Archive for December, 2008

In this financial turmoil

We were out for pizza and a few beers last night and while walking from the pizza restaurant to the bar we passed one of the local banks. They clearly feel the wrath of the financial crisis, as you can see below. The sign above the window reads “Nordea presents its customers”.

So what did you get?

Santa figured out you had been naughty and gave you a gray rock to chew on? I, apparently, had been quite a nice fellow this past year. I have refrained from sharing silly invites on Facebook – might be just why he put me on the nice-list. I am very pleased with my Christmas “outcome” [...]

We require multilingual firemen!

I know it’s Christmas and everything – everything is supposed to be joy and happiness. I still have to comment on a news report from last night on the Norwegian channel TV Norge. The news report is on the recent fires that have taken several lives. Lately an old Pakistani woman died in one of [...]

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays, all! Time to eat yourselves fat and happy! I have taken the trip home to my parents for the holidays. It’s great to be home – enjoying all the good food and the Christmas spirit Ho! Ho! Hooooo! Meeeeeeeeeerry Christmas!

Spotify is scrobbling!

The news of a new version of Spotify just came down the wire, and this new version is Scrobbling! The ability to scrobble what you play to Last.fm has been one of the most requested items over the last couple of weeks and it’s great to see that the developers are listening to the community [...]

The sweet bug-fix relief

I think in many ways the relief you feel when you manage to fix a hard-to-find bug can be compared to the feeling of intense pain going away – like painkillers when you have a terrible toothache. I have been working on locating and fixing a bug in our crawlers at Integrasco, on and off, [...]

What the hell, Facebook?

I logged on to Facebook the other day and suddenly started getting several notifications about friends making comments about my personal life, apparently. There has been a lot of talk about new Facebook viruses lately and I wonder if this is part of it? Are we going to start spam filtering of Facebook as well [...]

jaranweb.com has moved!

After strugling to get my domain released for transfer for over a week now I have finally managed to make the move. The site has moved to a new home with a Norwegian hosting provider – this should speed up the site quite a bit for most of my readers I have also made some [...]