajevska-pivara.ba/

Read this article http://www.bt.dk/article/20070726/sport03/70726037/1039/a/ where a lot of Danish people supports Michael Rasmussen and feels sorry for him being thrown out of Radobank. But, as said in this article in VG http://www1.vg.no/sport/sykkel/tour-de-france-2007/artikkel.php?artid=154000 he does very little to actually prove that he was in Mexico. And as the Mexican embassy in Denmark said “it is quite easy to prove it, since you have to fill out some forms to enter the country”.

So Michale – the chicken – Rasmussen, please shut up right now or at least bring some hard evidence to the table, which by the way I assume you could not provide your team with, since they kicked you out – and if no hard evidence is available, please sell your bike, sell your cycling clothes, sell everything and start doing something else…because without evidence I hope that you are finished for good!!!

And by the way, saying that you have been tested negative for dope 15 times during the Tour De France does not prove that you are clean, you of all should know, that is why you have to provide WADA with your wear abouts at all time. And that is why the Danish Cycle Association have expelled you from their team, since you continue to break these rules.

Back from two weeks in Croatia. We have been to Dubrovnik, Split and Korcula. We have had a day trip to Mostar in Bosnia, we have sea paddled and been to the beach nearly every day…

Croatia was nice, and we saw very few signs of the war from a bit more then 10 years ago. But we visited a war photo exhibition, which reminded us about the war that had been, and also plenty others. Take a look at their website http://www.warphotoltd.com/

My homepage has also had two days of down time due to some domain hosting issues. It is now solved as you might have figured out since you are reading this. http://www.hostean.net, my web hotel fixed this in just a day.

Last book I’ve read, written by Tomm Kristiansen “Africa, en vakker dag”. Bought it as a follow up on the book about Kongo. It gives you a broad and good view of the many issues Africa are struggling with today (and before).

Read a review in Norwegian here http://www.f-b.no/apps/….

It started to rain quite heavily, as Elin said, if we had lived two hundred years ago we would have thought that it was the end of days…

My old 5140 have annoyed me quite much the past few week, turning itself of every once and then and leaving me with the need to take the battery out to unlock it, and then use the charger to switch it on. The use of the charger was needed because the on/off switch did not work after the phone had been in the washing machine last year.

So I bought a 5500 sport, wanted a phone with a bit more functionality than my old one. So have had it since Tuesday, and it has…guess what…turned itself of twice. By using the code *#0000# I’m able to check the OS version – currently V04.03. I will try to upgrade the os, hoping that will do the trick.

Anyhow, when I got it I looked for the auto lock, just to realize that it had no auto lock. I had to download it and install it as just another program. If you ever need it, do a search for AutoLock_v1.1_for_S60_3rd_ed.SISX. I have a fear that Symbian sucks bigtime!!!

King Leopold’s Ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa or “Kong Leopolds arv” in Norwegian, my latest book. Such stories we never did learn in school, but really should have. By reading this book you get a much better understanding of the story of Africa the past 100 years. I won’t try to retell it here, I would just recommend the book to you for sure!

About the book (in Norwegian) http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2002/07/04/341242.html
About the king http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium