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Bought the norwegian edition of the PC World magazine (no 6/2005) today. They had a linux test there and Ubuntu won the test by far. The other “contestants” were Fedora, Linspire, Mandriva (mandrake) and suse. Quite nice, actually. I really, really hope the ubuntu team will succeed and continue to develop this fantastic linux distribution. In my opinion Ubuntu is just what the linux movement needs to become a “household” operating system. Easy installation, easy maintenance and a big and solid support network is what people want.

Actually, I have joined the Ubuntu team now. I am not contributing very much yet, but I have signed up to translate some applications to norwegian. In addition I do my best to answer questions on the support forums and the irc channels. It’s not much, but I do my best to give something back to Canonical and the people spending big parts of their lives developing this operating system.

PS! Canonical is the company that backs and sponsors the Ubuntu linux distribution.

Jeg kjøpte PC World Norge i dag (nr. 6/2005) . De hadde en test av diverse linux-varianter og Ubuntu vant med en “båtlengde”. Konkurrentene var Fedora, Linspire, Mandriva/Mandrake og SuSE. Ganske flott, egentlig. Jeg håper virkelig at Ubuntu-teamet vil lykkes og vil fortsette å utvikle denne fantastiske linux-varianten. I min mening er Ubuntu akkurat hva linux-bevegelsen trenger for å bli et akseptert operativsystem. Enkel installasjon, enkelt vedlikehold og et stort og solid support-nettver er akkurat det folk trenger.

PS! Canonical er firmaet som står bak og sponser Ubuntu linux.

Time to start blogging menus again. It’s way too easy to eat unhealthy when I don’t have to blog. So I commit myself to blog my menu every day from now on.

0715: 2 slices of bread with turkey slice and cucumber
1300: 2 fish burgers
1600: 1 croissant
1900: 3 taco wraps with chicken meat, chinese cabbage, cucumber, tomato and cheese

When my parrot is out of the cage, he just loves to sit on the top of my laptop screen. Here’s a picture of us:

I finished my book yesterday.. YAY! Will find a new, exciting book to read tonight. I could really get used to reading books again.
Når papegøya mi er ute av buret så elsker han å sitte på toppen av pc-skjermen min. Se bildet over.
Jeg leste ferdig boka mi i går. HURRA! Skal finne en ny, spennende bok å lese igjen i kveld. Jeg kan bli vant til å lese bøker igjen. Herlig.

Dressed up my blog in Norwegian colors today. Happy birthday, Norway!

Jeg har pyntet bloggen min i anledning dagen i dag. Gratulerer med dagen, norge.

Today has been a good and relaxing day. The day can be described like this: made and ate waffles, gave the dog a haircut, watch soccer game on tv, made and ate Taco and are, as I type, baking rolls for tomorrow, which by the way is Norways national “birthday”. 191 years ago tomorrow Norway got its own constitution. Will celebrate quietly, though. Just watch Maikens school parade and go to Moss to barbecue. I just hope the weather will be good.
Yesterday we sold one of my old mobile phones. I hang out on the chat-network IRCNet. Suddenly someone asked if someone had an old cell phone for sale. Since we have loads of them laying around the house. So since we were going almost to Oslo in the first place, we popped by the fellow and sold him one of the phones for NOK 100. He was happy and we were happy getting an extra ride in the car we are borrowing right now. OK to get rid of a phone we won’t ever use again also.

Another thing I am verry happy about these days are that I have definetely regained my ability to read a book. I have about 40 pages left of “Basket Case” by Carl Hiaasen. I am planning to get through these pages tonight. That will be a BIG victory for me. I haven’t been able to finish a book I have started this decade and large parts of the previous one. Good to have a head that is starting to work again.

