Last night at around 11pm I went to a dark place. Not the dark place in my mind, but the dark place where I took the Aurora photos a few years back. This was another space hunt. Not for Aurora this time, but for comet C/2007 N3 Lulin.The comet was just barely visible to the naked eye. I could see it a few times, but it was very very hard. When I looked at it through my binoculars it popped right out, so even if you can’t see it with your naked eye don’t let that discourage you from a similar excursion.My only failure on this excursion is that I don’t have a telescope… or a motorized and tracking tripod. The photos would have been […] Read more

If you’re using the browser Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) or an older one, you should have got the message at the top of the browser telling you you should upgrade. Why do I, and many other Norwegian companies, care about which browser you use? Shouldn’t it be up to every individual what they want to use? Lots of errors in IE6 The internet should be for everyone. I’m therefore hesitant about telling the users which browser or other applications they should use. IE6, on the other hand, is a bit special. It is used by less than 10% of the users on this website, but more than 15% of the users on other websites. Some websites have an even higher percentage.The problem with IE6 is […] Read more

New, Now and Back. Apparently I like to use those words a lot. This is a Word Cloud with the most frequently used words appearing in my blog, generated with big help from Wordle, an online word cloud generator. I think the result turned out quite artistic, even though there are no big buzz words in the resulting cloud.Tip of the hat to the Bad Astronomer for Wordle tip.

Some people have mentioned that I should write this story in my blog, which I’m now doing for the enjoyment of new readers.A few weeks ago I was doing my grocery shopping. As I was packing my goods in the bags I noticed a weird character walking around the outside of the counters. What caught my eye was his strange posture, and the fact that it looked like he was taking photos with his mobile phone of the people in line… with a mobile phone without a camera, mind you.I ignored him and walked back to my car and put the groceries in the trunk, and got ready to drive back home. When you pull out of the parking lot outside the store you have […] Read more