It all started with my brother. He told me long ago that I had to watch the show, how good it was and so on. Completely forgot about it (sorry, bro!). But, last Christmas he bought me the first season on DVD.
So we started watching it. The first episodes were kind of “meh”. You know? [...]
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Review of “Confessions of a Public Speaker”
I had been looking forward to this book since relatively long before it was published. Having read “The Myths of Innovation” and “Making Things Happen“, I knew that “Confessions of a Public Speaker” would be a good book. And all the reviews I had read seemed to confirm it.
“Confessions…”, as you can imagine, is a [...]
Vegetarianism
Lately I've been eating vegetarian at work. It's been more than one month since I started, and that also included the Christmas Party dinner (wasn't sure about it, esp. after hearing some awful stories about "vegetarian is the same dish as the other one, only removing the meat"; but finally I decided to go for [...]
Life in Oslo
WARNING: This is basically a rant. If you don’t agree with me, take my opinion with a grain of salt or send your trolls to /dev/null.
Today I read an article, linked by vrruiz on Twitter, called We’re Rich, You’re Not. End of Story.. My first read felt weird, but then I read it again, hours [...]
The search for a Linux music score editing program
Some time ago I had promised a friend I’d bring some drum exercises the next time I went back home. Of course, I forgot so I taught him the exercises I could remember and promised I’d write some of those exercises and send him by e-mail. Thus, I had to find some Linux program to [...]
Watchmen and the annoying ad
Phew! It has been a long time since I wrote. More than once already, hmmm….
I went to the movies to see Watchmen. I don’t want to spoil, but I think it was a very, very good adaptation of the comic book. Actually, I think it’s the best comic adaptation I have ever seen. And I [...]
Kiva.org
Some weeks ago, Steve from Cranium Designs mentioned a website, Kiva.org. He linked to a very interesting video that showed how it works, and a couple of things really got me interested:
The whole lending-money-to-people-who-need-it (and to whom banks will probably not lend) really attracted me. You help communities develop, and you don’t even lose money, [...]
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