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Found a traveling book

Howdy! Hola! Bonjour! Guten Tag!

When I went to take the subway home from work on Friday I found this book on one of the benches. At first I was going to leave it there, but I decided I had to take it, after all how often do you find a traveling book?

Not sure if I wan’t to read it yet, but I am leaning towards reading it. I am assuming that whoever first released this book thought it was good enough to share..Am I being too optimistic?

Eating at Egon

Eating at Egon,
originally uploaded by kenneth_sundby.

After waiting 30 minutes at Peppes Pizza and giving it up, then finally getting in at Egon’s after yet another 30 minutes of waiting, we got some good food. Bacon wrapped steaks

Board Game: Ticket to Ride

Hilde and I recently purchased a new board game called “Ticket to Ride”. I first heard about this board game while listening to Gaming Steve’s podcast, and it also won Game of the Year at Spiel des Jahres 2004, something that pretty much will guarantee a board games success.

The board game is really easy to play, but you’ll also discover some interesting strategies as you start to learn the rules of the game. You earn points by building railroad routes between connected cities, and you’ll get extra points if you have the longest route by the end of the game. When you start you also receive secret goals (Tickets) that you have to fulfill, which gives you the task of connecting two cities far apart. The longer apart the cities are, the more points are given upon successful completion, but likewise you will lose points if you have not completed your goals at the end of the game. You must have a minimum of two tickets, but you can also choose to draw more if you wish.

Since I only see Hilde at the weekends for a few more months while she is away, we’ve only gotten to play three rounds so far (I’ve won two of them!) and we really love this game. It is a very good risk vs reward game, many fun strategies to learn, and easy enough for non-elf&orc-lovers to get in to.

Hilde is completely in love with this game and wants to play it all the time. She does not see the value of sitting down and evaluating your previous moves and contemplating a new strategy. This is why she does not win more. I win more.

I am a winner.

Homemade fruit fly trap

The past few months we’ve had a serious fruit fly problem, and Hildes love for fruit is not helping the issue. While I was reading Lifehacker a few weeks ago, I came by this, a DIY (do it yourself) fruit fly trap, and it looked very easy to make! So I tried it out

Unfortunately we did not have apple vinegar or a rotten banana, but the fruit flies seemed to enjoy the pineapple leftovers, so I stuffed a small piece of it in the bottom, taped up some paper and waited a few days. This is the result:

It works! What an ingenious invention!

After taking this picture I noticed 4 flies on the outside of the paper…I began to worry; Was the fly trap working as advertised, or did I just create a breedingplace for them? I immediately sprayed some cleaning liquids in the glass and filled it with water. I ran away before the flies started screaming and locked myself in my room.

It seems to work though, yay! I think I’ll have to try it again and leave it until I see some dead flies in there.

Testing flickr to blog feature from my mobile

I hope this works

Switching blog software

Switching from Blogger to Wordpress so I have a bit more control. I’m not very satisfied with the rate that Blogger is adding new features and I don’t really see any benefit to using it anymore. Also it is suddenly starting to scare me how much Google knows about me from all the services I am using or have tried: Google Search Engine, Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Gmail, Groups, Picasa, Reader, Sites, Talk, Youtube, Maps, Chrome, Desktop, Health and Notebook..

There are many products they have that I really enjoy, but how much information do they have about me at this point? Should a company that lives of advertising know this much about anyone?

I will definitely still use many of their products, but recently I’ve realized that I like having more control over my own stuff, more than I do at the moment anyway, also I think Google is lacking focus with what they are doing…They keep launching betas of new things instead of improving what they already have.

Anyway, it’s nice to have a blogging software that is more open, with loads of themes and plugins again.

New job

I started at my new job yesterday and so far it’s been very fun and interesting, and all the people I’ve met are cool people. The previous tech guy got a new job working as a programmer and is leaving in a month’s time, and the company is switching to a new platform over the next months (while still supporting the previous one), so not only do I have to learn everything I can about the current platform before he leaves, but I also have to learn the new platform as well! I think the next few months will be very stressful, but I am not too worried about it yet, I’m mostly concentrating on learning as much as I can right now. Yeah, maybe I’ll blog even less now

Video Podcasts

You can find my OPML file here: http://sundby.googlepages.com/KennethSundby-PodcastsVideo.opml

Pics or it didn’t happen

Hilde took some pictures last month of our new apartment. They are a bit outdated already, we’ve gotten our dining table up and some other minor tweaks, but here it is anyway:

http://picasaweb.google.no/hildeulsaker/NyLeilighet

I’ll try to take some new pictures soon, but I think I want to borrow a real camera first.