I was down in Munich for Octoberfest during what is usually called "The Italian week", meaning you will find Italians everywhere. This was kinda true, but didn't stop us from finding enough Germans nor German beer.

No comments should be needed for these pictures, but I'd like to point out that they had a Hacker fest-tent there. They even called it Hackerhaus!

So without further a due: Pictures of me, lots of random people, some even cute, and ofcourse some properly sized Mass-krug filled with beer!

So as a Norwegian, I'm raised to believe that anything with potato in it is supposed to be a good thing. It's just that potatoes are kinda plain. This however haven't stopped people from using it for soup.

This sounds incredibly boring, but someone online suggested adding bacon and once you decide to do that, what you get is really bacon soup with potatoes on the side. To a bacon fetishist like me, this sounds remarkably enticing, and I had to give it a go.

I also know this one Canadian which is rather interested in food (to put it lightly), and he asked me to "document" it, so here it is, for you all to see. I even took pictures!

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My German really haven't gotten better over the years, so I'll just assume there are no errors there and move on. Move onto Munich, Germany and the annual Octoberfest :D

I'll be gone, I'll bring my camera, and I'll bring home the same pictures I brought last year: My and various drunken gits with oversized beermugs.

Hope you'll enjoy it. I know I sure will :D

As thanks for recently helping out one of those Linux guys who refuse to have a single Windows machine handy, I got a new shiny gadget, besides my new phone.

Call it geek pimp if you like :D

Just check the attacked picture, and start laughing. It might seem as vanity fair just hit bacon street.

Anyway: As far as technical details go, this is a 8GB, gold-covered, USB flash-disk. It's tiny and I love it.

Certainly more useful and better looking than my old, clunkly plastic 256MB flash disk.

As mentioned a while back, I got fed up with the marketing and hype around the iPhone. Trying to counter any argument with the Apple fanboys quickly resulted in arguments like "But you haven't tried it yourself. You wouldn't understand".

So when I was offered one for free, I signed up to see what the fuzz was all about.

Now I have that new, shiny iGadget and have been using it for about a week, and I must admit, I love this thing. I might have a phone which automatically labels me as a trend-whore. I might have a piece of equipment which in some circles is considered "ghey", but I don't care.

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Ok. So I haven't updated in a good while. I'm just checking in to let you guys know I am indeed alive, and I am now again open to invitations and suggestions involving a few beers out on town.

Short summary of my last months: I've been a Powerpoint-engineer. Or Professor Jostein, if you like.

I've been working on a program called "Microsoft University", and I was assigned as the guy to develop and deliver the .NET developers track. Things Microsoft said "had to" be in the program involves course-material they haven't bothered developing themselves, despite a global demand for similar stuff since the release of .NET 2.0 a few years back.

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I'm back from Roskilde, but was too busy having fun to take any pictures. And I spent last week recovering from some nasty fever/flu-like thing I managed to catch just before leaving. Hence no updates.

Now, I'm back, feeling slightly better and I'm getting a 3G iPhone. Now why on earth would I jump on this overpriced, hyped smart-phone which can do less than my current Windows Mobile phone and to top it off requires a special subscription to work at all?

Basically: Because it is hyped. I'm getting it for free as a company bonus, and since this wont be costing me a dime, I figured I might as well see what the hype is all about.

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Roskilde 2008 opens tomorrow, and I'll be going this year as well.

Due to someone deciding to get married in the middle of the festival, the crew will be a tad smaller than usual, but that ain't stopping me. Besides, I'm not even invited to the wedding :P

Anyway. I'll be 100% offline, but this year I'm bringing a camera so I might have some pictures when I get back.

So finally, at last, summer is here, or at least so it seems.

The usual routine has been escaping from the heat under my blanket in the morning, trough a cold bedroom, a equally unwelcoming living-room, into a bath-room with a unheated floor into a hot shower.

This being comforting escape from the cruel realities of Nordic winters, a suspense of reality, lasting as long enough for you to realize it's all an illusion and get on with your stuff.

While this has been the routine for quite some time now, finally the time has come for the switch.

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As I'm writing this, I'm sitting on the top floor of my Ikebukuro-hotel and just slacking off with a beer. Last night in Tokyo, and Sunday, tomorrow morning I'm heading home.

I'll leave the hotel around 9am local time, and if everything works out well I'll be back in my apartment in Oslo, Sunday, around midnight local Norwegian-time. This will be a helluva long flight with a 4 hour wait in Amsterdam. "Yay!"

From there on it's just trying to get some sleep, then straight back to work, early Monday morning.

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