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I started this post by weighing the Facebook pros to the cons, and thoroughly writing about my own opinions to each of those bullet points. I ended up deleting everything thinking each and everyone are entitled to their own opinions, and that you don’t need me to start this lovely Friday by pointing out negative sides about a platform lots and lots of people have come to love. Rather, I will focus on what I initially wanted to talk about – some alternative smaller platforms through which thoughts and ideas, photos, and what not can be shared just as easy, without all the fuzz, spying, virus, annoying games (insert my cons bullet points here…) etc.

Twitter
I have written several posts about Twitter (here, here, here, here, and here. As you can see its a important aspect of my blog-life. Lol.), so why not write another one. I believe everyone reading this knows what Facebook is. Twitter is what Facebook status is; In a few words, tell your “followers” what you are doing, plans, ideas, thoughts, updates etc. Thats it! Its very quick, and minimalistic, exactly what the average working/studying guy with limited time needs. If you don’t have an account, open one now! Of course it’s free. “Twitter for iPhone” is the app iPhone users with an Twitter account want on their phone. Yes, its free.

Instagram
A wonderful, very easy picture-sharing application for iPhones (coming to Android soon) which works very similar to Twitter: Take a picture, write a short caption, and share! There are many other possibilities as well, like adding geolocation markers to the picture and so on. It is quick and concise, and easy to get into – just like Twitter =) The application for iPhones is free. Read more here.

Bambuser
An interesting newcomer for iPhone users. Have you ever wanted to take some video and share it LIVE with your friends, co-workers, with the world? No? Well me neither, but that might be because I never thought about it. After opening a (free) Bambuser account, and downloading the respective app for my iPhone, it intrigued me. It was kind of cool turning my phone into a live webcam for everybody (or only for those I choose) to see! Open an account here, and download “Bambuser” for iPhone from the AppStore and get started!

Tomorrow at 230pm, vacation ends and work starts, which isn’t that bad after all. I have been spending money for a month now, and I am starting to run a bit short. Anyways, I believe it will be great to start working again, and I don’t know if I will have any more breaks before school starts in 2 months, probably I will, because there is not much work for me in september.

Today I am making home made pizza, and inviting a couple of friends. Take care, happy weekend, what is left.

So today I head back home to Norway. It has been a wonderful week with lots memories I’ll never forget. Things like Tyler’s back patio, Cabernet (at the end abbreviated to “cab”), Outlets, beautiful weather, cardio convertion at hospital, friends, family (and Kristan), and last but not least – a fabulous friday night – John Legend!

Actually, it’s hard to call this a summer vacation, though it is. This has been my home before, and I still look at as my second home. The fact that my dad is living here (now moving back after five years living here) has made Waynesboro more than just a place I come to, to visit friends; it’s more than that. And I’m really glad I got the opportunity to return here, and spend time with people I care about.

Anyhows, today is the day I go back, and it’s going to be great. I haven’t actually got to relax in Norway this summer; My g/f and I went to L.A. just a couple of days after returning to Norway from Poland (after school finished), so I guess it will be nice to get a few days of “chillin’” back home before starting work at the 27th of July (monday). Departure time is set to 5:27 (yeah, as if they’re gonna be able to leave at that exact time), which means I will be landing in Oslo Gardemoen at 10:30 norwegian time. I will see you all (the two of you reading this…) tomorrow =)

Last night was great, Tyler Carly and I spent the entire day together, which started with lunch at about 1pm. Before supper we visited High Rock and took a bath at the next door swimming pool. Then we all started making food together, including Tyler’s parents. Later when we were eating, we even saw as many as four-five deer in the back yard, isn’t that great =)

The night finished in the early morning ours after a couple of Carly’s great drinks, thank you for a great evening. I guess it’s only a couple more hours till lunch time yet again, see you later.

Ahh, finally at “home”. Well, I might be stretching if far by talking about Waynesboro as my home, but it WAS indeed my home a few years back, and I will always think of this town as a part of myself.

In a few minutes, Tyler and Carly will come pick me up and we’ll probably head for the “Velvet Cafe” which is right around the corner from here. We have decided on eating lunch together, which means breakfast as far as I’m concerned. I don’t really have any other plans for today, so I will do what I do best; play it by ear. I don’t know what Tyler and Carly are up to later on today, but if they are pretty much free, I will definitely go with them.