I dag har vært en god og avslappende dag. Dagen kan oppsummeres slik: laget og spist vafler, vasket og klippet hunden, sett fotballkamp på tv, laget og spist taco og holder på å bake rundstykker til i morgen akkurat nuh. I morgen er det forresten nasjonaldag her i norge. for 191 år siden fikk Norge sin egen grunnlov. Blir dog en rolig feiring. Skal se Maiken i skoletoget og deretter dra til Moss for å grille. Håper bare været blir bra.

En annen ting som jeg er veldig fornøyd med nå til dags er at jeg så definitivt har gjenerobret evnen til å lese en bok. Jeg har ca. 40 sider igjen av “Splitter pine” av Carl Hiaasen. Jeg har planer om å pløye gjennom disse i kveld. Det vil være en STOR seier for meg. Jeg har ikke vært i stand til å lese ut en bok dette tiåret og heller ikke store deler av det forrige. Greit med et hode som er i ferd med å begynne å virke igjen.

I really don’t have anything special to blog about these days. I just have to brag about my perfect little daughter. She is nothing but sunshine these days. Her laughter, smiles and smart looks and makes me forget everything else. She is the most perfect “thing” in the world. She is everything to me.

Jeg har egentlig ingenting å skrive om for tiden. Jeg må bare få skryte litt av min perfekte, lille datter. Hun er bare en herlig solstråle for tiden. Hennes, latter, smil og lure blikk får meg til å glemme alt annet. Hun er den mest perfekte “tingen” i verden. Hun er alt for meg.

I simply don’t get it.

Last night they cut 3 to 2 contestants for the final of Norwegian Idol. Alejandro Fuentes was the one that didn’t get to the final. He was my favourite and has, in my opinion, been the best one all the way. But the voting is a democratic process. The viewers/audience sends sms messages to vote for their favourite. The one that get’s least votes has to leave the contest. Fair, good and functional concept. I just have to accept that Alejandro didn’t get enough votes to go to the final.

What I don’t get:

In discussions forums on the web people are hysterical, calls it a Scandal that Ali (his nickname) got out and that they will boycott the final. That is simply insane. I just do not understand that people are so narsisistic and makes fools of themselves by posting that shit on the net. They are so extremely stupid. Instead of complaining and whining they should have just sent more votes for Ali. Ali got voted out, deal with it. He will be picked up by a record company and sell a lot more albums than the two finalists.

Jeg forstår det bare ikke.

I diskusjonsfora på nettet er folk hysteriske, kaller det en skandale at Ali røk ut og at de vil boikotte finalen. Det er jo bare ren, skjær idioti. Jeg forstår simpelthen ikke at folk er så navlebeskuende og driter seg loddrett ut ved å poste sånn dritt på nettet. De er så ufattlig dumme. I steden for å klage og syte så skulle de ha sendt flere stemmer på Ali. Ali ble stemt ut og det er det. Han vil bli plukket opp av et plateselskap og selge mange flere album enn de to finalistene.

I am so god damn fed up right now.

Jeg er så ufattelig drittlei nå.

Maiken bought a bike for her savings 3 years ago. This bike is still big enough for her and functions nearly well. She kept coming home with flat tyres all the time. I patched her tyres and she went to school for a couple of days and the came home with flat tyres again. So I guess the problem is in the wheels itself.

She has also complained a lot about the bike, that it’s not cool, only have 3 speeds, etc, etc, etc. But we have been firm and said that we would fix her bike and that she could use it for another year. But I realized that buying new wheels or fixing the old ones would be more expensive than a new bike. So we went to Biltema and bought her a shiny, new, red bike today. When we had screwed it together we called her on her cell phone and was really serious. We told her to come home and that we had something really serious to talk to her about. When she came home, she saw the new bike and asked carefully: that’s not mine, is it? When I said yes, she got speachless and just stood there unable to say anything. It was priceless. I have never seen her happier. “How am I ever going to thank you enough”, she asked me. “Your being this happy is thanks enough”, I replied. Heres a photo of the bike. The photo does not show how cool the bike really is, but it was the only one I could find on the net:

For 3 år siden kjøpte Maiken en sykkel for sparepengene sine. Denne sykkelen er fremdeles stor nok for henne og fungerer nesten bra. Hun kom stadig hjem med punkterte dekk. Jeg lappet dekkene, hun syklet til skolen et par dager og kom hjem med punkterte dekk igjen. Så jeg regner med at problemet er i hjulene og ikke i slange/dekk.

