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Dagbladet.no skriver om meg
Death penalty keeps killing inocent lifes in the US
Guantanamo : Using terror to fight terror
The 'creator of blogs' lets out some steam
This years movie: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Hunter S. Thompson writes his last piece
Summer vacation
I will not be shut up
A McSpoof please
Protection against the press?

Dagbladet.no skriver om meg
Dagbladet.no har meg som toppsak for øyeblikket, men har linket feil. For å finne mer om min blogging om Bedriftsguiden.no og Nettkatalogen - se min norske blogg. In English: Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.no has published an article about lawsuit letters I... (0 comment(s))

Death penalty keeps killing inocent lifes in the US
Faulty Testimony Sent 2 to Death Row, Panel Finds - New York Times Faulty evidence masquerading as science sent two men to death row for arson in Texas and led to the execution of one of them, a panel of... (0 comment(s))

Guantanamo : Using terror to fight terror
Its about time to post a little again. If you live in the UK you should make sure to catch the screening of "The Road to Guantanamo", airing on Channel 4 on the 9th of march and on the cinema... (0 comment(s))

The 'creator of blogs' lets out some steam
Probably not the right thing to do, but I just can't help myself. I think this says a lot about why so many people end up arguing and having problems with Dave Winer: Scripting News: 2/27/2005 A little story. I... (3 comment(s))

This years movie: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Just absolutely, positively, definitely have to see ">The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy The movie is scheduled for release late April in the US. [Via Pers Blog]... (0 comment(s))

Hunter S. Thompson writes his last piece
Inventing Shotgun golf was the last project of brilliant Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Sunday night he used a gun to end his own life. Doc Searls writes: It may take awhile for the distractions to evaporate, and for the... (4 comment(s))

Summer vacation
The summer is upon us. Here in Norway we have had weather you would expect in march/april. But thats all good, because my vacation has been spent fixing up my house. The low activity on this blog is expected to... (2 comment(s))

I will not be shut up
It seems like telling the truth and speaking your mind will get you in trouble wherever you are. At the very least it will get you some interesting e-mails threatening you with lawyers. That was exactly what happened again, today.... (3 comment(s))

A McSpoof please
As if it wasn't obvious what would happen, McDonalds launced their own "Design-your-own-banner" campaign. The results can be viewed on top here. (Curtesy of AdRants) and on MonkeySpan which has lots of links to creative McDonald's spoofs. I bet... (0 comment(s))

Protection against the press?
As many of you might have noticed: The right of free speech and a free media is what I consider fundamentals in an open and free society. And while I think we, the public, should have the right to know... (3 comment(s))

Into Macromedia?
Or into something else? If you haven't seen Macromedia's excellent INTO - What are you into?, then you really should take some minutes to check it out. It features many interesting stories of peoples use of the internet and... (0 comment(s))

Nikken replies?
I am not sure if this reply was supposed to be an official reply from Nikken. But I thought it was so funny I should share it with you all. Its a comment to my first entry about the whole... (8 comment(s))

Nikken Update
The Nikken story continues, in this episode the threats are narrowed down to a couple of comments, and additional threats are generously distributed to the Nikken distributors. (4 comment(s))

Nikken bullies
Nikken is threatening me with their lawyers, obviously claming copyright to any mention of their company and trying to get me to remove a short posting on my norwegian blog. (21 comment(s))

PABAAH!
Please tell me that this is just a joke: PABAAH!. PABAAH stands for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood". From what I have seen (Daily Show) and read (on the PABAAH site). I think the whole movement should be called "Supporting... (18 comment(s))

Sorry for the lack of updates
Its been over a month since my last update of the blog. Not too uncommon for blogs I guess, but its strange to be on the "outside" of all the fun stuff I see going on with Flash. Oh yeah,... (1 comment(s))

Copyright - what right?
This slashdot posting was really interesting. its brief look at the history of copyright, and the misuse of it. Slashdot: Copyright The scary stuff for me, living outside the US, is how the process of weakening the established fair use... (0 comment(s))

