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It’s plumbertime… It’s time for some pictures from the new bathroom furniture install

Time for some more pictures… This time: The new kitchen!

Its not enough that I’m moving into a new apartment, the company I work for also moved offices yesterday. Here’s some pictures from my new office.

No pictures this time though. I’m sitting on the bus from Knarvik to Bergen writing this because this is the only slot of time where I’ve had time to do anything like this for almost a week.
I’ve had multiple deliveries of documentation at work, and that can really stretch your creative muscles for a while. On the moving part; we have now finally moved, we have slept in the new apartment for two nights even though the bed hasn’t been assembled yet.

We did most of the moving last Saturday. Big thanks to all the people that helped with the move. Some stuff where left over for sunday though. Sunday was the day for assembling the kitchen before the plumber got here monday morning. We just got barely enough of the kitchen furniture assembled before midnight sunday.
The plumber(s) oddly enough (being contractors and all) was ready at 07:29 Monday morning, one minute before they was supposed to And for those who want to know who these eager plumbers where, they where from Gården Rørleggerservice. The same plumber-company that mounted the dishwasher in the old apartment. That also right on time

The electrician we hired was also right on time, and though he did a mistake while assembling the sockets in the kitchen, he also fixed the problem right away.

To sum things up. The kitchen almost looks like a kitchen, and we’re able to prepare food there. Theres still a lot to do. We got hot water in the shower (the heater had broke when we stopped the water a few weeks ago). The livingroom is still full of boxes, though somewhat fewer than on saturday. We sleep on a matress on the livingroom floor. And its 8 days to christmas eve. To top things up, the company I’m working for are moving thursday evening.

Hver morgen klikker jeg meg igjennom rss-feedene mine i google reader. I dag kom denne saken her på tek.no/audiovisuelt: Selg dine gamle MP3-låter.

Saken gjelder et nettsted der du visstnok skal kunne laste opp mp3′er, og få betalt for det. tek.no beskriver dette som en juridisk gråsone, jeg er uenig. Dette må da være komplett ulovlig? Her kan en ikke engang påberope seg edle hensikter slik piratene gjerne gjør, fordi de ikke har fortjeneste på det de gjør, de bare distribuerer media til en større gruppe, slik at flere kan stifte bekjentskap med musikken.

En annen side av denne saken er at dette viser hvilke fordeler MP3 må ha for musikkselskapene, fordi en kan kvitte seg med hele second-hand “industrien”. Det er nemlig veldig få utenfor plateselskapene som stiller spørsmålstegn ved lovligheten ved å selge brukte CD’er og plater. Dette her derimot, ville jeg tro at alle som har det minste lille snevet av rettferdighetssans, stille spørsmålstegn ved.

Jeg lurer litt på hvor lenge denne tjenesten får holde på, for hvis plateselskapene ikke kverker denne ganske umiddelbart, vil de ha veldig liten troverdighet når de anmelder en bestemor i Oregon for å laste ned Basshunter :p

Det skulle egentlig bli en ny bildeoppdatering nå, men jeg får ikke ut bildene av kameraet, siden jeg har glemt datakabelen. Men den kommer… bare senere i dag

Okei, så har Eira vandalisert bloggen min ved å tagge den. I dette tilfellet er det tagging i betydningen “tikken, du har’n”. Dette er enda et blog-meme, som har sirkulert en stund.

Reglene er som følger:

• Du må linke til den bloggen som tagget deg. (i dette tilfellet Eira, altså)
• Lag en liste med seks (u)interessante ting om deg selv.
• Tagg fem andre blogger, la dem vite det ved å kommentere på deres blogg.

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1. Jeg har stått på førsteplass på en kommunevalgsliste.
2. Jeg trodde en gang at IT bare skulle være en hobby, for jeg skulle bli historiker.
3. Min første IT-bok var en papirutgave av HTML-standarden fra W3C
4. Da jeg var liten trodde jeg at jeg skulle bli prest (!)
5. Jeg har jobbet som landbruksavløser, snekker, maler, lærer og programmerer
6. Jeg har ikke lest hverken Ringenes Herre, Hobbiten eller Silmarillion.

Christer, Jakob, Hallvor, pr0nin, dere har den …

As I mentioned the weekend hasn’t been exactly eventless. Actually it was more eventfull than I would wish for. The thing I’m thinking of is what happened on caturday when I rented a trailer to get rid of a lot of crap. The roads where slippy, it was a low sun, preventing me from seeing anything when driving to Espehaugen, to get rid of the crap. This however went fine.

Then I got back to the new apartment, and was going to deliver a couple of bikes to Gengs sykkelverksted at Danmarks Plass together with Dag. That also went pretty good until we was about to leave Danmarks Plass. When we drove up Jonas Lies vei we heard a giant BANG. I leaned out the window, and couldn’t see that we where close to anything that could make such a sound. We got out of the car, trying to find out what it was. It turned out neither of us had remembered to close the door on the trailer. When I started the car, the door had opened, and hit the car parked next to the road.

We didn’t see the owner around, so we put a note under the wipers. Luckily the guy wasn’t mad for this at all. So we met later, and resorted the paperwork.

So, no updates this Sunday either. Thats not because it hasn’t been an eventfull weekend, more on that later. Maybe its good to have one blog-free day each week?

Here’s a new update on the progress of our not-exactly-60-minute-makeover. Do you notice any difference on the pictures from the Kitchen in the last two picture updates and this one?

• Picture update 1
• Picture update 2

Despite being so tired all I could think of when going home from work was a warm shower and going back to bed, we actually got the kitchen ready for the first layer of paint. I put fiberglass wallpaper on the walls in the kitchen, and Katla painted the borders in the hallway bright white. By the way, fiberglass is some sharp, itching stuff.

Whoever guessed that there would be one or several more posts about my ISP switch. Yeah, you where right.

Yesterday, december 3rd, was the delivery date of our new connection. I was told by NextGenTel that I had to be availiable to let the electrician in. About 1pm I was called by the Relacom engineer, he just wanted to tell me that he was finished mounting the line. And that he was not supposed to do anything inside the apartment. That was in a way a good thing, since I didn’t have to leave work. However it wasn’t all good, because there are about 5 different telephony sockets and two ISDN boxes around the place the line enters the apartment. And I didn’t know which one was the right one.

It turned out all but one of them was dead. So I got the thing working. Now, for a speedtest. I ordered a 20mbit line, the same that I had in the old apartment. There I get a result of actual 20mbit when I use speedtest.net. The NGT line however, gave me right around 5mbit.

Now I’m going to call them to ask what’s up with that. I’m not paying for a 20mbit line that performs like a 5mbit line.

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On a sidenote: My foot is 31.47 centimetres long. A british foot is 30.47 centimetres long, exactly 1 centimetre shorter than mine.