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Decided to wait with updating my iPhone to 1.1.4 till I’m back home, I’d rather have a decent backup just in case (can’t risk loosing my contacts while I’m on the road!), and besides that; the hotel WiFi/internet is ssssloooowwww tonight. The same thing happened to me, also on the Thursday, three weeks ago…uhhh, huh?!?

Benjamin Franklin: “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

I have been holding off to install the 1.1.4 software update for my iPhone for the past weeks mainly since there were no exciting new features in it. Then tonight I got fed up with the Safari mobile browser not remembering my passwords while browsing (Google Reader, Twitter, etc.), searched around on the net and guess what? It’s a know bug in v1.1.3 and should be solved in 1.1.4…guess what? Am upgrading tomorrow when I have the WiFi available!!

Am seeing a huge increase in spam-tagged emails over the last two weeks. Don’t know if there is any specific reason for this (I thought that spam was dying these days?), but my spam-folder used to have roughly 300 emails (in 30 days), but currently holds 1800+ spam-mails?!?

My Gmail (or actually Google Apps) is doing a great filtering job since I hardly receive any spam in my Inbox, they go directly where they belong…in the spam-folder!

The Holmenkollen Ski Jump is a place we often go to with visitors; besides a spectacular view over Oslo and the Oslo fjord, it is quite special to see a real Ski Jump from so close by.

Willem-Jan and Patricia (my brother and his girlfriend) were the true lucky ones; this weekend was to be even more special since the Ski Jumping competition took place at Holmenkollen! Truly amazing to actually see people jumping from the Ski Jump, eh?

Well, we were unlucky; went there yesterday afternoon to find out that the jumping planned for later in the afternoon was rescheduled due to weather conditions…no more jumping on Saturday!

We still had a nice time, sightseeing and watching the finish of the Nordic Combined cross-country…as for jumping; better luck next year!

John F. Kennedy: “The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”

An important part of integrating into Scandinavia is ofcourse getting into the sauna culture…and the easiest way then is to have a sauna in house,so…a sauna it is! We picked it up tonight and found a suitable place in one of the uhhh, five spare rooms!

It’s gonna be a HOT weekend!!

Adam Curry is experimenting these days with so-called ‘DSC Live’ shows, basically a standard Daily Source Code with the possibility for people to join the show Live via Talkshoe (non audio in the chatroom, or audio by dialing in)…heaps of fun and the format is really working.

Although I still feel he needs a sidekick (I actually volunteered for that ;)) or at least someone to filter incoming calls and streamline the selection of topics/discussion.

One thing that definitely should happen is to add a live version of Jan Polet’s HitTest…I don’t see any technical obstruction. Just imagine all the peeps participating in the DSC Live show taking the HitTest simultaneously…yay!

Just a short update on my RSI (?!) problems…short since I’m not able to write that much.

I went to see the doctor this morning, who confirmed that the pain is caused by irritation in the tendon soft tissue, located solely in my wrist and underarm (not coming from my neck/shoulder); it is a so-called mouse arm.

She was able to hit the right (=painful) spots at once (and even seemed to enjoy it? ;)), pretty painful to be honest.

Avoiding using the mouse with my righthand and overall giving the arm rest, along with some medication and gel to massage should get me over it. I’ll go for that!

The pain in my right hand, wrist and arm didn’t decrease, it actually seemed to get worse overnight!

Am starting to believe this really might be RSI related…will see a doctor tomorrow morning, fingers crossed (well, that’s not really possible in my current condition to be honest…)

Am not the type of guy to look back that often, still, last years March 3 was the first day of my (chosen) unemployment! It was a Saturday then, so it didn’t really feel like a day without a job, but it marked my new beginning, which brought me so far to Norway. No regrets on that decision!!

We’ve started watching Season 4 of ‘24‘.

Hehe, will be a couch potato the coming week, trying to finish the season before my brother will visit us coming weekend!

New day of the month and since the first thing I said today was ‘rabbit, rabbit‘ I’ll receive good luck for the rest of March, great!