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  • Video of Tertnes 99 BlÃ¥ at FotballCup24

    Tertnes 99 BlÃ¥, the football team my son is a part of, just attended the football tournament FotballCup24 in Vestlandshallen, Ã…sane in Bergen. As always a great experience, and this time I had the opportunity to bring my svelte Canon EOS 5D Mark II to play with as well. After filming for a while, and…

  • Tasty techno chicken

    This video was just too hilarious to resist posting :-). Enjoy!

  • FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, ready for consumption – omnomnom!

    Finally, after a few days of mirror syncing and documentation preparation, The FreeBSD Release Engineering (RELENG) Team finally decided to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0! The source code for 8.0 was got it’s final touches during the weekend, and on Sunday I had the oportunity to upgrade my server to the latest and greatest.…

  • Paving the roads with dead drug addicts

    From time to time the issue of how to handle the drug problem springs up in national media here in Norway. Questions like whether we should hand out drugs to addicted, whether to provide indoor organized guidance and equipment for the addicted, or the possibility of legalization of certain drugs pops up about every second…

  • Solution: SVN authentication breaking in IntelliJ IDEA

    Several times this nasty bug has bitten me, and I assume I’m not the only one :-). Are you having problems with IntelliJ IDEA refusing to authenticate you while trying to use SVN (TortoiseSVN)? You have even tried to clear the authentication cache and all other logs?

  • Now, this IS embarrasing material to publish, but …

    … I had fun nonetheless! I just purchased a MIDI keyboard (since I’ve long thought of trying to learn myself to play the piano), hooked it up to my Mac (now, that was easy!) and started taking a few piano lessons with GarageBand, a very nice little program accompanying iLife ’09. The keyboard is a…

  • StÃ¥ opp imot Datalagringsdirektivet!

    Personvernet har stÃ¥tt sterkt i Noreg i mange Ã¥r, men er no under sterkt angrep via EU (og EØS) gjennom deira Datalagringsdirektiv (direktiv 2006/24/EF). Stortinget har ikkje ynskt Ã¥ ha datalagringsdirektivet som ei eiga separat sak, noko FrP har kjempa imot. No er Venstre ogsÃ¥ godt i gang med Ã¥ starte ei kampanje mot denne…

  • New fonts, but do you see them?

    I’ve just amended my WordPress CSS style sheet somewhat to now use a font normally not installed on your computer. This is accomplished by using the @font-face CSS tag, described in detail over at hacks.mozilla.org. I’m now using the font GrauBlau Sans Web from the nice people over at fonts.info, and I think it fits…

  • freebsd-questions: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again

    This post is fetched from the freebsd-questions mailinglist, and is a perfect example on how I consider the Linux/BSD world to be superior to Windows, at least in terms of systems administration. On Unix, it’s all just files, devices and bitstreams… From: n j To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.[obfuscateddomain].edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org When a System Dies; Getting…

  • Flags of EuroVision Song Contest 2009

    Since I’m preparing for a EuroVision Song Contest party for my kid and some friends of his, I decided to make it somewhat more fact-based with bits of trivia per country, including some quizzes we can use during the event. I also wanted to print out all the flags for the participating countries, and what better…

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