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Opinions & politics

It is fundamental to a functioning democracy that its citizens are well-informed and share their opinions on matters that are of importance to them. Little good, however, comes from sharing uninformed opinions on what may or may not be of importance to others. I have therefore become somewhat disenchanted with the current state of the public political debate. My views, such as they are, therefore largely remain private.

  • Google search: 8 470 hates, 543 loves Facebook

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    Having spent the better part of the evening debating with my good friend Anders A Fitje on the topic of Facebook, I decided to round off the evening posting a small observation on my web page blog. I conducted two searches on the internet, one for ‘i love facebook’ and another for ‘i hate facebook’.…

  • Why twelve point Times New Roman isn't always a good idea

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    I am currently sitting in the very back of a conference room with about 170 attendees. Up front is a good speaker, except for the fact that he uses slides with a ridiculously small font. Why do people write so much anyway? There is no call for all this insane amount of writing on a…

  • Social Networking Fatigue

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim
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    With social networking sites ever on the rise, new problems arise with them. One of the latest is “social networking fatigue” which is what kicks in when you become a member of one too many arenas that require your presence your interaction and thus a part of your time. The earliest quotation that mentions the…

  • Defeated by the Norwegian Post Service (Posten)

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    I am dissatisfied with the Norwegian postal service in general and today in particular. I have been negatively affected by this organization three times today and still the time is no more than 12:46. Waking from what can only be described as relative beauty sleep at a fairly comfortable airport hotel in Bergen this morning…

  • Nunca mais Pax Turismo, Petropolis, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    If you ever should find yourself in the position where you are tempted to go to Fernando do Noronha a beautiful yet somewhat dry archipelago in the atlantic outside the state of Pernambuco in North Eastern Brazil there is ONE thing you should make sure of. NEVER EVER USE the agency of PAX TURISMO located…

  • Identified minor problem with definition of tourist season

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    (Stein) Runar Bergheim

    On sunday the 29th of may 2005 I had a visit from some friends from Germany and we decided to bring them for a full day car trip into the mountains, even though the weather wasn’t really all that great. We started off in the direction of Luster (hey, that is the name of the…