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Hi, I'm Bjørn Børresen - a freelance creator of online magic, aspiring entrepreneur and really, really excited!

How about that? I've been working professionally as a software engineer since 2001. This blog, launched December 2009, will be a collection of random thoughts about my profession, the tools I use, the people I meet, and anything I like to voice my opinion on. The cool people usually subscribe.

7 October 2006 4 Comments

Dynamic loading of Javascript

When programming desktop applications I’ve always been a supporter of lazy loading of objects but I’ve never given this much thought when creating websites. Until now.

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4 October 2006 0 Comments

A new look baby!

Yessir, bjornblog has a brand new look and lots of new features!

I’m so excited about my new blog, that I’ve even created a screenshot to teach you how to get the most out of my new design the new theme I installed.

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25 September 2006 5 Comments

How I ruthlessly referrer-spam everyone I know

I’ve used Privoxy for several years now and love it. For those of you not familiar with the program it’s basically just a local proxy that you can run your browsers through that will strip ads and make sure your privacy is intact while surfing the net.

One neat thing about it is that it’s very [...]

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17 September 2006 2 Comments

Can Vista do this?

Found this video on YouTube entitled ‘Xgl Demo’ .. This guy must be running a monster machine, but still – it’s pretty impressive..

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12 September 2006 0 Comments

Norway, as described by Moods

I found this great description of the country I live in and my fellow norwegians inside a label of a t-shirt I bought from a clothing company called Moods of Norway.

With it’s 4.5 million inhabitants, 385639 sq. miles, and a resistance against continental drift, Norway is a land of great diversity. Wheter it’s due to [...]

5 September 2006 0 Comments

Amazon launches aStore (Beta, of course)

From their description:

aStore by Amazon is a new Associates product that gives you the power to create a professional online store, in minutes and without the need for programming skills, that can be embedded within or linked to from your website.

I threw up a quick test here.

Not bad. It was very easy to setup, and [...]

27 August 2006 3 Comments

The problem with Pandora and Last.fm

I love the new social music services like Pandora and Last.fm (former Audioscrobbler). If you do not know what they’re about the concept is pretty easy – they are personalized radio stations that you listen to via the web. Unlike traditional radio stations they have the ability to ‘learn’ what kind of music you like, [...]

14 August 2006 0 Comments

Wow, finally back in … #2

At last, you can google me (hope I don’t get sued for using Google as a verb) and find bie.no in the index. Let’s hope it’s not temporarily this time.

One strange thing though, they didn’t adhere to my robots.txt file which tells them not to index odp.php – heck, they even threw robots.txt right in [...]

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26 July 2006 0 Comments

Wee, going to Croatia!

I just called my local travel agency and got a trip to Croatia this Saturnday. Talk about being late .. I’m really looking forward to two weeks in the sun, just my girlfriend and I. And hopefully we’ll meet some interesting people to have a party or two with. I’m not sure where [...]

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20 July 2006 3 Comments

Google changes 'reinclusion request'

If you’ve been banned from Google for whatever reason you want to do a reinclusion request. I’ve previously used Matt Cutt’s tutorial, however it seems Google has changed the way one does this. The link Matt mention is no longer there.

The new way is to do it here, from “My Sites”. Yes, that means you [...]

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