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Sebastians weblog: Skriveside

2006/10/07 20:26

Sebastian og mig er nu begyndt at skrive en novelle sammen for at teste Writely. Indtil videre ser det ud til at virke fint.

DREAMS · EN

I had an odd dream a couple of nights ago: I was visiting my parents with Phyllis (who hates wasps with a passion) and Charlotte (I guess Marcel and Léon were there too, but I don’t remember). In their living room there were two birds, the smaller of which was a bee-eater. Charlotte carefully took it and followed by me and Phyllis took it up to the attic (which is always full of wasps, mostly dead), where they started feeding it wasps. The odd thing about the […]

DA · TRAVEL

Snart i Danmark

2006/09/29 15:39

Jeg skal snart til TÅGEKAMMERET’s 50-års-jubilæum, så jeg kommer til Århus torsdag 12/10 om aftenen og tager hjem igen tirsdag 17/10 om morgenen.

ECONOMICS · EN · POLITICS

The truth about flying

2006/09/25 08:47

The Economist had a great article recently (“Welcome aboard”, subscribers only) about flying, in the form of a welcome-aboard announcement that airlines should really be making. A few quotes: “[Y]our safety is our first priority. Actually, that is not quite true: if it were, our seats would be rear-facing, like those in military aircraft, since they are safer in the event of an emergency landing.” “Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look […]

EN · POLITICS

Ryder Cup

2006/09/23 22:08

I’m watching the highlights from today’s Ryder Cup on BBC2 as I write this. Although I know almost nothing about golf, and although I’m not generally much into spectator sports, I must admit I secretly enjoy watching the Ryder Cup (just a shame I don’t have access to a channel showing it live). I think there are two reasons for it. First, it’s really different (but nice) to see the EU flag being used in a positive and non-political way, accompanied by shouts of “Europe! Europe!”. Second, […]

EN · POLITICS

We could hold the balance

2006/09/23 10:02

My blog seems to be turning into a redirection site for The Times today – and it’s not even among my favourite newspapers in general. 🙁 This time it’s about how the LibDems can sell the idea of a hung parliament to voters. It sounds very convincing to me. 🙂

CULTURE · EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

Lungwort

2006/09/22 16:39

Lungwort Originally uploaded by Dave ® My New Year posting made me read up a bit on the French revolutionary calendar. It turns out that each day was associated with an animal, a plant, a mineral or a tool. I was born on 19th Pluviôse 180, so according to Wikipedia, I was born on the day of the lungwort. Not sure whether that’s better or worse than having been born on the day of the cow (Phyllis), the cat (Miriam), the apricot (Sebastian), the silkworm (Mum), or […]

EN · WEB

Orkut

2006/10/02 17:51

Is anybody here using orkut? Is it any good? If it is, I wouldn’t mind getting an invitation…

EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

Camera

2006/10/02 17:31

More news in the camera saga (new readers can start here): cameraI just got an email from Byron from DigitalKind. He says: Hi, you won’t be happy. Just got the latest info. 17th November is the latest date. This is really annoying! The camera only seems to be in stock in shops where it costs a lot more, and I don’t really want to pay a lot more. On the other hand, 17th November means waiting another six weeks, and I don’t even know for sure it’ll […]

CULTURE · DA

FCK

2006/09/26 18:20

På vej hjem fra arbejde i dag stødte jeg ind i en flok småberusede FCK-fans – FCK skal spille mod Celtic i aften. Jeg var ved at støde ind i en af dem og sagde “undskyld” på dansk, men da jeg kom slæbende på bæreposer fra Asda, kunne han jo se, jeg boede her, så vi snakkede i fem minutter. Han var meget flink, også da jeg sagde, jeg ikke var fra København. 🙂

EN · GADGETS

Mobile phone

2006/09/24 22:23

I’ve been using pay-as-you-go from Tesco Mobile with an ancient Nokia phone for ages. However, I just realised that for the amount of money I spend every month topping up my mobile, I can move to a monthly payment plan with O2 and get a new Samsung D900 for free. So I just ordered that. Hopefully I won’t regret it…

DA · PHOTOGRAPHY

Bagsiden af en solsikke

2006/09/24 20:02

Going right to the source! Originally uploaded by sandysshots. Jeg anede ikke, man kunne få fat på solsikkefrøene fra bagsiden af blomsten, men den her fugl ser ud til at være klogere end mig! 😉

EN · FEATURED · PSYCHOLOGY

INTP

2006/09/23 11:47

I just took a Jung/Myers-Briggs test, and the result was INTP (or more precisely, slightly expressed introvert [11%], very expressed intuitive personality [88%], moderately expressed thinking personality [38%], slightly expressed perceiving personality [22%]). I’ve taken similar tests several times over the past decade or so, and the result has always been xNTx, but the first and last letter have varied (that is, I’ve also had ENTP, INTJ and possibly ENTJ), so it makes good sense that those two are only ‘slightly expressed’ here.

EN · POLITICS

Irish interpreters

2006/09/23 09:15

There’s an article in The Times this morning about the difficulties of finding Irish interpreters for the European Parliament. As it says in the article: Despite the Irish campaign for language recognition, there is not a single specialised conference-level interpreter’s course in the Republic. […] The problem is that, in most EU countries, most people speak their own language. Irish is one of the official languages of the Irish Republic but maybe only 1 or 2 per cent of the population truly speak it on an everyday […]

EN · POLITICS

No Access

2006/09/22 17:34

No Access Originally uploaded by viralbus. I tried The Squinty Bridge for the first time today. It’s really nice (except for the prohibited left turns that Phyllis mentioned on her blog, but as a non-driver, that doesn’t affect me), but I was really annoyed by the way access is denied to the south east of the bridge (see the photo on the right, and also this and this). Having lived in that area (the Festival Park) for three years, I do know that the owners regard that […]

ECONOMICS · EN · POLITICS

Political Compass

2006/09/22 15:14

I just found a site called the Political Compass, which lets you fill in a questionnaire and then places you on a grid with both a economically left/right axis and an authoritarian/libertarian (it’s an American website, so that would be socially liberal here) one. I got values of -3.38 for the former and -7.08 for the latter – in other words, a bit to the left, but strongly liberal.

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