Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Slideshare a new useful tool - Slideshare kjekt verktøy



No laptop? Heavy laptop? Think that cd's and other sticks sucks? Sildeshare is the solution! 30 MB free uplod for ppt and pdf-files. Have a look! My latest presentation in norwegian

PÅ NORSK

Jobbet litt med powerpoint presentasjoner i det siste. Siden jeg ikke er tøff nok til å ha meg egen bærbar laptop på jobb så er Sildeshare et godt alternativ. Minnepinner og cd'er er for pyser! (mener iallefall jeg) Fant et ypperlig web-hotell/nettsamfunn for mine poerpoint-presentasjoner.

Hvorfor ikke dele?.. og finne ut hvordan andre synliggjør viktige poeng? Sjekk opp mitt siste bidrag som jeg skal bruke på folkevalgtopplæring på fredag direkte fra Slideshare. Du trenger ikke å være bruker, laste opp intil 30 MB pr presentasjon og sette begrensninger hvis du vil ha private presentasjoner liggende. Smart hva?

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Ripping cd's for your cellarphone?



Tucows is allways the right place to start! E. g. as Finding programs for transforming files into mp3 format. And the free downloaded Audiograbber is probably the easiest way for transforming heawy cd-files to small mp3-files.

Why not ripp from Windows MediaPlayer? It's easy yeah! But still on the free version, you've got a song sized 20 MB! With Mp3 format you've got a normal song on 1,5 MB. You can realy send 6-7 songs on Yahoo mail (max 10 MB-limit pr mail).. and you can even afford to storage som tunes on your cellar-phone.

Bluetooth programs, makes it easy obtaining direct contact with laptops. Nokia has made a nice program who allso works for PC users. Your fantasy is the only limit.

På norsk:
Skal du rippe hele cd samlinga di og ha den på PC, Laptop, mobil, eller mp3-spilleren din? Så er svaret å kompriomere til mp3-format. Data-nerdene velger Tucows når de skal finne løsninger! Greit nok å rippe cd'en direkte fra Windows Media-Player og ha disse liggende som store filer wmpcd-format, hvis du har flere Gigabytes ledig? (en normal rockelåt på 3 min tilsvarer ca 20MB). Men straks du skal begynne å bruke filene litt mer intelligent, slik som å flytte via Bluetooth fra pc/laptop til mobil, sende via mail eller å ha liggende på gamle mp3-spillere, så må du ned i mp3 format der en sang kan lagres med 1,5MB. Audiograbber er det beste alternativet for deg som vil ha et mer intelligent forhold til cd samlingen din. Lastes her. Din side data har også vurdert Audiograbber. Audiograbber er også et bra alternativ for studio-musikeren som skal rippe rett fra mikrofon!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Mr Grimsby attending a cultureshock in Cleethorpes


Mr Grimsby in Cleethorpes
Originally uploaded by atgrims
Blogged from my flickr page.
If you follow the tread by clicking on the photo. You will see the comments by my dear flickr friend mr Buckeye. It was indeed a great shock too see that no one went bear chested on the beach of Cleethorpes. We had traveled half the way down UK in Norwegian manners before we noticed all the laugh an looks wasn't the matter that we had the searing weal on the wrong side!
Meeting Brits in Spain and Crete there is no differences! So Nordics make a notice next time! It was Great fun for us!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thank you all in Grimsby and Cleethorpes

My oldest brother Kjell is soon celebrating his 50 years birthday! In the occasion we'd invited him on a Grimsby-trip attending Grimsby - Maccelsfield home at Blundell Park. The Grimsby-Vikings had a pleasant stay in Grimsby and Cleethorpes! Despite the 1-1 draw we had a lot of possibilities and Maccelsfield, must say to have used all the luck for this season?

And what a pleasant meeting with all the Grimsby fans! On Blundell Park, In press box, at the footballpub and in the streets of Grimsby and Cleethorpes. Read more in the Grimsby Telegraph, Norwegian fan-page, and the match? In norwegian and English. My picasa album from Grimsby

It was Great fun!
Atle Grimsby, Utsira, Norway

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Why bother reading this blogg?


RSS-feeders will read this new blog note as fast as I post it. For you: Hello I'm back! Others are probably lost forever... Sorry! Summer holly day, Facebook.com and AirSet is to blame! We want to live fast with auto replies bee amused by quiz and see what you're friends are doing. true blogging is probably dead?

