My father was transferred to a new room now that he is recovering. The hospital’s interior is kind of tragic so I think I’ll just share his view these days.
The hospital is surrounded by our mountains, if you have a though day there it helps looking out the window.
David Irving, the holocaust denier meets closed doors when he tries to book hotels for his conferences in Norway. He hopes that the employees at the hotels don’t know who he is but then they recognize him and cancel his orders. Norway denies his existence – but I guess he should get used to that. Why should we acknowledge his presence, does he exist? Why would someone welcome a person that might not exist? 
Now he wants to sue the Norwegian hotels for canceling his bookings – good luck Irving! If the hotels loose I think many will open their wallets to help pay the fine or whatever..
Links : Wiki
DB
Aftenposten
Riks24
Norwegian votes were not counted due to some technical errors, 1,2 million NOK are lost and they won’t get their money back. I think though after a little fighting they will get their money back – they didn’t get what they bought and there are laws that should cover that.
Bosnia Herzegovina lost a place in the contest due to the error, there are lots of people from Bosnia here in Norway – how will they react to the error? Will they think they live in the same kind of regime as they come from?
It reminds me of Ukraina giving votes to Russia, that was almost comical yet tragic. Is the Eurovision Contest used in political powerplay without people knowing it?
Links : EBU
Zachery became famous when he appeard in his pink underwear, now the US defence minister applaud him. Read more on this here. But Zach is not the first in the US history doing this.
Remember Bush when he got out of the plane?
Heres what Bush recommended his soldiers to use :
I received the most horrible phone call today from my sister, my father was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, he had a heart attack. I felt my body sink when I got the call, like when an aircraft climbs to steep. I jumped in my car and drove to the hospital, my father were at the ER when I arrived and we had to sit and wait for almost two hours before we received any messages, that was torture. Finally a nurse came and filled us in, they had sent in a balloon and stent to clear the blockage. Later we were told that his heart’s rythm had become unstable and they had to use defibrillation. It was surreal listening to this, it is still sinking in.
It was extremely good to see his color come back while we were sitting at his bed, now hes in safe hands.
I am immensly grateful that everything turned out this well, now I cross my fingers that he won’t experience this again.. It was a scary day.
It was time to change theme, I’ve been looking for ages for a theme that I feel comfortable with but that is difficult. Finally I saw that Vladimir Prelovac had released the Blue Grace theme, a subtheme of Amazing Grace. Amazing it is right? Thanks Vladimir!
I struggled a bit inserting my photos with link to the corresponding posts up there in the header but with the help from Justin Watt’s Random Image plugin I managed to fiddle the photos in. It reads posts of different categories and picks a photo to watch and link to the post. I might have to filter out some tags though, suddenly some weird images appear.
Did you like this theme?
I had to try a new service today, a competitor to iTunes. Platekompaniet (http://platekompaniet.no) is in Norwegian only but if you’re interested in the user interface its worth a look. I don’t think this site will survive but I welcome all competitors. I downloaded a tune for a $, without copy protection and same quality as iTunes offer. I like the development on this, maybe people soon can buy what they want instead of having to download it illegally.
I don’t like iTunes since it crash my browser so a new one is welcome but I was a bit disappointed by the user interface but I guess it will improve.
We’ve started to debate who to lead the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 and I hereby nominate :
Oddvar Torsheim from ‘Norges Herligste’ and Dorthe Skappel!
Check out Oddvar here :
Alexander Rybak, winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2009 is on many toplists now, people are going nuts buying it from iTunes. 70% goes to the owner of the rights and in this case it is Alexander. He bought the rights for his own song right before the Eurovision – this is fantastic. I think it is a bit sad when a Eurovision winner disappears right after the final, its like the EuroVision Song Contest is a parallel universe where they sease to exist after the show. But Alexander breaks all barriers, I think hes about to be a superstar – he has everything needed.
In case you live under a rock or on Titan, here is the song everyone in Europe hums on :
We celebrated May 17th today, our Constitution Day. Lovely weather, hot dogs, ice and children waving our flag. It has been a great day. People were celebrating the victory in Eurovision Contest as well, its incredible fun for us that we won. After visiting the city centre we went to my parents to eat Sour Cream Porridge with cured meat, that was delicious, my mother is an expert.
Here are more pictures of the day, as usual my cell phone didn’t behave much..
Its not fun to watch the Eurovision Song Contest final and have a commentator who talk constantly. If it only were decent stuff she talked about I wouldn’t complain so much but she talked rubbish.
And Canal Digital, an amateur cable company where HD channels stop every 10 seconds and yesterday it ruined the music experience as well, the sound hacked every now and then.
Oh well, gratz Alexander!
Its the Eurovision Song contest final today and in Norway we think we have a good chance winning. Well – we hope Rybak will win, not ‘we’ since we’re not participating. Ehm ok..
I never learn, each year I end up saying I won’t watch it again, because I think its so unfair that the countries are voting for their neighbours just to be nice, they’re not voting for the best song. Thats the way it has been for several years. But will it be the same this year as well?
I think Greece wins, Norway 2nd and Sweden comes 3rd. Anyone thinking different?
