Thor Erik's Blog

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

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 ^_^

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?