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We all have heard of the iPad by now, and in short this is what I think about it:

Apple is a niche company, but this time they tried to hit a niche that is too small. the iPad is just simply too limited to become a success. Give us multitasking, then it might just do something good

and of course, my sis is blogging now, about being a mom for the first time and for english readers, a bad translation by google

The fireworks in Oslo

So whats up, well, 2010 hit…

I’ve opened my own gallery local at the site with a bit more low-res pictures(high-res isn’t exactly always a good thing lol)

and I took a lot of pictures, click the picture on the left to visit the gallery the pictures will be available at dA as well in maximum res of course under the usual CC-by-nc-sa license.

Other than that, I want to give a little heads up about a nice webmaster forum, you might’ve seen me talk about it before.

Loving Tech, A lot have happened the past year here, It started almost a year ago(21st jan 09), and have grown to just about 1700 memebers, have over30 000 posts(!) and have some very dedicated members with lots of knowledge on all kinds of topics. I suggest you check it out and join in on the discussion.

In tech some nice things happened, Windows 7 was released, and made a grand entering(at least in my opinion) and proved that the vista move wasn’t that stupid. Other than that Apple came with the 3gs, and the iPod touch 3g, both with much faster and better hardware, which might be a good thing, we’ll see. There’s also been some leaks, most have probably heard about this already, Google is having their own phone that isn’t tied to any particular carrier in the us, which at least to my foreign head is a good thing(we’re used to it being like that )

On the coding side, I’ve learned perl, I’ve started(and quit) learning LISP, and are learning IO. I’ve coded a few thousand lines, mostly in C++ concerning hacking on Emerald, but also done about 5 000 lines in perl for my radio project which is shaping up on the back-end finally.

On my blogging I’ve been a bit too lazy though, I got 6 drafts which I’ve been writing some on, but I don’t have enough time to complete them, so as a product they might never be done, but I’ll try to complete them during 2010.

On the photo side, I’ve passed 10 000 pictures(!) on the pentax, the lucky picture was this:

Picture 10 000!

Which was taken in Gibraltar

Take care and happy new year, and I hope you all will continue to enjoy my posts here

yea, I was busy trying to figure out why it didn’t work, while it turned out to be as simple as 123… back again, and I’m going to get some posts out the door when I get the time, today it’s Ubuntu release, so that will eat some time, and will prob qualify for a post (btw, I am posting from 9.10 already on a usb stick with all my apps and music!)

for all of you norwegian people:

sjekk ut stoppdld.no og la oss få stoppe Datalagringsdirektivet en gang for alle!

The Rabbicorn Immersiva exhibition at IBM 3

“What are you?”
The boy said to her
The Rabbicorn thought
Then replied “I am not sure”

“Can I ride you
Like my bike?”
“I bet you could
If that’s what you’d like”

So he grabbed her horn
And climbed on her back
Pointed at her sister
And yelled “Attack!”

That how this scene starts, in the exhibition “The Rabbicorn” by Immersiva at IBM 3

The other day I was walking through IBM’s Sim in SL when I stumbled across this exhibition, called The Rabbicorn.

The maker Bryn Oh makes these kinds of stories in sl, as well as Machinimas. The point is to make a immerse experience for the viewer.

I was stunned over the visual quality of the scenes as well of the details, the story is just brilliant and it’s worth to join sl just for this.

You’ll find the exhibition here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/IBM%203/57/51/24

you’ll need SecondLife to view it, and I encourage you to join in.

Be quick though, the exhibition closes 1st September!

You can find me in SL under the name Thor Furuseth, drop by and say hi!

Jenny looks a bit bored

So introducing micro updates(above) a new server and a updated url to the radio

Today I migrated the blog to a new server, while keeping the radio on the old one.

the new url to the radio is http://radio.thorerik.net and the stream is on http://radio.thorerik.net:8201

it is very imporant to use radio.thorerik.net, since it’s 2 different servers.

Also I’ve written a quick tutorial on NTP over at Server Monkey! check it out!

Now to what I really wanted to talk about: Politics!

It is now closing up on the election here in Norway. and because of this I kind of want to talk a tiny bit about that, and what annoy me the most about it: people who complaint and that haven’t voted!

I was at my friend Othilicious(aka. Othilie) and during the night we spent some time to discuss politics and take some tests turned out we where quite close to each other when it comes to what parties we agreed the most to.

Tomorrow or the day after I’ll be out interrogating some politicians ^_^