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Eystein Mack Alnæs

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Entries from March 2007

The Z wants me

March 28th, 2007 No Comments

I’ve never seen a better workrelated reason to leave Norway. My dreamworkplace has a position up for grabs, but it ain’t gonna be for me. Instead of putting a list of crappy excuses, I’ll say that it’s to do with my current geographic location to these:

Now excuse me, but I have a portfolio to [...]

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One Joost beta invite

March 20th, 2007 7 Comments

Update: It’s to late now. The invites expired on 22. March. Hint: If you can’t wait it might be worth checking out tv-links and Peekvid
I’ve got one beta invite for Joost, the interactive TV thingy. So I’m gonna double copycat Eirikso – If you have a blog, post an article with a link [...]

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I won $950.000 in the lottery scam

March 20th, 2007 2 Comments

Someone in Spain thinks I’m an idiot.
Today I received my first you’ve-won-the-lottery junk mail that made it past my spam-filter and into my inbox. Electronically. I’ve gotten one in analog-mail once, but that’s another post.
There’s so many wrong things with this I feel obligated to share, just for giggles. Here’s a the email in full. [...]

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IE7 css filter hack

March 20th, 2007 No Comments

After much searching I found a css filter which targets IE7 only. I’m not going to enter the hack or not hack discussion, I’ll just say that sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. The old star-hack filter for IE6 is fixed in IE7, but the solution wasn’t to far away. There is now [...]

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Shuffle saviour?

March 19th, 2007 No Comments

One of my favorite blogs for everything Apple related came with a hint on saving a dead iPod Shuffle. Which suits me perfect, my 1-gen Shuffle has been lying in the drawer waiting for me to try all sorts of diagnostics for a few months now. It’s gone so far that recently I’ve been looking [...]

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