[{"content":" ██╗ ██╗ ███████╗██████╗ █████╗ ██████╗ ███╗ ███╗███████╗███╗ ██╗ ████████╗ ██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔══██╗████╗ ████║██╔════╝████╗ ██║ ╚██╔═██╔╝ ███████╗██████╔╝███████║██████╔╝██╔████╔██║█████╗ ██╔██╗ ██║ ████████╗ ╚════██║██╔══██╗██╔══██║██╔══██╗██║╚██╔╝██║██╔══╝ ██║╚██╗██║ ╚██╔═██╔╝ ███████║██████╔╝██║ ██║██║ ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║███████╗██║ ╚████║ ╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚═════╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═══╝ stian@hugo ~ $ whoami stian - photos, travel, and the occasional bit of tech stian@hugo ~ $ uptime sbarmen.no, up since 2013 Notes and photos from wherever I\u0026rsquo;ve been, plus the occasional writeup of something I built or broke.\n","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"","summary":" ██╗ ██╗ ███████╗██████╗ █████╗ ██████╗ ███╗ ███╗███████╗███╗ ██╗ ████████╗ ██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔══██╗████╗ ████║██╔════╝████╗ ██║ ╚██╔═██╔╝ ███████╗██████╔╝███████║██████╔╝██╔████╔██║█████╗ ██╔██╗ ██║ ████████╗ ╚════██║██╔══██╗██╔══██║██╔══██╗██║╚██╔╝██║██╔══╝ ██║╚██╗██║ ╚██╔═██╔╝ ███████║██████╔╝██║ ██║██║ ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║███████╗██║ ╚████║ ╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚═════╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═══╝ stian@hugo ~ $ whoami stian - photos, travel, and the occasional bit of tech stian@hugo ~ $ uptime sbarmen.no, up since 2013 Notes and photos from wherever I’ve been, plus the occasional writeup of something I built or broke.\n","title":"","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/homelab/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Homelab","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/monitoring/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Monitoring","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Posts","type":"posts"},{"content":"I have not been blogging for years, but still been pondering a lot with technology so why no try to share some stuff again. Last years I have played a lot with Proxmox and buldling my own home lab setup. This blog is hosted on this lab so both performance and availability might suffer :P But that is a whole other topic for another day.\nOn to the topic of the day. I had a need to do proper alerting for my backup jobs. I first started sending emails every day of the current backup status, but this got very noisy quickly. And also, if the emails are missing one day, would I notice? As humans noticing a negative alarm (the absence of an alarm or status) is very hard. So enter Uptime Kuma!\nI am hosting Uptime Kuma (UK) on Google Cloud (again - topic for another day perhaps) on a debian instance. Wherever you host UK you need to have access from your Proxmox VE (PVE) nodes to the UK instance since we will send status from Proxmox to UK.\nShort architecture intro # I have selected to make one monitor per PVE host that sends a status to UK. You could opt for a clusterwide solution, but this is my current setup. Each node has a hook script that is kicked off during the backup using vzdump. Basically this will say \u0026ldquo;backup-started\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;backup-completed\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;backup-failed\u0026rdquo;. I achieve this with a wireguard tunnel connected to my homelab network.\nBasic architecture is as described above, and it works on these three principals:\nBackup started = green light (all ok!) Backup completed (without errors) = green light (all ok!) Backup failed / completed with errors = red light Heartbeat - not heard from XX in the last 86400 seconds = orange light Retry interval - still not heard from XX for a further 7200 seconds = red light Set up sensors on Uptime Kuma # Click the \u0026ldquo;Add New Monitor\u0026rdquo; and set up a push sensor with something like the above. You tune the heartbeat interval with regards to your backup frequency, retries is the yellow light (the heartbeat is delayed) and the monitor group is optional for your dashboard organization. Make sure you copy your push url for the script below, but delete the last part (everything from ?).\nExample: # The copy button on UK gives you this URL:\nhttps://uptime-kuma.fqdn.com/api/push/EdM6ivQc7Lz55HsnDmUH7IxxGDSqyCbI?status=up\u0026amp;msg=OK\u0026amp;ping= Keep only this:\nhttps://uptime-kuma.fqdn.com/api/push/EdM6ivQc7Lz55HsnDmUH7IxxGDSqyCbI If you have set up Notifications, enable that (you should!). I use Signal for this purpose, again, a topic for another day (I should make a list!).\nProxmox VE Hook Script # On the Proxmox side we need to create a hook script that checks the proxmox log files for errors and sends a status to UK. The easiest way to do this is to use vzdump, as that negates the need to get credentials for the Proxmox API.\nLets put the script in usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh and give it the execute permission.\nnano /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh Write up a script similar to this, and make sure you at a minimum replace the URL under KUMA_PUSH_URL that you got from the step above:\n#!/bin/bash # ── EDIT THIS ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # The push URL you copied from your Uptime Kuma push monitor: KUMA_PUSH_URL=\u0026#34;https://uptime-kuma.fqdn.com/api/push/yoursecretkey\u0026#34; # ── OPTIONAL TUNING ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── LOG_TAIL_LINES=10 # how many error lines to keep per guest MAX_MSG_CHARS=900 # cap the message so the push URL stays short # ── NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE ─────────────────────────────────────────── # vzdump calls hook scripts with a cleared environment, so PATH must be set here export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin ERRORS_FILE=\u0026#34;/run/vzdump-kuma-errors\u0026#34; # error detail collected from guest logs FAILED_FILE=\u0026#34;/run/vzdump-kuma-failed\u0026#34; # fallback when there is no log (PBS) PHASE=\u0026#34;$1\u0026#34; # job-start, log-end, job-end ... MODE=\u0026#34;$2\u0026#34; # stop / suspend / snapshot, guest-level phases only VMID=\u0026#34;$3\u0026#34; # vmid, guest-level phases only # Sends one status to Uptime Kuma. # $1 = \u0026#34;up\u0026#34; or \u0026#34;down\u0026#34; - this is the only thing that turns the monitor # green or red, the message below is just text shown next to it # $2 = the message # # The rest of the curl options to make sure we do not get errors from strange # characters in the log, also increase timeouts etc. push() { local status=\u0026#34;$1\u0026#34; local message=\u0026#34;${2:0:$MAX_MSG_CHARS}\u0026#34; # first N characters only curl --get --fail --silent --show-error \\ --max-time 15 --retry 2 \\ --data-urlencode \u0026#34;status=${status}\u0026#34; \\ --data-urlencode \u0026#34;msg=${message}\u0026#34; \\ \u0026#34;$KUMA_PUSH_URL\u0026#34; \u0026gt; /dev/null || true } case \u0026#34;$PHASE\u0026#34; in job-init|job-start) # start of job, reset the state files : \u0026gt; \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34;; : \u0026gt; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; [[ \u0026#34;$PHASE\u0026#34; == \u0026#34;job-start\u0026#34; ]] \u0026amp;\u0026amp; push up \u0026#34;Backup job started\u0026#34; ;; backup-abort) # this guest failed echo \u0026#34;VM ${VMID} (${HOSTNAME:-unknown})\u0026#34; \u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; ;; log-end) # only phase where LOGFILE is set if [[ -f \u0026#34;${LOGFILE:-}\u0026#34; ]] \u0026amp;\u0026amp; grep -qE \u0026#39;^ERROR:|^INFO: Failed at\u0026#39; \u0026#34;$LOGFILE\u0026#34;; then detail=$(grep -E \u0026#39;^ERROR:|^INFO: Failed at\u0026#39; \u0026#34;$LOGFILE\u0026#34; \\ | tail -n \u0026#34;$LOG_TAIL_LINES\u0026#34; | tr \u0026#39;\\n\u0026#39; \u0026#39; \u0026#39;) echo \u0026#34;VM ${VMID}: ${detail}\u0026#34; \u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; sed -i \u0026#34;/^VM ${VMID} /d\u0026#34; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; 2\u0026gt;/dev/null # drop the duplicate fi ;; job-end) # runs even when single guests failed detail=$(cat \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; 2\u0026gt;/dev/null | tr \u0026#39;\\n\u0026#39; \u0026#39; \u0026#39;) if [[ -n \u0026#34;$detail\u0026#34; ]]; then push down \u0026#34;Backup finished with errors - ${detail}\u0026#34; elif [[ -f \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; ]]; then push up \u0026#34;All backups completed OK\u0026#34; else push down \u0026#34;No job state - hook never saw job-start\u0026#34; fi rm -f \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; ;; job-abort) # fatal job error push down \u0026#34;Backup job aborted - $(cat \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; 2\u0026gt;/dev/null | tr \u0026#39;\\n\u0026#39; \u0026#39; \u0026#39;)\u0026#34; rm -f \u0026#34;$ERRORS_FILE\u0026#34; \u0026#34;$FAILED_FILE\u0026#34; ;; esac exit 0 # a non-zero exit makes vzdump fail the backup job Give it execute permissions:\nchmod +x /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh Now we need to hook this script into vzdump. This will make sure proxmox invokes the script automatically on backup events. This is quite easy, just open /etc/vzdump.conf and add or change the line with \u0026ldquo;script:\u0026rdquo; and change it to \u0026ldquo;script: /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh\u0026rdquo;.