New website trouble

So I've been programming my new blog for a little while now but I've run into some trouble with javascript between Opera and other browsers.. If you want to you can check out what I've got so far, not a lot but at least it's something: Link!. Just to make a brief summary of what's been going on lately I've been to Paris for a weekend, then Bruges the next one and now I'm planning a week in Spain for easter(if anyone wants to join in on that one btw please tell me, still have some places left). Apart from that I have gotten a great idea for a game I've been fiddling with for quite a while now and if I can just find the time that might actually turn into a really cool project soon. I'll post something on that later when I've worked a bit on the idea! Apart from that I have found a great new way to get an incredibly small USB key something which I'll post on the new blog as soon as it's up running more stably.. Wow, now that it hit's me what I've actually done lately I guess I'll have to post something more here soon, so keep an eye out :P

New website up and running soon (hopefully)

Hi everyone! So I've been working on a new website which will replace this blog (sorry blogger), and it seems to be coming together now. The only thing which is left now is just to write some .php scripts to make the posting automatic and not manual like now. Just wanted to let you know. Oh, and btw, if you want to make some kind of icon/logo representing me (anything accepted) feel free to make one within the dimensions 256x128 and with a color palette based on light blue colors, kind of like the Fringe cut-scenes ;)

Waay to long time since I've posted!!

As you probably have noticed, assuming you live anywhere close to civilization, there have been both new years and Christmas since my last past. Which of course makes it a long time since I last posted anything but it also means that I should have a lot of things to write about. And guess if I do! Let's start with my recent (well, not so recent anymore) change of family. If you know about AFS you're probably thinking about why I changed families right about now. If not, I can enlighten you and tell you that we are technically supposed to stay in our family for the entire year. But as I said, I've changed. Some people just go together well and some people don't, those were apparently some of the few people I don't go along with to well. Plus they lived in the middle of nowhere. No offense to that, I love living a bit isolated once in a while but it just made all activities hard to join in on and that's something you definitely don't want when you're just staying somewhere for one year to discover and learn as much as possible. But I have to say that my new family is awesome! (again, no offense to the old one, they were really nice people. We just didn't get along) They are so much fun and full of life, plus I've got three younger siblings (those might get a bit too full of life sometimes :P Just kidding) I might post some pictures here of the family and the house in the future so look out for that ;) Anyways, Christmas passed along. Not really reminding me of Christmas considering a regular Christmas for me is 24 hours of darkness and normally at least some snow. Here we had neither and the only times I managed to gather some Christmas feeling was after everyone had went to bed and it was dark and cozy. In a kind of related thought I now have a spring/cold summer feeling as the grass is still green, the snow is long gone and the days are bright. But for Christmas I whipped up some good old Norwegian "risengrynsgrøt" which is a main course made from rice and milk and served with sugar, cinnamon and a bit of butter. It sounds like a desert or just like something completely weird but it's an awesome dish and especially for Christmas. It looks something like this:

Apart from some awesome presents like Norwegian brown cheese and homemade caramels the Christmas passed more or less without action (as Christmas is supposed to). But something else was new years! We were a couple of students who figured we should go to Bruxelles. As said as done, we went to Bruxelles at about 8 o'clock and stayed out for a good 12 hours and returned around 8. Even though the fireworks were disappointing we had an awesome night. That is of course with the exception of when I found an exchange student which I at first thought had gotten too much to drink. At first we just tried to get her to talk to us and stay awake but after it became evident that it was a lost cause to keep her conscious we got someone to call an ambulance. As we had moved her outside to give her some fresh air and she was only wearing minimal clothing I decided to give her my jacket as to keep her warm. After some painstakingly long minutes checking her vitals once in a while by holding a glass in front of her mouth and look for moisture the ambulance finally arrived. But as we boarded her into the ambulance someone managed to slip my jacket of her and away from us. And as they needed someone who knew her to come with her in the ambulance and I was the only person who matched that description I decided to stay with her and let it go. After all she was unconscious, had no money, no cell phone or even ID. In the ambulance she finally came to life, and she had regained more or less full control after only a couple of hours. But guess what I found when I got to the hospital, another exchange student! What are the odds of that, out of the five people in the emergency room there was two of them (not counting me). So after waiting for quite a while we went in to see the doctor after the tests were complete and it turns out that someone had slipped something in her drink. So lessen learned, don't let your glass out of sight, and if you do, better safe than sorry (a new glass is cheaper and a lot more convenient than being robbed and sent to the hospital). But all in all it was a fun night, and something I'll most likely never forget (that is if senile dementia doesn't get me). And it was my first ambulance ride! So after that we started school again, always fun to meet the people again but school is just as annoying as last year.. However it is only a few days to our school trip to Normandy and then London. Needless to say that is something I'm quite stoked for :D And tomorrow is our mid-stay camp down here in Belgium, another thing which is incredibly exiting! What is a bit less exiting is that I was stolen from, again.. After our AFS visit to a chocolate factory we went to bowling. So far so good, thing is that when I got back from bowling I noticed something. Almost all my different chocolates where gone! I still had my three kilos of the same chocolate but I missed my neat variety of different chocolate bars.. I have to say that this stealing thing is starting to get on my nerves, why can't people just accept that my stuff is my stuff and keep their hands to themselves?

For those of you who've known me for a while, I would guess I have at some point dragged you into a discussion about artificial languages (not to speak of artificial countries). And in that case I have probably mentioned both Esperanto and Lojban (or Sealand if we're still talking countries). I have for a long time been intrigued by those languages and possible usage, but also sadly their lack of speakers. I decided to do something about that and finally set out to learn Lojban, the Logical Language. And I have to say it is awesome! During my first few minutes of reading I was literally (and then I mean literally) laughing at how simple a language can really be and also at how incredible amounts of time I have used to learn foreign languages. Now after only a few hours in total reading time I can already say, write and understand simple sentences. So if you've got a few minutes to spare you should look up one (or both) of those articles: article on Lojban and article on languages meant to be used worldwide.