My girlfriend got herself a nice, little, pink iPod Mini today. It was smaller than I thought! Ah, to bad I have to wait until tomorrow before I can try this little fellow since the battery is flat.

Else I would give an extra rose (since we are in this good pink mood) to Miguel de Icaza and point you to a few good articles he has published on his homepage with some good stuff on Mono:
- MonoDevelop: Software Building Architecture
- Plugins in Mono
- Second Mono Summit Notes

Most of the day I've been playng more with Glade and Monodevelop and a tutorial from the Mono Handbook called "Glade# for Rapid Development: Simple Web Browser". Here I release some modified sourcecode from this tutorial which resulted in a very simple web browser using the WebControl in the Gecko# library with some simple navigation options.

The sourcecode contains solution and project files for Monodevelop.

MyBrowser 0.1 (binary)
MyBrowser 0.1 (source)

Kristoffer got me a ticket to the "DVD & Hjemmekino" exhibition at Oslo Plaza today. We did see a few great, new products. Hi-Fi Klubben showed the very latest CLASSE-products available on the market. They also had a dedicated room to the new WRC4 where we played on a 60" LCD screen to about NOK 200.000,-. Sony showed us the most geniuos television set I've seen so far. Never seen such a crystal clear image. Another company named LINN which I've never heard about before seemed to have a DVD-Player to about NOK 80.000,-. Wondering what functions that player had... Maybe it also did your housekeeping?

Went home to my parents later on to get a weekend off and get some rest. Anette and I took a look at a nice potensial place, Kanalgalleriet, where we maybe would hold the wedding next year. If was a very nice place and we liked it alot so maybe we end up with our wedding here...

Finally got the time tonight to check out Glade Interface Designer and walked through a tutorial from the Mono Handbook on Glade# with Mono, and have to say that this is a rapid application development environment. But Glade strongly need an undo function! I don't have words on how irritating it is when you downsize your vertical or horizontal layout boxes and loose the widgets within.

Went to the cinema and saw Wimbledon with my girlfriend today. A funny movie some great visual effects in the most intense part of the tennis matches, which it was a lot of in this movie. I also bougth a new Maya book: Maya 6 - The Complete Reference. That should keep me enough reading this weekend.

Earlier today I came over a few gotchas on MySQL at this page: http://vulcanus.its.tudelft.nl/~acm/got/antimysql.php. Some good things to know about if you are working alot with this database engine.

Hey! It's my sisters birthday today. Congratulations Hilde! :)

I tried out two new tools today: Conglomerate - an XML editor for DocBook documents - and Ayam - a 3D modelling environment for the RenderMan interface. Conglomerate seems quite nice, tried it out on some old DocBook documents from my final project at school. Conglomerate was originally started by another Norwegian, Hans Petter Jansson and taken over by Dave Malcolm in 2002 and he's still the lead developer of the project. I liked this application very much and saw that the Conglomerate crew needed help to close bugs and fixes so I went to their IRC channel and met Dave, checked out the Conglomerate code and will try to hack on it the next weeks. Sverre: I think I have to lend your book pretty soon ;).

Finally I cut my hair today...it had grown to far now (at least my girlfriend thought). ;)

I checked out the Norwegian guide on Linux, LinuxGuiden, today to find out a charset problem in XChat with norwegian characters and it turned out that LinuxGuiden have revised totally into a Wikipedia like guide on Linux for Norwegians. Very nice!

I've added three people to my "Blogs of interest" today. First off is Miguel de Icaza which was the driving force behind the creation of the Gnome free software desktop, and co-founded the open source company Ximian, bought last August by Novell. In July 2001, he helped start another ambitious project, Mono: a free implementation for GNU/Linux of Microsoft's .Net framework. Second I added Nat Friedman, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Product Development at Ximian, now the veep of Novell's Linux Technologies Group. Third I added one of the greatest Linux graphic artists Jakub Steiner.

I've put back the link to my homepage on the webtraffic statistic service RE_INVIGORATE. A nice, free service which produces nice diagrams with trendgraphs and everything. It also includes referer links to your site so you can check out where visitors come from. There is also a few experimental open source projects related to this monitoring system mainly developed by the same guys, but I haven't tried those.

I've also uploaded a thumbnail with link to my wallpaper from yesterday in the Ubuntu Artwork section in Ubuntu Wiki. Hope I get some feedback if someone liked it.

This weekend I installed Ubuntu Linux on my Shuttle XPC SB65G2 which serves as a multimedia box thanks to the PVR application Freevo. Ubuntu Linux is based on Debian and ships with the very latest desktop applications with Gnome 2.8 as the base desktop manager. Ubuntu is an ancient African word for "humanity for others".

In the Ubuntu Artwork section of the Ubuntu Wiki I saw the slogan "back to the nature" and I suddenly though of an image I took last summer in Bayern, Germany. After gone photoshopping for a few hours, placing some exotic animals and created a warm sunset I ended up with this wallpaper.

Back to the nature (1600x1200)
Back to the nature (1024x768)

Time to update my homepage a bit and at the same time decided to keep my homepage a bit more up to date with content. The idea is that my homepage should serve notes of more or less valuable information.

I've tried out a few nice templates today from Pivot Styles. The theme I chose is named Mojito and designed by Kevin Wetzels.

Finally we have released the new website for the biggest IP-telephony company in Norway; Telio. This is what I've been doing the last couple of months. Telio is groving fast at the moment and this new portal solution is one step future. Telio now turned from grey to blue, nice with some colors :)

The design is done by the norwegian design company Fasett.