Archives for: February 2010

Fu Manchu in concert

February 24th, 2010
Yesterday Espen, Sigurd and I went to see Fu Manchu in concert at Rockefeller. Must admit I was very tired when leaving home, and sort of regretted that I had said to them that we should go out, have a few beers and then try to get tickets for the concer… more »

From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle II

February 16th, 2010
A bit late, but now I have done another ten days, mostly delayed because of Anders being sick for a whole week. more »

Lumber jack, yet again

February 14th, 2010
Been out at Vestreng this weekend, and spent 4-5 hours out collecting fire wood. Very nice day, both yesterday and today. Created a short film using the video camera on my new cell phone, the Nokia E72. [youtube]ko5het5YB2s[/youtube]Link to Youtu… more »

Things I do on a Saturday evening: Installing WAS CE on Ubuntu

February 13th, 2010
Spent about an hour or so in total this evening installing WebSphere Community Edition on my own laptop where I run Ubuntu 9.10. Needed an application server to deploy the web applications I create when trying to teach myself how to do Java development.… more »

Found new hardware wizard keeps appearing

February 11th, 2010
Had a problem at work, my laptop running Windows XP kept notifying me every second "Found new hardware Nokia 6280". A bit tricky to get rid of it, found the solution way down on this post GO INTO DEVICE MANAGER GO TO VIEW SELECT SHOW HIDDEN DEVICES… more »

The Maven Ant plugin and JAVA_HOME

February 8th, 2010
I've spent some time, with great help from two of my colleagues, creating a pom.xml using the Maven Ant plugin to call Ant targets in the build.xml file downloaded along with the source code for JMeter. Got the plugin working without to much struggle, bu… more »

Wonderful day for cross country skiing

February 7th, 2010
After I had spent some hours editing my videoclips using Kino when all of a sudden Kino decided to lock itself, causing me to loose about 10 minutes of work I used the kill-command on Kino and went out skiing instead. About -7 today, and a clear sunny da… more »

Now I know I have to go to bed

February 6th, 2010
Have spent some hours today trying to figure out how to edit video and create DVD's when running Ubuntu. After some reading I ended up trying Kino. First challenge was to import the files from my camera, the Canon FS11. The actual import is not that hard… more »

Biking in snowy conditions

February 3rd, 2010
Last night we have had some snow here in Oslo, and combined with a bit of wind made it a bit of a struggle to ride my bike to work. For instance, downhill from Tveita I did not feel the urge for riding together with the cars, since it was pretty much sno… more »

Anal bleaching on Margaret Cho

February 2nd, 2010
Was watching Margaret Cho on NRK3. Today she tried one thing that I was not aware of at all, many things are a big issue when you want to stay young the Hollywood-way. Anal bleaching is "the process of lightening the area around the anus by bleaching… more »

Tested: Hamax Sno Giant

February 1st, 2010
Last Saturday I had to buy a new snow sledge to Anders in a hurry. The requirement was that both me and him could fit the sledge. The plan was to buy a sledge with steering and such, but Alnasenteret I could only find the Hamax Sno Giant more »