Daily show: Interesting interview with Lewis Lapham
Jon Steward and the Daily Show makes what I think is the most interesting political satire around. Usually scratching the surface of reality. In this interview Jon Steward and Lewis Lapham, editor in chief of Harper's Magazine discuss what is... (2 comment(s))

So much for free speech in the US II
I can't help but wonder what goes on in the heads of the airlines staff throwing off people because of buttons. No matter the text on it. John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wearing "Suspected Terrorist Shouldn't... (16 comment(s))

Bush, not so believable after all?
In the news today: Most Americans don't trust Bush on Iraq The poll by the University of Maryland found that 52 per cent of respondents said they believed President George W Bush and his aides were "stretching the truth, but... (8 comment(s))

Gregory Palast: The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney
Have you heard about Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman? According to those quoted on National Public Radio, McKinney "a loose cannon" (media expert) who "the people of Atlanta are embarrassed and disgusted" (politician) by, and she is also "loony" and... (11 comment(s))

Denial and deception
Denial and Deception is an editorial / op-ed in the New York Times. written by Paul Krugman. Quote:Politics is full of ironies. On the White House Web site, George W. Bush's speech from Oct. 7, 2002 in which he made... (4 comment(s))

Google AdSense makes sense
Googles new advertisment service Google AdSense was launched this week, and I have had the chance to test it for a couple of days, and I must say I am very impressed.... (4 comment(s))

MT killed my post
MT just killed an entry I had been working on for 30 minutes. Will try to re-write. And at the same time see if Opera is as forgetful as Internet Explorer. [Update] Yes, it seems like Opera is the better... (3 comment(s))

US Troops shooting Iraqi civilans as payback for 9/11
This is sick. But with the way the whole war has been marketed by the US government I guess we should expect things like this: Mirror.co.uk - US TROOPS ADMIT SHOOTING IRAQI CIVILIANS "There's a picture of the World Trade... (16 comment(s))

Online file-trading saves the day for the record companies
According to a new report most record company executives probably would rather have not been published, the download of music files online is actually benefiting the record companies, rather than being damaging to them and their sales. Stereophile Magazine :... (1 comment(s))

Politicians on drugs?
Its tempting to think the policy of the State of Kansas was dreamed up on a high on illigit drugs. Todd Dominey writes about the new policy of Drug Tax Stamps in his blog What do I know.... (0 comment(s))

TV Turnoff week 2003
Its soon here, the TV Turnoff Week 2003. Between 21st and 27th of April Adbusters wants us to turn off the TV and do other better things. For the campaign the Adbusters movement want to buy commercials on MTV.... (2 comment(s))

Iraq body count
“We don’t do body counts” General Tommy Franks, US Central Command Norwegian newspapers report that 750 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in the battle for Najaf so far. There are no official numbers for how many civilians have been killed.... (35 comment(s))

Welcome..
As an off-topic poster John ;) JD on MX: Breaking news sources... (2 comment(s))

Double standard: War prisoners
This is typical of the american government's hypocrisy: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld told CBS that if they are indeed coalition soldiers, "those pictures are a violation of the Geneva Convention." Arab TV Shows Captured American Troops (washingtonpost.com) But,... (14 comment(s))

Todays quote
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a... (1 comment(s))

Beastie Boys: In a world gone mad
BeastieBoys.com is supporting the anti-war movement by changing their web site to let everyone know what they think about the war. "We felt it was important to comment on where the US appears to be heading now. A war in... (2 comment(s))

FOR AMERICA
By Jackson Browne From his album "Lives in the Balance", 1986 As if I really didn't understand That I was just another part of their plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the... (1 comment(s))

Iraq: US dirty tricks
Interesting story in the Guardian today: Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members I wonder when this story will be picked up... (3 comment(s))

Reading: Emergent Democracy
Doc Searls isn't blogging much today, but he did say that Emergent Democracy is required reading, and I have to agree with him. Its about society, democracy, weblogs and other interesting topics. Well worth using some 10's of minutes to... (0 comment(s))

