This is a week that perfectly fits under "improved user expereience," aka "it's a feature, not a bug." I cannot go into details, but the short version is that the week was supposed to start with a server migration, and then go on from there. As it turned out, the week was the server migration, struggling to find time to get other things that needed to be done while assisting the people actually responsible for said migration in troubleshooting, etc. Filed under things that did not work - the m…
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Ahhh, my wallet, I miss it so.... Yes, the Scandinavian countries are high trust, but hanging around tourist areas like the funicular and the crowded old merchants district can result in enough distractions and people packed in that predatory types looking for out-of-towners have ample prey. The good news was that nothing important was in my wallet. Interestingly, it's one of the northernmost full cities, and has the northernmost university in Norway. A fair number of american students were…
Not much to say about this town. The main part of town is laid out in a square grid, with a fort midway along one side facing the water, and small beaches and boat docks along the same edge. There's a beautiful cathedral in town, and it's obviously a tourist spot - some nice little restaurants and shops and cafes that you'd find at any beach or resort town, but far fewer tacky ones due to the small size. You can get a pretty good tan even at the northern latitudes with all of…
Let's remember what happens when a german gets diversified into several pieces as he gets culturally enriched [https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-killed-with-sword-in-stuttgart/a-49839676]...…
Along with Kristiansand, Oslo's surrounding terrain is somewhat gentler than much of the rest of Norway. The country overall heavily shows the signs of being carved out by glaciers, but the extremes in sheer cliff walls, tall hills, and relatively little flatland hold less true here. It is indeed beautiful, in a stark way. And it does call to me. Don't bother with the town hall. You can hardly miss it if you're downtown because it's right on the waterfront, and is a Soviet-style hideous exampl…