It’s Tuesday. I feel good about that day of the week, because it’s not in the very beginning of it. I got up at 05:30. Not too early either, concidering the fact that I went to bed at 11:30. After eating two pieces of crisp bread I did some email and then left for a good round of workout. 1 hour and 45 minutes of bikeriding, situps and walking. Good stuff!

After a rather unpleasant day at work yesterday with the server problems it’s good to have put that problem over to someone elses desk. One of the developers will look further into the matter and I can rest knowing that unless something weird happens it’s not my concern any more. Riiight. Yesterday evening there was a meeting with the crew for AuLAN:Heat, the computerparty being held in february 2005. About 70% of the crew showed up, not too bad, when some of the crew live far up north.

Today got not much in stock, but most of today will be work-centric. At 17:00 I’ll end work and figure what to do from there. I’m thinking about mexican tomato soup for dinner. It’s good and I enjoy tomato soup with a little spice. Maybe it’s too early to be thinking about dinner, but I like to plan such things so I have something to look forward to. It’s not too fun to be a frontdesk drone at work and I in particular hate the fact that I can’t develop my skills when forced to work in Windows XP.

Even so, I have decided that I’ll fight the idiocy in a positive manner and rather than feeling let down or overrun I’ll give them a good kick in the butt. By showing that I’m somewhat better than the tactic of either wanting to get rid of me (by giving me stupid tasks they know I’ll hate) or just plain stupid non-good management I’ll rise above this, and show that I’ll be mature about it all. No cheek turning, just business. I’ll show you. Bring it on Mr. Gates, I’ll be waiting.

When I got up this morning I had one piece of crisp bread and a glass of milk. After that I had some fun with chatting some on IRC while doing situps now and then. In total I did 70 situps and IRC’ed for about one hour. I had a good feeling when I left for work. The feeling did not last. I keep wondering what it is that fills me with such anger about my work. Today I’ve been (as the Pointy Hairy Boss says it in Dilbert) ‘tasked’ with the not so trivial job of getting gcc to work propperly on a machine that does not work propperly at all. The only things that work on the sorry piece of sh*t is the system it’s suppose to run, it’s just, it needs to be updated, until it’s put out of service in a month or so (well, atleast acording to a certain boss it’s suppose to be replaced by the end of january 2005).

There’s no reward in looking at endless amounts of gcc errors scrolling by on the screen hour after hour. Thus I’ve tried to dig into the source and look what may have gone wrong. The problem is that as the system is still in production I can’t really mess too much with it. One thing that I have found is that gcc will not work propperly because glibc were replaced with an incorrect version some two years ago. Yay for that. I think I’ll just have to sit duck and wait for things to crash so I can claim victory when moving everything over to another system. The only problem is that, when, not if, this sh*t decides to crash, I will be blamed for that too. Fun eh?

I guess I need some lunch now *sigh*.

It’s early. I got up at 0535 this morning to do some workout and get some clothes cleaned before work. For once I actually did get up. I have done about 60 situps and stretched out some sore legs. It’s been a lot of walking lately. I need to go more to the gym. I’ll try to go there tomorrow morning and hopefully I’ll manage to go there 3-4 times next week. That’ll help me shape up before the Christmas-dinners. Atleast my dad and stephmom are also doing some fat-burning so the Christmas-dinner at their place will be a bit more healthy than it’s been before. That’s in one part of my mind good, because I know that I’ll eat too much of it anyways, but in other parts of my mind I feel that I can deal with a few days of feast without gaining too much permanently. Maybe? We’ll see about that.

Today is the final day of a week with much work. I’ve been bussy trying to get lots of sponsors for our computerparty, AuLAN:Heat in february 2005, and to add up on that it’s been lots of work to do at Grep too. “Security beef up 2004” you may call it, as I have, for no particular reason decided that it was time to put in some filters in the local network. It’s well protected from many angles, but now it’s even more secure. It can never hurt to be even ore safe? Details include local addressfilters, and today I’m looking at adding some kind of sensor system on every machine to check for all kinds of bells and whistles. Nagios is running smoothly for static monitoring of services, but I’d like to add some more security. Ideas are welcome by the usual channels. I take pride in having secure servers. It not only make me sleep well at night, it also make me have a tingling feeling in my body when someone mention the ‘security issues’ of their own installations, such as uhm, certain peoples Windows-servers. I’m happy I don’t manage any of those myself.

