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

now the moving isn’t all done though, in a few weeks, I hope to move it to my own server rack  which is going to be expanded just before the move, and the site will be on a dedicated virtualized(single vm with all resources to itself) machine with these specs: 2.4 ghz quad core xeon, 4 GB ram, 1 TB disk and Windows 2008

other than that, this will be the new design for the next at least few months.

I’ve also taken on the job to be co-host for a new podcast which will launch soon(i’ll post more on that when it’s all settled )

other than that, thorerik.com is out in open beta, so now you can see the result of all the hard work i’ve laid down, and you can follow the progress, next up is adding youtube and later flickr

a few months ago I posted some twitter bookmarklets for ipod and iPhone, and Sorry to say, but they won’t get any updates any time soon Just don’t have time for it when I work on my new profile portal thorerik.com and the sudden shutdown of my old host(and then return to the old backup host, which is outdated ).

Also posted a youtube video a while back where I explained a idea I had, basically being a more secure version of for example what wordpress is.
The concept code is continusly developing, and I’ll probably open up the source either this month or some time during April (might work on it during the Gathering 8th-12th April, drop by if you’re there, seat 1 @ row 31 )

btw, just quickly back to the project over at thorerik.com, that might(!) also be open sourced, We’ll see

still trying to be active on twitter, mostly end up reading tweets(with over 200 followers and following over 300 there’s a lot of tweets O_O)

also on the plans is to create more tests of apps for iPod/iPhone, as I use that all the time, and think there is way too few tests of actual apps(many write very subjective reviews, I try to be some what objective when I review things )

one review that is also coming up is Safari 4, and Firefox 3.1(now renamed 3.5 according to some news sites), and not to forget final version of IE 8, the beta’s have been very impressive(considering IE7 was terrible).

Also trying to get listed on a norwegian blog listing called Blogglisten.no, and hopefully going to get some more traffic If that happens, more posts will come, and they will be WAY more frequent as a treat to all of you regulars

Last but not least, I will begin to vlog too, as It’s a bit easier, and it’s a bit more lazy :p

Again, thanks to all of you who visit regularly :) <3 you

Twitter bookmarklets.

It’s been in development for quite a while, but now it’s finished

also, got myself a new iPod, so happy me ^^