For you who is still present.. a summer picture from Lista Lighthouse. My twin brother Geir and Erik the 'Sirabu' doing the Beatles walk.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

AirSet - sorting out several lifes at once!

WOW what a useful tool from AirSet. Forget Outlook or Google-calendar. I was looking for a program who made a to-way communication between the latter calendars. My Co-workers are joyful Outlook-slaves. But no one has so far made it as a sheared calendar for all co-workers (Thanks). I've found AirSet and I can't see why any team, organization, school-class can organize their members without this free program!

NORSK:
Nyttig gratis programvare fra AirSet. Skal du dele livet med andre og trenger en måte å organisere alle dine liv på? AirSet er løsningen. Enklere og morsommere kan det ikke gjøres. Noen problemer gjenstår ennå å prøves, med norsk tekst (æ,ø,å i Outlook-menyen) for å kunne overføre tekst fra en gammel Google/Outlook-calender) slik at all tekst kommer med og ikke bare 'busy'.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Kick som asses - on my blogg!!!

Gammel helt på Dagbladet.no i morgen. På linje med Andy Warhol så er/var kanskje Malcolm Maclaren vår tids største kulturøkologer og de som oppdaget vår tid sin hype.

Nr 1 hype på internett nå er facebook.com (jepp eg o), går på bekostning av bloggaktiviteten worldwide. McLaren mener at det er vi som ennå holder ut med bloggen som virkelig kan klare å 'kick some asses' i dag!

Eneste asses som som jeg har dissa på denne bloggen e: Bill Gates og ein 'dårlig' sauebonde i Bjarkøy, så langt! Men hvem vet?

Friday, May 04, 2007

Kråkeflokk tok 12 lam!!! - Killing Crow's

Fra kråkearkivet

Sist uke har det vært store oppslag fra Bjarkøy i Troms med fete typer om Killer-Crow's!, Angrep i flokk! osv. Blant annet i NRK, Nationen, Vesterålen mv. Saken er trolig mer nyansert enn at det er kråkene som angriper i flokk og dreper lammet. Jeg deler bondens syn om at selv villsau krever godt tilsyn i lemminga. Har selv opplevd at sauehold med dårlig tilsyn som har mistet tildels store lam og at kadavrene/lam som ikke kan reise seg, er blitt hakket i hjel av kråker. Endog lam og andre sauer kan stå å slikke i seg saltet fra den døde kroppen. Det er en kjennsgjerning at det finnes gode og dårlige sauemødre ute i det ganske land. Avlsarbeidet til bonden er å luke ut dårlig mødre og dyrke den genetiske nøkkelen som gir gode og oppofrende mødre. Kråka jobber bare bak i kulissene med å rydde opp i sølet, hvis bonden selv ikke er tilstede og graver ned kadaveret. Kråka har ikke nebb og klør til å bite hull i skinnet. Så kråka blir nødt til å gå inn via øyne og endetarm. Thats life.

Ett kjent forhold som ikke er kommet fram i debatten er løshunder og turgåere som stresser sauer i lemminga. Påstanden om at ravn og kråke som jakter i flokk er i allefall tatt helt ut av natta! Kråkene blir temmelig hysteriske dersom det kommer en ravn forbi! (erkefiender) Litt mer nyansert i NRK.

Bildet/Picture: Kråker som rydder opp et lammekadaver på Utsira. Common sight in less attended sheep-holds. Hooded Crow cleaning up in the farmers mess!

In English:
In Bjarkøy in Troms it's claimed that a flock of Hooded Crows (and Raven!!!) has killed 12 newborn sheep lambs. All WebPages are in Norwegian. There is no evidence, but its claimed that some Crows trick the adult sheep away and the others kill the lamb. I think that it's the farmer who does not attend the seeps in the critical lambing time. The poor Hooded Crow is only working backstage cleaning up in the mess. A known factor in similar cases, such as stress from loose dogs is not mentioned in this case.

Siste i saken/Latest issue:
  • Oslo-pressen med Dagbladet har fattet interesse for lammedrapene

Friday, April 27, 2007

My demon

Got this one from Jorunn. She became a Tiger and I... a more Nordic cat.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Utsira banned Yellow-browed Warbler controlled at Faeroe Islands


Interesting control of ringed bird at Utsira Birdstation. The rare Siberian vagrant was ringed at Utsira in Norway on the 5'th Oct - 06 and controlled 7 days later at Sunnari on Suduroy (south island) on Faeroe Islands on the 12'th Oct-06.
Detailed data on the bird on Stavanger Museum ring AN7680.: Click on snapshot text photo

Taigasångare - Yellow-browed from Suduroy on Faeroe Island with ring on the 7'th of Oct. 2006. Photo by Flickr friend laser-tomas

A paper by Steve Williams on the Yellow-browed Warbler in North West (2005) in Birding North West points out two other records of controlled Yellow-browed Warblers in Europe.

