24 C below

Its getting cold..

Norwegian politcal polls 1992-2008

Both the labour party (Ap) and the conservative party (H) have lost popularity from 1992 to 2008, while the Progress Party (FrP) have strongly increased its popularity.

Marketshare Wndows vs Mac vs Linux

Interesting to note that Window's marketshare is still enormous, but Mac is catching up. Linux is very small, but is probably much stronger on server.




Data from Net Applications 2008.06.10

Rails vs Django

This is a nice and balanced comparison between Django and Rails.

It seems fair, and they come to the conclusion that both frameworks have their own strengths.

One minor thing i wonder about is why they make a big point of Rails not having an built in admin interface. It is very simple to add something like Streamlined.

Back again!

Finally back after a long period of not getting access to my own blog :)

Live On $12,000 Per Year?

link

I would guess that one would have to use a currency rate of 10 nok / USD (the official rate is about 6.20 nok / USD) for this to be possible in Norway.

IQ and socioeconomic situation

I found this image on Digg. It seems cynical, but maybe it has some empirical relevance?

Microcredit and other pawn shops

Interesting stuff:
http://www.mises.org/story/2375

Poor fat Americans

- Many Americans are fat because they are poor. I think the blog linked below have a point.

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/80/americans-arent-fat-because-they-lack-willpower-theyre-fat-because-theyre-broke

The man who invented the 20th century

Nicola Tesla has not gotten the recognition he deserves. But information about his important contributions is available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Next was the future

The Next computer was way ahead of its time.

The presentation from Steve Jobs (from 1991?) shows some stuff that arrived much later on other platforms. Some of the stuff you can not do on windows even now. I recently learned that Doom and Quake was developed on a Next station ( http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday.html ).

Christmas at the office

Pros and cons of working at x-mas:

+
No incomming phones
Can play loud music
Actually getting things done

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At the office..