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The Formula One race from Montréal was red flagged for a good two hours and right now we’re running behind the safety car. I used the time to dig up a few more one-liners for you. Enjoy.

  • “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
  • “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” — Dalai Lama
  • “Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” — Dalai Lama
  • “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “Most of us have for more courage than we ever dreamed possible.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “The cure for boredom in curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker
  • “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams
  • “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “What one has to do usually can be done.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You always admire what you really don’t understand.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” — Elvis Presley
  • “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “A politician divides mankind into two classes: Tools and enemies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any who.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.” — G.K. Chesterton
  • “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.” — George Carlin
  • “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington
  • “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” — Goethe
  • “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” — Goethe
  • “I have nothing but respect for you – and not much of it.” — Groucho Marx
  • “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Advertising is legalized lying.” — H.G. Wells
  • “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” — H.G. Wells
  • “Our true nationality is mankind.” — H.G. Wells
  • “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” — Henry Ford
  • “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” — Henry Ford
  • “The only real mistake is the one from where we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford
  • “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” — Henry Ford
  • “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford

Yeah, the site design has changed. Again. It’s a modified version of Blogum by Wpshower. For the first time I’ve gone three columns and optimized the design for screens 1280 pixels wide (or wider). But if you’re stuck in the past or visiting with a mobile device with a not-so-wide screen, fear not! Through the magic of Media Queries you will be presented with a narrower version of the design if your screen does not support the 1280 pixel wide version. Everything will look a bit crammed together, but it will work.

The original Blogum design makes heavy use of header images in each and very entry. Great if you have a lot of high quality images lying around or if you have the time to hunt down photos with an Attribution Create Commons license. I don’t really have a lot of images lying around so you probably won’t see a lot of header images. This time I’ve made an exception, however; I’ve added two iMacs to the header. Why? Because we all know that every great web designer use a Mac. So now you’ll automatically assume that this is a great web design. You Mac-whore, you.

Most of the features from the old design made it through to the new one, sans the huge footer and the last.fm “last played” widget. A shame, really, because I enjoy forcing my exceptional taste in music on people, much in the same way as I enjoy forcing my opinions on you. But unfortunately, I didn’t find any room for it. Maybe it will reappear in a future revision. Or maybe not. The text size might also be boosted a little, because now it just feels a bit small. Or is it OK? I don’t know. Also, the comments are a bit hidden below the entry and with this font size, I have to write a hell of a lot to make the entry and the comments merge nicely.

But all in all, I’m pleased with the result.

With a little help from Google Analytics I had a look at the 130,848 keywords used in searches that eventually led the interweb surfer to this page from the first of January up until today. And there are some really weird things people search for. Here are a few examples:

  • i cant see from your perspective my head isnt that far up my ass (748 times)
  • never argue with a fool (713 times)
  • if you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything, if you look at what you have in life, you have everything (600 times)
  • stupid is the man given opportunity doesn’t take it quote (380 times)
  • the one´s that succeed in life are the one´s that accept their misstakes (157 times)

The most interesting thing about these examples is that most of them generated very few new visits, meaning that the same people are coming to this site searching for these things in a search engine – in most of the cases Google. Often they are generating 10+ hit a day as well. Interesting. Continue reading "Communication." →

The last Formula 1 race of the 2010 season came and went and you probably expected an entry about the event, but, as opposed to the race, the entry never came. To summarize the race weekend, which was last weekend, very quickly; Sebastian Vettel won the race and the championship, the race was never very exciting and Herman Tilke should seriously consider another career than motor racing circuit designer because the only Formula 1 driver who is crazy enough to overtake on his tracks is Kamui “Kamikaze” Kobayashi. The 2011 season starts March 11 next year – meaning that my weekends are open again until then.

Well, at least after we’ve cleared December. It’s traditionally a month when a lot of things happen, and this year seems to be no exception. From the top of my mind comes the annual Christmas party at Terje and Inger’s place where we’ll make fun of Terje because he eats like there is no tomorrow, the Christmas party with BEKK where people will dance on every table and of course the semi-annual gingerbread bonanza in our humble apartment. Last year, Anniken was out and about on her South American tour, but this year she’s where she should be – not in South America. Instead of cramming everything in on a Friday evening, we’re having an open house on a Saturday so that people can just come and go as they please. People are getting kids left and right these days and it just seemed like a better arrangement for them.

I used the Android gingerbread man in the invite, but I doubt anyone noticed. It’s my small contribution in the struggle to wake up the Apple sheep.

In other and totally unrelated news I’ve now changed the profile picture I used on this site. Even though the portrait shot by Life Mary was one of the better pictures taken of me, it was getting old and a little change was needed. To spare you from seeing yet another image taken in a bathroom mirror, I got help from Tray and Matt and their South Park avatar creator at South Park Studios. Life Mary’s picture looked a lot more like me than the avatar, though.

Ah, we’ve finally left daylight saving time behind us and got the hour we lost a few months ago back. Anniken and I used it to go for an evening walk around the neighborhood, dodging hundreds – or at least 10 – trick or treaters. Halloween is slowly gaining a foothold in Norway, but I doubt I will ever embrace it. I can’t really see myself prance around dressed as Peter Pan. Maybe the guy from Falling Down.

Anyway.

After I installed the new ASUS AT5IONT-I the average load on the VBOX almost doubled for some mysterious reason. Mysterious because the new CPU packs an extra 200MHz, and the average load should, if anything, decrease.

To handle this I’ve installed WP Super Cache for WordPress. With the plugin enabled, the site will serve static files instead of using the PHP engine to generate the page on every request. The pages load a lot quicker now and the average load should drop quite a lot. The one-liners on the top of every page won’t update on every request and the views count won’t display correctly, but with the speed increase it’s worth it.

Now all I need to do is to write an entry that hits the Reddit or Digg front page and I’ll really get to test the cache configuration. Good luck with that, eh?

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