1. The known control from Hedemark in Norway to Fair Isle, Shetland on the 26th September 1990 (2004, Pennington & All, Birds of Shetland) The bird was trapped at Busta, Fair Isle and had been ringed five days earlier in Hedemark. This remains the only foreign-ringed Yellow-Browed Warbler controlled in Britain.

2. and another ringed at Portland on 21st October 1988 was re-trapped on Guernsey the very next day.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Kayak season started

Nice paddling among Kittiwakes and Fulmars on Utsira again! Fresh breeze made some waves outside Beiningen (a small island outside South harbor). Enough to make it fun paddling. After one hour its cold sitting barefooted in the kayak.

Small picture is from Tuevågen in South harbor.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Utsiras nett-tjenester på Norgesglasset på NRK P1

Hvorfor satse på nett i Norges minste kommune? Miljø- og plansjef blir intervjuet på Norgesglasset i NRK P1. Sendes i dag kl 1300. Følg med.....
Innslaget gikk etter kl 14.00 Gikk du glipp av Norgesglasset finner du innslaget her.

English: Interviewed on National Radio Brodcast. Why small municipals needs to do well on the web? Hear me on the Radio

Monday, April 09, 2007

Ingemar Nyström - Great Crow Artist

This is a draft of a great picture of eight becoming seven Hooded Crows on the ice! Read the fascinating story about the picture in Ingemar's blog.

He's also got a nice web shop where you can by copies or originals. Ingemar is the true master of Crow birds.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Influx of Crows in childbooks

Writers of children books has understood it! Crow is an exiting bird and there are a lot of possibilities in personal characters in the Crow. A Swedish paper shows that 15 new children books are involving crows and only 2 or 3 books involves Sparrow or Ducks.
Fabel Jacob is a character from the Utsira crow project. The third book was published on 7'th March on the day of Crows. Keep on writing about the most interesting bird!
Norwegian

Kråkeinvasjon i Svenske barnebøker!

Sjekk opp denne spennende artikkelen fra Angelica Risberg i Svenska Dagbladet i dag. Et boksøk gav 15 treff på kråke kontra to - tre treff for Gråspurv eller Stokkand (and). Det Svenske barnebokmarkedet invaderes av nye kråkebøker! Barnebokforfatterene ser ut til å ha forstått hvor spennende fugl vår intelligente kråke er! ... og hvilket vell av muligheter i personlighetsregisteret som finnes å spinne på for de som vil fordype seg i en kråke kontra en spurv!
Utsira er også nevnt i form av Grete Randsborg Jenseg som nylig (november 2006) er lansert på det svenske markedet. Mye av inspirasjonen hennes er hentet fra kråkeprosjektet på Utsira. Tredje boken om Fabel Jakob ble lansert på selve kråkedagen i år!

Stå på Grete og dere andre kråkebok-forfattere!

Monday, March 19, 2007

Carl von Linnè - 300 years - an other hero online

The image “http://www.linnaeus.nu/Bilder/Linne/linne1.GIF” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.An other great and older hero is soon celebrating 300 years. Carl August von Linnè is also online. The real grand man of taxa. The Scandinavian scientist most known as a botanist but also a number one in Nordic butterflies and moths. Every times I see a Twinflower Linnea borealis my thoughts goes to Carl August. His Lapland studies and his Norwegian disciples gave us a father person and the founder of Norwegian botanical heritage. Thus also worth wile a Norwegian celebration.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Charles Darwin online

Far behind Charles Darwin in field-book writing? At least in interestingness!
I've produced regular field-books since 1977. Then as a twelve years old kid. My 30-35 field books scanned would had counted 9000 pages (4500 pages in 2 sides scan) . My golden Utsira Birding Years 1992-2007 would had involved 1600 scanned pages in my digital library!

Photos: Scanned field book from 7. may 2004 Bee-eater and Nightingale and 1'st September 1979 with my first Red-throated Pipit.

Also produced field notes on plant-analysis on trips in Southern Norway and a field-notebook on moths/butterflies. There are not so many words in Darwin's pages as mine fieldbooks ;-) . E. g. Galapagos - field notes. But WOW, how interesting it is reeding Darwin's fieldnotes 125 years after his death.

