People want to know how I spent Valentine’s Day. Let me just say first and foremost that I don’t condone American holidays such as this, or Halloween, in a country where they have no historical tradition whatsoever. We hardly have any catholics at all. On the other hand you could say the idea behind Valentine’s, […]
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A baby provoked these ideas
One of the co-workers brought with her baby to work today. She’s on mama-leave, so the only reason she dropped by was to show it off. This happens every time a chick’s got herself a baby here, and all the women in the building loom over the poor thing with glittering diamond eyes. They want […]
Truckin' February Issue released!
1. Big Day Out by Paul McGuire We did not have a hotel room in Surfer’s Paradise with fewer than 18 hours before we were scheduled to board a flight to Coolangota Airport on Australia’s Gold Coast. We were caught up with work in Melbourne and waited to the last minute to book a room… […]
Worst system warning I've seen ever
I have a hard time updating versions of Symantec AV that’s lagging behind in terms of virus definitions. The servers don’t seem to respond at all, and even less so during the evenings (when the US has awoke). This is a message I got last night when I gave up and turned off instead of […]
Howto: Remove McAfee 90-day trial manually
When a new laptop to my department arrives, regardless if it’s for homeuse or not, I’m the one to set it up. We mostly buy our shit from Dell, which is not great, but less expensive. There are some models I even like. But whenever we have to buy outside of our Dell business portal, […]
Today's the Sami holiday!
Today’s my ethnical holiday! W00t! Some of you may not be aware of this, but although I’ve got a red passport (Norwegian) I’m also an ethnic sami. My mother has told me that when she went to Florida as an exchange student, the schoolbooks said: "The Samis are the cowboys of Norway". They left out […]
A reason to LOL for real (Parental Advisory: Disturbing images)
I was reading slashdot this morning, and for some reason (probably because of the geek factor) they ran a story regarding the release date of the last Harry Potter book. Great. Maybe we can move on now, and forget this embarrasing part of our history. Let’s just all agree to never mention the name of […]
The French environmental organization called L’Alliance pour la Planète is encouraging everyone to take part in the greatest mobilization of the citizens of the world, to amass greater awareness among people, politicians and the media regarding power consumption. In the demonstration simply called Action! they ask all of us to turn off our electrical devices, […]
External HDD suddenly wiped by XP! [Restoring partition tables]
This is a problem I had at work just now with one of my 300GB external drives. Since it appears to be rather unknown, I thought I’d post my findings here. It took me one and a half day to find out what had gone wrong, but I was able to restore everything back to […]
Link of the day: ChaCha search engine
I was reading a post on 100 alternative search engines over at /. .org, taking an interest in the Artificial Intelligence searches. We all remember AskJeeves, which was supposed to be within the AI class of engines, but it never worked fully according to plan. I stumbled over a link to ChaCha Search which has […]