\nnano /etc/vzdump.conf Make sure it looks something like this:\n.... #prune-backups: keep-INTERVAL=N[,...] script: /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh #exclude-path: PATHLIST .... After this we know the script will kick off whenever vzdump is ran and then it will push back to UK on all events. Make sure these steps are carried out on all your proxmox cluster nodes.\nHow does vzdump work # Proxmox invokes your hook script multiple times during a backup job, executing it as a standard system binary or shell script. Every time Proxmox reaches a new phase in the backup process, it calls the script and passes information using positional command-line arguments ($1, $2, $3) and environment variables.\nThe phases come in two families. The job-level phases run once per backup job and get no extra arguments:\njob-init job-start job-end job-abort The guest-level phases run once per VM or container, and here $2 is the backup mode (stop / suspend / snapshot) and $3 is the vmid:\nbackup-start backup-end backup-abort log-end pre-stop pre-restart post-restart vzdump also sets a handful of environment variables, and this is where it gets a little tricky, because they are not available in every phase:\nVariable Available in STOREID all phases (empty if you back up with \u0026ndash;dumpdir) DUMPDIR all phases (empty for PBS storages) VMTYPE, HOSTNAME guest-level phases only TARGET backup-end only LOGFILE log-end only, and empty for PBS storages The full list is documented in the pve-manager repo here: vzdump-hook-script.\nMy first attempt only used the job-level phases, which looks like the obvious choice, but it does not actually work. Two gotchas. First, job-abort only fires if the whole job dies. If a single VM fails, the job still finishes with job-end, so job-abort alone will never catch a failed guest.\nSo the script uses both families. backup-abort notes which guest failed, and log-end reads that guest\u0026rsquo;s log and picks out the ERROR: lines. Both are collected in a file under /run, and job-end then sends one single status to UK: down if anything was collected, up if the file is empty. job-init and job-start reset the files so nothing leaks over from the previous run.\nTwo last details that are easy to miss. vzdump calls the hook with a cleared environment, so there is no PATH unless you set it yourself. And if the hook exits non-zero, vzdump treats the backup as failed - so the script ends with exit 0. Monitoring should never be able to break the thing it is monitoring.\nTesting # If all is correct you should now get a status in UK every time a backup starts, ends or aborts in Proxmox. Rather than waiting for tonight\u0026rsquo;s job, test the script by hand. Be aware that these tests push to your real monitor, so it will go red on purpose - just run a clean start/end afterwards to get it green again.\nStart with the happy path. The phases have to be run in the same order vzdump would call them, because job-end reads the state file that job-start creates:\n/usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh job-start /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh job-end That should give you \u0026ldquo;Backup job started\u0026rdquo; followed by \u0026ldquo;All backups completed OK\u0026rdquo; in UK. Running job-end on its own reports \u0026ldquo;No job state\u0026rdquo;, that is intentional and tells you the hook missed the start of the job.\nThen simulate a failed guest. backup-abort is the phase vzdump calls when a single VM fails:\n/usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh job-start /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh backup-abort snapshot 101 /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh job-end Now the monitor should go yellow with \u0026ldquo;Backup finished with errors - VM 101\u0026rdquo;.\nTo test the log parsing as well, point LOGFILE at one of the .log files sitting next to your backups in the dump directory, ideally one from a job that actually failed:\nLOGFILE=/var/lib/vz/dump/vzdump-qemu-101-2026_09_05-02_00_01.log \\ /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh log-end snapshot 101 If something does not behave as expected, run the same commands with bash -x in front:\nbash -x /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh job-end The benefit of using -x is that you will get to see all the steps carried out by the bash script and it makes it easier to see where it fails, if you have trouble.\nFinally, test it end to end on a single guest without waiting for the scheduled job. This takes a real backup, so pick a small one:\nvzdump 101 --script /usr/local/bin/backup-hook.sh If all goes well you now have a simple dashboard to alert you if your backup fails, this way you only have to act on events, not look for events missing.\nThis is one example of an alert I will get on Signal: Conclusion # Setting up Uptime Kuma and getting alerts only when something needs attention is a game changer. Now I only get alerted when something needs my attention, not every day in a summary email that I never read.\n","date":"5 September 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/uptime-kuma-monitor-proxmox-backup/","section":"Posts","summary":"I have not been blogging for years, but still been pondering a lot with technology so why no try to share some stuff again. Last years I have played a lot with Proxmox and buldling my own home lab setup. This blog is hosted on this lab so both performance and availability might suffer :P But that is a whole other topic for another day.\n","title":"Uptime Kuma monitor Proxmox Backup","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"2 July 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/pages/","section":"Pages","summary":"","title":"Pages","type":"pages"},{"content":"Here you will find the location of our boat, Sofia. See you on the ocean!\n","date":"2 July 2020","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/where-is-sofia-now/","section":"Pages","summary":"Here you will find the location of our boat, Sofia. See you on the ocean!\n","title":"Where is Sofia now?","type":"pages"},{"content":"","date":"15 November 2019","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/photo/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Photo","type":"categories"},{"content":"I was in Barcelona for VMworld last week and managed to squeeze in a short stop at the amazing Sagrada Familia. This building is crazy and wonderful all at the same time. The light in the afternoon is stunning to say the least.\nIf you ever go to Barcelona, go visit: https://sagradafamilia.org/en/\n","date":"15 November 2019","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/sagrada-familia/","section":"Posts","summary":"I was in Barcelona for VMworld last week and managed to squeeze in a short stop at the amazing Sagrada Familia. This building is crazy and wonderful all at the same time. The light in the afternoon is stunning to say the least.\n","title":"Sagrada Familia","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"15 November 2019","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/travel/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Travel","type":"categories"},{"content":" It is really fun to do macro fotography, even with some dated equipment. These photos were taken in the early afternoon and it was a bit too bright light. If I had waited a few hours the sun would be lower on the skies and the shine would be less bright and intense.\nAll the insects around the house just loved the lavender. No problem to get close to wasps and bumblebees when the tempting lavender was everywhere!\n","date":"27 August 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/insects-on-lavender-in-croatia/","section":"Posts","summary":" It is really fun to do macro fotography, even with some dated equipment. These photos were taken in the early afternoon and it was a bit too bright light. If I had waited a few hours the sun would be lower on the skies and the shine would be less bright and intense.