In stock for the weekend there’s a lot of nice things to do. Jorunn is having an exam tomorrow and after that we’re having dinner. I’m thinking about pancakes. Pancakes are good. To make sure I won’t interupt her reading tonight I am going to visit my grandparents to give her total peace of mind. It’s been a few weeks since I saw them and I want to ask my grandmother about fixing one of my special Christmas-gifts too. A very special one *:)

As mentioned a while ago, I am looking for somewere else to work, that is, if it’s in Trondheim, Norway. Check out my work page for more info about that (Norwegian only). Enjoy your weekend everyone.

To be ill is no good when you got so much things to do that you can’t really get your head around all of them. Right now I am at work, but I don’t feel too well today either. The problem is that if I stay home because I am ill I feel guilt because the company needs my presence, especialy when one of the others are gone to a course and so on. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone to work when I feel ill, but I’d rather take an early evening today than getting yelled at for staying home when ‘not sick enough’ as my boss puts it so softly. I may quote: ‘A little flu is not enough around here. Do you see me staying home if I get a little fever? No, I come to work anyways, so should you’. A piece of Dilbert comes to my mind. The quote goes: ‘You incentive clod’. You may have seen that one elsewere, like ehm, slashdot, no?

As you all may not know I stayed home yesterday with 39 degrees fever and did not feel too good at all. I slept most of the day and did not feel better until around 8 pm. Tried to stay awake some to turn my head back into a working modus without much luck.

When not ill I work a lot with the computerparty AuLAN:Heat these days. We’re about to reach 100 people who have signed up to attend the party and it’s still two and a half month until the doors open. That’s very good 🙂 Most work right now are being done in the sector of making good technology partners to provide the attendees the best party experience ever in Trondheim. One of the things we’re looking at is running an open source vs closed source panel debate with people from such companies as Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Novell and organisations like Skolelinux, Debian and the Ubuntu-project. That’ll be very fun!

I also want to take time to get some work done for TLUG now in December and today I’m emailing the TLUG mailinglist to raise interest into a little Saturday demo at one of the shoppingstreets during the holiday shoppingsprees. I will sugest somewere around the 13th, as there will be hundreds, if not thousands of people around. I hope someone will join and that we can get some CD’s available to hand out along with some flyers about TLUG, SPIST, Skolelinux and Linux in general. Anyone want to join? Give us a heads up at

It’s been one long week. Lots of things to do, places to be and people to meet. I have ofcourse not had time to do all the things I have wanted to do, and three days I have been on the mark at work, but overslept my workout at0630. That sucks. I wanted to get 3 weekly workouts in the morning by this week. I’ll try again next week. Selfdiscipline must be restored!

Tonight theres a party again. This time it’s ITK at Samfundet that racks up their finest to have an christmas party. At midnight we’re joining in with the rest of the gangs at Samfundet and have a huge party with them. After this I’m gonna sleep. Long. Then we’ll see what happens. I have no ideas for the rest of the weekend, but it’ll probably include beer, work for AuLAN:Heat, TLUG and some for SPIST I hope. On Sunday I’ll probably go for a workout if I get time/dare. What’s your plans? Oh by the way. Tonight AuLAN:Heat open the registration for the party in February 2005. The largest winter event in Trøndelag of 2005 I am pretty sure it’ll be. Why don’t you join in? It’ll be fun! And.. I am still very very very in love. Jorunn: This is for you: :-*

It’s soon another weekend. Another week is over soon. I feel some lack of interest in some of my spare time activities of late. I have been too bussy with being happily in love and work at Grep and Samfundet to do the things that I should have been doing with SPIST and TLUG. The need for such things are imminent. The opensource community of Norway needs a stronghold in Trondheim and I wish that TLUG could be that. The problem is time. I think that the rest of the board have the same problem. It’s cold, it’s winter and lots of exams on the horizon. In January TLUG will help out as SPIST sees a new school adopting Skolelinux in Trondheim. I hope it’ll turn out to be a massive showdown of what opensource can do in the schoolsystem. 20 computers, with screens, given from NTNU/IDI will be placed in a network with a brand new server that the school will buy for the project.

In other news I’m bored. Bored with rain, snow, more rain and snow. I wish it was the end of July 2005 and that I were on the move to my new home at Solsiden. I have also been doing minor upgrades to my rss-feed today so that it now shows the item topic in a good manner as a topic, not as a part of the description area. Now I’m going home. Home to clean the house, do some work for the upcoming computerparty ‘AuLAN:Heat’ (february 2005) and probably go for a little walk if I get time. I need more time! Anyone got a few spare hours?

