A Medium Geek... No More, No Less

Ever tried to browse on a phone with a touch screen and felt the urge to use a pencil sharpener on you finger to be able to click links? Or wanted to throw your phone out the window when you realized that you yet again managed to click the wrong link despite carefully aiming with that one nail that is a millimeter longer than the others? Opera has now introduced a feature called Opera
Fingertouch that will take all your frustrations away.

In short, it grows links that you tap close to if there are multiple links nearby. You can then easily tap the link you wanted to open. It also makes form controls bigger and easier to interact with. So to sum up more user friendly browsing on touch devices.

But I might be a little biased so see for yourself :). If you have an UIQ phone you will find a beta version available for download. For the ones without a UIQ device there is a YouTube video you can take a look at.

Being a hopeless Facebook addict practically living my life in my status messages, having a serious obsession about books, and being what feels like the only girl on earth that found Pride and Prejudice utterly boring this simply couldn't go unnoted. Found through Andedammen.

Pride and Prejudice as a Facebook news feed.

Finally a version that I almost got through without dying of boredom :)

It is that time of the year again. The time when the gym all of a sudden becomes crowded by people that honestly think that this year will be different. That they will magically change and stop being couch potatoes. It is that time when there are hordes of people walking at snail speed on the treadmill for hours on end not really doing anything but watching TV. The time when every exercise equipment is decorated with an out-of-shape person resting because they are too lazy or selfish to stand up between their reps and let others get on with their exercising.

So in an effort to avoid a massive crowd at the gym I am giving you one really good reason why YOU shouldn't start exercising this January.

Exercising is not environmentally friendly!

Here are few reasons why exercising is not good for the environment:

• You need to shower more often which in turn makes you use up more hot water, more shampoo etc.
• You need to wash your clothes more often which uses water, electricity, laundry detergents and wears them out quicker.
• You use up your shoes faster.
• You burn more calories and unless you are dieting that makes you eat more, hence more food production is needed and that pollutes.
• If you build muscles you start burning more hence more polluting food production is needed.
• If you use equipment at the gym like the treadmill you use polluting electricity.

So if you care about the environment the only sensible thing is just to stay on your couch... Sure your TV uses up some electricity too but maybe you could replace it with a book? Or just sit there and stare out into the air like you do at the gym anyway.

I think I will keep destroying the environment at the gym this year though it is tempting to use this excuse myself :) . Just please people don't rest on the exercise equipment and have a Happy New Year!

I watched this video before the election and found it a bit too silly. That was untill I saw interviews with people that were shaking, crying and thinking their country was going under after Obama won and realized that it wasn't as far off as I thought.

See the video

I started writing a reflected entry about the American election but the more I read, the angrier I got. So instead I wrote a short, not so reflected angry version of that entry.

Let me ask straight out? How can an civilized, well educated country have a presidental candidate pair that isn't ridiculed by people for being opposed to equal right for homosexuals? We look down on people that discriminate people based on their skin color or sex. Why don't more people point out that it is equally stupid and last century to discriminate people based on their sexual orientation?

How can rich people with all the privileges in the world think they have a right to tell other people whether abortion is right or wrong? A couple with estimated net worth of $100 million and an Alaskan govenor with estimated assets over 1 million dollar are too well off to be able to put themselves in the shoes of other less fortunate people and tell them they should have no problem with raising a baby.

Those are the same people that think it is absurd to have national health care to take care of these same people and these same babies. It is not them that are likely to be denied coverage by the profit hungry insurance companies. They are also the same people that are against giving people proper sex education because they think teaching sex abstinence is so much better... And why do we think people get pregnant and need abortion? Why is it not obvious that the best here is to educate people so that there are less abortions?

Oh and those people are probably thinking it is not smart to encourage too much thinking. Lets teach people about creationism and intelligent design to water out that science education that might get people to think and see that we are just two monkeys from the stone age. Or do they really believe that stuff... not sure what is more worrying?

I am happy to be born in a country and live in another where this kind of thinking is considered ignorant and stupid! Ahhh... it was good to blow off some steam. Now crossing my finger for the more civilized and human candiates :)

As most people might have noticed Iceland is frequently mentioned in the newspapers these days because of the financial collapse there. People are working hard to try to amend the situation but it will be a rough ride for sure.

One thing that didn't help the situation is that Gordon Brown the British Prime Minister used the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank and putting it up on the list together with Al-Qaeda and the famous axis of evil countries.

This was a blow for the little, peace loving nation far out in the Atlantic ocean that felt they were being unjustly accused. Iceland does not have an army and as far as I know, no Icelander has ever had a terrorist record. Iceland was even at the top of the Global Peace Index in 2008. Some people started a campain to clearly state that we are not terrorist. Particularly nice is a section on the page with postcards people have sent in. Take a look!

So, do you guys think that Osama will soon be calling and inviting me for a tea party? Do I look like a terrorist?

And here I was thinking the Finns were the most evil people on earth when it comes to letting you enjoy your precious hours of sleep.

That was until I came accross an article about "HappyWakeUp®" which is a mobile phone application that monitors your sleep cycles and rings the alarm when the user is naturally ready to wake up.

Pity I don't have a S60 phone any longer because I am dying to try this!

Haven't we all wished for a beauty queen that didn't just want world peace?

Well it looks like we just got one and it is just scary!

I can't blog about something postive two entries in a row so here it goes...

Someone posted a flier in the entrance of my building trying to rent out an apartment. There I was standing, thinking I was living in a modern country where men and women were considered equal...

Translation:
Perfect apartment for a couple:
For him: Parking space, place to store your bike, elevator, internet, cable TV, big storage space in basement and inbuilt kitchen appliances.
For her: A lot of closet space, heating in floor, big mirror in bathroom, sunny balcony with romantic evening sun, and space for 30 pairs of shoes in the hallway.
For both: Space for a 180-bed

Still seems some people think women only care about clothes, looking pretty, and relaxing while the guys do all the cool stuff. The only thing they might want to share is the bed of course...

Ok, the only positive thing was that the guys seems to be supposed to do the cooking... or is it implying he doesn't have to buy the kitchen appliances for the lady? Hrmrfrm...

I generally just criticize religion but today I want to actually commend the English church for apologizing to Charles Darwin.

I guess we all know that it sucks being wrong and that it is extremely difficult to admit that you were. Hence, the applauce.