Thor Erik's Blog

Sis' girl

I better get used to that soon….
Sis just got a tiny little girl ^_^

anyways, lovely girl, and I can’t wait to spend more time with her

(I guess this is the shortest post I’ve made ever lol)

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 ^_^

Gabranth speedpaint by Jonepone

Momsepomsen for tagging me in this kind of anti jante thingy…

the whole point is that you are to write 10 things about your self that you think is good.

and SHE tagged me -.- (and my friend Othilicious)

let’s just jump into this and get it over with:

1. I’m good with languages

2. I think I’m pretty good with my camera(see previous post)

3. I’m good with computers

4. I’m pretty good with security, though I ignore my own advices.

5. I’m good with maps

6. I’m always on the front with new technology

7. I like to share my knowledge

8. I love to make things with my hands

9. I’m good at reading (but not always understand it lol)

10. I get interested in problems easly and want to find a solution to them(if that is a good thing always)

So I guess I’ll tag Joe and Wyrihaximus it’s you two’s turn to write 10 positive things about yourself and pass it along to someone else

I have to admit, this is maybe the hardest blog post I’ve ever done lol

A bouquet in Latvia from the Lituanian president

No the Sneekpeek isn’t done yet, but it is close there’s a lot of content to handle for it

but let’s talk about what’s been holding that post back a bit, Vacation!

I had a few(4) weeks on vacation around the eastern baltic states, through sweden, in finland for a week, then Estland, Latvia, Lituania, Poland and Germany.

It was a nice holyday

now below you see some more pictures, and more will be added later, to keep 100% up to date, look at my deviantart page!

now off to a bit different topic, Internet radio, since my host is so kind to give me shoutcast, I thought why the heck not?

While I’m getting everything ready it’s “just” going to be a 24/7 stream with Creative Commons music from Jamendo this won’t change now or in the future

If you hear a song you like, you can just head over there and search for the artist, song or album, and it’s there, your’s to keep can’t get much better than that can it?

you’ll find the player and links to the stream here, or just direct your player to http://radio.thorerik.net:8201

If you got any requests(they must be Creative commons licensed, preffer if it’s available at Jamendo(link above), that way I can get away with not having it as a download here(my philosophy: if I can download it, everyone else should, legally!))

click the pictures for their deviantart page!

Jenny looks a bit bored...

Mmh beutiful blue sky!

forever?

Lovely sun in helsinki

Jenny playing on my iPod

A lovely sun behind a chimney in Helsinki

A sunset north of Turku in finland (HDR)

Do you belive in ghosts?

Beautiful couple

here’s a sneak peek on a upcomming post

So a lot have happend and there is a lot I want to post about but some things just don’t make it, here’s the things that I orignally planned to be posted about.

and we’ll start in the “wrong” order.

21st June  Medieval festival Oslo(20th-21st June)

The left Image was among the last I took, close to the end of the day, met this couple while taking pictures of the dueling arena, they caught my eye cause they both looked like they popped out of a time machine ^_^ (click the pic for the DA page)

Remember that wonderful plugin I had a while back, that let you log in with practically any account you could have?

Today I brought it back, don’t be scared by the “you need to be logged in to comment” it is quick and easy(the registration process is just a login box).

you can even log in with even MORE services now

currently supported:

Twitter

Facebook

Yahoo

Google

Live

AOL

Blogger

OpenID

and Flickr

My Space will be added soon(when I bother to register an app over there as well ^_^)

ps.

This is better for you also, cause I trust your providers so much, I trust that you are human and that you don’t spam my blog, no moderation for you

pps.

Share This! sorry I meant Sociable is also available, see those small icons below each post? click one of the service icons and it will take you to it with a link to that post

Ghost whisperer by Valentina Kallias

I feel so old when I say that, but I just have to rant on about this as well.

Again it’s public transport in the story(yay!).

I was sitting at the tram on my way home, when a bunch of school kids comes on.

first they begin toying around on the tram, running up and down the isle(well nothing wrong about that imo, I did that aswell when I was about their age(8-9 years old), I don’t mind that since I’m also are listening to music and they don’t shout)

Then 3 of them bumps into me(which is also fine) but none of them said sorry!

I’m not going to blame them, but I do want to blame their parents, I learned to say sorry when I was friggin 3!

If you are a modern parent, PLEASE teach your kids to say sorry, this is something I didn’t imagine a parent wouldn’t teach their kids.

about the Picture in this post:

This time I made a bit of exception to my own rule, this picture isn’t Creative Commons, but it is just so amaizing I had to post it(with permissions of course )

Valentina Kallias took this picture of herself, and it just looks stunning, the colors feels so unreal, but at the same time so natural, there is also that little extra you can’t exactly point out. I just love this woman’s gallery, go check it out, MANY wonderful pictures.

and thank you Valentina for letting me use it

ps. I will probably be making another post pretty soon, there is a lot I want to talk about

by nickwheeleroz

Hi

Posted a survey cause I’m curious, what do you guys and girls think of my blog, and what do you like and hate

The Survey is 100% anonymous and everything is optional, so if you like you could send a blank response(but why would you? :p)

Head over to it now and let me know what you think!

Picture is by nickwheeleroz Original picture can be found here.

Picture is licensed CC by nc sa 2.0

Update:

Thanks for all the response,  thanks to all of you who responded to the survey!

Over all people liked my blog as it is which is good news to me

Jeg har forresten presentert bloggen min på Bloggurat.

Recently iPodMovie.info Opened, and as a part of the release i decided to try it.

First thing I noticed is the really neat design. It is very easy to navigate and easy to find what you look for.

iPodMovie.info main page

The minus for me is that I use Firmware 3.0 which means I can’t jailbreak, and that means I can’t watch any movies directly or download them to the iPod on the move, I need a PC, though if you got a jailbroken iPod/iPhone you can download directly, Which i tested and it works well.

Quality of the movies can improve a lot, but considering this is free it’s not that bad. A little hail to apple maybe to get things rolling about movie rental/purchases outside the US…

Over all the page works well, and I would recomend if you can’t get the movie another way in higher quality.

They have also developed a special app for this website, so if you got a jailbroken device, I’d suggest getting the app, it’s in the BigBoss repository and is named iPodMovie.

If you are into movies, and absolutely need a movie, this is a service that could be a savior

overall I’d give this service a 4 out of 6. The good part is that you can get movies quickly on the move, the bad is that you simply get a bad quality video, and you do run the risk of breaking copyright rules.

Notice: There is no guarantee that the movies are legal(as far as I’ve been able to find out), I do NOT endorse piracy except when the ones supposed to distribute it is too stuffed to see that we want it easy, without 50 hoops and drm. If you download a video, I’d suggest supporting the movie studio by for example buying the dvd or similar

Alexander Rybak og Tone Damli Åberge

Today Alexander Rybak won Eurovision Song Contest for norway, beating the finish record of 221 points with 95 points, totaling with 387 points!

The song can be found on youtube (HD if you please )

The cool part is that officially he won on the constitution day, and in 2010 we can celebrate that Norway first time entered Eurovision Song contest!

So today we also celebrate the Constitution day, 17th May. Norway’s Consitution is now 195 years old.

For those of you waiting for the iPodMovie review, It will be around on monday, I hope, things got hectic here so things did’t work out that well at first, Also comming up is a update to the twitter client’s review, as Twitterrific is out in version 2, and several more have popped up.