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I’m normally easily bored with a ringtone in general and the default ringtone of any mobile phone in particular. The iPhone is different though; I simply *love* that ringtone, can’t get enough of it…keep on calling! 😉

Yay! Because of my stay in NL last week, I missed the end of the speed limit period (a.k.a. ‘miljøfartsgrense’), which was in effect on the Oslo ring since last year November 1. It boosts the allowed speed up by 33%, a true time-saver in the evening since I normally leave office after the rush hour!

YouTube has grown considerably over the last year. For me this got proven by the fact that its uploaded movieclips have become popular topics to bring up even (or especially?) when you’re offline, drinking a beer in a bar for instance.

It just hit me since so many people pointed me to specific YouTube clips over the past days…it’s amazing, and terrific, am always to explore new material!

Watch the clip below, this is as close to nature as YouTube can get, wow!

Will go to the final of a band competition tonight (Grote Prijs Zuid Holland). The brother of one of my best friends is the drummer of Tokyo-A-GoGo!, one of the bands that made it to the final (and obviously will win it! ;)).

The final of the band competition will be followed by a final in the dance category…guess what? It’ll be party hardy (or, party hearty?) all night long!

Triggered by a good friend I found Americas Got Talent’s beatbox sensation ‘Butterscotch’. Check her out, it’s absolutely amazing what she’s able to pull off…the performance starts from 0:46 in the clip.

Small layout change; I added the icons for the different social networks I’m using in the sidebar under ‘Contact’, they’re linked to my pages, try them!

Since it’s April Fools’ Day today: get ‘Rick Rolled‘!! 😉

I found my old Rubik’s Cube lately, dusted it off and got hooked again…MAN, solving this thing drove me up the walls in the mid 80’s! 🙂

Last week a mathematician called Tomas Rokicki proved the new upper-limit for solving any scrambled cube, in 25 just moves. It’s a theoretical limit, the how-to is not given. Guess I’ve still got some training to do to actually solve my cube in 25 moves, let alone solving it in the recent speed record of 9.18s…;)

Am still running separate weblog tools on the .com and .nl domains, WordPress and Pivot…I’ll change this sooner or later (getting nuts of cross-posting). Recently both tools made updated versions available; WordPress to version 2.5, Pivot to version 1.40.5.

I just finished installing both upgrades…both sites seem to run smooth, so I guess the upgrades were successful.

At first sight there are no major differences…except of course for WordPress’ complete redesign of the Admin pages, it took some time (not too much though) to get used to the new interface, but I have to say I like it already

Holiday is over…came back today from snowy Trysil into rainy Oslo, felt as a culture shock. Anyway, it was great, definitely something to look back to!

Another great thing to look back to is the amazing trip to Tripoli, Libya…we left today exactly one year ago.

Sjeez, a lot has happened in the past year!

Finally, my first holiday since I moved to Norway last year June! Gonna do some serious skiing/snowboarding in Trysil, yay!

Keep an eye on my twitter box on the right in case I can’t find WiFi to post on the weblog.

Money is flying out of my wallet these days; I bought cross-country skis today, the sauna was a great deal but certainly not free, the Tempur bed finally got delivered this week (well, sort of, the delivery company had a week off, so the store got us a replacement matras for now, until they’re able to deliver again)…oh, and last but not least; we’ll go skiing coming week!
Some might say I’m earning too much, others know I deserve it! 😉

Me? I just thank the Easter Bunny; LOOK, there he is!! Oh, now he’s gone, you just missed it!

March 21, the day that normally marks the start of the Spring season…well, not in Norway! After weeks without, snow came falling down from last night, 15cm and counting, wow!

BBC News: “Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90…Sir Arthur’s detailed descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems inspired millions of readers.”

I am working in the satellite communications industry, so this news is very relevant…his idea for communication satellites eventually became a multi-billion dollar industry. Today, many peoples life depend on the ability to communicate from the harsh environments they are in, environments where satellite is the only option.

To me, satellite communication is one of the ways used to bring people in the world closer together, ultimately becoming one again.

Our biggest customer is coming over to Norway today and tomorrow. I have been working with them for years, from the dutch office, so it’s nice that I now can be their host in ‘that country up North’. The days will be filled with meetings obviously, but we’ll have enough time to show them Oslo…be sure we’ll give ‘m the full treatment! 😉

I just succesfully updated my iPhone software to the latest and greatest, v1.1.4! Overall the process was really, really EASY! I connected the iPhone to my pc running iTunes, upgraded via iTunes to v1.1.4 and then ran ZiPhone v2.6b and checked the ‘Do it all!’ option. It took me 19 minutes…15 for updating the software via iTunes and 4 for the ZiPhone Unlock, Jailbreak and Activate.

Let’s see if the problem with remembering passwords in Safari is solved…

Just got back home and Pluis was waiting at the doorstep for food…all seems to be OK!

Will enjoy a nice a relaxing evening as couch potato, I LOVE those evenings!!

Our ‘walkabout-cat’ Pluis managed to get a bladder infection that got spread into his kidney; the high fever and non eating/drinking behaviour got suspicious and a quick trip to the vet set the diagnose.

Some anti-biotic should resolve it…however, we’re not home at the moment?!? Hope everything is safe and sound by the time I come back tomorrow and so I can play nurse for him. 😉

Damn, this was a hectic week! It still feels far from completed, there is just too much that needs to be done. Will do my best to unwind and take some distance…charge the battery and kick ass on Monday!

Or at least, I hope…the mouse arm seems to get slightly better and for me that’s exactly when I need to pay attention! It’s just too easy to return to old habbits, too early…