\n","title":"Insects on lavender in Croatia","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"27 August 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/macro/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Macro","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"27 August 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/nature/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Nature","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"8 August 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/blogg/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Blogg","type":"categories"},{"content":"Tesla is doing some word-of-mouth advertising of their cars Tesla Model S and in the future Model X. This basically means that people like myself that have a current Model S have the ability to give a current buyer of a new car a rebate of 10 000 NOK off the list price by clicking my link. At the same time I would get a credit of the same on my Tesla-account (for future car purchase, services, accessories or similar). So basically I am asking you, if you are contemplating buying a new Tesla, please click my link and go bananas!\nLink to buy a new Tesla: http://ts.la/siljeb4829 Should you buy a Tesla?\nIMG_20150329_194558 That is a good question, and since I am not a Tesla employee but just a mere user of a Model S I can just share my own experiences. My Model S is a basic 2-wheel drive with the big battery (85kWh) and I use it for my day-to-day driving needs and also for vacations visiting my family on the west-coast of Norway. The car is just excellent for this. There is a lot of room in the back seat for my 3 boys. With a big boot and a \u0026ldquo;frunk\u0026rdquo; in the front I have plenty of space for all luggage needs.\nLast winter we got a great deal on a returning our VW Sharan (it had a water leak in the sun-roof that the vendor was unable to fix, and finally they accepted a return!). We were then very much keen on buying a Tesla and when we finally did we bought a used one, and we have never regretted the decision for a minute.\nRange-anxiety?\nNot so much any more. I have driven a few trips over the mountains in Norway both in the wintertime and in the summertime (550 kilometers). Getting from one supercharger to another is breeze, even in the blistering cold. I have never had below 15-20% capacity left even when we have a full car and cold winter conditions. This is with driving \u0026ldquo;normally\u0026rdquo;, not super-energy efficient. The navigation system also helps you get to the destination, plotting a route via the superchargers and it will even tell you for how long you would need to charge. After a few road-trips you will be fully relaxed!\nIs it a good car?\nIt is the best car I have ever owned! Fun to drive, fun to use, and it is also nice to look at. What more do you need? After 6 months with the car I still look forward to every drive with the car. That has never been the case with any of my previous cars. It is truly an excellent car in my honest opinion.\nWinter driving is also perfect, even with the 2-wheel drive version. Now you could go for the 4-wheel tractor version but in my opinion it is really not needed. I did some driving on ice last winter and I actually had to pass by a Volvo XC60 that was struggling with the poor traction. It seem the Tesla with the huge weight and wide tires is a better match than the 4-wheel drive of the Volvo. Might be a very nervous Volvo driver of course, but that aside, winter driving is not a problem.\nDrawbacks?\nYes a few. It is missing a towing hitch for pulling a camper or trailer. This is something I miss a lot and should have been an option on the car. That being said, usually you will be able to loan a car from a friend just by offering a trip in the Model S :) Of course some locations could be hard to reach due to lacking supercharges, but in Norway that is almost a mute problem by now. Worst case you would need to schedule in some charge on one of the Type2 charges that would give you a full charge in 3-6 hours, or stay the night in a hotel or similar.\nDo I need a special charger?\nIMG_20150109_103040 Not if you use a car like I do. Most weeks I need to charge 1-2 times. We drive around 200 kilometers per week so there is no need for more charging. I charge the car on a 16amp 220v \u0026ldquo;normal\u0026rdquo; household outlet. When we are at the cabin we often charge on 10amp, and even that works. On 16amp you need to cater for about 24 hours for a full charge, but that almost never happens. I keep the charge between 30% and 80% at all times. If we suddenly need to go on a road-trip we can always drop by a supercharger and we would get 80% in 20-30 minutes (and the kids would of course get some food at the same time!).\nIMG_20150111_143423 So I guess then that I have made a free ad for Tesla, and maybe I get no \u0026ldquo;cashback\u0026rdquo; at all from doing this, but hey, why not? Go for a test drive with the car and make up your own mind!\n","date":"8 August 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/buying-a-tesla/","section":"Posts","summary":"Tesla is doing some word-of-mouth advertising of their cars Tesla Model S and in the future Model X. This basically means that people like myself that have a current Model S have the ability to give a current buyer of a new car a rebate of 10 000 NOK off the list price by clicking my link. At the same time I would get a credit of the same on my Tesla-account (for future car purchase, services, accessories or similar). So basically I am asking you, if you are contemplating buying a new Tesla, please click my link and go bananas!\n","title":"Buying a Tesla?","type":"posts"},{"content":"Last fall we bought ourselves a new boat (old, but new to us!). The boat is a small Norwegian cabincruiser that gives us the ability to stay the weekend in the boat. One our favourite activities to do in the weekends is to make pizza. On the boat it is more complicated to make pizzas but far from impossible. This article is a short description on how do it :)\n20150510_153146 Making pizza on a grill is not a big mystery to us. We have done this many times on the Weber grill at home so we have a good starting point. First this was to get a proper grill with a lid to use on a boat. First we needed one that would mount in a secure and stable way on the boat.\nThe ultimate marine grill is an American product called Magma (at least according to our investigations). This comes in gas and coal , but we never condsidered the latter. The reasons are two: firstly it is not easy to ignite coal in a boat, especially close to the boat cover canvas (kalesje), and there is plenty of smoke from coal (harbors least popular?) and ultimately difficult to adjust the heat up and down as you absolutely need when pizza grilling. We bought the smallest Magma grill ( 38 cm ) and got it mounted on the pushpit.\ngrill Then there\u0026rsquo;s the pizza stone. We had an old pizza stone, and an old one is in this context the best. Just make sure to buy a stone which is slightly smaller than the grate and you\u0026rsquo;re ready. I find that the stone we have is perhaps a bit on the bigger side. If you are lucky you can find one that gives it about 1 cm clearance to the edge so you get plenty warm up from below. Ours has no more than 3-4mm gap, but still this works pretty well. To assemble the pizza you must do a little homework. Either bake out all bases at home and half-cook them in the stove at home. Baking on the boat is not very easy, at least not in our boat! Are you not so incredibly fond of baking, we found an alternative that works very well. Both Kiwi, Coop and Ica (and more I think) now sells pre-baked pizza bases in 2-pack. These are very good and supersuitable for boats. We buy two such packages and create 3-4 pizzas for a feast for 5 people (our kids eat like horses!). Assemble the barbecue on the push / pull-pit. Add the pizza stone on the gas on low-to-medium heat. Do not heat too hard, the stone gets mega hot and you can easily burn your pizza. Medium to medium minus on the heat and let it warm for +/- 6-7 minutes while starting on the pizza. The pizza is a straightforward piece of work if you prepared well. Take out one of your prebaked-bottoms, butter pizza sauce you made at home (or bought in the shop). Should you wish a very quick and inexpensive alternative solution I\u0026rsquo;ve used plain tomato paste from a can/tube and just spread a thin layer. This is pretty sweet and good, and if you do not put on too much this is a great alternative to the usual pizza sauce (and the kids love it!). So on with cheese, real cheese of course, no fake chease (is it called pizza topping, then it is not cheese!). On top, add ham, pineapple, mushrooms, onion rings