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september 2004 - Posts

• LARP = Live Action Role Playing

  LARP = Live Action Role Playing. And in Norwegian, it's commonly written as laiv. (Pronounced like live in "live concert".) My 2 current projects are "Pikeskolen" -> American girl's school, set in 1956 "Lights, Camera, Action" -> a LARP about making Read More posted 29-09-2004 09:27 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: LARP

• Weird comparisons

  Got this in the mail today... These maybe real or not, who cares, they are funny! 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking Read More posted 29-09-2004 09:22 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Misc

• Watching paint dry... Installing OS.

  There are few things as boring as wathching a Windows operating system be installed. OK, at least XP and 2003 server have some encouraging comments along the way, but it's still boring. And why am I watching this? I've started working with MS Virtual Read More posted 27-09-2004 03:40 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: Virtual Server 2005

• Uninstalling Sharepoint Portal Server and Windows Sharepoint Services

  Yesterday I found out that uninstalling SPS and WSS from the same machine is not quite as trivial as I had thought. I opened "Add/Remove programs", started uninstalling WSS, and that went well. Then I tried the same approach for SPS. No good. The Read More posted 21-09-2004 10:38 by kaisa | 1 Comments Filed Under: SharePoint

• Making reports without VS.NET

  Currently, I'm working on figuring out Microsoft Reporting Services. It looks powerfull, and I'm quite impressed with the reports that can be made through VS.NET. But our clients problably want to create their own ad-hoc reports, and I don't think they'll Read More posted 17-09-2004 08:59 by kaisa | 0 Comments Filed Under: SharePoint, Reporting Services

• International Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19th

  Found the link to the "International Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19th" today. http://www.thomasscott.net/yarr/index.html So this Sunday, you can talk like a pirate all day. Read More posted 17-09-2004 08:41 by kaisa | 1 Comments Filed Under: Misc

• 9 finger touch

  Sounds a bit like a guitar playing technique, I think. But this is what I've been doing today. Yesterday I got a cortisone injection in the left pinky finger, and today it hurts a bit to type. And being a Touch-typist, lacking the finger usually used Read More posted 16-09-2004 12:37 by kaisa | 1 Comments Filed Under: Misc