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Saturday, July 25 2009

Foolish experimentation

Sometimes I've strange ideas; just for fun, to make some experimentation. The last one was to know if we really need warm water.

For washing up, it could be useful for greasy dishes. To wash the ground, I think it could be done without.
Most of the time, we are using hot water to wash our body. It seems to be the most common use. But do we really need it? I started two weeks ago to shut down the hot water tank to never try to do an attempt of using it. I succeed, but what about the conclusion?

  • About dishes.
    I don't always get real greasy dishes, but I have to admit that sometimes, it's harder to wash with cold water.
  • About shower.
    Theses days are pretty hot so it sometimes a comfort to have a fresh and cold shower, so it wasn't as hard as I expected. But sometimes your body is waiting for hot water, so it's hardest for the morale to force your body to undergo cold water.

I probably spared a lot of energy to warm the water up. But I used probably more water than usual because my body always need more time to adapt itself to the temperature. I guess, if I continue this experimentation, that perhaps it would become easier and easier.

Thank you for reading this foolish entry.

Wednesday, December 24 2008

Solstice

Joyeux solstice d'hiver à tous !

Friday, August 8 2008

Lucky moment

As a lot of websites have reported, 2008-08-08 08:08 seems to be a lucky moment to get married or more generally a lucky day. Hope it will be true for many people ;-)

Wednesday, August 6 2008

Britney Spears spelling

The data below shows some of the misspellings detected by our spelling correction system for the query [ britney spears ], and the count of how many different users spelled her name that way. Each of these variations was entered by at least two different unique users within a three month period, and was corrected to [ britney spears ] by our spelling correction system (data for the correctly spelled query is shown for comparison).

Here is the list. Almost 600 different queries just for Britney Spears. Impressive.

[ Through Official Google blog ]

Saturday, August 2 2008

Frustration

Unfortunately, nobody told me about this Norwegian particularity:

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;-)

[ Through xkcd.com ]

Friday, July 11 2008

Wait to buy

Today, on the way to work, before 8:00 in the morning, I saw a very long waiting queue. What was going on so early in the day, specially here, where the stores are opening at 10:00? The queue was in fact starting behind a phone store. I immediately thought about the new Iphone 3G, but I was surprised because I thought it was the same out-day as France for all countries in Europe, but no, France is an exception. The buzz is working again.

Iphone 3G in Norway

Thursday, May 22 2008

Freeze Oslo

That's it, I have assisted to my first freeze party today.
I knew theses type of events, because there are a lot of groups about this subject on internet. The aim isn't really complicated: just stop moving during five minutes to show how the world is running faster and faster. You could find a lot of examples videos everywhere, like this one, one of the most famous.

It's very surprising when you arrive in Oslo central Station and almost everyone isn't moving. Very funny and original to see; some guys tried to be creative with funny posture. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera this time :-( But memories are in my head.

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