Amsterdam!!

Okay, the small posts thing failed miserably.. It was definitely a good idea (I think) but I ran into some problems. First of Facebook was obviously not able to take the feed data from the blog feed and prefix a counter link from my server so that I could monitor the traffic to my posts. This of course rendering my short-post experiment pretty useless an there was no true way of monitoring the effect. Another problem was that Facebook didn't check my feed often enough leading to my posts being published there at about 6 PM instead of the scheduled 11 o'clock which would correspond better to classes back in Norway. But what in the end put the project on ice was simply my decision to split this blog in two. One technical blog and one more personal blog. Thing is that I wanted to write something here about my recent change to Windows 7 but I felt like I should wait until I'd set up the tech blog. Only problem is that I would want to program the entire blog system myself to ensure that I can control every aspect of it. Something which leads to me having to learn some more php(sorry to all of you who didn't get that statement :P) I've figured out though that I'll write something about it here after this post and I might post something about it on the other blog as soon as I've got that together.

So yesterday I went to Amsterdam with AFS! Getting up at 5 o'clock on a Saturday is never a favorite but we all have to make some sacrifices ;) So after a three hour train ride we finally arrived. Here is a picture taken as we waited outside the train station:

From Amsterdam

The first thing we did was to walk through the streets watching the coffee shops and tilted houses. Here are some photos from walking around town:

From Amsterdam

From Amsterdam

From Amsterdam

From Amsterdam

From Amsterdam

From Amsterdam

And also an extreme suspicious add:

From Amsterdam

Along with regular Amsterdam stuff like a Cannabis seeds store :P

From Amsterdam

Then we visited something which was apparently like a Monastery in the way that women lived there and prayed but it was a lot more liberal than a Monastery. I took some photos from there and created these two synths:

And we also visited the Red Light district but as we were not allowed to take pictures of the prostitutes it was kind of hard to take any photos at all. But I ended up with this one:

From Amsterdam

Not really a good photo but one step further into the Red Light district and you couldn't take pictures without a prostitute in it.. The store on the left hand side says "Cannabis College" by the way :P

After this we had a break were I watched a magic/comedy show by a Canadian street performer, even though his magic was kind of lame and I'd seen some of the tricks before I enjoyed the whole comedy thing even though from time to time it got a bit tedious.. After that we went to Madam Tusauds and looked at the freakishly realistic sculptures. I took some pictures which can be found in my Amsterdam album here:

But I'm going to bed now so I'll have to fill you in on the details some other time.