Check out this design on one of the largest newspapers in Norway, what do you think of the layout? I know my desktop’s resolution isn’t the highest when I don’t use an external monitor but… Wasn’t this horrible?
If they wonder why more and more people starts using adblock the above screenshot is the answer…
Do you like the new theme? Its made by Niyaz, a computer engineer from Kerala in India. I love the fresh look and I think its going to work well on my blog. You can read more about Niyaz here and more about the theme here, his blog is recommended reading.
What do you think?
Update: I am hopeless… I cannot decide, I just know that I need a new theme. 
Oh, heres a shot I took the other day – forgot to upload it in my latest post, I thought the effect was fun.
Its been a kind of busy weekend but I got the chance to update myself a bit on the blogsphere, heres some of them I liked and recommend:
Midlife Parenting: Back to school shopping
Things to do when you’re above 40
When the wind had teeth
Top 10 Things on My Blog Theme Wishlist
White-cheeked tern
The Copier’s Over Here Next to the Irony
Please comment so I can add more blogs in my reader.
Sometimes it occur to me how much fun stuff Internet has to offer that I don’t know about, until an e-mail about it or a small twitter-message pops up. Check this out:
You can also follow maru’s work here: Electone TV.
March 24. will be this year’s browser-ordeal in Vancouver, its where the hackers are rewarded for knocking down browser/OS security. This year the contest has been divided in two; part one is browsers on different platforms and part two is the software on cellphones turn. The prize this year is $100k, an amazing amount. The last couple of days the different developers has spent a lot of time and effort to secure the browsers, in vain if you ask me. As long as humans program the security other humans will break them.
Opera is not on the agenda, I guess its because it is Norwegian and unbreakable. It is also the fastest browser on the net too. :p
Heres my bets:
Part 1:
Safari on Windows 7 – hacked in 18 seconds
Firefox on Mac OS – hacket in 40 seconds
Internet Explorer on Windows 7 – hacked on 41 seconds
Part 2:
Safari on iPhone – 20 seconds
Mail on Nokia – 30 seconds.
What do you think?
This is a great example of what Google does, when I write an e-mail and use the words “I have attached a file…” and tries to send the e-mail without attaching a file Google tells me! Awesome.
Google finally implemented its images of Norway to Google Street View last week and we’ve seen a few amusing shots. Finn is a company in Norway who also creates street views and one day they met. Check this out:
Link to Google Street view: The Finn car.
A group of youngsters got into a fight earlier today in Oslo, Norway – after a quarrel on Facebook. Many say “oh what have Internet come to” but I think they should reconsider what they think of Facebook. Youngsters today are born with keyboards under their hands, for them Internet is as real as the world we grew up in. The problem I think is that they doesn’t learn to respect and care about eachother the same way “we” were taught – they grow up to think Internet is theirs, no rules. Because their parents are too distanced to Internet and don’t teach them to respect and care about other humans like we do in “real life”.
I think its time to say that life on Internet is the same as real life – otherwise we will never get rid of bad behaviour on Internet. Do you agree?
On Facebook the youngsters agreed to meet in Oslo to settle the quarrel, it ended up with a large fight with weapons. Not firearms but I guess that is next.
The Pirate Bay has had their share of up and downs lately, a few days ago their ISP Brein closed them down but now they are up again. From a bunker! It looks like they are preparing for a long and tiresome war. Even if this is just a silly PR stunt its kind of funny.
From the Wiki:
During the Cold War the NATO maintained various top-secret hardened facilities all over western Europe. In 1955 a large command bunker was constructed just outside the small town of Kloetinge in the south of the Netherlands. The facility was designed to house 72 people in case of a nuclear attack and was used as a NATO Radio Base Band Relay Station, as well as local (counter) espionage. It has been kept a secret for many years, for the reason that it is where NATO and military commanders would have administered the country in the event of a war.
The facility underwent a complete rebuild in the 1970’s as part of the ASCON early-warning system, but the localized system soon was rendered obsolete.
