Category Archives: Ramblings

From time to time I ramble about something. Probably not even important.

Apples vs Googles universe

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Pål

I’ve owned a HTC Hero for a long time now, and it’s running the relatively new Android 2.1. Recently I got myself an iPad (3G+WiFi) and after upgrading it to the latest iOS 4 (beta 2) I have made some … Continue reading →

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Windows Home Server FAIL

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Pål

I’ve been a Windows Home Server owner for over a year now. The little server has been dutifully backing up the households four computers nearly every night. I’ve restored a PC once before, a HP laptop that was running 32-bit … Continue reading →

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Dell customer support

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Pål

We own a Dell Latitude laptop. This week it suddenly stopped chargeing the battery and when we inserted the power supply there was an error message stating that there was something wrong with the power supply and that we needed … Continue reading →

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XBOX Live Update Preview (Zune)

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Pål

I recently got accepted to the XBOX Live update preview program. This update is to be made available in Norway in November. The update contains Twitter and Facebook support as well as Zune video store. Last.fm and news are not … Continue reading →

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Twitter is struggeling to keep it's users

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Pål

According to an article at Digi.no twitter is struggling to keep it’s users. According to the article Nielsen Online has made a study that shows that less that 40% of American users return to the service the next month. Another … Continue reading →

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Plateselskapet vant tilsynelatende

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Pål

I går falt dommen i den svenske tingretten. De fire medlemmene i The Pirate Bay ble dømt til å betale 30 millioner svenske kroner i erstatning samt ett år i fengsel. Selve utfallet var vel ikke særlig overraskende. Det hersker … Continue reading →

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The long winded road of XAML

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Pål

I was playing with Silverlight and Expression Blend trying to create a small animated figure to use in a project. I had the image in PNG format, but I needed it in XAML so I could animate parts of it. … Continue reading →

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Twitterfri møter

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Pål

I en artikkel på Digi.no kan man lese at IBM har levert inn en patentsøknad på en «metode og prosess for å slå ned på defokuserende virksomhet under utvalgte avtalte møter». Oppfinnelsen beskrives som programvare for å hindre distraherende pc-relaterte … Continue reading →

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Blog moved to new address and blog engine

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Pål

I finally decided to move away from Blogger.com and export my blog to WordPress on my own domain. Installation of WordPress was impressingly easy, even on a Windows platform. This leaves much to be desired for my own web applications … Continue reading →

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Åpen kildekode, livets rett?

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Pål

I en artikkel i Teknisk ukeblad (web) kan man lese at utviklingsdirektør Lars Tveit i Bergen kommune advarer mot overdreven fokus på teknologi fremfor hva IT skal bidra til å løse. Han mener at det er alt for sterk fokus … Continue reading →

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