20.01.2007
When I got up this morning and checked in online, some Australian girl I know happened to present me some amusing news.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian police have had troubles getting concrete evidence that illegal brothels are indeed illegal brothels. Apparently none of the customers feels like testifying, so they have resorted to some creative solutions.
The solution? Paying private detectives to have sex with the prostitutes. Yes. You read that right.
It's a dirty job, but apparently someone got to do.
15.01.2007
This 3d modeling technology seems about as cool as it seems prone for abuse. Cool and scary at the same time.
I've been a lazy poster, so I just thought I'd share. For those interested, these mad scientists seem to have a site.
08.01.2007
Since new-years I've gotten a new job as a senior consultant in a company named Crayon.
As it should be, I'll probably get some new challenges, get a little more hands-on work done and not to mention: a few new neat toys to play with.
My two newest toys are these: A Dell Latitude D820 laptop, and a HTC MTeoR Windows Mobile 5 cellphone.
The laptop itself is probably the neatest piece of PC hardware I've ever had the pleasure of "owning" myself. It has a Intel Curo2Duo 2GHz CPU, 2GBs of RAM and 1920x1200 display. This thing played a 1920x1080p 120fps clip (encoding-wise, not real fps), the "Otsuka Ai - Love is born"-concert, without a hitch. Pretty sweet.
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22.12.2006
It's soon christmas and this is definitely the time where everything should just work and you shouldn't have to worry about anything. My toilet doesn't work.
When I studied at the university I did not take the course on fluid dynamics. I know people who did, and they hated it. This does not entitle me to any expert opinions about fluid dynamics, but I can assure you I can tell when others fail badly at something as this is usually rather self-evident.
So when I refer my toilet "not working", it's not like it's entirely broken, but it still ain't working as it should. Let me start by telling you how I feel about toilets and what they should do to be accounted for as being in a "working condition".
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21.12.2006
Let's get one thing straight: I'm pretty useless when it comes to buying clothes. I have no girlfriend which makes sure I look fashionable, and being the lazy guy that I am, I usually ask for clothes for my birthday and for christmas. While not optimal this usually makes sure I don't look like a total slob.
Buying clothes myself is one of the things I'm not particularly good at. But yesterday I was out and bought myself some clothes anyway! So... What happened? Let's sum it up.
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28.11.2006
I know you are working your ass off with tests and all that these days and really shouldn't even be surfing the net at all.
However, I found this thing on Youtube, and boy would I appreciate having something like that back in the days when I did physics at the university.
Pretty neat.
27.11.2006
As most of my friends know, I have been taking a week off from work and I still got this week to relax. I honestly haven't been doing much so far. Like previously stated: just slobbing around. The only thing I managed to produce in this time was a nasty hangover for saturday. That is, until yesterday.
One of my other sites had a rather flexible data-design, that allowed the site to be fully multilingual without too much hassle. In the end I never used it, so it was just excess code that complicated matters needlessly.
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23.11.2006
After I posted the article The great instant noodle showdown, this American guy I know tipped me off about some noodles I really should try out if I ever found them: Myojo Chukazanmai brand noodles.
These are japanese noodles and can't be found in any stores in my area (not that I know of, anyway). Therefore I got some guy visiting Tokyo bring me back some of them, and so he did. Nice fella, huh? Today I tried them out.
The package was huge compared to any other brand of noodles I've seen. Don't know if it shows, but here's a picture for those who wonder what this stuff looks like:
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23.11.2006
I've been off work since friday and mostly been slobbing, relaxing and not doing much, which is cool since I've been working quite much lately. I'll be having 2 weeks off to do whatever I like and just chill.
My plans for these weeks was going somewhere instead of just staying in Oslo. Trondheim, Munich, Amsterdam, Budapest or just somewhere. However none of that worked out particularly well with the people I intended to hook up with. Bad timing, I guess.
Seeing as that didn't work out, I may actually get some work done on my site(s). God knows there are a few oddities that needs fixing. Or I'll just boy a Xbox 360 and waste time playing games. Time will tell.
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17.11.2006
According to the ads, my ISP has upped my bandwidth a tad without any increased costs. I can now serve a massive 50kbps more data! Yay!
Since this is technically a networking issue, I find these pictures rather fitting for the issue. Not at all representative for how I do things at home, but pretty amusing none the less.