and everything else you fancy. We usually cook a couple of pizzas with ham and cheese for the kids. For the grownups we do chorizo ​​or pepperoni, cheese, red onion and a little sharp blue cheese. Try anything you fancy :) When ready put the pizza onto the grill. Make sure the stone is not too hot! I turn up the heat on max for about a minute just after I put in the pizza. Afterwards I turn down the heat to the weakest setting for the rest of the cooking time. After 4-5, maybe 6-7 minutes the pizza should be ready. The difference between a pizza grilled this way and baking at home is that the bottom becomes very crunchy but there is no hard crust on the top. The cheese will just melt and become hot, is not possible to get the \u0026ldquo;brown scorched\u0026rdquo; on top with just heat coming from below, but I promise, it tastes really great! The first time make sure to bring double of everything. You\u0026rsquo;re going to burn one or two pizzas, maybe more. But eventually you get the hang of it and you can enjoy delicious pizza, time after time! We have found that the most important thing when making pizza on the boat is the preparations. Before we leave home, we cut up onions, sausages, prepare the cheese, bake the pizza bottoms, make dressings, pre-fry the mushrooms (mushrooms must heated before putting them on pizza otherwise it becomes very much moisture that gets the whole meal soggy) and pack everything into boxes that we bring with us. On the boat there is only assembly, cooking and and eating, quick and easy!\nIf you like something spicy on the pizza I can recommend to make a dressing of garlic and chilli. I buy lots of Chinese garlic and plain chilli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s_eye_chili) and cut everything into small-small pieces, marinate them in a good olive oil. This is gunpowder strong and good on pizza! Adjust the spicyness with less chilli or remove the seeds (they are the strongest bit). Enjoy Your Meal!\n","date":"18 May 2015","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/make-pizza-on-the-boat/","section":"Posts","summary":"Last fall we bought ourselves a new boat (old, but new to us!). The boat is a small Norwegian cabincruiser that gives us the ability to stay the weekend in the boat. One our favourite activities to do in the weekends is to make pizza. On the boat it is more complicated to make pizzas but far from impossible. This article is a short description on how do it :)\n","title":"Make Pizza on the Boat","type":"posts"},{"content":"Last night me and my wife took a walk down to the breakwater to take some midnight long exposure photo. The view is towards stadt seen from the north side of the island Barmen in Selje on the west coast of Norway. I used a polarizing filter to increase the colors and also reduce the light somewhat. We had about 30 seconds exposures and had the lens on maximum aperture. I love the way the ocean gets the smooth blur and the colors of the skies really pop out.\nStreetview from Google Maps\n","date":"25 July 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/long-exposure-at-barmen-island/","section":"Posts","summary":"Last night me and my wife took a walk down to the breakwater to take some midnight long exposure photo. The view is towards stadt seen from the north side of the island Barmen in Selje on the west coast of Norway. I used a polarizing filter to increase the colors and also reduce the light somewhat. We had about 30 seconds exposures and had the lens on maximum aperture. I love the way the ocean gets the smooth blur and the colors of the skies really pop out.\n","title":"Long Exposure at Barmen island","type":"posts"},{"content":"I have for years been using a mediacenter PC in my livingroom, it started back in the days of the 4Mbit wireless days (before the wireless standards were approved) and up till today on wired 1Gbit with a NAS and dedicated TV server in the basement. All through the years it has been very important to me to have a noiseless computer, fan noise and CD chippering is just annoying!\n1969314_9 Last few years I have been trusting and loving my Acer Aspire Revo 100 and this has proved very durable and good. Lately it has been having issues with cooling and now I need give it a good vacuuming from time to time to be performing OK. Also the CD/BD-rom player was just too noisy!\nNot so long ago I got a killer offer on a new computer cabinet with passive cooling, the Streacom FC5. I got it for 500 NOK (retails at 2000 NOK) so I could not decline the offer. When I got the cabinet I searched around for a mainboard that would be compatible as that is very important with the type of cooling used. The passive cooling is heatpipes connected to the side of the cabinet and this is only suitabe for low-power CPUs up to about 75Watt. This in mind I decided to go for one of the new Haswell CPUs from Intel (Generation 4) as these are super low-power and also come packed with a new GPU, the Intel HD that would be perfect for a HTPC.\nFirst is first, for the Haswell CPU I needed a mainboard with Intel socket 1150. I searched around and many have an issue that they have components directly in conflict with the installation of the heatpipes. One recommended option for this case is the ASRock Z87E-ITX, this also boasts a wireless network card for the new standard 802.11ac that can give speeds up to 5/600Mbits/s (with two antennas) so with all this in mind I decided to go for this motherboard.\nThe CPU was easier, I selected the Core i5-4570T, this has a power consumption of only 35Watt, that is just spectacularly low! This CPU also come packed with the Intel HD 4600 graphics integrated, support for 4K resolution and all else I would need in the very near future. The rest of the specs was 8 GB DDR3 memory from Kingston, SSD from Crucial (240GB) and a Sony slim blu-ray player. For power I got the external power adapter from Streacom with Nano-150 PSU support. Actually, I got enough space inside the chassis to put the whole power-adapter part inside so no big \u0026ldquo;lump\u0026rdquo; left outside (I forgot to take a pciture of this, but I did get it in, for real!), very cool!\nHow did it all work out? Well have a look at the pictures. Everything plugged together almost like clockwork, it was all set in just a few hours on the table and the thermal heat is just 45 degrees for the CPU under max load. Actually during the installation I did not have enough thermal paste for the CPU cooler so I think I can get even better performance if I clean it up and reapply, maybe I will do that, but seriously, temperature here is not an issue. The cooler \u0026ldquo;rods\u0026rdquo; that you connect to the chassis were a bit too long for a perfect fit, they \u0026ldquo;bumped\u0026rdquo; into the CMOS battery. This was easily fixed by just cutting them with a metal-saw. Performance, well the performance is nothing less than supersmooth. I have not yet been able to test 4K material but I hope that will work just as well. The machine boots into windows in just 6-7 seconds and after a about 15 seconds MediaPortal is up and running. Not too bad :) And the ambient noise, well, it is not there. It is just totally silent, bliss!\nHere is the kit list I have used if anyone is interested: Streacom FC5 OD Streacom NANO150 PSU Asrock 1150 Z87E-ITX Intel CORE I5-4570T Kingston DDR3 8GB PC1600 CL9 Crucial M500 240GB SSD Sony BC-5600 Cideko Air Keyboard\nI did all my shopping at these shops htpc.no and deal.no and it was htpc.no that gave me the killer offer on the Streacom cabinet (Facebook campaign).\n","date":"9 June 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/building-the-ultimate-quiet-htpc/","section":"Posts","summary":"I have for years been using a mediacenter PC in my livingroom, it started back in the days of the 4Mbit wireless days (before the wireless standards were approved) and up till today on wired 1Gbit with a NAS and dedicated TV server in the basement. All through the years it has been very important to me to have a noiseless computer, fan noise and CD chippering is just annoying!\n","title":"Building the ultimate quiet HTPC","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"9 June 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/technology/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Technology","type":"categories"},{"content":"Yesterday we had a big summer party at Rykkinn Skole, and at the same time we celebrated that this summer the old school building \u0026ldquo;avdeling Berger\u0026rdquo; will de replaced with a new modern building in 2 years. If that was not enough, Berger also celebrates 40 years in operation this year.\nSadly the day was cursed with a lot of rain, but that did not stop all the kids and parents :)\nHere are some pictures from the celebrations.