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A homepage is probably the closest you get to a “perpetum mobile”. They never stop; always changing; new designs; new content. They’re like a child; they have their good periods and their not so good ones. Some early childhood sickness’ and the alike.
This time I’ve done some minor, cosmetic changes.

A little box containing [...]

In this cool yet perfectly perfect month of May, Dar-es-Salaam was hit by what one would call it a feast for the overheated. In literal terms it more or less means that our winter had hit home. The concept of winter in a tropical and exotic country like Tanzania seems somewhat paradoxical but at the [...]

Stress is per definition not the amount of things you have to do; it’s the amount of things you have to do and don’t get done. To avoid this phenomenon have I started doing certain things which help me keep track of what I need to do and when it should be done by.

There are people who walk by life with some sort of stance that scream the words ‘I don’t give none.’ With their rough and malevolent attitude they charge through the overgrown jungle of life with great force. These are the kinds of people that may seem completely secure about themselves as people, but at the [...]

Whenever something is published on the Web and one out of two requirements is met, one being that it’s got referring links to it and the other being that it isn’t excluded from Web search engines, anyone can find the document, read it, and cite it. This is what the transparency of the Web is [...]

See, there it is. It’s flying high in the sky, its wings are spread far open and it’s soaring, free. As it glides through the sky like a dolphin under water, it’s doing whatever it wants. It can see from up above and is looking overhead at the world.
With the wind in its face [...]

I know this is a bit worn out, but I’ll post it nevertheless as it is fairly good description of the image foreigners has of Norway and Scandinavia in general.
+15°C / 59°F
This is as warm as it gets in Norway, so we’ll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Norwegians [...]

A short extract on a question everyone seems to be afraid to ask. Human frailties are somewhat difficult to accept but have to be acknoweldged for history to have any effect on our lives.

- I really can’t stay
- But baby it’s cold outside
Isn’t that the truth? Today I woke up to a world of 20 degrees outside; 20 cold degrees. Fair enough I thought, 20 degrees is what we used to have at home in Norway as well, thus on the inside. 20 degrees is a good summer [...]

Since the World Wide Web has so many users, sites and pages it is constantly developing. A page that was displayed yesterday may either be deleted or updated tomorrow. As a direct result of this the search engines have to visit the pages quite frequent in order to be able to display an accurate search [...]