Beautiful fog
Some photos of beautiful fog in Nordmarka. I took these whilst on a cycling trip with Nora, Live and Ingvild.
Øyungen … gone!
I went on a cycling trip to Øyungen, a beautiful dam near Oslo, except … it turned out the lake no longer existed :/
Peleș Castle
I visited Peleș Castle, an incredibly beautiful castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. It is on the route linking Transylvania and Wallachia. Interestingly, it was the first castle to be built with central heating pre-installed. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to take photos of the stunning interior, so I only have exterior shots of the […]
Transylvanian countryside continued
Some more photos from the beautiful Transylvanian countryside.
Training regime
I plan to do the Oslo marathon in September. I tend to only exercise once per month, usually by running somewhere between 15 and 20 km. Yesterday I decided to cycle 50 km instead. Then today I felt that wasn’t enough so I decided to do a short 6 km run as well. But then […]
My Twitter map
Rustic Romania
There are a lot of abandoned buildings dotted around the Transylvanian countryside. Combinations of factories, mills, farm houses and empty apartment blocks falling to pieces are a common site whilst travelling through the countryside.
Security for Facebook
I occasionally receive questions from folks wanting to know how to secure their Facebook accounts due to them being being compromised. I am no expert on such matters, but here’s what I do (which seems to have worked so far) … Password Make sure you have a kick butt password. 12 characters with a mixture […]
Cluj-Napoca
I stayed in Cluj-Napoca for a few days following the WordCamp Transylvania conference. I had a great time in Cluj. It was terrific meeting up with friends.
To cheer you up
Transylvanian countryside
The Transylvanian countryside is beautiful. They have a terrific mixture of beautiful greenery and rustic charm. I highly recommend checking it out if you ever get the opportunity. They even had some sheep to make me feel like home 🙂
WordCamp Translyvania
I attended a web development conference called WordCamp Transylvania. I enjoyed my last trip to Romania so much that I decided to head back again this year.
Chilling in München
I’m waiting in München before heading to Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania. The Germans certainly do know a thing or two about good beer.
Danish water
Photos of water in København, Denmark.
Kastellet
Kastellet is a picturesque, albeit strange looking “star fortress” in København, Denmark.
København windmills
Denmark has a lot of windmills. They look spectacular around København and you can get a good view of them from the train heading from Malmø in Sweden.
Are you a hacker?
Remember. The most scary thing about a hacker is their smell … http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
Cycling makes you blow rainbow farts
First Oslo cycling trip of 2013
With the first weekend of good weather, I took to the hills around Oslo on my mountain bike. I’m not very good at taking it easy.
Rundetårn
I visited Rundetårn in København, Denmark. It is a 7th-century tower which was built as an astronomical observatory.
17. mai
The 17th of May is the biggest public holiday of the year in Norway. All the Norwegian go crazy! The girls wear striking little outfits called “bunad”.
Rosenborg Castle
Harriet and I visited Rosenborg Castle in København, Denmark. Apparently the Danish crown jewels are stored in it.
Historien for norskkurs
A crude story for Norwegian class. This hasn’t been proof read and is definitely riddled with errors. No need to correct as we’ll be reviewing this in class 🙂 Vi har ny loven i New Zealand. Vi hadde “Civil Union” før nå. De laget loven for “Civil Union” i 2004. Personer i “Civil Union” ha […]
Frederik’s Church
Harriet and I paid a visit to Frederik’s Church, a spectacular looking church in København, Denmark.
Run with Karl
A casual afternoon run with Karl turned into a 17.75 km adventure.
Outside Christiansborg Palace
View of the outside of Christiansborg Palace in København, Denmark.
Inside Christiansborg Palace
Whilst wandering around København I stumbled across Christiansborg palace. The inside was spectacular looking.
Sentrumsløpet 2013
I ran the Sentrumsløpet in Oslo. 10 km in 61.5 mins in 2012 and 53 mins 46 seconds in 2013! There’s a dip in speed during the middle section as I got a really unpleasant cramp. Hopefully I can do even better for 2014 🙂 Here’s the trace from my Nike running watch.
View of København from on top of Vor Frelsers Kirke
Here are some photos taken from the top of Vor Frelsers Kirke.
Inside Vor Frelsers Kirke
Some view of the inside of the Vor Frelsers Kirke on the way to the top of the spire.
Ninja Kiwi!
Vor Frelsers Kirke
Harriet and I saw the strange looking spire of “Vor Frelsers Kirke” in København so decided to take a closer look. It turned out you can walk to the top.
W00p w00p, Norway!
w00p w00p w00p! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I just had a panicked morning as I realised my old work visa had expired. I’d been looking at the wrong date in my visa when working out when I was going to get booted from Norway. Fast forward a few extremely worried hours, and I managed […]
Ivelina and Reindeer
Ivelina and I headed into town after scoffing down some yummy pizza. Here is Ivelina standing beside a Reindeer statue.
Growing old
Space thingy
Beautiful image of space, comet, astroid, meteor thingy. http://www.joetek.ca/we-all-need-a-distraction-today/
Excessive caching?
As weird as it may seem, I’m pretty sure I managed to make this upward trend in load times decrease by reducing the amount of caching on my site(s). I reduced how often Batcache stores pages and the load time plummeted within a few minutes.
Harriet and I at Nyhavn
Harriet and I headed to Nyhaven, a small port area of København in Denmark with lots of awesome little restaurants and cafes.
Fashion in København
They sure do have some interesting fashions in Denmark.
Spring barbecue in Norway
Everyone says that spring in Norway is beautiful. So we decided to celebrate it by having a barbecue by the lake at a balmy -3°. We also discovered that putting a baby disposable barbecue on a wooden bench is not such a good idea, unless of course you want to barbecue your food with the […]
40% beer
I went for a beer with the lovely Fonda. I ended up drinking beer with 40% alcohol content. I’m going to file this in the “it seemed like a good idea at the time” basket! It tasted something like a cross between tequila and vodka. At no point did I sense a taste of beer […]
“Stealing” a TV with Milan
Milan and I felt like a couple of eastern European gangsters as we transported my new TV across via the subway 🙂
Hytta på skitur
I stayed at a hytta (cabin) after a skiing trip with Ingvild, Live and Irene. It was an awesome little place with a great view out over a frozen lake.
bbPress import CPU spike
This is what happened when I ported a couple of SMF forums over to bbPress.
PixoPoint blast from the past
I accidentally stumbled across this screenshot from geek.hellyer.kiwi in 2008.
SlapShot.net.nz forum move test
From the old to the new. I upgraded SlapShot.net.nz this evening from SMF 1.1.14 to the latest bbPress plugin for WordPress. I’d been running an out of date, unpatched, insecure SMF installation for well over a year now. Plus I haven’t been doing any backups of it. By moving it to the bbPress plugin I […]
Fascinating view of the Iraq War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUp1zzYL5co
Views of the landscape from my recent ski trip
Some photos showing the beautiful landscape from my recent ski trip.
Keeping warm by the fire
We started an awesome little fire at the hytta during my ski trip with Live, Ingvild and Irene.
View from my office for today