\n","date":"6 June 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/summer-party-and-demolisionparty/","section":"Posts","summary":"Yesterday we had a big summer party at Rykkinn Skole, and at the same time we celebrated that this summer the old school building “avdeling Berger” will de replaced with a new modern building in 2 years. If that was not enough, Berger also celebrates 40 years in operation this year.\n","title":"Summer party and \"Demolisionparty\"","type":"posts"},{"content":"My kids were part of a show in Sandvika arranged by KGB Danseskole. This is a dance school teaching all dance styles and they put most of them together in a show where the theme was animals in a zoo and all the \u0026ldquo;animals\u0026rdquo; danced all sorts of dances with many styles of music. All the kids seemed to have a lot of fun and the show was really great!\n","date":"29 May 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/grrr-be-aware-of-the-animals/","section":"Posts","summary":"My kids were part of a show in Sandvika arranged by KGB Danseskole. This is a dance school teaching all dance styles and they put most of them together in a show where the theme was animals in a zoo and all the “animals” danced all sorts of dances with many styles of music. All the kids seemed to have a lot of fun and the show was really great!\n","title":"Grrr... be aware of the animals","type":"posts"},{"content":" ","date":"3 May 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/beitostolen-valdres/","section":"Posts","summary":" ","title":"Beitostølen in Valdres","type":"posts"},{"content":"I have been testing the new version of Firefox for a while and I must say it is vastly improved over the last version. Main argument is the new graphical user interface that has been refurbished. Also now then browser support sync of settings between installations.\nThe main argument with Firefox is that Mozilla takes user privacy very seriously so if you have doubts in for instance Google and the Chrome browser then Firefox is a very good alternative.\nAt least, if you have (like me) been using other browsers for a long time then it is now time to take another look at this new release!\nDownload the Firefox here: www.mozilla.org/firefox\n","date":"2 May 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/new-version-of-firefox/","section":"Posts","summary":"I have been testing the new version of Firefox for a while and I must say it is vastly improved over the last version. Main argument is the new graphical user interface that has been refurbished. Also now then browser support sync of settings between installations.\n","title":"New version of Firefox","type":"posts"},{"content":"Update: The first of May Microsoft released a fix for the vulnerability, also for Windows XP. It is also possible to protect your machine by upgrading to the latest version of Adobe Flash player according to sources on the Internet.\nYesterday we got word from Microsoft that there is a security hole in Internet Explorer versions 6 through to 11 and there is still no fix to this issue. The sad thing about this issue is that it is actively being exploited and that means, if you are using IE now you are at risk.\nMicrosoft Security Advisory 2963983\nWhat is the risk? An attacker could install software to your computer, this software could be used for anything (stealing your information, attacking other services on the Internet or other). You would not know that it would happen even, you would just be browsing along and it would happen silently.\nWhat can you do? Use another browser is the simple answer. Microsoft is going to patch this in a week or two (next patch Tuesday the 14th of May is good bet) but remember, if you are on Windows XP it might not even get a patch since it is out of support. My suggestion is simply try another browser, some good suggestions are:\nfirefox chrome opera If you never turn back to IE, then you do like most of us. Should you really miss IE just wait until mid-may and you will be fine again. If you really need to use IE there are some quick fixes you could do, one is to disable flash, another is to install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit version 4.1. You can find more information about that by clicking on the the Microsoft link above.\nSources: http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/new-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2014.html, http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-internet-vulnerability-let-loose-wild\n","date":"28 April 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/internet-explorer-security-issue/","section":"Posts","summary":"Update: The first of May Microsoft released a fix for the vulnerability, also for Windows XP. It is also possible to protect your machine by upgrading to the latest version of Adobe Flash player according to sources on the Internet.\n","title":"Internet Explorer Security Issue","type":"posts"},{"content":"Finally a clear and nice night here in Norway, and the alignment of Mars, earth and the sun is not that old so still the view is spectacular!\nTonight the moon is full and right now Mars is at its closest point (relative to earth), a mere 92 million kilometres away. The combination is just so cool!\nThis photo is taken just above our house in Norway.\nIf you have no clue what I write about, read this: Mars Opposition, NASA or I fucking love science.\n","date":"14 April 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/moon-and-mars/","section":"Posts","summary":"Finally a clear and nice night here in Norway, and the alignment of Mars, earth and the sun is not that old so still the view is spectacular!\nTonight the moon is full and right now Mars is at its closest point (relative to earth), a mere 92 million kilometres away. The combination is just so cool!\n","title":"Moon and Mars","type":"posts"},{"content":"The \u0026ldquo;superbug\u0026rdquo; in OpenSSL named \u0026ldquo;Heartbleed\u0026rdquo; is all over the news these days and is causing some confusion and concern for many people. This hole in the SSL encryption was discovered in the start of this week by Google and Code Nomicon, and the hole is a serious one. The problem is, what do you do with this? Here is a very simple simple guide to what I suggest you should do.\n1. Verify that your account is now patched from the vulnerability. To do this check your provider (bank, facebook, google or other) with one of the open tools to verify. One such tool is: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ Just enter the URL (like accounts.google.com or any other web page) and if the tools says \u0026ldquo;All good\u0026rdquo; then you are OK to proceed and change your password. Should this not be the case then wait until they have fixed the site before changing it (you could of course disable your account in the meantime).\nThese services have allready been fixed and you can safely change your password:\nFacebook Tumblr Google/Gmail/YouTube Amazon Web Services eBay Dropbox Netflix SoundCloud OKCupid Wunderlist Telenor Lists are being updated on this page with information and advisory if you need to change password: http://mashable.com/\n2. You could (even if the bug is not fixed actually!) enable 2-factor authentication for your services. Main services that have this already is Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and more.\nGoogle: http://www.google.com/landing/2step/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920 Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/getting-started-with-login-verification ¨ Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/two-step-verification-faq\nMost of these services provide an app for Android or Apple phones/devices that you could use for code generation or you would get an SMS on your phone. Using 2-factor authentication protects you more when the passwords are leaked on the Internet as the \u0026ldquo;stealer\u0026rdquo; also needs to get your phone to be able to log in. In the future all services must provide some kind of 2 factor I think!\nFor more information about the bug that has been discovered read this: http://heartbleed.com. If you have a server service using OpenSSL you should immediately take action to close this security hole and preferably also issue for new SSL certificates for your service when the bud is fixed.\nFinal information, this bug has been patched like crazy by the big authentication providers around the world over the last few days and most of the big services have been patched already and at least I have not heard of anyone exploiting this still. The big concern however is that the bug have been in the \u0026ldquo;wild\u0026rdquo; for 2 years and in this time anyone could have found out and exploited this in silence. The way the bug works actually leaves no trace if this had been done and if they never published anything then they are sitting on a huge backdoor into many systems. This is the reason you really have to change your passwords, no matter what\u0026hellip;. and again, go enable 2-factor, that is the best protection!