Category: friends

15 minutes of fame!

Onsdag d. 29 oktober kl. 21.25 (det er i morgen) sender Magasinet Penge en udsendelse om en familie der har fået skiftet alle deres Windows computere ud med computere med Ubuntu.

Vi køber private computere for mere end tre milliarder kroner om året, og mange af de penge betaler vi faktisk for programmer. Men måske er der penge at spare ved i stedet at bruge gratis software.
Magasinet Penge tjekker, om de gratis glæder også giver glade brugere.
Vært: Dorte Fals

Efter 17 dage gøres status i programmet. Min medvirken har været begrænset til installation af maskinerne før programmet og lidt praktisk ude hos familie. Hvis jeg er med i nogle klip står jeg sikkert tavs i baggrunden sammen med Martin eller roder med nogle ledninger i det ene børneværelse.

Manden der taler vores sag er Morten Kjærsgaard fra OSL. Jeg var som sagt kun med til at bringe computerne ind i familiens hus, så jeg ved meget lidt om det endelige udfald, men glæder mig meget til at se programmet.

Jeg håber selvfølgelig også at denne tv eksponering vil give ekstra opmærksomhed til Ubuntu Live! nu på lørdag og Open Source bevægelsen i Danmark generelt.

Martin har skrevet lidt mere om detaljerne og vores bidrag her

Beer ticket (and more)

Inspirered by Peter Makholm‘s lightning talk on the Open Moko i will start with the ‘conclusion’ and work my way backwards.

I got the last beer ticket!

Fullrate (who happen to be my ISP) sponsored quite a few free beers at the Open Source Days 2008. However there was not enough for everyone and I happened to get the last ticket (after the two persons in front of me had declined it). The tickets were handed out after the keynote by Daniel Klein. (Does anyone know if the keynote or the slides are available on line somewhere?)

Before the keynote I spend most of Saturday either attending lightning talks or sitting at the Ubuntu booth. Work at the booth was quite relaxed. Mostly people just stopped by for some free CDs and to tell how happy they were with Ubuntu. There weren’t really any technical questions. If that can be taken as an expression that Ubuntu just works or if we were just lucky I don’t know. I will leave it up to you to draw conclusions.

Some people from The Software Exchange (a project under the Ministry of Science, technology and Innovation) had a very cosy and inviting booth sporting a roaring fireplace (on a LCD tv), a moose head (with the nickname Elge Sander), comfortable leather chairs and a portrait of the sabdfl him self. Really was a fun setup!




Janus has pictures from Thursday and Friday + Saturday.
Niels took more pictures that will hopefully come on line soon.

European Beer Festival

I attended the European Beer Festival yesterday and it was great!

I got through a lot of different beers, both from local micro breweries and larger international brands. There was a lot of good beer, but I must admit that I still prefer the blond wheat beers most of all.

The open source beer Free Beer was also present at the festival. I didn’t get to try it out, but I did manage to take this picture.

Yes, it’s blurry and out of focus, but that’s just to match my impression of last night…

20 minutter!

Jeg løb DHL stafetten tidligere i dag. Mit mål var at komme under 25 minutter på den 5 km lange rute og det må man sige lykkedes. Der gik 20 min fra jeg kiggede på uret da jeg løb ud af startområdet til jeg var tilbage og så uret i målområdet.

Der er endnu ikke kommet holdtider ud på hjemmesiden, men det kommer nok i løbet af fredagen her. Jeg løb på hold nr. 3850 om torsdagn for Egedal Gymnasium og HF (selvom der vist stadig står Stenløse).

… og nu skal jeg ellers i seng og hvile mine ben!

Need more Teletubbies!

Yesterday The Flaming Lips played at Tivoli.

Flaming Lips laser show

I saw them last year at the very wet 2007 Roskilde Festival. The smaller stage at Tivoli did set a limit to how many aliens, constructions workers and Teletubbies they were able to bring to the stage, but they did bring quite a show, both for the ears and eyes. Lots of balloons, confetti, lights and more!

After the concert we went for “just one beer” and that beer turned into another one and soon the sun was getting up and Saturday morning was here.

Sol, strand, grill og øl

Når vejret er så godt som det er i øjeblikket kan man godt glemme at vi lever i en verden med web 2.0 – så her er en video af nogle pølser pakket ind i bacon (de smagte godt efter en tur på grillen!)


og et link til nogle billeder fra en tur på Heidi’s Bierbar:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=46419&l=d6476&id=577846346

Hello planet Ubuntu

If I have set up everything right this should be my first post to the planet.

I got my Ubuntu membership yesterday from the EMEA membership board. Approval process went smooth (tip to other hopeful applicants – links to pictures seem to be a hit, especially if most of your other documentation is in a non-English language). A big thanks goes to Martin and Søren for supporting my membership.

After the irc approval was over and done with I went for a few beers with (among others) my good friend Søren – not really to celebrate, but just because it is the holidays and we have these days off.

I wish I could end this blog post with a promise of all the Ubuntu specific stuff I’m going to do over the next couple of days, but unfortunately I think my school work comes first right now – or at least that is what I tell myself.

L.O.C. i Tivoli

Før hvad der viste sig at blive en længere bytur, der kom omkring et utal af barer i det Københavnske natteliv, var jeg inde og se L.O.C. spille til fredags rock. Han havde godt fat i publikum og fik fyret masser af røg og lys af på scenen… Hvor jeg stod var det dog lidt svært at høre vokalen, hvilket jo mildest talt er surt når det nu er rap loc gør sig i. Men alt i alt en fin koncertoplevelse.