New everything

New Job, new house(soon), new country(well return to old)!

We have moved back to Norway, Oslo to be precise. Its a great summer, not looking forward to the autumn, but winter will be great again.

Flatsearching is a battle, as each one gets snapped immidietly as they come up for sale.

New job is good, Im now a senior consultant. More mature role, so no sleep-ins anymore.

But its all good.

Mostly offline this summer

Been mostly offline all summer. Well it is summer after all, but also because of moving house, jobs and country.

Not being in your own house for several months, do make you feel a bit cut off, especially when where you stay dont have broadband.

And when you cant enjoy the sun and sea because of 100 of property viewings, its even worse.

My new job starts soon, so no time to do anything then. But im looking forward to it, and at least I'll be online again.

30th + leaving do

Im 30 years old this month, so I am commiserating with a party. It will also be a leaving do for me and Chloe as we are leaving Manchester the following week.

Planning a long day of world cup football, resturant and plenty of cheap and nasty lager.

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Moving

Finally moving back to Norway.

12 years abroad, so its probably nothing like the rosetinted memories I have.

But should be interesting.

Just good music

Last.fm is a great idea. Uninterputed real music. No babble, no ads, just good music.

And it gets better and better as you tell it what you like.

Not sure if the bandwidth would cope if everyone at work joined as well. But 16kb/s is not too bad.

flickr

Okay, I followed the flock and joined flickr. It is pretty sweet.

But think Ill keep using my coppermine album at foto.flurdy.com.

Got Dugg

My postfix howto got dug at digg.com.

Seems they were mostly concerned with the GNU/Linux comment though...

Eclipse WTP Howto

The Eclipse web tools project seems to have matured enough so Ive started to switch to Eclipse from Netbeans (sort of).

Ive always prefered Netbeans as it is aimed at java web developers and works as such straight away. Eclipse with its huge following needed too much tweaking, immature/costly plugins etc to get there so I never bothered before. With each iterative Netbeans just got better and better, version 5 is so integrated with Ant, Tomcat, Jboss et all so makes web app development so easy.

However now that WTP has reached version 1.0 I thought I'd check it out again. And I was impressed. Ant integration is good, not quite netbeans level, but different.
Tomcat integration is good, and standard web tools is perhaps better than netbeans.
Im still not 100% happy with it though. The project structure is not as configurable, the tomcat sync does use my ant scripts to include libs and confs. But impressed.

In the end I created a quick howto on installing Eclipse WTP in Ubuntu.

I still recommened Netbeans 5 for all web app developers, however Eclipse WTP is getting there.

Ski

Ah winter, cant beat it.

As I was born in Telemark,
it must be in my blood,
but I love winter time.

However I hate the slushy gray period before. Unfortunetly living in England, there is no proper winter, just 5 months of gray autumn. :(




And I dont like people complaining of it being too cold. It never is, just bad clothing. As they say, if it gets colder, add another layer of clothing. But if it gets warmer there is a finite layers you can take off....

Breezed up

Finally got round to upgrade to Ubuntu's latest version, Breezy Badger (5.10).

Received my CDs from ubuntu/canonical ShipIt service, so that made the upgrades easier, even though I had downloaded the Iso.

First impression is not much has changed, which is good as Hoary was good before. Starting to notice nice little tweaks, like lineakd now looks integrated, sony laptop buttons works better, nicer boot up splash screen, etc.

So I got no excuse not to update my postfix howto now...

Data missuse

Found while searching google on my name, that apperently I like "3D Golden Warrior"! Never heard of nor played the game, nor can I imagine that I ever will.

I have however downloaded Sensible Soccer, so looks like they missuse their customer data. So basically dont trust gamemobile.co.uk! (Though it was themobilegamer.co.uk I used)


BELAY THAT ORDER! I have spoken to the site and it is all a simple mistake. Basically my user id was an old one and so got two accounts interlinked. Simple db error. Ive made the same mistake several times myself, when the genrator gets reset or dbs merge... So they are not so bad after all

Postfix

Started the 4th edition of my howto on setting up a postfix mail server in linux.

Ubuntu, the distro it is based upon has released a new version, so the howto needs updating. Also integrating postgrey, an excellent spam reduction method. And try to include some fixes and tweaks from last time.

Also started to encourage people to use the ubuntu forums, instead of contacting me regarding the howto, as I have weeks of unreplied messages to look at....

Found this page on lambie.org, nice to get praised some times!

Wish List

Finally made some progress with my much delayed wishlist project. Convinced a previous owner of wishlist.sf.net to hand the project over as he was not pursuing it.

I have started to set up the file structure, and will soon start to plan the logic and objects needed.

Will then advertise for help with the development. Later on, the project will definetly need some designer help, otherwise if it is too ugly; no-one will use it.

Have a look and see what you think : sf.net/projects/wishlist

Budapest

Whats worse?

In gun range in east europe, with a mad party for a stag do?

Or that we were wearing ginger wigs ....

Ibiza

Just back from two weeks in Ibiza.
Floated in the sea most of the time,
sorry I meant snorkled...

And now Im off for a stag do in Budapest.

Im getting to old for this....