\n","date":"10 April 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/heartbleed-ssl-vulnerability/","section":"Posts","summary":"The “superbug” in OpenSSL named “Heartbleed” is all over the news these days and is causing some confusion and concern for many people. This hole in the SSL encryption was discovered in the start of this week by Google and Code Nomicon, and the hole is a serious one. The problem is, what do you do with this? Here is a very simple simple guide to what I suggest you should do.\n","title":"Heartbleed SSL Vulnerability","type":"posts"},{"content":"I have lately been testing macro photography of snow crystals. This has proven more complicated than I have imagined so I will have to try some more.\nThe photo here is actually 12 exposures that have been focus stacked in Photoshop and then imported to Lightroom for some post processing. When I have some more experience with this technique I might post a quick tutorial :)\n","date":"2 February 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/snowflakes/","section":"Posts","summary":"I have lately been testing macro photography of snow crystals. This has proven more complicated than I have imagined so I will have to try some more.\n","title":"Snowflakes","type":"posts"},{"content":"The GIF is from this morning, showing the snow under a streetlight at Rykkinn, where I live :)\n","date":"24 January 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/testing-animated-gifs/","section":"Posts","summary":"The GIF is from this morning, showing the snow under a streetlight at Rykkinn, where I live :)\n","title":"Testing animated GIFs","type":"posts"},{"content":"Happy New Year to all, we had a nice evening in Bjørnebærstien with some friends celebrating the new year. Not a very photographic event this year but I did manage to get a few decent shots nevertheless. This is my first attempt at shooting fireworks so the results are not great, but OK. :)\n","date":"4 January 2014","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/happy-new-year/","section":"Posts","summary":"Happy New Year to all, we had a nice evening in Bjørnebærstien with some friends celebrating the new year. Not a very photographic event this year but I did manage to get a few decent shots nevertheless. This is my first attempt at shooting fireworks so the results are not great, but OK. :)\n","title":"Happy New Year","type":"posts"},{"content":"This classic and great TED talk by Simon Sinek is very clever and should be watched by any company leader.\nStart with why - how great leaders inspire action…: ","date":"29 December 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/what-makes-you-buy-apple-products/","section":"Posts","summary":"This classic and great TED talk by Simon Sinek is very clever and should be watched by any company leader.\nStart with why - how great leaders inspire action…: ","title":"What makes you buy Apple products?","type":"posts"},{"content":"Dersom du trenger å komme i kontakt med meg, bruk dette skjemaet:\n[contact-form subject=\u0026lsquo;Contact form stian.barmen.nu\u0026rsquo;][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Navn\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;name\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;E-post\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;email\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Webside\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;url\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Melding\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;textarea\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][/contact-form]\n","date":"28 December 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/nb/kontakt/","section":"Pages","summary":"Dersom du trenger å komme i kontakt med meg, bruk dette skjemaet:\n[contact-form subject=‘Contact form stian.barmen.nu’][contact-field label=‘Navn’ type=‘name’ required=‘1’/][contact-field label=‘E-post’ type=‘email’ required=‘1’/][contact-field label=‘Webside’ type=‘url’/][contact-field label=‘Melding’ type=‘textarea’ required=‘1’/][/contact-form]\n","title":"Kontakt","type":"pages"},{"content":"","date":"22 December 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/featured/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Featured","type":"categories"},{"content":"This December has been very warm and windy, a lot of rain has taken the little snow we had and mostly washed it away. Not very good for all that have been looking forward to using skies and sleighs, but there is very little we can do with that.\nYesterday morning it had been raining all night and the trees were full of little droplets bouncing the sun rays through, giving this larch tree a bit of Christmas sparkle! Sadly I was not able to get a short when the effect was at max (as I was still in bed with my morning coffee!) but it is clearly visible in these shots as-well.\n","date":"22 December 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/light-droplets-in-the-tree/","section":"Posts","summary":"This December has been very warm and windy, a lot of rain has taken the little snow we had and mostly washed it away. Not very good for all that have been looking forward to using skies and sleighs, but there is very little we can do with that.\n","title":"Light-Droplets in the Tree","type":"posts"},{"content":"Last weekend we had a very nice weekend in Valdres, in a little mountain cabinvillage of Vaset. For the last six months I have been playing with the idea of putting together an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo of a sunset or similar. This weekend I brought my old Canon 45d with my new Sigma 10-20mm (f3.5) and the sturdy tripod. Most of the weeken had fog and snow to offer but suddenly on the Saturday the light came out and we got a bit of sun! Quickly I configured my camera to lock the Aperture (to ensure stability in depth of focus) and setup the AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) to take three photos. One would be normal exposure, one -2 steps and one +2 steps (underexposed and overexposed). The pohoto was taken on the tripod to ensure total alignment between the three, and of course I used the 2sec selftimer to get the picture with being totally hands off the camera.\nWhat is the point of HDR? Well the point is that the overexposed photo will have some details that the underexposed will not and vice versa. So when you stack and align all these photos you get a much deeper detail both in the contrast and color spectrum. For instance the normal JPEG you would shoot is 8bit, a proper HDR is 32bit and contains a whole world of details you never could get with JPEG. When I shoot with my canon I always use the RAW files to get as much details as I can and not loose anything in the process. The only time I use JPEG is for the final export when all the work is completed.\nSo how did it turn out? Well here you can see the three orinigal images:\nI took these three photos into Photomatix Pro 5, algined them and did some very minor tweaking of the image. After this I saved it to a 16bit TIFF file (127 MB large!) and opened it in Adobe Lightroom 5.3 for a bit of post processing. Here I just adjusted the exposure a bit, contrast and saturation. The aim was to get a photo with both details in the shadows as-well as in the light. The final export is this image:\n","date":"19 December 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/weekend-to-vaset-in-valdres/","section":"Posts","summary":"Last weekend we had a very nice weekend in Valdres, in a little mountain cabinvillage of Vaset. For the last six months I have been playing with the idea of putting together an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo of a sunset or similar. This weekend I brought my old Canon 45d with my new Sigma 10-20mm (f3.5) and the sturdy tripod. Most of the weeken had fog and snow to offer but suddenly on the Saturday the light came out and we got a bit of sun! Quickly I configured my camera to lock the Aperture (to ensure stability in depth of focus) and setup the AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) to take three photos. One would be normal exposure, one -2 steps and one +2 steps (underexposed and overexposed). The pohoto was taken on the tripod to ensure total alignment between the three, and of course I used the 2sec selftimer to get the picture with being totally hands off the camera.