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After coming over this Friday's shock, we went down to try to fetch a pizza from the local pizza shop, but it was for some reason closed half past eight on a Friday evening. What's up with that? Instead we went to the grocery store and purchased some Fjordland, which is pre-made food that you only need to boil in your pans and voilá you have an advanced meal.

We've also been chilling out quite some with World of Warcraft, where we've started levelling a Warrior and a Priest, me being the latter. It's alright to do something else until the expansion, but everything seems to point to the pre-expansion patch coming this Wednesday, so whether we'll continue to play on our small alts or do something else, I am uncertain. We are now respectively level 27 and 26.

A song has struck my mind as pure beauty. Somewhere over the Rainbow and the version Israel Kamakawiwo'ole performs. It's awesome in every way. I've embedded it in the bottom of this post so you can watch it yourself. Anniken was so surprised that I hadn't seen Wizard of Oz, so we followed the yellow brick road and watched it last night. Although I think Kamakawiwo'ole, the man with the name that just rolls ever so good on your tongue, has the best version of the song I've heard until now.

Well, that was this week's most bloated blog title. At Friday I attended a meeting with my project group. It went alright and I acquired the tasks of "designer & developer", which I am quite happy with. All the other members also have "developer" in their titles, but they have "documents" also. In brief resume, we can say that all are d&ds in some way.

After school we drove to Skien with a short stop by IKEA where we purchased some gifts and some accessories for our appartment. Initially we had planned to stop by a restaurant by the road, but since we got a bit tight on our schedule, we dropped it and are planning on stopping by there for a little meal when we are driving home this afternoon. Later that night we went to a friend of Anniken, whom had recently gotten herself a new appartment. It was huge. About 100 square meters. We ate delicious lasagna with Pink Floyd's PULSE concert played in the background. We chatted and watched TV-shows until about midnight before we went home to sleep.

Saturday was a more or less relaxing day. We slept long, got up, ate breakfast and went to the city to look for shoes for me. Amazingly I found a couple which fitted perfectly. I had to pay 1 100 NOK (=~135 €) for them, but it was totally worth it. The current ones I have are not worth much due to their diminishing quality and comfort. I also got myself a pair of jeans and 12 (!) pair of socks. Dressmann really had a good offer on socks.

Later that night we ate fårikål which was simply delicious. I also worked a bit on my mandatory task in programming, which I completed with no mentionable stress. I am curious about how they can expect that the generic 1-year student can program a sorting algorithm in their second work in Java programming. I managed it easily though.

Today we've done little since we got up, we ate breakfast and are soon going to aunt Lilly for a visit. Then we're going to Anniken's mother to eat dinner (yesterday was here at her father's house). Then we're going back home to Oslo again. Eventhough it's relaxing with a weekend in Skien, we always end up having a tight schedule in some way. I'm not complaining. It's always nice to get to do many things. :-)

Web project is one of the courses I am most anxious about getting to work with this year. I feel that the course is a bullseye for what I want to do when I have completed my studies, thus I want to score good at it.

What bothers me most is that the project itself weighs more than the complete product. It means that to score good we have to polish every last bit of documentation and project planning. Furthermore, should we deliver too late on one of the deliveries we are automatically pulled down on grade, something which makes me quite anxious about delivering it on time. And I mean on time. 8:01 is -1 degree.

I sent an e-mail to our teacher to ask whether our approach to the project was OK or not, and it was. This is our current thoughts of the project:

Leep (the name of the project, I'll describe it later on) aims to be a website for technology, much like for instance slashdot. This site, however, will be fetching news from other technology sites, though either RSS or through scanning through the different websites' source codes (given that they have "usable" source codes) and to put them up on our site as links to their sites with an intro and perhaps an image on our site. In addition, we are going to allow for users to register and write news of their own. All news articles will be allowed comments [from registered members].

To make the project run smoothly, we have decided to create a Google Code site for it, in addition to a closed Google Group for internal discussions. To top this, we are planning on running a project development blog at Blogspot. We chose Blogspot since it allows for us to use the same usernames as we use to log into Google Code and Google Groups. Another tool we'll be using is Google Docs, as it easily allows us to work in real time on documents that all have access to.

Leep was originally planned to be an abbreviation for the word "Leep er et prosjekt" (English: Leep is a project), although we might want to change project with portal now, since that's what it'll be. A news portal. I hope that we'll be able to pull this off.

Avast there, mateys! Thar be the int'national talk like a pirate day t'day! May wind be in yer sails! AHOI!






In other news, the popular game World of Warcraft be havin' a day fer us pirates today! Check out their site here!

Today has been a nice day. I woke up at 11, figured that the world was still here, and has not been doing too much useful stuff. The lecturers are at some kind of a seminar today, so there were no lectures, and I am done with my mandatory work in programming, so it has been a relaxing day.

I have installed Firefox 3.0 with Ubiquity which I am going to test out for the time being, and I figured that Fronter actually has an HTML editor. It does not work in neither Opera nor Chrome, so I have never noticed it. Ubiquity is fun and great for some things, and perhaps there will be a similar extention to Opera later on? I can only hope.


This is the laptop bag I purchased for 499 NOK (about €60). It fits perfectly with my MSI Wind, and I can have a book in it as well. Seems perfect. :-)