Thanks for the interesting Darwin links in Norwegian Birdlife.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Added Snap today


Easier for you to find out whats behind the links. Snap tool tells you at once whats in the linked page. Get it here. Not so difficult in blogger. Go in to template and add the in the html immediately before 'left-arrow slash and head'. Snap is allso a fast search engine for pictures and webpages. You don't have to open all pages to find out what's you're looking for.

Not so easy to install in my Norwegian Opera blog. Any hint?

Snap links: my Picasa web my Utsira inhabitants web some of my feathers and a good feathers page.


And at last a great flashback tip GUIdebook from Eirik. Thanks for shearing! Remember my first work station a MS OS/2.30.1 shared with co worker in Utsira Municipal in 1992, my first DIR-trips in DOS, my fist SOSI formatted map at TDH in Bø in 1987 and so on (SOSI hasn't changed a lot since? compared with other stuff).

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

7'th March is the Crow Day - Kråkedag (in norw.)


Went out shooting a picture of me and some Hooded Crow. Just to remind us about the Crow's Day today! The Crows at Utsira are very special and intelligent. Naturally I'd to share my 'matpakke' with the Hooded today. Read more in my Flickr page.

The Crow has got a vital place in the Norwegian Folklore and old Weather-sign. Thus they are mystic, intelligent and always present. The old painters used the Crow as a sign of death. E.g as the Norwegian painter Th. Kittelsen Pesta motive.

An Utsira Crow who was partial melangistic and named 'white-wing' has become a main character in a Children Book 'Fabel Jakob' by Grete Randsborg Jenseg. The third book in the Fabel Jakob story is published today on the Crows Day! Fabel Jakob, havet og den lille melketanna

You can order the norwegian book here: Cappelen


Next Crow Day to watch out is the Crow's great 'Tingdag'. When the Crows are told to have their big meting, often in a huge tree. 12'th of March is St. Gregors Messe . On the 'primstav' an old calendar, there is a sign of a Dove. But in Norway this is misunderstood as a Crow! Thus there is a lot of signs and marks related on this day too.

Good luck with your publishing event today Grete.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Detailed old map from the Utsira farm Hovland 1871


This hand drawn map was made in 1871 by Philipe A. Hilmers. The map is very esthetic and see how detailed it is compared with an ortophoto from 2004. Working with maps and planning it's inspiring to find some of these maps in the archive.

Inspired by Strangemaps

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Utsira is the Blocker King


Latest issue of the Swedich Rare Bird Magazine 'Road Runner' for Club 300 has listed up blockers between Sweden, Denemark, Norway and Finland. The Nordic Blockerlist is an interesting paper!

The paper however do'nt summarise the blockers between the contries. But pictures tells more than words? Seven of Seventeen blocker-photos were from Utsira.
Among these are: Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Brown Shrike, Masked Shrike, Sibirian Rubythroat, Pechora Pipit and my picture of the Thick-billed Warbler.

Say no more....

In my Norwegian Blog

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Ru natur

Ru Natur på Utsira is my new Opera blogg in Norwegian. Added in Link  

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Opera a lot more than a web-reader


Snapshot of my opera-page in Opera-view. Opera involves more than just a web-reader it's a whole community. With own blogs, photo pages and so on. Download opera
I'm impressed but can't cut the wire to Mozilla Firefox yet.
Like and Dislikes:

It's fast and yesterdays pages are fast up and down in one click. Magic stick arranges all passwords. You get a free blog, free photopage, and a link out to other opera members. (moust people nowdays has a Blogger, Flicker, and/or a Google account - Operea can be all in one) , and it's a Norwegian product!

Cant' open my Google calendar and not so helpful in general in Google-society, such as picasa pictures direct to this Blogger blog. In Plone (my web-publisher) opera does not show my kupu-editor or the FCK editor in the older 2.1 plone version. But still it's very interesting. And probably first choice if I had a laptop?

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Your own calendar? Lage egen kalender i Flickr?


My creation
Originally uploaded by atgrims.
Make your own calendar? Easy for us Flickr members!

New slides show in my links. More fun for Flickrs here



Lage egen kalender? Enkelt for Flickr medlemer.

Blogge slides show er enkelt her på fd's Flickr toys:
Nytt slide-show lagt ut på blogg

Friday, January 12, 2007

Kvit-vingen på Svensk

Kvit-vingen var på Utsira høsten 2002 til våren 2003. Sist sett 16. januar 2003. En annen 'hvitvinge' med mindre hvitt på vingen gjestet Utsira ved en senere anledning.

