Going green with Opera 9.5
Sunday, 29. June 2008, 15:59:20
I got one of the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptops. I have been playing around with it a bit, but it might suddenly become my work machine...
Posts tagged with "environment"
Where do you go to
Sunday, 28. October 2007, 02:26:33
Some thoughts on dead bodies. Maybe not everyone's idea of a fun read.
Blinded by the wind
Monday, 27. August 2007, 15:18:10
I took a fairly odd route to spend 2 days in Vienna. And I lost my glasses 
Shaken up
Wednesday, 18. July 2007, 06:08:52
I have been flying, been in an earthquake, and of course British Airways lost my baggage again...
I had some fun. I caught up with friends, and I had a hard time too.
I had some fun. I caught up with friends, and I had a hard time too.
Something burning?
Wednesday, 27. June 2007, 16:42:27
I tend to have my laptop on a lot. I work a lot - and sometimes I have it for doing fun stuff too, like playing music. So I often sit it on the corner of my bed when it is charging overnight. (I have a bad habit of waking up, grabbing it, starting to work, and then thinking about putting on my glasses, or getting up, and so on).
So I was a bit upset this evening to find that I had a problem. Specifically, I was about to finish work, unplug and go home, when I noticed that the charger had stopped. And then I looked more carefully and saw that actually the cable was burning itself. Which is not a cheery thought really.
So, hopefully I will be able to get it replaced quickly. I have a spare battery (which I already had to have replaced - they actually recalled them), but no spare charger. Also, I don't like the thought of that happening somewhere I wouldn't notice a fire developing. Still, handy to know that with a little more concentration I could have made the place nice and warm...
I have a photo but I will upload it tomorrow (assuming I have power, of course
).
So I was a bit upset this evening to find that I had a problem. Specifically, I was about to finish work, unplug and go home, when I noticed that the charger had stopped. And then I looked more carefully and saw that actually the cable was burning itself. Which is not a cheery thought really.
So, hopefully I will be able to get it replaced quickly. I have a spare battery (which I already had to have replaced - they actually recalled them), but no spare charger. Also, I don't like the thought of that happening somewhere I wouldn't notice a fire developing. Still, handy to know that with a little more concentration I could have made the place nice and warm...
I have a photo but I will upload it tomorrow (assuming I have power, of course
). I used to live here once
Friday, 16. February 2007, 03:43:12
It has been a long time since I have really lived in Australia, although I visit it a number of times a year and feel comfortable there.
Some thoughts, from my old dining table
Some thoughts, from my old dining table
Brrr. Boston.
Tuesday, 30. January 2007, 20:08:01
I spent a week in Boston, where it got really cold. Like the last time I did that. Without luggage. Like the last time I did that. At meetings, like the ...
The storm breaks
Thursday, 27. July 2006, 02:09:09
This afternoon I thought maybe the black dog was coming back. I could feel him, more than see him, know that he had been walking the streets and sniffing in places I might have been.
It has been hot in Oslo for at least two weeks. Hot in the sun, hot in the shade. In the early evening the sun comes in my window and lies along my arm, until I can feel it burning me like a truckie. Moving is melting.
But this evening, the lightning started to flash as I got home. I parked my bike, and the thunder was rolling. I had a shower, caught a bus downtown, and ordered a beer before the rain started - at first great heavy drops, but so few of them. And then a steady medium rain, a couple of times slanting in a little, and then getting heavier.
It may have rained as long as an hour and a half - no more. A few hours later the skies are clear. But it washed the streets clean, and it washed away some of the pressure that had been building.
It seems I like the rain.
It has been hot in Oslo for at least two weeks. Hot in the sun, hot in the shade. In the early evening the sun comes in my window and lies along my arm, until I can feel it burning me like a truckie. Moving is melting.
But this evening, the lightning started to flash as I got home. I parked my bike, and the thunder was rolling. I had a shower, caught a bus downtown, and ordered a beer before the rain started - at first great heavy drops, but so few of them. And then a steady medium rain, a couple of times slanting in a little, and then getting heavier.
It may have rained as long as an hour and a half - no more. A few hours later the skies are clear. But it washed the streets clean, and it washed away some of the pressure that had been building.
It seems I like the rain.
South for the heat
Wednesday, 26. October 2005, 06:13:26
I came to Malmø and Lund today. Oddly enough, it feels genuinely warm outside, at maybe 10 degrees. As in definitely weather for a shirt and no jacket. Even standing out in the pouring rain felt fine with just a hat.
And they tell me that people here are unhappy because the winter has come and they are cold now. Funny how some people adapt to some things and others don't. Although I like cold weather, and the feeling of being alive that a quick burst of cold gives me, I don't actually like being cold. I just don't get cold so easily, most of the time. When I do, it is miserable, and I lose energy like crazy, and start showing all the great warning signs. But I get hot pretty fast, yet I can hold out a long time before I start really suffering from it.
And they tell me that people here are unhappy because the winter has come and they are cold now. Funny how some people adapt to some things and others don't. Although I like cold weather, and the feeling of being alive that a quick burst of cold gives me, I don't actually like being cold. I just don't get cold so easily, most of the time. When I do, it is miserable, and I lose energy like crazy, and start showing all the great warning signs. But I get hot pretty fast, yet I can hold out a long time before I start really suffering from it.
Hedgehogs are not just chocolate
Wednesday, 15. June 2005, 02:07:17
When I was a kid I read a lot of books about european things. There were hedgehogs and moles, and things I had never seen. It was much rarer to find books with wombats and echidnas and platypus. The Muddle-headed Wombat, Blinky Bill, The Magic Pudding were among the rare classics that did have animals I actually recognised in the wild - I am not sure how much that contributed to my enjoyment of them, but it certainly was a factor. Maybe Storm Boy, too, although for me that was mostly about a place that is all over Australia.
Tonight I was walkng home past a park, and saw a little lump like a broom head. Arve noted that it was actually a hedgehog, and sure enough after a minute is started waddling away. It really doesn't look like an echidna at all, although it has a walk that is a bit similar. At night, with my phone playing up, this is all the description there is - like in the olden days, when a platypus sat briefly in a friends lap while she was sitting in the Howqua river, or the wombat Andy and I saw in the snow when I was a little kid.
For that matter it was like the first time I saw squirrels. Everyone around me though they were like rats - more of a pest than anything. They don't seem to be very different to really skinny possums with even furrier tails. But when they are a brand new experience of something you hav heard about your entire life and never actually seen they look pretty cool.
When I was a kid hedgehog was a kind of flat heavy chocolate cake thing. I have no idea what the connection is having seen one of the animals.
Tonight I was walkng home past a park, and saw a little lump like a broom head. Arve noted that it was actually a hedgehog, and sure enough after a minute is started waddling away. It really doesn't look like an echidna at all, although it has a walk that is a bit similar. At night, with my phone playing up, this is all the description there is - like in the olden days, when a platypus sat briefly in a friends lap while she was sitting in the Howqua river, or the wombat Andy and I saw in the snow when I was a little kid.
For that matter it was like the first time I saw squirrels. Everyone around me though they were like rats - more of a pest than anything. They don't seem to be very different to really skinny possums with even furrier tails. But when they are a brand new experience of something you hav heard about your entire life and never actually seen they look pretty cool.
When I was a kid hedgehog was a kind of flat heavy chocolate cake thing. I have no idea what the connection is having seen one of the animals.
Charles McCathieNevile
er ikke i Oslo
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