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March 26, 2004

Once again with the spam

Just got an email from the Rockwell Data Corp - The Power behind Global Internet Exposure!, that wishes to help me get my Bed & Breakfast-site listed on the major search engines.

Nice of them.

Problem is of course... I haven't got a B&B-site anywhere on the web. Their email came to my work-adress, and that's a cigar-site!

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March 25, 2004

Is Norway that bad?

This might just be tad bit morbid, but...

A asylumseeker set fire to himself at the airport in Gothenburg to day. He was protesting that he was to be deported - to Norway.

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A difference in culture

Here in Norway doctors and such says any minute amount of alcohol in extremely dangerous if you're pregnant. In the UK they say a pint or two a couple of times a week isn't harmful - who's correct.

Never mind. The point of this post is that the UK retail chain Tesco has hired a bunch of new wine-tasters, after discovering that a particular type of person had heightened senses of taste and smell - pregnant women. This would never have happened in Norway.

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Latest Scottish culinary achivement

Thay have the deep-fried haggis, deep-fried cheese-burger, deep-fried Mars bar, deep-fried pizza - but now there's a new one: The Deep Fried Chocolate Sandwich, originally only sold in one Edinburgh hotel, it's now started popping up all over the country.

The sandwich consists of two slices of white bread smothered in chocolate sauce, dipped in batter and deep-fried. It's then covered in sugar and more chocolate sauce and served with vanilla ice-cream.

Is your stomach turning yet?

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Want a dram?

Go here to debate whisky - http://www.nmwl.no/forum.

PS! You have to bring your own dram.

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There's something in the water

Haven't had time for blogging as of late, but this one was just too good to pass up. Actually I've heard about this sort of thing before - in Australia.

The fun is that a group go together to pressure politicians to ban what they say is a dangerous substance - dihydrogen monoxide.

Facts: it's present in ucontrollabla amounts, it's a crucial component in the production of most chemical and nuclear weapons, it's a surprisingly common element in everyday objects - like the styrofoam cup, it's leathal if inhaled, causes severe burns in it's gaseous form, is a major componet of acid rain and prolonged exposure can cause severe tissue damage.

Fortunately the matter was not brought before the debating chamber of the good of Aliso Viejo in Orange County, California. It seems that some city councillor got fooled by the homepage of the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division.

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