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Today a newspaper tell us that we might have to wait a bit longer for the spring and that the minus degrees might come back. That is sad reading but in the article they link to a fun weather service. It works for abroad cities and places as well. Check it out here: http://pent.no/

I spent an hour trying to get up this hill, after the bus managed to get up I tried again and got home.

The drug-party in Vancouver has started, which is an ordinary thing for the Olympics. Whenever I hear the word Olympics I think of it as a drug-event. Where “athletes” compete in finding the best drug that won’t be detected. But most fail and today 30 of the “athletes” has been denied start because of too high bloodvalues.

I pity the sponsors, after a broadcast we hear “this was brought to you by….” McDonalds for instance. Do the owners of Mc Donalds have stocks in the pharmacy production or are they simply believing that the Olympics is a healthy sport-event? I think that is a bit naive.

Oh well.. Happy needle-weeks! Eh I mean Olympics!

The irony is that Vancouver also struggles with other drugs: BBC

This year has passed by with a tremendous speed, I’ve written a lot in 2009 and commented Norwegian news a lot – it has given me a lot of traffic and attention from new places. I’ve had visitors from 160 countries/territories, which is a new record for me. I’ve had hectic days at home; school, kindergarten and after school activities for the kids. We’ve prioritized football and the general sports school – a fantastic offer I’ve often tagged along; forest and mountain walks, glade-walking, canoe and fishing trips. Its fun to see kids in these environments instead of placing them in front of the tv.

On the society side it has been an ordinary year, I’m an active Red Cross member within the home-visiting-service, been an associate judge for our local district court in many cases where I learn a lot about what happens out there, active in Kiva lending money to exiting people on the other side of the planet. The most exciting thing in 2009 was being part of the mass vaccination as helping personnel from Red Cross. A weird experience.

I’ve had visitors from 160 countries/territories, heres top 10:

1. Norway 40,79 %
2. United States 29,56 %
3. Canada 4,32 %
4. United Kingdom 3,62 %
5. Philippines 1,96 %
6. Sweden 1,78 %
7. Australia 1,45 %
8. Germany 1,30 %
9. India 1,13 %
10. Netherlands 0,83 %

Firefox entered the first place as a reader in 2009!

1. Firefox 49,55 %
2. Internet Explorer 33,36 %
3. Chrome 6,35 %
4. Safari 5,34 %
5. Opera 4,39 %
6. Mozilla 0,57 %
7. Opera Mini 0,12 %
8. Mozilla Compatible Agent 0,11 %
9. Camino 0,05 %
10. SeaMonkey 0,05 %

The top 10 read articles in 2009:

The Pirate Bay case
Ram stuck 6 meter above
Angry drivers
What our heroes from the 80s are doing now
The woman giving birth who weren’t allowed to swear
Windows 7 and Lenovo Thinkpad
Donald toy too dangerous for the airport
TV2 driver who broke the law to show us that people breaks the law
Skipping the H1N1 queue
The old mill

A strange selection of articles but that is life in the blogosphere.

More weird stuff to come though, I like to write about anything that interest me, I hope you’ll keep visiting me. Happy new year and thanks for stopping by!

Its always exciting to fetch our post these days, lots of nice Christmas cards arrives from near and far. The other day we received something we didn’t expect though; Christmas card from our two year old daughter!

She painted it in the kindergarten and they posted it to us, I think that was incredible cute. We had no idea that they did this. Here is the card:

Now that the authorities have opened up for everyone I chose to take the vaccine today. Until now only people in the risk groups were allowed to take it. I went to a nearby vaccine station and were positively surprised by how well it was organized.

To be honest I pictured the opposite because the whole vaccine project has been poorly run, in my opinion. The authorities should allow everyone to take it much earlier, they have the resources. But something weird happened with the delivery of the vaccine, I think the producer struggled a bit to deliver.

Next week I’m going to be in the help group at a vaccine station, Red Cross called me tonight and asked for help. I didn’t have the heart declining because they struggled to cover the shifts.

The authorities in Norway struggle now to get more people to take the vaccine, I think it is because of the authorities’ lack of information – it came too late. People are skeptic because so many people without professional background have written about the vaccine, they have kind of taken advantage of the missing information.