I woke up today at 1030am, which is pretty good considering I just came from Norway, which is 6 hours ahead of us (yes, us as in US as in USofA). This is probably due to the fact that I just came from America a couple days ago, and I am therefore already “converted” to an american time zone.

Well I think thats it for today, as I wrote yesterday (in norwegian tho), I will try a new approach to make myself post more often, and this new bright idea is based on writing smaller post, so I won’t look at blogging as a duty or a hazel, but more of a nice thing which doesn’t take time at all :p I’m not saying that blogging is a bad thing, ITS NOT!! It’s just that I don’t always have the energy for making big posts. But anyways, that’s it for today. Write to you later.

This saturday I am only gonna publish some fun videos for you to watch. The first on is about the evolution of the cell phone. It takes you through the history from the first cell phone was made, till the very last ones. Fun to watch.

Cell Phone Evolution

The second  clip is in Nowegian, and hilarious. Its an old clip I found on YouTube, and you definitely should check this one out, if you know Norwegian that is.

Russiske fiskere

Yet again comes a post about Twitter. I have previously written about twitter and what it is here, so I presume you all have a basic idea of what it is. If not, I’ve attached a video at the very bottom which takes you through the principles in an easy matter.

So why am I talking so much about Twitter, will I never shut up?

Well, the answer to that is no – not until you sign up and start using Twitter. I truly believe that you will sign up sooner or later, just like you did when Facebook “came” to Norway. Americans used Facebook long before we norwegians did, and the few people using it in Norway tried hardly continue reading…

Jeg skal til fysiolabben, og idét jeg går ut døren ser jeg to politifolk i gatekryset, speidende. Jeg tenkte først at de kanskje sjekket om folk bruker bilbelte eller noe sånnt noe, men da jeg kom til det neste gatekrysset, og så enda et par politifolk, skjønte jeg at noe var på fære. Så slo det meg, det er jo NATOmøte i dag. Ifm. med dette overvåker de omtrent alle gatekryssa, og sperra av flere gater rundt hotellet “Hollidays inn”, hvor jeg er rimelig sikker på at NATOfolka holder til. Det skjer altså NOE i byen vinterstid. Det er også litt kult at de skal være i auditorier som tilhører skolen jeg går på, nemlig Jagiellonian University. Bare les pressemeldingen til NATO hvis du ikke tror meg.

Forøvrig er det ikke mye nytt siden sist, jeg har kommet ned og startet studiene for ente gang. Nå har vi om artige greier i fysiologien også, så det er jo bra. Jeg kommer hjem til påsken regner jeg med, så da får jeg uansett dere nordmenn fra Norge som er i Norge akkurat nå igjen.

Pulse Smartpen – det ultimate studentverktøyet – VG Nett om Data og nett.

(this is in norwegian)

I found this by doing some random surfing. This looks great! This is a pen wich 2GB of memory, and a infra red sensor in the tip. This infrared beam knows where on the paper you are, and sees what you write. After you’re done writing, you can of course (and this is where the brilliancy comes into place) transfer it onto you pc (hopefully macs too) for editing or to save it as a document. I definately want this, hopefully it is cheaper in the states or somewhere else where I can buy it off the internet. If you understand norwegian, check out the link! If you don’t understand norwegian, google “Pulse Smartpen”.

Puzzle Pirates.

A game Magnus showed me tonight. I haven’t tried it yet, but if it’s really cool, I’ll come back to it. Try it out if you want =) It is both for the beautiful mac, and PC.

Ok, here it is. I have forgotten about this blog once again. BUT I DO want to contiune posting! I feel this is the time to start posting again, but before I throw in lots of new energy to this, I kinda wanna know how many of you who actually are reading my posts. So, if you don’t mind, please check out the poll in the right upper margin, and place your vote today! It’s free! continue reading…

Yes, those creapy bastards. They are coming from under the floor, through the cracks. Fortunately, they are only coming like once a week or so.  They came more frequently a couple months ago. I’m glad I’m not gonna stay here for long =) Actually I haven’t seen them in a couple of days now, continue reading…