\n","title":"Weekend to Vaset in Valdres","type":"posts"},{"content":"A very good Halloween celebration today. The photos are of my own pumpkin creation this year, and also from the house of the local SFO leader, Randee Hansen at Rykkinn. She is of course from the US and has helped kick off the celebration and accepts brave trick and treaters :)\n","date":"31 October 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/halloween/","section":"Posts","summary":"A very good Halloween celebration today. The photos are of my own pumpkin creation this year, and also from the house of the local SFO leader, Randee Hansen at Rykkinn. She is of course from the US and has helped kick off the celebration and accepts brave trick and treaters :)\n","title":"Halloween","type":"posts"},{"content":" Ric Elias was sitting in seat 1D in a crashing plane and he has some amazing thoughts about that. Watch the short video, it makes all the sense in the world!\n","date":"21 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/i-now-collect-bad-wine/","section":"Posts","summary":" Ric Elias was sitting in seat 1D in a crashing plane and he has some amazing thoughts about that. Watch the short video, it makes all the sense in the world!\n","title":"I now collect bad wine","type":"posts"},{"content":"Today I attended a training course at Semb farm and I took this picture during a short walk in a break. Mobile phone so the quality is not great.\n","date":"18 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/semsvannet/","section":"Posts","summary":"Today I attended a training course at Semb farm and I took this picture during a short walk in a break. Mobile phone so the quality is not great.\n","title":"Semsvannet","type":"posts"},{"content":"If you have an Android device (newer than version 2.2) and you wonder where it is for any reason, or maybe if you have lost it, or worse it is stolen then there is still hope. You can probably locate the device by using the Android Device Manager. The tools has three important functions:\nIt will tell you the location of the device (with accuracy indication) You can activate a remote ring Remote deletion / wipe of your device The ring part is clever as it will start a full volume ring-tone even if it is put in silent mode. Nice if it got lost into the depth of the sofa or whatever.\nIf you want the remote wipe functionality you need to enable it, and the most easy way to do that is to click on the link on the web page and it will send the settings to the device.\nFor more information go here: https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager\n","date":"13 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/locate-and-wipe-your-android/","section":"Posts","summary":"If you have an Android device (newer than version 2.2) and you wonder where it is for any reason, or maybe if you have lost it, or worse it is stolen then there is still hope. You can probably locate the device by using the Android Device Manager. The tools has three important functions:\n","title":"Locate and wipe your Android","type":"posts"},{"content":" Very funny video, these guys can both sing and create videos. This particular one is gaining a lot of popularity in Norway now, especially with younger kids. :) Njoy!\n","date":"12 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/ylvis-the-fox/","section":"Posts","summary":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE","title":"Ylvis and The fox","type":"posts"},{"content":"This posting and audio does not make a whole lot of sense unless you understand Norwegian so I will not translate the rest. If you understand Norwegian then go ahead! :)\nI dag fikk jeg beskjed om at mamma var på radio av svigermor. Litt research måtte til og jeg fant ut at hun hadde vært på Lønsj med Rune Nilson på NRK P1. Lastet ned klippet på podcast og redigerte frem den lille biten som inneholder bare der hvor mamma ble oppringt (beklager NRK om jeg bryter noe copyright her, men jeg linker i alle fall til dere!)\nHer er klippet hvor de ringer opp til mamma:\n[mejsaudio mp3=/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/redigert_loensj_p1.mp3]\nKlikk her dersom du ikke får noe lyd: Anne-Britt Barmen på P1\nMorsomt og god reklame for kafeen!\nKilde: NRK.no; hør hele podcasten her: http://radio.nrk.no/serie/loensj-med-rune-nilson/dmpa10018013/09-09-2013\n","date":"9 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/mamma-pa-radio/","section":"Posts","summary":"This posting and audio does not make a whole lot of sense unless you understand Norwegian so I will not translate the rest. If you understand Norwegian then go ahead! :)\n","title":"Mummy on the radio","type":"posts"},{"content":"I bought this wonderful Orchidaceae for my wife last week \u0026hellip; wonderful ey?\n","date":"7 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/orchidaceae/","section":"Posts","summary":"I bought this wonderful Orchidaceae for my wife last week … wonderful ey?\n","title":"Orchidaceae","type":"posts"},{"content":"I just registered a new domain name for this site, and then I needed to rewrite the old URLs to the new name. This is quite easy since I have a Linux server (CentOS in fact) with Apache. I wanted to tell the browsers and search engines that the new domain name is a permanent one and therefor the correct redirect is called a 301 server-side redirect. What this in simple terms means is that the web server will tell the web-browser or search engine spider that \u0026ldquo;this site has moved, and the new permanent address is: www.sbarmen.no\u0026rdquo;.\nTo implement this I used a RewriteMod command in my .htaccess file located in the websites root directory. For this redirect I wanted to move from: http://stian.barmen.nu OR http://www.stian.barmen.nu TO http://www.sbarmen.no.\nSimple ey? Yes in fact it is. Just open the .htaccess file and add these lines to the top of the file:\nRewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP\\_HOST} !www.sbarmen.no$ \\[NC\\] RewriteRule ^(.\\*)$ /$1 \\[L,R=301\\] The first line just tells Apache to make sure the rewrite engine is turned on, you could also prefix this with a \u0026lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c\u0026gt; and suffix with and you would not get any errors in your logs og tre moduler SAS not loaded, but the long and short of it is, make sure Apache loads the mod_rewrite module in the configuration file (and most default apache installations does).\nExplanation to the above rules is that the RewriteBase just tells it will rewrite for all URLs on this site, the second RewriteCond checks that the domain name requested from the requestor is NOT www.sbarmen.no (the ! is the NOT part) and the [NC] means case insensitive. Lastly the RewriteRule itself, for all characters in the URL string following the domain part ^(.*)$ modify the domain part to http://www.sbarmen.no and then add the content of the ^(.*)$ afterwords, this is the $1. First part captures the non-domain URL part, and the we add it to the new URL. This means that all requests on sub-pages will also work without any issues.\nSo finally, the L,R=301, in short this is where we say to Apache the this rewrite is done (L) and now send a redirect that is a permanent move for this site, R=301. So next time please use the www.sbarmen.no and all of this rewrite business will be omitted.\nThat was a very geeky way to explain that I have moved this site to a new domain name, so thanks for reading :) Sources: Apache Mod_Rewrite: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html_ _W ikipedia HTTP Redirects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection#HTTP_status_codes_3xx\n","date":"6 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/my-own-domain-name/","section":"Posts","summary":"I just registered a new domain name for this site, and then I needed to rewrite the old URLs to the new name. This is quite easy since I have a Linux server (CentOS in fact) with Apache. I wanted to tell the browsers and search engines that the new domain name is a permanent one and therefor the correct redirect is called a 301 server-side redirect. What this in simple terms means is that the web server will tell the web-browser or search engine spider that “this site has moved, and the new permanent address is: www.sbarmen.no”.\n","title":"My own domain name","type":"posts"},{"content":"Me and a collegue at work discussed the other day that today we use much more written text than before. We communicate in writing all the time on our phones, computers, tablets, phablets and more. Some people today send hundreds of SMS every week, you might have a blog, use Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Vibre, Google Hangouts, join in a forum (or ten!) and so fourth. I guess the use of IRC and Usenet/News no longer qualifies to be on this list but they were absolutely part of the evolution for the written text on the Internet.