Hun har også klaget over sykkelen. Den er ikke noe kul, har bare 3 gir, osv osv osv. Men vi har vært bestemte og sagt at vi skulle fikse sykkelen hennes og at hun kunne bruke den i minst ett år til. Men jeg innså at det å kjøpe nye hjul eller å fikse de hjulene hun hadde ville være ganske dyrt, nesten dyrere enn en ny sykkel. Så vi dro til Biltema og kjøpte ny sykkel til henne. Når vi hadde satt sammen sykkelen ringte vi henne på mobilen og var veldig alvorlige. Vi ba henne komme hjemm og at vi hadde noe veldig alvorlig å prate med henne om Når hun kom hjem så hun sykkelen og spurte: “Den er ikke min, er den vel?” Når jeg svarte ja ble hun målløs og stod der helt ute av stand til å si noe som helst. Det var ubetalelig. Jeg har aldri sett henne gladere. “Hvordan skal jeg noen gang kunne takke dere nok”, spurte hun meg. “Det at du ble så glad er takk nok”, svarte jeg. Over ser du et bilde av sykkelen. Bildet viser ikke hvor kul sykkelen virkelig er, men det var det eneste jeg fant på nettet.

I always like to have the latest stable versions of the software I use. 3 days ago Wordpress released 1.5.1 and I always dread upgrading web/php/mysql-applications, but have learned that with Wordpress it’s extremely simple. Just remove everything but the config file and the customized files, put the new files in place and run the upgrade script in the browser. It was all done in less than 3 minutes. I love wordpress and recommend it as a perfect blogging system to anyone who asks. The back end interface, where you write posts and configure the blog, is also very easy and user friendly.

My foot is hurting very much today. I am almost unable to walk at all without a sharp, stabbing pain. Wonder why it has gotten worse now. It is almost as bad as it was the second I twisted it. And the whole foot is turning more and more red and blue every day. I guess I will go to the doctor tomorrow.

I am so extremely fed up of being hurt now. I feel I have been “handicapped” for ages. First it was my hand. That is almost well now. Actually I decided it was time to start ignoring the dull pain in the hand just the day I hurt my foot and back. Quite ironic, aint it? I had planned to go to the gym the friday I hurt myself, but I guess I wasn’t supposed to do that. I really, really, really, really, really miss working out now. Going to the gym gave me an energy kick I haven’t felt in years. The endorphines also made me a happier and more comfortable person to live with.

I guess I will stop whining about it and just enjoy the spring, even though it’s hard to enjoy a season when all I can do is sit in a chair with my foot high and pop pain killers.

Jeg liker å alltid ha den siste, stabile versjonen av programvaren jeg bruker. For 3 dager siden ble wordpress 1.5.1 sluppet. Jeg gruer meg alltid til å oppgradere web/php/mysql-applikasjoner, men må vel bare innse at Wordpress er unntaket. Wordpress er ekstremt enkelt å oppgradere. Man fjerner bare alle filer fra web-området med unntak av konfig-fila og de filene man har endret selv, legger på plass de nye filene og peker browseren på upgrade-scriptet. Alt var gjort unna på under 3 minutter :). Jeg elsker wordpress og anbefaler den som det perfekte blogge-systemet til alle som spør. Baksiden av wordpress, der man skriver innlegg og konfigurerer bloggen, er også veldig enkel og brukervennlig.

Men nå får jeg vel slutte å syte og prøve å nyte den deilige våren, selv om det er ganske vansklig å nyte en årstid når alt jeg klarer å gjøre er å sitte i en stol med foten høyt og stappe innpå smertestillende.