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I was there!

According to this article (in English for you non-norwegian readers), a youth-house of squatters in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark got raided by the police today.

Not exactly knowing where Nørrebro is, I decided to use google maps to backtrack where I had been in Copenhagen after Roskilde 2002. Since I'm somewhat familiar with Copenhagen, it didn't really take long, and when I found this location, I could clearly see "Nørrebro" plastered all over the streets.

Guess what? That was where I camped out after Roskilde 2002! Nice people, giving you an alternate view of Copenhagen, and a much needed representation for urban subculture there.

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Regular voes

When working as a IT-consultant and a developer you are often called out to check out or fix things for less capable clients. Sometimes this involves watching pretty ugly things.

Not ugly as in ugly people, but as in mind-numbing application-design, ugly code, horrid abuse of APIs and generally 30 year old principles applied to modern technology where these decades-old concerns shouldn't even be an issue. You see stuff you as a professional developer find revolting. Ugly things.

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For 1% of my visitors

Most of you wont even get that this one is supposed to be funny, but I found it on youtube, tagged "god of entertainment" and all. And, yeah, I was laughing all the way trough.

So, for the 1% of my visitors that actually know a few words japanese, this one is a must-see thingie.

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Happy new year!

So, today is Chinese new years day and this new year is the year of the pigs. Guess I make make myself fit without too much work.

As soon as I had the hangover from yesterdays birthday party cleared (or so I thought), I called up sushiexpressen and ordered some Chinese food. Szechuan beef and their Vietnamese rolls to be specific. It's gotten to the point where I honestly can't order anything from them without ordering their superb rolls. They are just that awesome.

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Yay! Valentines day!

I was just informed that tomorrow is valentines day. I honestly didn't know.

Some people may think that being single on Valentines day is the saddest thing ever. Oh the woes of not having a girlfriend or wife to be allowed to pamper for a day! The terror! I, for once, look it at rather differently. There's probably no day during the year that being single is better than on Valentines day. Not one.

It really doesn't take much reasoning or research to see this thing as what it really is: Yet another commerce day. Almost like Halloween, just not as obviously retarded.

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Super-productive week pre-weekend wrapup

This week I've been super-productive, gotten a bunch of stuff done, both at work and at home. I even attended a useful and interesting (for once) MSDN-Live conference. Let's sum it up.

Monday I took the day off work since I was going to the MSDN-Live conference. I thought that taking a day off usually involved not working or at least working less than you usually happen to be doing, but I guess I somehow got this wrong. I have never gotten more urgent emails, phone-calls and interruptions of whatever I was doing ever in a day than I did this day.

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Needing new entertainment

Right. Lately I've somehow managed to find time to wade trough the library of doramas that I happen to have. Considering my trip to Tokyo in may, let's just call it educational. And considering the hard-drive crash I had some time ago, it also involved clearing up some badly needed disk-space.

So this week I've finally completed "Sentou no musume" (45 eps, unsubbed), the remainder of "Kochira hon Ikegami sho", season 4, which means I'm all out of that show. Also I've flicked trough a short one called "Boku to kanojo no XXX", which started of excellently, but in the end proved to be rather disappointing.

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Tickets ordered and alien-spotting scheduled

While I must admit I mostly check out the tabloids to get a cheap laugh out of what people consider newsworthy, Dagbladet actually was somewhat useful today.

This blog (ie not an official article) informs us that Björk is coming to the Roskilde festival this summer, and that in turn reminded me to order tickets.

This year the price seems to have gone up to 1660 NOK (around 200€), which in my opinion is getting somewhat expensive, although nowhere near PS3-expensive.

Anyway. I'm now all set for music, beer and alien-spotting. See you there!

Sushiexpressen rules

Right now I had some awesome chinese-food. If you ever drop by my apartment when I have some chinese-food, you will probably have some of the better chinese-food Oslo has to offer.

It's not because I'm such a good chef or anything. It's because I order my stuff from a small shop called Sushiexpressen. Despite the name, they do more than just sushi and have a decent variety of Chinese and Asian dishes.

If you live in the Oslo-region and like Chinese-food, this is definitely one you should try out. These guys have great food, prices aren't too shabby and they are on overall pretty friendly people. I will honestly admit I have not once managed to order food from this shop, without ordering much more than I can possibly eat. I love these guys.

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I'm a pretty important person it seems

I like to regularly google for stuff which should make my sites appear. You know, just to see where and if they show up on google. Because if something doesn't show up on the first page on google, it doesn't really exist.

So googling for "Jostein Kjønigsen" pretty much brings up lots of stuff related to me. No surprise there.

However googling for "Jostein" only is kinda interesting. If you disregard that silly writer Jostein Gaarder, I'm evidently the second most important Jostein in the known universe.

Pretty neat.