NPBot - Nameprotect lying about respecting the robots.txt file
From what I have read about Nameprotect and their web-bots, I shouldn't have been surprised that they are lying when they claim to respect robots.txt: [...]Practices the following best practices to ensure non-invasive crawling: Honoring robots.txt files - to exclude... (7 comment(s))

So this is how Fox presents "news"?
Interesting transcript of a Bill O'Reilly Fox moment: GLICK: On September 14, do you want to know what I'm doing? O'REILLY: Shut up! Shut up! GLICK: Oh, please don't tell me to shut up. O'REILLY: As respect -- as respect... (5 comment(s))

NameProtect - NPBot
[Update: More information about NPBot and Nameprotect] Found a link to this cute little bot in my referer log: NameProtect Inc :: NPBot Notification Interesting to see someone so openly telling people they are looking for "intellectual property violations". I... (9 comment(s))

Web blackout on the 15th of february
Aral (Onrelease) is working hard to gather people to protest against the war, the 15th of february will be the day for global protest. Both locally and on the web. If you want to voice your opinion against the war,... (1 comment(s))

Just a reminder not to believe everything you see or hear
I've been slow to pick up on this one, but it remind me of the lesson learned through my own life, that you shouldn't just trust what you see or hear, no matter the source.... (0 comment(s))

A year of blogging
Its interesting to note that it has almost been a year of blogging, and that my blog has gone through some changes over the last year. It started out as my personal arena to just rant about everything and nothing... (1 comment(s))

Flash or politics?
Some Macromedian bloggers has raised the issue of "Flash blogs" spamming with political content. JD started it (as far as I can tell) with his post about "Spamming aggregators". To you John, I'd like to say: Sorry if you don't... (9 comment(s))

Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse
Just thought I would take the time to refresh everyone on the reoccurring story of the fight against terrorism taking human rights hostage. Anti-Terror Campaign Cloaking Human Rights Abuse (Human Rights Watch Press release, January 16, 2002) "Terrorists believe that... (3 comment(s))

A new kind of democracy?!
I watched an interesting TV-program today, about the Participative Budget in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Its a project that has been going on since 1989 in Brazil, and has shown such promise that the Brazilian labor party is saying they will... (3 comment(s))

Down with the flue
Sorry for the lack up updates. A bad flue has taken down my "main system", I will hopefully be back on my feet soon.... (2 comment(s))

Words from the source: RFC
Thought I would start collecting original descriptions to how words/terms started out. The first is RFC, by Vint Cerf. Vint Cerf on the origin of RFCs Steve Crocker wrote RFC #1 - he knew that we needed to document our... (0 comment(s))

A rant about linking back
Just thought I would take a minute or two to address the curtesy of link backs. Most of the time I refer to what other people have written or found, and I try my very best to link back to... (4 comment(s))

Some interesting statistics
Since I just got the statistics for search on weblog.bergersen.net, I thought I would share the numbers with you all. Its interesting reading. Using Atomz Search, the top phrases searched were: 1. - "fireworks mx" 2. - "fireworks mx crack"... (2 comment(s))

Happy birthday to me?
28th of may was/is (depending on where on the globe you are when I am posting this) my birthday. I have turned 29 for the third time. (Ok, so I am 32 ;-) I hope you don't take offence, but... (1 comment(s))

Ultimate form of flattery?
This is cool, Chris MacGregor took the CSS style from this site and tweaked it to use on his own Flazoom.com - The Cooler: New Skin on Flazoom.com Admitedly the skin on this site is based on a default Moveable... (2 comment(s))

Cracks?
I think I can understand John's frustrations with being overwhelmed with people searching for MX cracks. Just mentioning his crusade has gotten me a lot of visitors.. Here is the statistics for the last week for searches from Google.com: 1.... (2 comment(s))

Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick
Software piracy by one of the biggest members of the BSA, that would be unthinkable, wouldn't it? Not according to Newsforge and their discovery of a Microsoft owned company that stole another companys code. NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record... (0 comment(s))

JD on Cracks
John has been taking the time to flaunt the people arriving at JD on MX through searches for cracks. I can't help but think he is trying to attract even more attention to his weblog for those kind of searches... (0 comment(s))