The building contains six dormitories capable of housing 72 people sleeping in hot beds and extends four stories below ground.
In 1996 NATO decommissioned the facility, all furnishings and equipment were removed.
Around 1996 the bunker complex was up for sale and it was bought by its current owners and became a datacenter in 1998.
Many hardened biometric-protected doors stand between the outside world and the data floors. The bunker was constructed to function at energy saving capacity, totally cut off from the outside world for over 10 years. The four level facility is over 5 000 m2 in size.
Link to cyberbunker.com
Links to articles: telegraaf.nl
Bands are not getting what they were promised by Spotify, take Racing Junior for instance; 55100 plays gave about $3! The record companies does it again, they have found a new way to milk the artists. I guess Spotify doesn’t have enough users who pay, I also notice that more and more people drop Spotify because of the annoying ads.
Comon artists you can do better than this, boycot the music industry and form your own distribution networks – hire some geeks to set up a store.
I read in a Norwegian newspaper today that mobile applications will be bigger than Internet, isn’t that a funny way to put it? Most mobile applications use services on Internet and Internet as a transportation for traffic between the application and the server. How can “mobile applications” then be bigger than Internet? Or did I miss something?
They are talking about how popular Apple’s App Store is, having 65000 applications and people have downloaded 1,5 billion apps. Is that why they call it bigger? To use their own way of saying this, I think The Internet has more than 65000 apps.
This came to my mind on the subject, an awesome episode of the IT Crowd :
Link to the article (in Norwegian) : VG
Before the election the media or the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Iran, we would rather nuke it. But that was before something happened in Iran – president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fixed the vote. Big deal, that always happened in Iran, so why the difference?
Now the large net-companies like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr and other popular services fights over your input on Iran – is it because their eager to spread the word to help Iran or is it to make easy money?
Many feel that the world wide financial crisis is over, is that the reason why sudden people starts to care about others? I’ve read a few discussion where many say that during financial crises people tend to close their receivers and concentrate on surviving – I guess that is a human function we have to accept.
Many youngsters in Iran say that they want to be like the rest of the world, they want democracy. They saw hope in Mir Hussein Mousavi. Is this the reason for the sudden interest in Iran? The world saw hope for a country but then it was crushed by a terrible dictator?
Many say that Mousavi is no better than the sitting president, even Obama thinks that there is not much different between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad.
So why the sudden interest? Is it only because we care? I find it difficult to believe.
Search for “bomb Iran” and check out the results.
IFPI Norway is a bunch of movie and record-companies (mostly owned by foreigners) who demands that Telenor (one of Norways largest ISPs) close the access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor denies to do this but IFPI is now drawing them to court.
I have problems seeing the logic here. Firstly, why the mixup, ISPs can’t begin to close access to certain sites – isn’t that what their doing in China, Iran etc? Why can’t they close The Pirate Bay via court? Oh they have problems doing that? Why? Because The Pirate Bay don’t break the law? Well why can IFPI demand censor then?
Their demand is like.. What if I called my power company and said that I only wanted power from certain areas because the others aren’t environmental friendly? What do you think they would say?
What am I missing here? I don’t get it.
Once they take TPB, will they censor mininova, bittorrent and the other million tracker sites?
The Pirate Bay guys were judged to pay about $3,5 million to companies in film and recordbusiness. It was decided that if some of them have less money than the others someone will have to pay a larger share. But today Swedish papers are writing that the authorities can’t find any assets to use.
The only one who may could have payed the fine is Carl Lundström, but he is registered as a Swizz citizen and Swedish authoroties can’t use his assets because of this. Most likely the fine will never be payed.
Many think this is hillarious and see this as a punishment for greedy record and movie companies.
Isn’t this typical? Many verdicts get printed on the front page where the verdict is crushing, but very often the case turns – weeks, months or years later and the verdict becomes useless. But when that happends nothing get printed in the media.
