Archives for Life

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail | Perspectives | CNET News.com > Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. If you annoy someone on the internet without using your true identity, you can be fined and imprisoned for [...]

Study Suggests Caffeine Can Help Liver

Study Suggests Caffeine Can Help Liver > Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported yesterday. Woho! I’m in the clear!

How to fake working..

It has never been easier to be a white-collar slacker. While the uninitiated are still grousing about how mobile technology has created a 24/7 work culture and sabotaged their private time, a savvier crowd has moved on to a more rewarding pursuit: using technology to make it look like you’re working when you’re not. WSJ.com [...]

Mothers Day

Today is Mothersday, so we’re all going out to eat some food at a nice restaurant in downtown Oslo later tonight. Smells expensive, but what the hey. It’s an excuse for a beer or two at least. And this saves me the trouble of having to find a nice present, which is always a bummer [...]

Enough is Enough

Once again, we lost power without warning. This is getting to be very annoying. Unfortunately, there isn’t much I can do about it, other than reboot everything and hope the filesystem isn’t hosed every time it happens.

Fire in the hole!

We were down some hours today, unfortunately. Not much I could do about it, as the ‘powersupply’ for the entire block caught fire and had to be replaced. Quite a scary thing to wake up, wonder why there’s no power in the apartment, fiddle with the fuses, then finally look out the window and see [...]

Merry Christmas!

We’re off to spend two days with my family, as MrsFudge’s family is stuck in London for a couple of years. Time for some good food, good drinks, and good company. As this is the first Christmas MrsFudge and I spend together, I’m pretty excited. I hope my family doesn’t scare her too much. =)