The organization for the recording industry in Norway is celebrating its 75th aniversary this week - by letting everybody download music for free for one week.
Go to musikkonline.no, register and start downloading.
Yoohoo! I've just won the Worldwide Premier Lotto UK! I'm just to get in touch with their 'Prize Transfer'-agents to get the money.
But wait, this couldn't be one of those e-mail scams I've read about could it?
A group of travelagents were in Bodø, Norway the other day to be treated lectured on what the area could offer, and to be treated with some local delicacies. But before the organizers got that far they were questioned by plain clothes policeofficers.
Some of the organizers, amongst them a hotel manager from Svolvær, were having a meal at a restaurant before heading to the meeting. They had brought with them a packet containing frozen whalemeat wrapped in a plasticbag with brown packingtape around it. The package was keept in the restaurant's freezer during the visit, and was handed back when they were about to leave. But as the package was put on the table the policeofficers sprang into action. They pulled the party over to a quiet corner of the restaurant and demanded to see ID and what was in the package. The two officers were baffled when they discovered that the package, which they belived contained hard drugs, turned out to be nothing but three kilos, six pounds, of top grade whalemeat.
I just love my firewall. In the last few weeks I've been greeted every morning with messages that someones is trying to get into my computer from various parts of the world, but are stopped at the door.
I recommend each and every one of you to get a firewall, I don't care if your ISP says a firewall is included in the cabelmobem (like with me) or whatever, it's useful anyway. Like if a virus infects your computer and tries to go out on the web on it's own, the firewall will stop it from infecting others.
This is my firewall: Kerio Personal Firewall (it's free)
Tastenotes:
Less sugary than Coca-cola, also contains less sparkling. Hints of minerals and caffein. Quite good, definately an alternative to the big ones.
And I rather like the idea that my money end up in England.
So Bushy-boy is in London right now, with some last minute chanes to his schedule, so he won't have to go outside. They say it's due to security concerns, but I think the yanks are sulking because they didn't get to bring some of their big toys over. Namely a shell that's usually shot out of tanks, and was planned to be used against demonstrators. The same demonstrators were to e in the aim of 250 sharpshooters with diplomatic immunity. This also, thank goodness, was denied the yanks by the Government.
The worst part of it is that they wanted the Tube to be halted during Bushy's visit. Wonder if he's been watching Die Hard 3 lately, since he's afraid of getting killed by somebody placing explosives onboard the Tube.
I say I must agree with London Mayor Ken Livingston who's calculated the cost of Bushy's visit to equal £2 for each and every Londoner, and that most Londoners would gladly pay £4 to get Bush out of London.
Just my 2 pence.
Well... not that local to tell you the truth.
But the story is just to good to pass up. A councilor in Aberdeen City Council suggested that seagulls where to be given oral contraceptive pills to control the bird population.
On a lighter note it's going to get cheaper for non-residents of Aberdeen to be cremated og buried in Aberdeen.
Read the whole story in The Press & Journal
Cranial intruder : Blondie/Alex (BBC's Fame Academy) in duet - 'Heart of glass'
Please! Can somebody tell me what's healthy these days?
A recent survey in kindergartens in Norway has exposed the dangerous practise of give children milk as a thirst-quencher. A chapter of the Norwegian Food-Safety board has given the recommendation to stop given the children milk when they are thirsty, since it's not good for them to drink milk without food.
Let's recap. The following items are hazardous to your health in some quanity or another: Milk, water, meat, GM-crops, alcohol, tobacco, fat, sugar, salt, caffeine, airtravel, cartravel, city air. The only thing I can think of that isn't a danger to our health are those tasteless ricecakes with no calories - but then again the rice is probably a GM-product, so that's out the door to.
To are healthfreaks, a little question: If we ban all items that can be danger to our health, will we then live forever or will we all die of starvation within a forthnight?
Thinking about these thinks make we want to go out and have a great big steak, deep-fried chips, a pint of stout, a big cigar and round off with a great big dram of whisky.
Hmm... Hungry now...
I've not done much other than quizes and memes on this blog as of laste. The reason for this is mainly that I've been prefering spending time with Robin rather than beeing online, there's a shocker? But this one (found through Robin's site)was just too good to pass up, specially when I got this kind of score...
Cranial intruder: James Thomson - 'Rule Britannia'
A few quirkies from the Norwegian media:
A Chocolate Caper
Seven youngsters, ages 13-15, were discovered while they were stuffing theire pockets with sweets at a sweets-factory in Trondheim last night. Five of the youngsters were immediately apprehended when a securityguard discovered them. Two of the youngsters, who had cut a hole in the fence, managed to get away, but police were quickly on site with a policedog. Unfortunately the dog was so confused with the amounts of sweets lying around, that he forgot about his task and helped himself to the sweets instead.
Church points the way to Mecca
The congregation in Bykle, Norway are in an uproar when the new church was ready, and they discovered it pointed to the southwest, straight at Mecca, the Islamic holy city. A spokesman for the local missonary society is quoted saying: "People are afraid that the muslims will take over the church and use it as a mosque". A local parishoner, who would like to remain anonymous, says: "They'll come running to the church with their carpets now".
November heatwave
A surge of dry thaw wind over part of Norway has seen the thermometers skyrocket. In the small village of Tafjord it actually reached 21.8°C (71.24°F). The locals where out in throngs swimming and enjoying themselves in the heat. As a note, Tafjord is further north than e.g. Anchorage, Alaska.
