Escape from boredom

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

Store your loved ones on your cell phone as ICE

ICE is the brainchild of British paramedic Bob Brotchie, who told The Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen Tuesday the idea came to him “just from reflecting on difficulties I’ve had in obtaining information about patients. The vast majority of people don’t carry emergency contact details or next-of-kin details, but the vast majority of people carry cell phones.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/26/earlyshow/main711715.shtml

So now Elin is stored as “ICE, Elin” not meaning that she is ice cold or something like that 🙂

(In Norwegian) http://www.hamar.kommune.no/article12132-788.html

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Found it here http://snagvideos.com/under.php?id=713