Halfway Point.

Anniken is now a few days past the halfway point on her Central America Tour, at least in terms of days. Today they are moving back to Montezuma from where they will go to Panama to celebrate the carnival, which kicks off on February 13. The current time is T-minus 52 days to when she will eventually be back in Norway. Looking back at December and January; those months flew by quickly – I can’t really remember anything that happened, so they must have – but looking forward towards April 2 seems like a damn eternity. But, hey, I’m really good at counting days and we’ve already got stuff planned for when she gets home, so it’s all good, even though I have to miss her dearly. Apparently, I have a soft side, and she brings it out.

Tick, tock.

This weekend I added some good karma to my pool by paying parts of a complete stranger’s taxi fare. Tomorrow I’m seeing Avatar. Damn you, peer pressure!

That is all.

Oh, man!

I finally decided to unwrap my copy of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. I bought it back in November when Anniken came down with a cold and had to stay home from work for a couple of days. I was sure I’d get ill, too, so I prepared for a few days at home by getting the latest addition to the Grand Theft Auto series. As it turned out, however, I didn’t get ill. The game has been sitting in its plastic wrap together with the rest of my Xbox 360 games since then – until today, when I decided I wanted to give it a go. I wasn’t ill, but I was at home. That’s one out of two, not too bad.

I’d forgotten all about how much noise the Xbox 360 makes. Compared to my PS3, it’s like sitting next to a jet engine. Fighting fire with fire, I turned up the volume of my amplifier, effectively drowning the Xbox noise in the sounds of screeching tyres, gun shots and police sirens. That worked out nicely for about twenty minutes, when this happened: Continue reading "Oh, man!"

Nexus One?

Google recently unveiled the HTC built Nexus One, an Android phone poised to challenge even the mighty iPhone. I have praised Android in the past, and is the happy owner of an HTC Hero. I have even been talking about starting to create applications for the Android platform, but that is yet to happen. Even though the Hero is a great phone, it has a few shortcomings compared to the iPhone and the screen is what comes to mind first. The camera also sucks monkey balls and it doesn’t come with a flash. Neither does the iPhone, though, and I don’t really use my phone as a camera that much, but every time I do, I wish the Android camera was a little better, at least when there is not much ambient light around.

So, what about it? Should I ditch my HTC Hero in favor of a brand new Nexus One? It’s an impressive piece of hardware that is crammed with lots of equally impressive software and with the recent update from Google, it has also got multitouch support. The screen is huge, the Snapdragon processor is lightning fast and the phone has even got a “Tri-color clickable trackball“. Come on, what more can you possible ask for!? Continue reading "Nexus One?"

iBomb.

Back in June 2007 I experienced a weird problem with my year old MacBook Pro: I was unable to click the mousepad button and for some reason nothing happened when I left clicked the attached mouse either. Weird stuff. It turned out that the reason for all this was that the battery had started to expand, applying pressure to the bottom of the mousepad button, effectively locking it in a pressed down state. But not to worry, I brought the battery to an Apple store and got a replacement, no questions asked. That’s some great support for you!

About a month ago, the new battery started to act up, too. My MacBook would suddenly turn itself off when running on battery power. Even though the symptom was another one this time, the cause as the same: The battery had started to expand a little, as you can see on the picture above. It had not expanded as much as last time, but enough to make it a problem. So I took the battery with me to an Apple store to get it replaced. Being somewhat naive, I thought that I would get the same great support this time, too.

Wrong! Continue reading "iBomb."

Whoohoooh!

This one was just hilarious. Not only the gag, but the drawing as well.

“Rutetid” is a comic by Norwegian Frode Øverli. He is perhaps more known for the comic “Pondus“.