Late reports: Budapest

2009.8.5

First off a warning: This is another "one week in one blog-post"-post so it will be long and at the same time be lacking in detail, but you'll just have to live with that. Eat it up or find something else to do :D

After partying and exhausting myself completely in Prague I went off to Budapest. I might upset some people saying this, but I it didn't really happen much there. Much to my satisfaction I might add. I actually didn't visit a single club while in Budapest. I most definitely needed a rest at this point.

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Beer-list Czech

2009.8.5

So this is the extensive list of beers I sampled while in Czech in what I do believe is more or less chronological order:

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Late reports: Plzen

2009.8.5

So I decided to take a short daytrip out to Plzen, the town where Pilsner Urquell is made. Arguably one of the protobeers responsible for the beer revolution we had in Europe and without a doubt something which should be considered historically relevant. Interested in history and the origins of things, nothing could stop me from going here.

When I mentioned this to the cab-driver taking me to the hotel the first day, he offered me to drive there, wait for whatever I did and take me back for 2400 Czk (around 100 euros). He advised against taking the train, since it was slow and unreliable. He said train was about 2 hours, and he could get me there in less than 1.

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Late reports: Prague

2009.8.5

So I'm back home. From the lack of blog-posts you should probably have figured out that I had a pretty good time since I couldn't bother blogging at all during my two weeks of vacation. That and the fact that I do on principle refuse to pay 20 Euros a day for internet when I should be out doing stuff.

I'm getting bugged left and right about updates, so here's your quick recap of my vacation! While long, try to keep in mind this is about a week condensed into a blogpost :)

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Prague: First impressions

2009.7.21

So I came to Prague yesterday, although kinda late, so this is for all means and purposes my first day here. I have to say: Compared to Oslo, it is a rather pimp place. Lots of buildings with historical charm, covered in gold, and all in all, it makes Oslo look kinda like a shithole.

Last night was mostly trying to get acquainted around the hotel, Art Hotel Embassy. Art Hotel Embassy is kinda west off in Prague 1, which is where it seems most (but ofcourse not all) of the interesting things can be found. Sitting down at a local café, I skimmed trough Lonely planet and some other travel guides I had, tried to get an impression about how things were located and what would be the best way to explore the city.

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My EEE is no longer cool

2009.4.6

Some asshole called Ben just took all the geek-cred that comes with a Netbook and kept it to himself. All portable-computers ruined forever.

Just what did he do? Click here and find out.

I'll just admit that, yes: yes I want one.

The day last.fm died

2009.3.26

I've long been a fan of last.fm. They've provided a simple service: making it simple to keep track of all the music you listen to. Based on what you and a million of other users liked it would also create recommendations based on that data.

What separated last.fm from the rest of the sites out there was the radio-feature. You could tune into your "radio station" and actually stream live recommendations, or you could listen to friends' stations. This was awesome.

Too bad that's no longer the case.

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Bierfraulein und bratwurst!

2008.9.24

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

More shiny gadgets

2008.9.12

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.

So I got that 3G iPhone

2008.9.12

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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