We had just finished one of our work Saturdays, our irregular fix-up-the-house days. I had been cleaning the basement all day, and everything was shining - after that, I went into the garden to help pruning and weeding.

Just around 17.00 when we were finished, we had a short thunderstorm, with as much rain as I've ever seen in such as small period.

As we live at the bottom of a hill, right next to Lake Gentofte, our basement quickly started flooding. Water came up from the sewer...

I just saw the critically acclaimed Danish move ‘Drabet’ (Drab is the term for voluntary manslaughter in Danish) by Per Fly, one of our best filmmakers here in Denmark, and it is one of those films that makes you think.

The film revolves around the killing of a Danish police officer by a group of left-wing “activists” – the officer is killed after the three has razed a (fictitious) arms producer

The film contains a scene where one of the characters tries to relativise the killing of the policeman to Iraqi children struck with cancer due to American usage of depleted uranium weapons and

Its officially a very long time since I last blogged here. The year 2007 has proved to be very interesting so far. There’s been a lot of activity at my church lately, and work has also been busy. Our fiscal year ended december 31^st^, and since then, we’ve been quite busy in the accounting department. On top of that, I have all the technical stuff to take care of as well. Servers needing maintenance, printers needing fixing, offices needing relocation, hardware needing to be bought etc. And then there’s the websites.

So, here I am at almost 11 km. above surface level, not far from the coast of Iceland. We have been in the air for a little more than two hours. Still 7 more hours to go until we touch down in Chicago, and then I'll fly American the rest of the way to Kansas City.

Annoyingly, my hind quarters are already getting sore. We just had the in-flight meal, and since we're flying Scandinavian, we had mashed potatoes with meatballs and chocolate moussé for desert. Only part of it I enjoyed was the bread and (Danish) butter. The moussé was particularly vile, tasting like a ton of artificial sweetener :-(

The perhaps greatest curse of this world is how everything decays. Wear and tear, aging. Everything withers, fades, falls apart and corrupts. The only thing humans create that doesn't require maintenance is thoughts, ideas. If it can be written down, or digitised and thus copied, it has a chance of escaping the jaws of time.

[img_assist|nid=72|title=New horizons|desc=My new ubuntu desktop…|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=160] had a nasty reminder of that recently. My old computer gave up after a thunderstorm. Now it boots very slowly and crashes randomly. It's almost like 1997. So I've got a new machine from work. An old Dell. It's a fairly good machine, but the hard disk is slow and it only has 256MB of RAM. So now I run Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) on it. I know I could run less RAM-expensive software on it, but I've gotten fed up on micromanaging all kinds of settings. GNOME and Ubuntu gives me a nice and easily managed desktop, although not the same amount of fine grained control as other linux distributions – but I don't need that 99% of the time anyways. So here I am…