The reason why this place has been really quiet lately (and I haven’t found a VPS yet), is that I’ve been quite busy moving to, meeting relatives and interviewing for jobs in the US.
Luckily, the largest uncertainty is no longer an issue. Come May, I will be joining Yahoo! Music‘s team of great engineers!
In the future I promise not to blog about such stuff here, but if you are interested in what our lives are like in the US you might want to check out our new blog at living-in-the.us.
We’re currently in the middle of moving to the USA. As a result, I’ve had to wave good bye to my fiber-enabled home.
I’ve unplugged my Ubuntu server, am changing web hosts and therefore expect this blog, and the recently re-launched billy-corgan.com (should now redirect here), to experience some downtime during the upcoming weeks.
So much for live blogging. Didn’t really happen as my laptop’s battery was flat even before the conference day started, there were only a few power outlets in the auditoriums — and even if there had been more outlets, I don’t know whether I would have prioritized blogging during such great presentations.
In any way, now I’m back home with a pregnant girlfriend, and a dog to walk 
Then I’ll need some sleep. So the “live” blogging about the conference day will have to wait ’til the weekend. It was a very good conference, though…
Nowadays I seldom complain to web site owners about browser (or rather, standards) compability issues, mainly because the standard answer seemed to be “Sorry, but we can’t support ever browser out there.”.
So when I contacted SOS Barnebyer about a web form that had no submit button when viewed in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 a couple of days, I didn’t really expect an answer.
However, after a single working day, I received my answer:
Thank you for contacting us. The error has now been fixed.
No, thank you
Last friday, my girlfriend and I flew to Oslo to meet with my friend (coming from Bergen) and watch The Smashing Pumpkins live at Oslo Spektrum. It had been 8 years since the last time Smashing Pumpkins visited Norway and we saw them live…
Video clips: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Behold! The Nightmare, Tonight, Tonight, Tarantula © Me.
The show started at approx. 20:00 and lasted until 23-something. I didn’t end up backstage this time — wouldn’t have had much interesting to say, compared to girls who love every rock star 
, and due to the length of the concert I was honestly ready to sit down somewhere — but it was great nonetheless.
Just take a look at the setlist (I don’t recall the order, and am sure I’ve forgotten a few songs)!
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Some (poor-quality) video clips from Ash’s great concert at Folken in Stavanger, Norway this Friday (Nov. 16 2007):
You Can’t Have It All (4.23 MB)
Clones (6.46 MB)
Angel Interceptor (7.75 MB)
Burn Baby Burn (2.87 MB)
All vids are MP4 files (renamed to .3gp) in 352×288 format, taken using my Samsung E-720 phone.
I wonder if the real prize of Zend Developer Zone’s “Contest for Busy Programmers (Win a Free Book!)“-contest is better Google search engine ranking for the site itself — due to an increased number of incoming links from (hopefully?) lots of bloggers…
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