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That’s “hesjing” to all you ozzies

Today I had a very pleasent short visit. Every summer holiday for the last 29 years I’ve been busy cutting grass, raking it togheter and either drying it flat on the ground, or ,if the weather’s of the wet kind, putting it up on a hesje. Every years there are numerous cars/motorhomes that stop beside the [...]

Online behaviour vs. behaviour in “real life”

Today The Australian presents an article about the internet habits of the average australian. The conclusion is that one fourth of the time spent on internet is used on social networking sites, these days synonymous with Facebook and Twitter. Australians visited social networking sites more frequently than they visited their bank or credit union’s internet [...]

Twitt: syntax error

Yup…Twitter seems to have issues today. I guess there’s quite a few people around our tiny planet that har borderline paranoia now that they can’t tweet their…ehm….tweets. Cnet and Wired.com mentions a DOS-attack. According to Twitter itself, they’re now back up and running but are struggling with the consequences of the attack.

Norway and the Eurovision song contest

I can’t say I like it, but here’s my contribution to the Eurovision song contest debate ’09. First som history that I kind of assume has grown to be common knowledge these days; 1984 – Bobbysocks wins with “La det swinge“ 1996 – Secret Garden wins with “Nocturne“ 2009 – Alexander Rybak wins with “Fairytale“ [...]

Going international

Today Mrs_Banjer requested english posts on my blog after I started following her on Twitter. It is on many levels a fair request. As a teacher I am naturally interested in interacting with other teachers around the world, not only native Norwegian, or at the best scandinavian teachers. Even though Norwegian might be a more [...]