The Norwegian Constitution Day is the National Day of Norway and is an official national holiday each year. Among Norwegians, the day is referred to simply as syttende mai (meaning May Seventeenth), Nasjonaldagen (The National Day) or Grunnlovsdagen (The Constitution Day). -Wikipedia
In Seattle there will be a celebration in Ballard. The 17th May Celebration in [...]

Oslo Opera House #1, originally uploaded by RennyBA.

You can read more about Norway’s new Opera House on Renny Bakke Amundsen’s blog.

VMWare acquired Thinstall not too long ago and has a new beta available today.  The beta is named Thinstall Project North Star and add two new features:

Application Link: allows administrators to dynamically link Thinstall packages to one another, making it possible to create separate packages for interdependent components (such as Java or .NET) and use [...]

Seattle @ night, originally uploaded by Kevin Severud.
The weekend is here so time for some more night photography. Still learning to use my new Canon 450D XSi and learning the ins-n-outs of long exposure DSLR photography. Now, where to?

Sunflower

Originally uploaded by palestrina55

I wonder if there’s someplace in Seattle I might plant some sunflower seeds….

Postgirobygget is a Norwegian rock band from Trondheim.

Saturday was kayaking day in Suisun City followed by lunch at La Cabaña De Suisun Restaurant.
 Here’s the 1.1 miles of paddling we did:
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The Gateway One appears to be a formidable competitor for the Apple iMac.

 
The entire front area of the computer is a speaker, the keyboard and seamless mouse are both wireless, it comes with a remote control for Windows Media Center and makes it easy to upgrade components such as storage and memory.
 
If only Gateway new how to [...]

Dr. Sameer Verma teaches, educates, and uses open source products at San Francisco State University.  He also maintains a drupal-powered website named Open Source @ SFSU.  At the September Campus Computing Coordinating Council (CCCC) meeting he presented the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).  Everyone got to touch and use an OLPC.  Here are the slides [...]

Yet again the software that runs this blog, WordPress, has been updated and yet again it just works.  Thank you to the entire WordPress team and community for making this a preeminent PHP/MySQL open source product.  As one who likes being a tech and figuring out problems I almost find myself complaining that ”it’s just too easy to [...]