When you toss a stone into the water it will spread out rings of waves descending as they go away from the centre of the drop. That’s something to think about. The past week I have been doing minor updates to my weblog now and then. As the days are left behind you’ll probably discover some of the changes. One such change is that you now can read a valid RSS 2.0 Feed of this weblog with any RSS-feed reader. My weblog have been included in the Planet Samfundet page. Planet Samfundet are really just a RSS-feed-syndication of weblogs belonging to people with relations to Studentersamfundet. One more such place are Planet Tut – the RSS-feed-syndication of weblogs belonging to people with relations to the IRC-channel #tut on IRCnet.

I myself have also done some updates to the pages. The ‘about friends’ page have gotten a facelift. Also new are a weblog-page with the three latest entries. The page have been stripped of some of its content for easy reading. More later. Got to buy lunch now. People are hungry here. 🙂

Life that is. It’s been some days since I wrote something here. There’s nothing much to write really. Still very much in love. I dont think I’ll write about that right now. Because.. this morning I woke up from a weird dream. Did you know that the world is going to blow up in 238 days and that it was first posted on Slashdot last night? I was like “what the f**** have I been eating?”. Then my head started to hurt really bad. Tried to take a shower in both cold and hot water but that didn’t help so I had two of those painkillerpills. Sure it works every time, since I never take those. Then I left for work. But; lets get back to the dream. I remember some details about a panel debate at a computerparty. MS vs SPIST/TLUG. That may be good? The debate ended when someone who claimed to be CmdrTaco from Slashdot entered and screamed that the world would end in 238 days. What’s with that number? Is it some kind of system uptime I have in my mind? I don’t think I remember the number 238 from anywere. Weird stuff! So. What’s up in *your* world people? I am still waiting to hear about that. Also in other news: Trondheim covered in snow, and it’s cold outside.

Ok. It’s been one of those days. I’ve been working non-stop since 0710 when I got to Samfundet. After figuring out that the compiled kernel would not work on one of the servers the deadweight disk-raid were removed from the configuration and the server booted back up. One of the other servers got a new kernel and some more RAM. At 0845 I walked from Samfundet to work, across the bridge I caught a bus and a tramway the last leg to Grep.

Got to Grep at 0903. Five customers had called about last nights huge email outage. ‘wow’. Outage. Four hours downtime from 2050 CET until 0100 CET. Hardly something to complain about in my opinion. What the customers do not know tho, is that I replaced the entire mailserver during the four hours of downtime. In a classic ‘Sarge-Attack’ a newly installed test-mailserver replaced the old outworn SuSE 7.1 with lots of bogus RPMs. The new Debian Sarge server with two Ultra 160 SCSI-disks hummed nicely along. I’ve spent all morning helping out with the minor quirks in the mailsystem, and now, as the weekend rings in in two hours, we’re done. A new era now begins with a daily apt-get update here, and some apt-get upgrade there. I can’t help it. I just love sysadmining easy stuff like that.

Tonight I’m going to the cinema with Jorunn to watch ‘The Incredibles’, one of the new cartoonmovies from Hollywood. Looking forward to some modern animatic artwork again, it’s been two weeks since ‘Shrek 2’ already. Tomorrow we’re doing some network maintenance at Samfundet. Wakeup call at 0900. *Shrug* Got to work some more now. Have fun kids!

Stand my ground, I wont give inno more denying, I got to face itwont close my eyes and hide the truth insideif I dont make it, someone else will stand my ground..All i know for sure is im tryingand I will always stand my ground.

The weekend is over. I feel good. It’s been a good weekend. Friday I went to a birthdayparty with Jorunn. A friend of her turned 24. Had some slices of some really good cake. Drank a little beer. Went home around 0130.

Saturday morning I got up early (09ish) to go to the Statoil Innovationcentre at Rotvoll to serve as a voluntary guard at the First Lego League (FLL) 2004 competition for school-children (9-15 yearolds). It was fun. Ate some pizza and a small hamburger for lunch along with some salad. Drank a bunch of sparking water, as it were free :p. My tasks ended at 1430, so I went down town and met up with Jorunn. At 1830 we went to work at Samfundet as wardrobe-guards. The hours went by rather quick as there was not alot to do until around midnight. Chilled out at ITK along with Berge, Sesse, Jorunn and Pepe most of the time until we had to work. Got home about 0430.

Sunday were, logicaly enough quite amputated. Woke up around 1330. Had some food, went to visit my mom. She did not expect to meet Jorunn and got a bit upset that she had no time to make dinner. Fine enough, I don’t fancy salmon all that much. Went home again, made Taco and watched Forrest Gump. I just love that movie. It’s very good.

New week now. New tasks. Looking forward to go to ITK and do some work after work, as it’s really slow around Grep these days. Answering the phone and checking minor problems with endusers aint my kind of thing. Really.