November 2005
The Archives
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11.30.05Pictures of the four seasons in NorwayMore fun with my pictures from the year 2005. These pictures are a very good illustration of the four seasons here in Norway. The temperature vary from -20 to +30 degrees celcius. (And please note that -20 is the extreme low. Winter here in Oslo tend to vary between -5 and +5, still talking celcius). Summer should be from +15 to +25 C. ...and to make it easy for the people using an ancient system for measuring temperature: Extremes through the year: -4 to +86 F Normal winter: 23 to 41 F Normal summer: 59 ...
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11.30.05One year outside our windowFor the last year I have been taking a picture out of our living room window at random intervals. I have found a place in the window where the framing is almost identical for each picture. My plan is of course to edit this into a short video that will morph through the year. While working on it I made this index overview. Even that one looks quite nice. It starts with a picture taken in the beginning of January 2005 top left and ends up with a picture taken december 2005 down to the right. Update Here's the video: You find more information ...
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11.29.05Essential plugins for WPI have already told you how to set up a blog. I am using the fantastic tool called WordPress to publish this one. You can enhance WordPress by installing plugins. Huge amounts of trial and error is needed to find the best enhancements out there. Now it's time to share my experience and list the plugins I am running at the moment to power eirikso.com: Continue Reading...
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11.27.05Come on. Take it all. Do what you want!So, what's these two pictures? The one to the left is NRK's official service for Windows Media Center Online Spotlight. The one to the right is a very unofficial NRK media center plugin for Meedio. As mentioned in my post about Webshots and Flickr, one of the reasons why Flickr succeed is because they have a powerful open API. I have linked the acronym API to Wikipedia for the people that want to know more. The quick version: API is short for Application Programming Interface. It gives programmers a possibility to build new services on top of the service ...
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11.25.05Flickr and Webshots – A classic web2.0 caseAlexa is a web site that tracks traffic over time. The data from Alexa is collected from the people running the alexa toolbar in their browser, and in general that is enough to give a quite reliable picture of how a site is doing. You can also compare charts, and the chart that shows the traffic rank of the popular photo sharing site Webshots vs. the chart of the relatively new but much hyped and right now just as popular service called Flickr is a very interesting illustration. Webshots started as a general photo sharing site in 1999 and are celebrating their ...