Monthly Archives: June 2004

Virtual desktops

Virtual desktops are a brilliant thing. Microsoft will probably invent them Real Soon Now. For these of you unfamiliar with the concept, instead of one desktop on the screen, you have several. Then you switch between them using the mouse … Continue reading

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At CERN

At CERN. Very nice. I had, on average, nearly my best flight ever going to Geneva. I made it to the airport, and thanks to automatic check-in machines, I could skip the mile-long manual check-in queue and just stand in … Continue reading

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CPU-vifte

Kjøpte ny CPU-vifte til vladimir, sidan den han hadde har vore bråkete leenge, så bråkete at det er plagsamt om natta. Dårleg lager. Testa ein hypotese om at det kunne vera rusk i lageret, og satte støvsugaren inntil litt. Det … Continue reading

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Trippel espresso

Hvad angaaer kaffe, så kjøpte eg ein trippel espresso for ei lita tid sidan. Karen som då stod i kassa var vaken nok til å skjøna at ein skal betala per trykk, ikkje per kopp. Det er han då så … Continue reading

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Feed it. It must be fed.

Bloglines: A Free, Web-Based News Aggregator. Recommended by The Saint. Nifty if you read several weblogs, like this one, for example, and don’t want to jump to many different tedious, possibly ad-bloated, web pages for your information fix. Particularly if … Continue reading

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Lungs: Check.

Still here. This is a filler to notify you that I’m just lazy. Happy birthday, Paula. I think it’s around this time of year. Still here. This is a filler to notify you that I’m just lazy. Happy birthday, Paula. … Continue reading

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Hovudfag, jo.

Hovudfaget ramlar framover, ser det ut til, for no virkar det nesten. Huhei! Hovudfaget ramlar framover, ser det ut til, for no virkar det nesten. Huhei!

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Venuspassasje!

Venus har passert. Fint syn, men ikkje heilt lettsjåeleg. Pøttsann. Så er det over, og verda består. Venus har passert. Fint syn, men ikkje heilt lettsjåeleg. Pøttsann. Så er det over, og verda består.

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Time lumbers on.

And so smoking in bars, pubs and resturants are banned, it’s nice and warm, the bike needs to go to a bike shop for a lookover, summer draws close and I’ve started playing Monkey Island 4. As if I didn’t … Continue reading

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