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I’ve got some days of training ahead of me, developing leadership skills…that always comes in handy, eh? The location for the training is a hotel with a great view on the Oslo fjord, at least that’s what the brochure says…at the moment it’s foggy and dark so not too much to see. And no swimming since the fjord is frozen! Better to come back in summertime for that and concentrate now on the training!

Today iPhone developer Sahil Lavingia has begun his project of building an iPhone app in one week while the world watches.

He will keep a blog on his progress on OneWeekApp.com with screenshots, timelapse movies, and other notes about his work as he moves forward.

Looking at the popularity of the AppStore with its huge variety of applications (>140,000 already!) for the iPhone / iPod Touch and soon the iPad, this sure seems a 2010 reality show!

The application is called Dayta, “Your weight, your kill-to-death ratio in a first-person shooter, your daily intake of water (eight glasses a day, they say!), or your daily workout which you must… not… missed, again. There are individual apps for all of these things. But why? Think about this: tracking your weight is recording down a single number, daily. So is your kill-to-death ratio. So is your daily intake of water. So is whether or not you go to the gym today (either a 0 or a 1). If you reduce activities down to the numbers that represent them, it’s easy to see that one app can manage them all. Meet Dayta.”

Follow Lavingia while he creates his app via OneWeekApp.com!

Marianne Williamson: “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

The American Museum of Natural History created ‘The Known Universe’, a film that takes you on a journey through space and time, from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space, passing planets, stars and quasars, ‘out’wards to the afterglow of the Big Bang, all represented to scale and in the correct measured locations.

So, let’s buckle up and GO!

All you Facebook addicts out there have probably seen the two latest trends: Doppelgänger and urbandictionary.com.

The Doppelgänger game/trend is when you change your profile picture to someone famous (actor, musician, athlete) you’ve been told you look like. Not for me, I like my SpongeBob Squarepants picture too much!

This weeks other big hit is for you to go to urbandictionary.com, type in your first name, copy and paste this as your status and the first entry for your name under comments. I tried it and this is what came up:

Raymond

“A male that is wanted by every women who has ever seen him. Gets boned very often and has a VERY large penis. He’s extremely good looking and one of the funniest kids in the USA. He has the most gorgeos eyes in the world and has been told on more than one occasion that he should try out for playgirl when he reaches the age of 18. Total playa and pimp. Completely loaded with cash and gives money to all if they ask and are his friend.”

Uhhh….

I arrived home just before midnight, a smooth flight and slippery drive, since snow found its way to Norway again! Ha, and what better thing to do than shoveling snow to clean the area in front of the garage, hmmppfff!
Oh well, the job is done and it’s time to go zzzz, nighty night y’all!

Extreme with ‘More Than Words’…I simply love this song!

Hey, hey, it’s the first day of yet another month! February 2010…damn, time goes lightning fast these days!! At least this is gonna be my lucky month, now that I’ve started it by saying: ‘rabbit, rabbit, white rabbit‘!

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: “A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”

I blogged earlier about eztv.it, the one stop (BitTorrent) source for all your favorite TV shows ‘offering’ torrents for most TV shows out there!

You might however not know how to get that ‘torrent-thing’ working, or you’re afraid of potential legal consequences…well, then fast pass tv is your highway to TV shows and movies! This website ‘offers’ just about anything you want to see, all via direct links to streaming tv and movies: search, click and start watching, for free!

The catch?

Well, there are some annoying pop-ups (don’t click on the links! ) and you might need to equip your browser with a flash, divx or veoh webplayer (follow the instructions your browser gives you)…and that’s it!

There is only one day a week when you can yell out loud: TGIF!!

Today is a bit different though; I’m still in the office and Friday has almost past… …it seems more appropriate to say: TGIS (yes, that is ‘Thank God It’s Saturday’, for you blonds reading this! )

Yayyy! I went skiing tonight, my first time thie season…damn, I missed that! He he, the season has begun, bring it on!!

The predictions and rumors were correct; Apple announced its newest creation, the iPad, a revolutionary device for web, email, photos, videos, music, games, e-books and more.

I wasn’t too sure if this would be something for me, but after seeing what I saw so far it definitely is! (no surprise actually )

With its superb UI, great design, and for a price that is considerably lower than expected (starting at $499), this one is gonna be huge and market shaping/creating!

Read more about it on the web, there are a zillion sites with all information!

Tomorrow is a big day in Apple world; their long awaited tablet computer will be announced and presented in a special event starting at 10am Pacific Time (19:00h in Oslo)!

The big question is: what will be its name? iTablet, iPad, iSlate are the most common names heard at the moment. That and of course the actual device itself and its specs are the only things unknown to the masses at the moment.

It is actually one of the first times that everyone is absolutely sure about what new (revolutionary) product will be presented without physical proof…normally there are rumors, somewhat ‘confirmed’ by the technology experts/guru’s, but this time Steve Jobs as well as Apple’s CFO and COO have given enough clear hints to make it reality.

The invitation for the event reveals not much though, as usual we have to wait until Steve Jobs takes the stage!

Two videos I recorded last Saturday!!

(and sorry for the distorted sound quality, typical mobile phone overmodulation)

Enjoy the Silence:

One Caress: