Archive for November, 2008

Celebrated first Sunday in advent in Old Bergen



Tonight we celebrated the first Sunday in advent in ‘Old Bergen’. The mayor lead the annual torch parade which ended up at the old square where the christmas tree stands, ready to be lighted.

A lot of people participated this year, they even didn’t have enough torches. We were a bit late so we didn’t get one, but I think that is better than when they have lots of torches left because people aren’t showing up. We had a great time and the athmosphere were awesome.

Earlier we visited the old mill, a few artist workshops and the old jeweller, Santa in the old barn and we had a cup of coffee and some cake at the old restaurant. If you come to Bergen once I recommend visiting Old Bergen.

It is an open air museum with more than 40 wooden houses, representative of the Bergen architecture in the 18th and 19th centuries. The houses have interiors from the 18th, 19th and the 20th centuries, and give picture of life in a small town with its dwellings, different shops, baker, barber, dentist, photographer etc. The museum area is open all year.

Sorry about the photo-quality, they are taken with my cellphone..



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Silly news friday


Newspapers are filled with tragic news this week, I needed a break from it and filtered them out on a few sites. These ones appeared :

The drunk swede
This morning the police had to come get a drunk swede from the train at Voss station. Last night he went to sleep after a long day. He probably did what he always did, stripped his clothes off and went to bed. He should check his ‘bed’ better though. The passengers around him in the seat section kind of felt unconfortable with a naked man lying on the floor. :)

“The jump”
A 78 year old man was unfortunate to drive off a ramp in a parking house. Locals say it just had to happened some day. People are probably going to blame his age but if you look at the photo, it could happend the best. I mean, its weird that it didn’t happend before. Locals are calling it “the jump”.

Wet debate technique
Romania’s staid election campaign has been shaken after a former bodybuilder turned senator hurled a glass of water at a female rival during a heated TV debate yesterday.

Cardboard figure keeps police at bay
A cardboard figure of a person inside a Somerset County bank kept police at bay for 90 minutes tonight, authorities said. The standoff at the PNC Bank on routes 518 and 601 in the Skillman section of Montgomery Township ended at about 10:20 p.m., Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said. Link to article.

No friday silly post without a lolcat
funny pictures of cats with captions
more animals


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Childhood TV-stars then and now


I read an article on Zuzana Pravňanská, from one of my favourite shows on TV when I was a kid. She were starring as Majka in She came out of the blue sky. Did you see it? When I saw the image of her now I got the urge to search up some of my other favourites from the 70 and 80′s. I also found some Youtubes of them, and some of the intros to the children TV.

Children TV intros :
ca 1987
ca 1986
80′s

Heres some of my favourites, then and now.

Then Now
Ante (Sverre Porsanger) – 1977
Guro (Eline Simonsen Haga) 1981
The kid with the gold-pants (Harald Hamrell) – 1970
She came out of the blue sky (Majka) (1980) – Zuzana Pravňanská
Madicken – Jonna Liljendahl (1979)
Pippi Longstocking (1980s) – Inger Nilsson
Punky Brewster (1980s) – Moon Frye Soleil
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1974) – Libuše Šafránková
The world of Buster (1980s) – Mads Bugge Andersen
Huckleberry Finn and his friends (1980s) Ian Tracey, Sammy Snyders
Ronja the robber’s daughter (1980s) Hanna Zetterberg


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A cold but beautiful day


Monseren
Before going to a birthday party today we spent some time on Monsamarken (Mons’ field) having fun on sleds. Our litle one enjoyed sitting on them sliding down the hills, she smiled wide all the way – it was her first time on sleds. I love to watch kids play in snow, its like they blossom in a special way. Its energygiving to watch.

The Monsamarken is an endangered spot, like many green spots in Norway. We try to use it as much as we can, it might be built on one day. There is an ongoing project but luckily lots of local people resist. Its kind of our last spot where we can use sleds near us.

Since the 1600s the field were owned by farmers, the spot originally belonged to a large farm Eid, later it were sold in pieces and we now how stories go then. I’ll try to get a wide picture of it one day.

Wordless Wednesday – Highway-train




Fun Paypal buttons


I was inspired by Stan’s awesome can at his blog and it triggered me to search for other creative Donate buttons. I found some neat ones and wanted to share them in a way I hope you think is fun. I tried to implement a digg-like function but ended up modifiying Lester Chan’s Postratings plugin. I hope you forgive me Lester!

The can were designed by Jack at Room 237: Origins.

If you know of anyone else who deserve to be on this list please leave the url in a comment, and I’ll add it to the entries.

Please remember that you can’t copy their designed buttons without their permission, some of them are bought, and some designed them theirselves.

Visit their site (click on the thumbnail) to check it out and vote.

  • Fun Paypal buttons (+5 rating, 1 votes)
  • Pulsar Award (+5 rating, 1 votes)
  • The Can at Razzball.com (+4 rating, 6 votes)
  • Communter drink (0 rating, 4 votes)
  • PS3 and distributed computing (0 rating, 0 votes)
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  • Pulsar Award


    Matt at ‘Meltwater. Torrents. Meanderings. Delta.’ has a unique way of showing appriciation of bloggers he meet in the blogosphere. This time its Amy Lilley Designs’ turn, congratulations to you!

    Read more on the Pulsar awards here. You should also check out more of Matt’s blog, it has amazing reading.

    A relaxing day


    Today we finally went back to the 4-H farm Soltun at Garnes near us, its been too long since last time. The kids had a great time, riding horses, visiting the two pigs Stapmett (Full) and Monica, the cows and calfs, rabbits and sheeps. We learned today that Monica is a he, that was awesome. =)

    After hitchhiking with the horse wagon we ended our visit in the turf hut where we grilled sausages and marshmallows over open fire. I’ll take some more photos next time, I forgot I had it with me most of the time.

    R2D2 Watching out

    We were exploring shops in an area we hadn’t visited for ages, then suddenly I noticed the awesome R2D2 outside a clothing shop. Is it a remote camera watching? I didn’t dare to ask.

    R2D2 Watching

    R2D2 Watching



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    Incredible car theft last weekend

    I hope you guys like this one, I have never seen a thief this cold. Though lets just say he wasn’t sober. Its recorded on security camera at a gas-station in the city centre here, notice that the car owner doesn’t notice.

    The owner got back his car a bit later.



    Bluetooth and Lenovo Thinkpad


    I just have to share this in case someone else hit the same problem as I did. Upgrading to XP worked like a charm and I am glad I did it, the machine is much quicker now as well.

    A new problem occured though when I installed Nokia PC Suite to connect it to my cellphone – it did not want to communicate with the phone! I tried anything, handshaking here and there, disabling, rebooting, reinstalling, reactivating but nothing helped. When I chose to add phone in Nokia PC Suite and it asked for the pin, the Thinkpad answered instead thinking it was the phone. The bluetooth stack took over! My phone did not get the chance to answer the handshake request…

    I had to laugh when I figured it out, I am always suspicious to branded PCs and brand-software. I found this when I chose add/remove programs :

    Thinkpad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate Software. Ewww… Software that enhances stuff is most of the time dangerous and unstable.

    I uninstalled this and then everything worked fine!

    If you have the same problem, make sure you have the C:\SWTOOLS\DRIVERS\TPBTooth\Win32\drivers, you have to use it later.

    Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and remove “Thinkpad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate Software”, then reboot your machine.

    When you log on again it finds new hardware and asks for drivers, choose “have disk” and direct it to C:\SWTOOLS\DRIVERS\TPBTooth\Win32\drivers. Then it install Bluetooth properly and you’re ready to go!

    How fun technology can be…