Battle Beyond the Banner
ABCNEWS.com writes about Online Ads Become Active and Intrusive. They have all failed, banner ads, skyscrapers, pop-up ads, etc. We all ignore them, and almost nobody click on them anymore. Click through rates used to be at 5-6% in the... (0 comment(s))

Netron RIP
My last employer Netron is filing for bankruptcy, its really sad to see a company with creativity, spirit and courage to go their own way going down the drain. For Netron it was the total silence in the market after... (0 comment(s))

Dave Winer Redux on Open Source
DaveNet : How to be a revolution Today Dave digged into his vaste archives and went back 4 years, to when the Mozilla/Netscape Open Source project was launched, and a lot of words for and against Open Source was flying... (0 comment(s))

Follow up: Why RTFM Won't Work: Documentation As Narrative
John picked up on my note, and took the time to return with his thoughs about documentation (On Documentation). It is interesting to read the views of someone coming from the tech support part of a software house such as... (0 comment(s))

Why RTFM Won't Work: Documentation As Narrative
Russ Lipton writes about documentation. I must say I share many of the same thoughs about the lack of documentation for a lot of products/technologies. (Hey John, are you reading this?). I haven't really gone deep into Radio, but what... (0 comment(s))

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, revisited
Marc Rotenberg revisits Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451 is not simply about book burning. This is a world where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and... (4 comment(s))

Death Does Not Justify Death
Well written by Hanan Cohen about the situation in Israel and the west bank: INFO.ORG.IL - Death does not justif Death... (0 comment(s))

Going after spam
BBC writes about Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco that is going after one of the big spam companies. The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo, is one of the first outfits in the United... (0 comment(s))

More fun internet access
This is probably the least cool way to access the internet I have come across so far. Sitting in LAX on the way to the airplane (going to be interesting to see how tight the security check is here, its... (0 comment(s))

3 days without e-mail
I feel out of touch, out of ... well.. the basics in life. Have been without internet and e-mail access for some days now, funny how "easy" it was to connect in San Francisco compared to Irvine, Los Angeles. I... (0 comment(s))

Camera trouble and the magic camera
My camera is acting up. I first thought it was a spot on the lense, but I am starting to belive it is something else, maybe a grain inside the lense. The strange thing is that it only shows... (2 comment(s))

Nice day in SF
Its been a really nice day here in San Francisco. Got up around 8.30, and took my time. After that I did a walk-about and just ended up at the Yerba Buena gardens, a really nice place in SF.... (0 comment(s))

Arrived in San Francisco
Ok, I am here : North America > United States > California > Localities > S > San Francisco Damn it was hard to get out of SFO Airport. I don't think they want you to leave from there, and... (0 comment(s))

On the way
On the way to SF (0 comment(s))

San Francisco here I come.. :-)
damdidam, traveling again (0 comment(s))

Record companies above the law?
Record companies breaking the law to upheld their copyright. (0 comment(s))

deja vu?
going in circles? (0 comment(s))

To be global or to be spammed?
Should we block asian isps, because of all the spam originating from there? (0 comment(s))

Remember my gallery
keeping you reminded about my website (0 comment(s))

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gallery.bergersen.net - my collection of digital photos taken all over the world
webdevindex.org - my database of web development tools and services
jarle på norsk - my norwegian weblog.
jarle.bergersen.net - my info, cv etc.
terje blog - my brothers weblog
speakerboxx - my step daughter Camilles blog

Anders Jacobsen - Fellow norwegian blogging in English from France. Anders blogs about "Noteworthy URLs, science, software, news, life, the universe, everything"
Doc Searls - one of the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto. He is frequently blogging live from interesting technology events, and is a very good writer
The EGR weblog - Chris Locke is another of the authors behind Cluetrain, and also the author of Gonzo Marketing. This guy has a lot on his mind, and not afraid to share it
rc6.org - The weblog of Remco Brink, dutch linux and open source enthousiast. Frequently updated with interesting news
Virtuelvis - fellow norwegian blogger Arve Bersvendsens blogs in english about web and technology. Well worth a visit