Barnebokforfatter Grete Randsborg Jenseg var innom min kråkeside på kommuneportalen. Kvitvingen ble en av figurene i hennes bok Fabel Jakob (kvitvingen er fortelleren i denne boka) og senere oppfølgeren Fabel Jacob ... og den hersens kjærligheten. Grete er svært allsidig tekstforfatter og er muligens mest kjent fra Barne-tv med bla Lilly's Butikk. Nå er hennes to Fabel Jakob bøker ute på det Svenske markedet.

Ved overgang til Plone ble mye av kråkearkivet borte. Har oppdatert mye av materialet i form av pdf-filer. Kråke arkivet er lagt til og flere kråkenyheter vil i framtiden oppdateres her. Har også funnet fram kråke-rappen fra Utsira CD'n Rekved til Eddie Andresen/Allan Vigre.


Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Nyeste Grimsby fan!


Det er av sine egne man skal ha det! Det var Chelsea og Liverpool som hadde sin storhetstid når jeg gav litt av mitt hjerte til Ipswich. Grimsby Town er naboklubb, gamlehjem for gamle Ipswich-stjerner og fødestue for nye Ipswich talenter.

Broderen er nyeste Norske Grimsby-fan medlem nr 29. Velkommen etter i fan-klubben kjære broder!

Bildet er hentet fra Hytta på Homme hvor det ennå utkjempes harde fotballkamper mot brødre og søskenbarn. Geotaggen viser Kvinesdal selv om foto er plassert et godt stykke fra kommunegrensa!

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Plone 3,0 in March 2007!

Plone 3,0 looks promising indeed!

We'll (Utsira Municipal portals) wait for the versioning tool So why bother uppdate too 2,5?

Zope in bottom layer and Plone on the top layer, is the future! Other top layers are: Silva and Nuxeo

New Year and in need of sorting out your mind?

FreeMind is the answer!
(free download track your languae, my winsnap photo show menu in Norwegian)

Best tool for a planning ingeneer. It's ideal for brainstorming, sorting out huge data announts and a platform before the large office document. In the free ver. you can rotate freely, numberise and export to html, copy and past in an office document.. wola you've got an indexed draft to use in Word or other Office tools. Mind mapping is an old tradition fist known by Porphyry (greek philosopher).

I use it a lot and it's highly recomended by me! Winsnap photo is taken from first draft of ITplan in Utsira Municipal.


Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Fem ting du antakelig ikke visste om meg!

Har blitt utfordret av Eirik Newt om å skrive ned fem ting du antakelig ikke visste om meg (Eirik Newt)

Her er fem ting du antakelig ikke vet om meg:

1. Jeg har en tvillingbror som heter Geir. Han er nå bosatt like ved Lista Fyr på Borhaug. Det var han som fikk Bob Dylan til å smile den gangen vi var på konsert i Spektrum på tidlig 90-tall og Dagbladet skrev: "Se han smiler" med svære typer og medfølgende terningkast på seks!

2. Jeg har vært insipient under en uroppføring av Erling Kittelsen's Abiriels Løve på Utsira i 1996, hvor bla Aslag Guttormsgaard, Martin Slaatto og Marianne Apenes var skuespillere og Eirik Wøllo stod for kjempe musikk.

3. Har prestrert å oppfordre Pål Bang Hansen til å kikke opp fra matfatet! Pål Bang Hansen gjestet Utsira sammen med Stavanger Symfoniorkester. Orkesteret spilte filmsvisker og Hansen introduserte melodiene. Fadesen oppstod under en festmiddag i Sirahallen. Ustyrtelig morsomt for Sirabuen og gjester, ikke for meg! Hr Hansen ble oppfordret til å komme tilbake til Utsira for å oppleve mer og ikke bare innholdet nede i tallerken!

4. Jeg har et imponernede moseherbarium på over 120 ulike arter! Under studietiden ved TDH når mosesamlingen var mindre imponerende, inviterte jeg Michael Krohn i Raga Rockers inn på hybelen min for å se på mosesamlinga mi!

5. I min ungdom var jeg prinsippfast, anarkistisk miljøfreak med store idealer fra økofilosofien (Descartes, Spinosa, Zappfe, Punken og Rastafarien). Eneste bevarte prinsipp nå, er: Jeg drikker ikke imperalist-drikken til Coca Cola Company!

Den ene er en sannhet med modifikasjoner!