http://tore.torden.org Tore's blog - now partially in english! Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:47:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Heisann! Etter jeg har vært på Svalbard har jeg fått problemer med en fakturering fra One Call som har kommet til min addresse i Oslo mens jeg har vært på Svalbard. Det er en kjedelig situasjon når slike ting skjer og det fikk meg til å tenke på en episode jeg ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/boikott-ventelo-bluecom/ Today was the last day of my stay up here for the field-season. Tomorrow - or today since it's just past midnight as I write this - I will take the plane back to Oslo. I am really looking forward to going back to Christiane and my friends and my ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/goodbye/ Yesterday, I packed up site 4, the one behind the airport. It was a strange feeling, packing it up. Not bad, just strange. My time here (for now) is coming to an end. I carefully made a drawing of all the traps and their relative position and distance from eachother ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/winter-is-coming-to-longyearbyen/ Last week, Chris took me, Andrew and Phillip as field assistants on a trip to Pyramiden to look for invasive weeds. I've been to nordaustlandet, been to Kongsfjorden and Ny-Ålesund, been on a scootertrip to the east-coast, been to Svea, been to two coal-mines and also dog-sledding .. Barentsburg and ... http://tore.torden.org/blogg/the-boys-visit-pyramiden/ Friday 15th of august, just after I came back to Longyearbyen after my fieldwork-week at Alkepynten, I met up with my father and younger brother who had come to visit me for the weekend. Superb! They didn't stay for long, but we still got to do quite a lot of ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/the-magnussens-do-the-arctic/ My field season is definetly coming to an end. My traps no longer seem to catch many invertebrates and yesterday, I ordered a plane ticket back to Oslo. I'll be leaving on friday the 12th of september and I'm really looking forward to seeing Christiane again as well as my ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/got-to-stay-motivated/ Download tbatches.zip (~8kb) Yo fellow batch-nostalgics. I'm releasing my slightly embarassing batch programs in a .zip pack for you to enjoy. If I make more batch programs, I can add them to this archive and reupdate this post. As you may know, I've been trying to get into php and when doing ... http://tore.torden.org/programmering/tore-helps-die-rollers-everywhere/ Heya! Since I came to Svalbard, I've been working hard to rid myself of whisky-newbdom and to get more tasting experience with the many fantastic scottish whiskys. Longyearbyen - and Karls-Berger Pub in particular - is a great place to try out various whiskys. Alcohol is cheaper up here than on the ... http://tore.torden.org/drikke/the-quest-for-good-whiskys/ Tuesday 12th of August, I went with my supervisors to Alkepynten, an area on the north side of the mouth of Isfjorden, opposite Kapp Linnè. It was a rainy day. Logistics brought us out by boat and dropped us off at a beach there, not far from a cabin used ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/fieldwork-week-at-alkepynten/ Sometime during the week after Christiane left, I was approached by Graeme. He asked me if I wanted to go to Svea with him .. Some of you mainland people may not know what Svea is, so I'll elaborate. In Svea, you find the biggest coal-mining operation on Svalbard. It is ... http://tore.torden.org/mitt-liv/things-to-do-in-svea/