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London: Business and Black Metal
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During Easter week I had to go to London on a meeting to prepare a project proposal for the 7th framework programme. Simultaneously Avinet colleague and Vreid lead singer, Sture, was kicking off a mini-tour to launch their new CD “I Krig”. To my deep regret I had never heard Vreid play live before, despite…
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Mor Asgjerd på nett
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Mi kjære mor har teke steget ut på verdsveven i ein alder av sytti-noko. Det er kanskje ikkje så uvanleg i våre dagar men eg vil likevel gratulere ho med framsteget og oppmuntre ho til å halde fram å skrive i bloggen sin. Følgjande er saksa frå bloggen hennar: … Asgjerd vart hekta på bruk…
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3 movies likely to inflict damage on your immortal soul
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After having discussed the topic of “damaging” films with a friend a while ago I came up with three films that I find likely to cause a bad effect on unsuspecting people. These are: Salo or the 120 days of Sodom Sweet Movie Caligula I believe the world wouldn’t have been a worse place had…
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I won in the lottery – again (and again)!
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Apparently I am hereby approved a lump sum pay of 685,000.00 Eruos (SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND Euros) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 46704/03 from the total cash prize shared amongst Eight lucky winners in this category However, it also says in the mail that I am not supposed to tell anyone just…
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Tenerife: Sea, mountains and an ex-fishermans village
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High-brow, well-educated, Norwegian families do not travel Tenerife. They do not travel to any of the Canarian Islands. They go to exotic destinations where they can be pioneers, be one with nature and live with the locals. This they cannot do on Tenerife. But then again, they don’t do that anyway, they just like to…
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Open Source and Quality
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Having been working with ICT for the better part of 11 years now I feel I am at liberty to have a say in the debate on Open Source vs Commercial Software. Here goes… The main point I would like to make is not one that will place me in this or that camp as…
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Luxembourg in January
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I often curse at the unwelcoming climate in Norway in the interval of time between November and February but, as a compensation for freezing, atleast we have snow. What is the “�%&/ point of winter in Luxembourg, or any other non-skiing city in the world? Starting the year off in a slow manner, business didn’t…
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Standard Personal Time
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Fuzzy-logic time has fascinated me ever since I installed my first copy of RedHat Linux back in 1997. The system clock could be configured to report time in human terms rather than as numbers. It would say ‘about five’ instead of 04:58:23. This made sense to me and still does. A multitude of different applications…
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Erfurt (Germany)
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Described by Luther as being “in the center of the center of Germany”, Erfurt is the captial of the State of Thuringia in the former East Germany. Founded in year 742 it now is home to about 200 000 citizens distributed over an area of 269 square kilometres. Erfurt has the feel of a medieval…
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Helsinki's tractor pub Zetor and Leningrad Cowboys
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Tractor driver chatting up woman from old Zetor-tractor at one of Zetor’s characteristic pub tables. After visiting Helsinki’s tractor pub Zetor, named after the Czech tractor brand popular during the Cold War, my interest for Leningrad Cowboys came to life again after years of slumber. The pub, owned by Aki Kaurismaki, was decorated with Zetors…