Skjeberg Kirke

Skjeberg Church was built around the year 1100 in Sarpsborg, Østfold county. It has a rectangular shape, is built of stone and has 360 seats. It was built in Romanesque style, but has a Gothic portal. This stone church has carved heads and runic inscriptions. The Romanesque baptismal font is among the finest in Norway, […]

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Sinners*…

(* correct me if I’m wrong but ‘Sinners’ is the proper Christian term for ‘Assholes’, right?) Yup, yet another posting about the electric car parking facilities at Nordby köpcenter. This time it’s about people who apparently can’t read Swedish. Either that, or they’re just plain selfish bastards! The dark car on the left clearly has

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Electric car parking at Nordby köpcenter, an update/rectification

A couple of months ago I was a bit negative about the dedicated parking spots for electric cars at Nordby köpcenter (a huge shopping center in Sweden, just across the border from Norway and very popular by Norwegians). Two things have changed since then (one perhaps related to the other): * Nordby is no longer parking

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on{x} by Microsoft. Works only on… Android!

Time for some Microsoft bashing… err… promoting! Yup, I don’t do that too often, for obvious reasons, in my opinion. There are plenty of apps out there which let Android users automate tasks, performing their pre-defined actions when specific conditions are met. Microsoft thinks it can do one better than that, though, and has plans

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Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – What did it cost?

It’s known under many names: Eurovision Song Contest, Concours Eurovision de la Chanson, Конкурс песни Евровидение, Песма Евровизије, Avroviziya Mahnı Müsabiqəsi, Eurovisiesongfestival, and probably 50 more… Let me tell you from the start: I am not in favor of it. In my opinion it’s a humongous waste of time and money. But how much…? That

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