I have arrived!

I have now arrived in Belgium, and I went to my host family yesterday. As for the photos I have made two more panoramas from pictures I took this summer:


Link, for non Explorer users ;)

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Testing

 
Okay, just testing this upload to blog thingy, this is a picture of the Epcot centre in Florida.

Leaving

Right now I'm sitting at Oslo airport. And there is one thing I don't get about airports. Just think about this: You've got a massive interntational connection point, probably costs mass af millions to build. And you still have forgot the electric outputs.. You have a ton of travelers, businessmen, backpackers etc. and you still haven't figured that some of them might need to charge their electical equipment. Of course this flight is not really a problem. I slept during the entire flight down here and my battery is still full so I won't run out of power any time soon, but on our way back from the states it was pretty annoying. We had to travel for more than 12 hours and stopping on several airports and you really had to go on a scavenger hunt every time you wanted to recharge. Now I'm at the far end of the airport sitting along with those self-service check-in machines, they need power so here they have set up some semi-temporary solution. They've even got internet connection, however it is probably a local thing and all the holes are used anyways, so I'm just tethering the 3G connection from my phone. It was actually pretty chill sitting here, pretty silent, not a lot of people and there is power :D Anyways as said I'm sitting on the airport, supposed to meat the AFS officials in 45 minutes. So this is it, in a few hours I'll be on my flight to Belgium. I think the worst part would be that I really don't understand the language. I've had french for four years now but when my exchange-brother talks to me on Facebook I haven't got a clue of what he's saying most of the time. But I guess as there seems like no one there speaks English I'll learn the language pretty fast. Right after I write this post I will start organizing a photo album for you which I'll post here mith geotags and on Facebook. For starters you can check out a so called photo synth I made to try out microsofts photosynth engine: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=43d925bb-3b56-4c24-a4d9-be09a395a632&m=false&i=0:1:1&c=0.0609458:-0.149253:0.00225889&z=526.850458890741&d=0.996247499162209:-2.45690684681027:-2.56889316267237&p=0:0
It's basically a panorama of a glacier I climbed this summer. If you want to know more about Photosynth you should check out this TED talk (Technology Education and Design, sounds pretty lame but it's awesome): http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html But I should get any time at all sorting photos I'll have to stop writing now, so bye for now :D

Finally got time

Good things always comes with pizza :D Even the waitng time for it can be used for something productive, like writing this post. I don't know if anyone really reads all this, if not I guess I should either A. Find more readers B. Change the subject or C. Stop talking to myself. So if you do read this, please comment. It's super easy, just press the # comments button below, no registartion needed. Anyways, my summer have been amazing (pictures will come shortly, maybe I'll have to make another pizza) but now I'm soon leaving for a whole year. Earlier I've always thought a year was swift and pretty eventless, but when you're going away for an entire year you really realise how much stuff you actually do/plan to do in a year. Not to speak of all the things you don't plan. And where are you going to put all your stuff, I didn't even know I had all these things. For example, where do you dispose of gunpowder? I certainly can't throw it in the trash, maybe I'll just torch it.. And all this candy I haven't got time to eat? Like the full, unopened box of after eights, which I didn't even knew I had :P

As I started this blog I figured I should upload some photos. So I checked out how you did that with blogger, and ended up with Picassa web albums. To manage those web albums I had to download Picassa. It might seem a bit clumsy from googles side, but I've got to tell you one thing: You don't know that you need a picture managing software until you've got one. Seriously, first of Picassa does all those small little changes to your images to make it look better in just a click of a button. If you're not happy you can always undo, which can be done at any time, or you can change the contrast, light, and other settings manually. You might think that that is why you've got Photoshop, but sometimes it is just so much easier to do some minor changes right there in the album. You also have some effects stuff which I have yet to try and text and other stuff is easy to add. But here is the most interesting part; Geotagging. As most of you might know I'm the proud owner of an iPhone, and as you also might know the iPhone has a built in GPS. Which most of you probably don't know is that whenever an iPhone takes a photo it stores the GPS coordinates together with the image. So when I imported them in Picassa I saw a tiny mark meaning they were geotagged. And by pressing the watch geotag button Google Earth opened and showed me my images based on geographical position :O So whenever I upload an album to Picassa web albums you will be able to see (in Google Earth or Google Maps) where the photos in the album is taken. Pretty neat huh ;) So I guess I should get my lazy ass working on creating an album to upload. But that will have to be after I clean out my room and pack for a year as an exchange student. I'm leaving in only two days :S Anyways, this blog has been a little dull up until now, and I'll try to think of some interesting stuff to write. If you've got any ideas plase comment ;) Well, you wont have to have an idea, just comment, always, now, for any reason, come on, stop reading, comment!

More to follow!

As I've been away from most forms of digital life for a week I haven't posted anything here yot. I'm now sitting on the bus towards Oslo and I just wanted to tell you that I will soon post something more here, probably images from my trip, and some stuff about goetagging and stuff I've wondered about/figured out during my vacation. So stay tuned, it wiil probably be sometime in the comming week ;)

Traveling

Today after a short night out in the Hammock I got up at 4 AM to start my journey. I've always considered 4 AM as late at night and not early in the morning, but here I am, riding on the train at 5:20 AM. What do you consider the change between late at night and early in the morning? For me it is usually somewhere around 5 AM.. I'm currently on the train going for Hamar, where I will swap trains and go to Oslo, moving further on to Gjerstad later. Where I'm going? Rover camp(a rover is basically an old scout). So right now I'm sitting here on the train, surrounded by sleeping people of all kinds. I seem to be the only person, exept from the conductor(I at least suppose, and hope, that he's awake) who is not far into dreamland by now. As I really haven't got anything better to do during my 8 hour trip I will probably be posting some images of my cabin. Maybe I'll even post my entire vacation album including a 360 degree panoroama from a glacier which I shot last week(I shot the picture not the glacier :P). Oh, and who turned the light off? Down here it actually gets dark during the night, not like back home where it's no problem going on a hike at 11:59 PM(I'll post images from that trip later :) ) Hmm, does anyone know how to put a smiley inside a pair of parenthesis, cause that looks really weird.. If this post seems weird, pardon me, I'm supposed to be sleeping :P

Welcome to The Peterverse

Hi everyone, sorry if the name is lame(no pun intended) but petersuniverse was already taken.. Anyways, welcome to my blog, might not be the richest in content at the moment as I just created it (unless Blogger adds random stuff to it :P). But I hope to content here, even though it is just one post, might cheer you up or something like that. SO far I have no idea of what to post here or how to do this, so you just be good and give me some constructive critisism and I'll just post a little bit of everything and gamble that at least a part of it will be interesting. Right now I'm sitting at my peacefull cabin in middle-Norway, more specifically on the kitchen table as it is one of the few places where I have telephone reception (and therefore also internet, as I tether the net from my iPhone). I guess I'll post a few pictures or something if I find a better network and some electricity. There are only 12-volt sun powered electricity here and a low-signal edge network so don't expect much :P But as my computer is draining my battery as a bottle without a bottom I'll have to end this post now. Reason is I haven't got any drivers for Windows 7 yet and the fans are runnig at full throtle all the time. Oh by the way, funny sidenote; 20 years ago the papers said that jeans was on there way out of fashion and that light cotton pants was the new shit. So in your face fashion writers ;) Anyways: FIRST!

Always wanted to do that some time :P

P.S: To all my geeky design friends, the sample layout from blogger is going away as fast as I have something better to exchange it with. So don't worry about that one ;)