And it's time for the Friday Five.
1. What food do you like that most people hate?
Not much I think. I do like deep-fried calamares, that's something that makes many people squirmish. Another thing are couple of British specialities like salt-and-vinegar crisps (very launched some years back in Norway, but since the bag said 'vinegar' many didn't realise what it was, but when they started discovering what that ment in Norwegian sales dropped), pickled eggs and Haggis.
2. What food do you hate that most people love?
That must be the typical Norwegian (and one Swedish) 'traditional' delicacies like Smalahovud (scorched sheep's head), Lutefisk (dried cod cured in lye) and Surströmning (canned fermented herring). It's not that I hate these dishes, I just don't like them and would never dream of eating them.
3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you?
Ms. Spears.
4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive?
I really don't know. To answer this question you'd have to follow the celebrity press, something I rarely do.
5. What popular trend baffles you?
Most of them actually. Be it hair-fashion, clothes, drinks or music.
Can't for the love of me understand why I'm doing this today, since my brain isn't preforming its best. But what the hey...
First a standard Myers-Briggs Personality Test:
| ISTP - "Artisan". Impulsive action. Life should be of impulse rather than of purpose. Action is an end to itself. Fearless, craves excitement, master of tools. 5.4% of total population. |
Then off to the Advanced Enneagram test:
Conscious self | Overall self |
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| Advanced Enneagram Test Results
Your Unconscious-Overall type is 8w9 |
We continue with The Advanced Big Five Personality Test:
| Advanced Big Five Personality Test Results |
| Sociability | |||||| | 22% |
| Gregariousness | |||||| | 22% |
| Assertiveness | |||||||||||| | 46% |
| Activity Level | |||||||||||| | 42% |
| Excitement-Seeking | |||||||||||| | 42% |
| Cheerfulness | |||||||||||||||| | 62% |
| Extroversion | |||||||||| | 39% |
| Trust | |||||||||||||||||| | 74% |
| Morality | |||||||||||||||| | 62% |
| Altruism | |||||||||||||||| | 70% |
| Cooperation | |||||||||||| | 50% |
| Modesty | |||||||||||||| | 54% |
| Sympathy | |||||||||||||||||| | 78% |
| Friendliness | |||||||||||||||| | 64% |
| Self-Efficacy | |||||||||||||||| | 66% |
| Neatness | || | 10% |
| Dutifulness | |||||||||||||||| | 62% |
| Achievement | |||||||||||| | 42% |
| Self-Discipline | |||||||||||| | 42% |
| Cautiousness | |||||||||||| | 46% |
| Orderliness | |||||||||||| | 44% |
| Anxiety | |||||| | 22% |
| Anger | |||||| | 26% |
| Depression | |||||||||||| | 50% |
| Self-Consciousness | |||||||||||| | 46% |
| Immoderation | |||||||||||| | 50% |
| Vulnerability | |||||| | 22% |
| Emotional Stability | |||||||||| | 36% |
| Imagination | |||||||||||||||||||| | 82% |
| Artistic Interests | |||||||||||||||||||| | 86% |
| Emotionality | |||||| | 30% |
| Adventurousness | |||||||||||||||| | 62% |
| Intellect | |||||||||||||||||||| | 86% |
| Liberalism | |||||||||||||||| | 66% |
| Intellectualness | |||||||||||||||| | 68% |
And just to top it all off I'll throw in the Personality Disorder Test too:
| Personality Disorder Test Results
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Thank goodness we didn't score 100% on this. That could become boring in the long run...
| SimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test |
Your match with Robin you are 61% similar you are 63% complementary |
Seems that the next few days will be dominated by alcohol... Tonight is a meeting at the whisky society, NMWL, and after that we usually end up at Cafe Saras for a few pints and a bite to eat.
Thursday will be dominated by going a few rounds with the washing machine. Which elegantly brings us to friday:
A Christmas Beer Festival here in Oslo. For 5 hours there will be nothing but Christmas Beer for me. And since I'm going with Robin, and she doesn't really like beer, I'll get twice the amount of beer. There's 10 beers included on the ticket (.175cl of each beer), and since this is strong beer (average 6-7% ABV) this will mean a lot of beer for me. Adding Robin's share in to it, I'll end of with the equivalence to more than half a litre of vodka. I'm sad to say I'm hoping that some of the beers aren't that good, so I'll just toss them away (or give them to Robin, so that she can make shandy of it).
Cranial intruder: Trad. - "Beer, beer, beer"
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Nicked from arwen.org.
Quite amusing, although I feel the Aussies get hassled a bit...
Saw Robin off to the Busstation this morning before heading to work.
Why is it that the people who are planning on spending the least amount of money who want the most amount of information? When there are several people behind you in line, do not - I repeat - do NOT attempt to get the whole story of cigars and tobacco, just because you're buying a single cigar. And when request recommendations for a product in a specific priserange, don't go around asking the price on every single other product, they will NOT be in your pricerange, if they were we would actually mention them to you! Ok, feel better now, just a bit of frustration from work.
Saturday night isn't as much fun as it used to be. I'm tired and miss Robin. Is it wrong of me contemplating getting on the first bus and try to find her grandparent's place?
I think I'll pop my new Animal House-DVD in, pour myself a dram and vegetate infront of the telly...
Cranial intruder: Dido - "White Flag"
