Author name: Jarle Dahl Bergersen

Death penalty keeps killing inocent lifes in the US

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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 private fire investigators concluded in a report released Tuesday in Austin. […] The report examined prosecution arson testimony in the trials of two men: Ernest R. Willis, convicted of killing two women in a house fire in 1986 in Iraan, and Cameron T. Willingham, convicted of burning his home in […]

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Internet Explorer 6 and CSS frustrations

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Right now I am working on the “2006 edition” of tryggogsikker.no – a site that has been live since 2002 and has markup that should make my stomack turn – if I wasn’t so used to it by now. So now its all XHTML and CSS. And with that its all CSS-frustrations, especially with Internet Explorer. But Jensa knows how to cheer me up. Check out this gem (for however long it stays): http://connect.microsoft.com/Styles/GeneralStyles.css /* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */ * html .StupidIEMarginHack { margin-right: 1px; }

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Guantanamo : Using terror to fight terror

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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 screen accross 18 countries the day after (except the US). The film is about three english guys that were detained in Guantanamo charged with being terrorists. The movie details their meeting with the unlawful “prison” and the torture they were put through in the 2 years they were detained there.

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Google Analytics and why Google is giving away thousands of dollars

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Google has just launched its new service “Google Analytics”. Its an evolved version of the Urchin analytics system that you once had to pay up to $2500 a year to use. So why has Google bought a business just to turn its thousand dollars a year service into a free service? I think Google says it best themselves: Google Analytics Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You’ll be able to focus your marketing resources

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Search Engine video lectures

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Seems like interesting lectures. Search Engine Watch writes: Sergey Brin: The Video Lecture Google execs are all over the place talking all things Google these days. Several weeks ago Danny blogged about Professor Marti Hearst’s “awesome” UC Berkeley class featuring many presentations by some of the biggest names in the search biz including Battelle, Pedersen, Norvig, Dumais, Horowitz and MANY others. Even more exciting, all of the lectures are on the web and archived. This past week it was Sergey Brin’s turn to speak to SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology,

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New online blog reader from Google

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Google continues to crank out new services, and the last one to launch is Google reader I have been a happy user of Bloglines for a good while, and it was nice to discover that it was easy to export my Bloglines reading list to an OPML-file and import it into the Google Reader. Google has also made it easy both to import and export the reading list, so trying it out will be of no risk. Still not sure if I like Bloglines way of showing posts grouped by

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New Flash blog: Flashgamer

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Jensa of Flashmagazine fame has finally gone to the “bold” step of setting up his own blog: Flashgamer This is what Jensa has to say about his new blog: Flashgamer won’t be a blog about me, but rather about some of my hobbies. I’ll post cool Flash Games that I find, personal opinions and small reviews on various games I play and maybe some Flash code snippets / rants. We’ll see. If you are intersted in Flash and game making then you should really pay attention to Jensas Flashgamer blog!

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