Monday, April 23, 2007
Friday, December 15, 2006
Merry Christmas everyone!
From Linnea, Emil Rannveig and myself, a safe and joyous Christmas to you all. Don't overdo it during the New Year either!Sunday, October 01, 2006
This is it folks! Last entry before the crossing. Hectic is the word, but it all seems to be coming together. The bags are almost packed, tickets confirmed, visas approved, teddy bear laundered and parents in a state of hopeful dread. It's going to be fine. Just say that again with me. Fine.
Linnea offers Emil some tips on how to drive parents insane
See you on the other side!
Try todays podcast entry... should give you some idea on how we are going to be coping for the next 72 hours
Monday, September 25, 2006
We have pictures, people!
See the all new online photo galleries. Hopefully, something that we will be updating a little more often now that publishing has become relatively painless.
Contact details for us in OZ
Emil Oscar gets christened...Granny is very proud.
Cheeez! Alright already, I'll put up the details here!
Cheeez! Alright already, I'll put up the details here!
- 17 Hillcrest Rd Austinmer 2515
- (02) 4267 4979
Douglas & Joan Riddell
Friday, September 22, 2006
Happy OneWebDay!
Be afraid. I know I am...
Click on todays podcast for a sample of what we were listening to at the dawn of the net
What the crap is OneWebDay I hear you ask? Ok you're not asking, but I'll tell you anyway. The idea is that on 22 September every year web users around the world tell how the web changed the world and or their life and to celebrate this annoyingly indespensible network.
For my part, here's a random list of things that it changed for me.
1. I was on it early, back in 1995 not too long after it started to really take off. I was using Netscape version 1 back then with a high powered 7.5kpp modem... oh, heady times. Just being able to get connected was so fraught (remember Trumpet Winsock, or Shiva?) that it was an end in itself. It meant I became a defacto "internet expert" at my place of work. This was equivalent to being deemed a "space technolgy" expert if one had seen Star Wars more than once. Still, it did alter my career trajectory...
"The Internet is the CB radio of the '90's.' It's going to be dead in less than five years. There's no question about it."
Robert Berthiaume, president of film-processor vendor (and now, hilariously, out of existence) Camelot Graphics
2. Email. Remember when Email meant (for Australians at least) quality white goods from Westinghouse? How did we keep in touch before it? Goofing off and talking, that's right. Now we do it at our desks as well. It was great fun while it lasted! We used to actually subscribe to have mail sent to us! Now we'd give anything to stop it from coming in.
3. Banking and bill paying. Two steps forward, one step back. Being able to do anything short of having cash appear from the floppy disk slot at any hour of the day or night. It made life suddenly easier, saved the banks and companies a fortune processing and we were all happy campers. Until of course they decided that they wanted us to pay them for the privelige of saving them on admin costs. Bastards.
4. News. I first came to Norway for Christmas in 1990. The first Gulf War was still on the horizon, CNN was still a struggling news channel and the only source of English language news I could get was from UK newspapers, normally a day or two out of date or from the American Armed Forces Radio. The shortwave radio I had was never quite up to the job of picking up Radio Australia on a regular basis, but I could get by with BBC World Service. Now look at it! I could just as easily be sitting in Nuetral Bay as Tønsberg to stay just as up to date as anyone else. Still feels very, very strange to be able to do that.
5. Television. A more recent development is TV on demand. It 'aint exactly legal yet, but I have seen the future, brothers and sisters! I noticed this a while ago when I realised how infrequently we were watching regular cable TV (and that used to be the ants pants). Hard to go back to programming of other people when we are used to saying "How about a couple of episodes of House tonight?" Praise be and pass the bittorrent client!
Click on todays podcast for a sample of what we were listening to at the dawn of the netFor my part, here's a random list of things that it changed for me.
1. I was on it early, back in 1995 not too long after it started to really take off. I was using Netscape version 1 back then with a high powered 7.5kpp modem... oh, heady times. Just being able to get connected was so fraught (remember Trumpet Winsock, or Shiva?) that it was an end in itself. It meant I became a defacto "internet expert" at my place of work. This was equivalent to being deemed a "space technolgy" expert if one had seen Star Wars more than once. Still, it did alter my career trajectory...
