From the frontpage of Riks24.no today :
(Reinfelt’s party loosing)
Its fun when they don’t bother the crop the photo before posting the article on the frontpage.
Link to the article
Crop fail
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Over 30 whales murdered
55 whales stranded on a beach near Cape Town tonight, I bet US Navy is testing their new multibeam systems tonight. Over 30 over the whales could not be saved and they decided to shoot them to stop their suffering.
When will we ever learn that the new powerful sonars is creating these tragic moments?
Its embarrasing for Norway who delivers the powerful multibeam sonars to US Navy.. Boycot us.
Links:
VG
Dagbladet
TV2
Aftonbladet
Skywatch Friday – Welcome to the Pyramid
The 11,5 meter high pyramid is incredible fun to climb – kids love it. It was bought by the local authorities to give the kids some fun to do. It cost about $170000. Only Singapore and Sydney has one – we’re proud to have it in Åsane/Bergen now. 
Alexander Rybak’s new album
On Friday Alexander Rybak’s new album will be released and it is already receiving both negative and positive remarks. Newspapers give it 4, 6 and 1. The 1 is from Sweden but I guess they’re just jealous – they didn’t do well in this years Eurovision Song Contest.
You can check out his new album here : Alexander on Myspace. I’m very excited to hear what Ken thinks of this, could you check it out Ken A? Especially Roll With The Wind.
Do you like his music?
Newspapers are giving him rolls like 1, 4, 5 and 6! 6 is a bit much but 1? I hate it when “music experts” lash out like Markus Larsson calling Alexander a violinhobbit, Isn’t that a bit off? It reminds me of Idol when our Norwegian Kurt was called a hobbit by Simon Cowell :
Larsson says something like
Sounds like “smurf Hits”
The example that is captivated by Rybaks Irish folk song “Roll with the wind” has probably never listened to The Water Boys album “Fisherman’s Blues”. And anyone who can swallow the sentimental musical and brave old Tin Pan Alley codes – with texts in which magical dolphins and thirteen pieces horses swim around – do not require much of its pop.
Links :
Aftonbladet gir en 1er
DB gir en 4er
VG gir en 6er
VG skriver om Aftonbladet
Eurovision Contest 2010 location revealed in 1 hour
In one hour they reveal where the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 final will be held, I think Bergen because its the most suitable place and we’ve done it before.
What do you think? Where do you hope the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 final will be held?[poll id=8]
This is my favourite animal
In Oslo today
I’m visiting Oslo today, as usual I try to get a shot of the view, but today it was cloudy so I didn’t see much. I’ll try again on my way home later.
Some art at Oslo central station.
Good bye VG TV
VG TV a videodepartment of a popular newspaper in Norway have started asking people to install a client to play their videos. If theres something I hate it is exactly this, to install proprietary software to play something.
Haven’t they learned? I bet this software only works for Internet Explorer, then they leave the rest of the world helpless.
Example of the problem : link .
These works :
Landslaget og Rybak.
If you use Chrome you wont be able to see the videos..
Norwegians shouldn’t drive
I’ve been annoyed by Norwegians in traffic for a long time. Most Norwegians don’t know the different traffic signs, especially the ones limiting the speed, they think the sign means ‘recommended speed’ and adds 10-15 Km/t because they are such good drivers. Since my speedomeeter displays 5-6 km/t higher than I really drive I usually add that to my speed. But still I always have some unpatient driver in my car’s rear – they often blink and gesture too. Have you tried driving in Norway? What are your experiences?
You give money to GAVI
Are you one who spent a lot of money since the start of Microsoft’s era? MSDOS, Windows 1,2,3, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista og nå Windows7, Office, Compilers and games? Preinstalled or not you’ve done yours to make Gates the richest man on this planet. Now that we learn how he spend his money I don’t feel very unconfortable knowing what I have given Microsoft. Hes giving a lot of money to GAVI – The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, over 1,5 billion $. Gates and his wife is visiting Norway this week for an open meeting with our prime minister to talk about women and children’s health in developing countries. Norway is giving $1 billion to GAVI.
Gates is also interested in how Norway invest its oil money, I hope he got some good recommendations up his sleave, we are wasting billions..
The beauty of Twitter
I love how Twitter makes the world smaller, and funnier :
Oprah joins :
She later responded :
Everydns :
A youngster is irritated because an album is only released in US, ‘don’t nag about piracy’ he says :
Warner Bros Norway replied : ‘Then I suggest you steal it and write about the process in your stupid brat blog. We don’t want you to get upset.’
New hospital room – new view
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.