Dinner for One, also known as The 90th Birthday, Der 90. Geburtstag, Grevinnen og hovmesteren and more is a Christmans/New Year tradition in several countries in Norhtern Europe.

It’s an old black and white comedy sketch which you just have to watch!

Watch Dinner for One on YouTube

In the computer world you put software into the hardware.

In the real world you put hardware into the software.

A message from Chris Mills, Opera:

Hi there,

We are filing a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft, to try to force them to support web standards properly, and to decouple Internet Explorer from Windows. We think these actions are essential for the evolution of web standards and the open web, which Microsoft is hindering due to it’s dominant market share controlling consumer choice in web browsers and trying to force web developers to adopt proprietary technologies and techniques (ie hacks, and things like
Silverlight.) For more information, check out:

1. Håkon Wium Lie’s open letter to the web community at http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/msft/
2. Opera’s press release on the subject at http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/13/

We are doing this because we care about web standards and the open web, not because we are seeking any kind of monetary (or other) gain from the hopefully positive outcome.

Obviously decoupling IE from Windows might sound a bit strange - what would you do then, even if you did want to download another browser?
We are not asking for IE to be taken off Windows, rather we are requesting that users be given more of a choice in some way, or for other browsers to at least be acknowledged. The European Commission itself says that anything more than 40% market share begins to become illegally anti-competitive. Surely this rule applies here.

If you agree with us in this, then show your support by:

1. Blogging about it
2. Forwarding this to others in your network/company/group of friends 3. Getting your company to issue a press release about this in support, if appropriate

Thanks for listening.

Chris Mills
Developer Relationship Manager
Opera Software ASA

Facebook users attacked Beacon as a flagrant violation of privacy. The tool enables Facebook to track its users’ purchases and actions at dozens of Web sites and then broadcast the data on the pages of their listed friends within its social network.

“We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook’s blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.”

Read it all: Facebook sorry over Web tracker

Let’s be friends and I’ll give you a bear hug!

Take a Norwegian world leading successfull tele-com company, then put the Swedish top management team (in Sweden, only, thank God) to make a music video.
I still don’t know what to think… but it’s quite funny

Telenors Swedish managemt team on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r46st5IpSkI