"The Internet is the CB radio of the '90's.' It's going to be dead in less than five years. There's no question about it."
Robert Berthiaume, president of film-processor vendor (and now, hilariously, out of existence) Camelot Graphics
2. Email. Remember when Email meant (for Australians at least) quality white goods from Westinghouse? How did we keep in touch before it? Goofing off and talking, that's right. Now we do it at our desks as well. It was great fun while it lasted! We used to actually subscribe to have mail sent to us! Now we'd give anything to stop it from coming in.
3. Banking and bill paying. Two steps forward, one step back. Being able to do anything short of having cash appear from the floppy disk slot at any hour of the day or night. It made life suddenly easier, saved the banks and companies a fortune processing and we were all happy campers. Until of course they decided that they wanted us to pay them for the privelige of saving them on admin costs. Bastards.
4. News. I first came to Norway for Christmas in 1990. The first Gulf War was still on the horizon, CNN was still a struggling news channel and the only source of English language news I could get was from UK newspapers, normally a day or two out of date or from the American Armed Forces Radio. The shortwave radio I had was never quite up to the job of picking up Radio Australia on a regular basis, but I could get by with BBC World Service. Now look at it! I could just as easily be sitting in Nuetral Bay as Tønsberg to stay just as up to date as anyone else. Still feels very, very strange to be able to do that.
5. Television. A more recent development is TV on demand. It 'aint exactly legal yet, but I have seen the future, brothers and sisters! I noticed this a while ago when I realised how infrequently we were watching regular cable TV (and that used to be the ants pants). Hard to go back to programming of other people when we are used to saying "How about a couple of episodes of House tonight?" Praise be and pass the bittorrent client!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Podcast? Whatsa dat..?
The last of summer fades into the west
Itsa sound-a and a music-a doofus! Click on the shiny new podcasting fandangle to your right and hear all about the coming trip to the bronzed shores of Oz.
In other news, Emil Oscar is officially christened and is safe from Satans clutches for a few more years. The gathering back at our place was great. Which is just as well considering the amount of work and nervous tension that went into getting it up off the ground. I'll have some pics in a day or two.
By the way, if anyone has tips on travelling with a two year old and a four month old on a very, very long plane journey, we would love to hear from you soon. I've considered using something that would render the imbiber unconscious for the duration, but Rannveig refuses to let me take it and leave her stuck with the work. You ask for just one little thing... ;)
Itsa sound-a and a music-a doofus! Click on the shiny new podcasting fandangle to your right and hear all about the coming trip to the bronzed shores of Oz.
In other news, Emil Oscar is officially christened and is safe from Satans clutches for a few more years. The gathering back at our place was great. Which is just as well considering the amount of work and nervous tension that went into getting it up off the ground. I'll have some pics in a day or two.
By the way, if anyone has tips on travelling with a two year old and a four month old on a very, very long plane journey, we would love to hear from you soon. I've considered using something that would render the imbiber unconscious for the duration, but Rannveig refuses to let me take it and leave her stuck with the work. You ask for just one little thing... ;)
Saturday, September 09, 2006
We are coming soon...
Linnea is not even slightly jealous...
Yes, on a big silver bird, Rannveig, Linnea, Emil, Aslaug and I are on our way to Austinmer for the month of October. This is of course in order to see the rest of you lovely folk too!
I'll have some concrete details for you all in the next day or two, but we are going straight from the airport to Austinmer, so no panic about picking us up or putting up with us. As we will be based in Gods own district, visitors will be welcomed!
Yes, on a big silver bird, Rannveig, Linnea, Emil, Aslaug and I are on our way to Austinmer for the month of October. This is of course in order to see the rest of you lovely folk too!
I'll have some concrete details for you all in the next day or two, but we are going straight from the airport to Austinmer, so no panic about picking us up or putting up with us. As we will be based in Gods own district, visitors will be welcomed!
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