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A Swedish wolf in Norway

Miscellaneous technobabble from a Swede in Norway.

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Blog hiatus

Oddly, I have noticed that ever since becoming a parent, I have less time for blogging :smile: Thus I am concentrating on writing my personal blog, and blogging for my daughter. This technoblog will thus see less updates for a while.

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Stating the obvious

I am an employee of Opera Software ASA, but any opinions expressed here are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

Opera Software lands Oslo Innovation Award

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Opera Software has been awarded the Oslo Innovation Award for 2009 (Norwegian only, try Google Translate). Among the reasons why is that Opera Software has worked on making Oslo an attractive place to work and live in.

How YR.no make the best weather site in Norway

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Swedish Techworld magazine is running an in-depth article on how the Norwegian weather site YR.no works (Swedish only, unfortunately, but you could try Google Translate).

There are a couple of interesting facts presented that at least I did not know of before, like how meteorological data is available for free for anyone who wants it, and in a standardized format, circulated by the UN's WMO (World Meteorological Organization).

But even with all these data and models, the prognosis for yesterday claimed there would be no rain here in Oslo, while it in reality came pouring down. Better luck next time, I guess.

Do you know what browser you are using?

Do you know what browser you are using?

Perhaps that sounds like a strange question, but it seems that a lot of people don’t know the brand of their browser. I guess the marketing departments of the browser making companies still have some way to go…

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