\nThe use of emoticons and abbrevations came to be so we could replace moods, feelings or state of mind as that is more complicated, time consuming, and not the least, space demanding than the use of emoticons. SMS kind of introduced the use of emoticons to the general \u0026ldquo;non-nerd\u0026rdquo; public due to its limit of 160 characters per message. This limit has been washed out last few years as the costs for messages has dropped like a sinking rock, and the phones conseal the fact that the message consists of multiple SMS\u0026rsquo;s. On that note, for me it is quite time consuming to write on smart-phones and tablets compared to writing with a pen or keyboard, so from that perspective emoticons and abbrevations is a good thing. So I guess there is a good reason it all \u0026ldquo;came to be\u0026rdquo;, but what would a world be with no use of emoticons?\n[table] With Emoticons, No Emoticons\nCould you pick up some milk on the way home? :-*,Could you please pick up some milk on the way home my love - he said sending her a kiss.\nI was at the tivoly today :O almost killed myself ;-),I was at the tivoly today\\, what a thrill! At some point I really was worried that I might get hurt or even killed - she said with a grin on her face.\nGot my new car today :\u0026rsquo;(, I got my new car today - he said with a sad look on his face\\, something was obviously bothering him.\nI saw the new Jim Carey movie today ROLFLOL B-), I saw the new Jim Carey movie today\\, what a funny movie! I was rolling on the floor laughing my head off! Very cool movie indeed\\, recommended!\nOK :-P, OK - he said with a smart look on his face. U coming *flirting* :-), He looked at her with his seductive eyes\\, and asked her\\, \u0026ldquo;are you coming?\u0026rdquo;. His eyes was hinting at the door and she smiled at him \u0026hellip;\nHad some great pasta for lunch today :-\\ , The irony was thick when he said \u0026ldquo;I had some great pasta for lunch today.\u0026rdquo; [/table]\nMaybe you have better examples?\nThe examples are maybe not the best, but they venture to prove a point. Keep in mind that more than 80% of communication is not the words but the visual representation, the mood, the tone of voice etc, I am not surprised that we use all the dirty tricks we can find to spice up our written language. Also kids and teenagers that might still not have the vocabulary of adults want to express themselves and they play a huge role in the development of our written language.\nMy conclusion is that emoticons and abbreviations have come to stay and they serve a purpose for sure. We could maybe be better at actually writing proper text when expressing ourselves in written form. My native language is not English so I might not be as articulate as native writers but at least if we make an effort written text can be very colorful, even with the absence of emoticons.\nI do wonder though, when does the emoticons enter into the dictionaries?\nAnother topic is of course what all the emoticons and abbreviations mean, but it was not my intention to cover that part, many good sources on the internet, so Google it :-)\nPhoto from: stockarch.com - Free stock image library powered by the community\n","date":"1 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/a-world-without-emoticons/","section":"Posts","summary":"Me and a collegue at work discussed the other day that today we use much more written text than before. We communicate in writing all the time on our phones, computers, tablets, phablets and more. Some people today send hundreds of SMS every week, you might have a blog, use Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Vibre, Google Hangouts, join in a forum (or ten!) and so fourth. I guess the use of IRC and Usenet/News no longer qualifies to be on this list but they were absolutely part of the evolution for the written text on the Internet.\n","title":"A world without emoticons","type":"posts"},{"content":"A joke is a very serious thing\nWinston Churchill\n","date":"1 September 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/a-joke-is-a-very-serious-thing/","section":"Posts","summary":"A joke is a very serious thing\nWinston Churchill\n","title":"A joke is a very serious thing","type":"posts"},{"content":"Since we have been travelling around the world for many years with my family and for work I have seen many wonderful places. Grand Canyon is by far one of the more magnificent sites I have seen. This summer on my family roadtrip with a rented RV we visited the south rim of the canyon in early July.\nThe area was dried out due to very dry weather the last few weeks but the day we had our visit a proper thunder and rain storm came out of nowhere. The rain stopped as we parked the RV and it did not take long before the sun came out. The rain cleared the air and I think the views were even more spectacular due to the rain.\nI think if you ever plan to visit the Grand Canyon you should plan to either get a sunrise or a sunset into your plans. The contrasts of the view is much nicer when you get the sun in from an angle and you can really see just how big the canyon is.\nIn the evening we did a walk along the rim enjoying a magical sunset, a most wonderful visit to the Grand Canyon.\n","date":"31 August 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/grand-canyon/","section":"Posts","summary":"Since we have been travelling around the world for many years with my family and for work I have seen many wonderful places. Grand Canyon is by far one of the more magnificent sites I have seen. This summer on my family roadtrip with a rented RV we visited the south rim of the canyon in early July.\n","title":"Grand Canyon","type":"posts"},{"content":"We had quite a few nice sunsets in the US this summer. Driving along the coast of California on highway 1 we had the sun set in the ocean, over Grand Canyon we had sun setting over the edge, in Los Angeles over the city \u0026hellip; and they were all magnificent. Sunsets are a very popular photo motive and I really would like to get a remote or automated shutter with my tripod to take these photos, but usually I lack the gear when the opportunity presents itself.\nAll photos had some touch-up done in Adobe Lightroom to get the colors out and also some adjustments on the exposure.\n","date":"20 August 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/american-sunsets/","section":"Posts","summary":"We had quite a few nice sunsets in the US this summer. Driving along the coast of California on highway 1 we had the sun set in the ocean, over Grand Canyon we had sun setting over the edge, in Los Angeles over the city … and they were all magnificent. Sunsets are a very popular photo motive and I really would like to get a remote or automated shutter with my tripod to take these photos, but usually I lack the gear when the opportunity presents itself.\n","title":"American Sunsets","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"17 August 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/animals/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Animals","type":"categories"},{"content":"Just a few months back I bought the Kenko extension tubes from Amazon to be able to make macro photos. The reason I went with the Kenko is that they connect the electronics of your lens to the camera so that auto-focus etc will work. You can absolutely go with a cheaper option and still get the same great photos. or you can buy the Canon at tripple the price :)\nDuring our summer vacation I did not get a lot of macro work done but at least I got a Dragonfly mounted on top of a flower just next to the pool. The insect was sometimes flying about but returned to his starting position giving me time to get my gear and land a pretty decent photo. I was lacking my tripod and that is a pity because getting a sharp image can be quite hard due to the zoom that is needed.\nThis particular photo was taken with two tubes mounted, I believe it was the 36mm and 12mm, and the lens was the EF-S 18-200mm extended to maximum zoom to prevent the dragonfly to leave. Going closer meant it would leave, and I tried a few times to be honest.\nI am sure I will do more macro work in the future :) Quite good fun!\n","date":"17 August 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/macro-photography-in-us/","section":"Posts","summary":"Just a few months back I bought the Kenko extension tubes from Amazon to be able to make macro photos. The reason I went with the Kenko is that they connect the electronics of your lens to the camera so that auto-focus etc will work. You can absolutely go with a cheaper option and still get the same great photos. or you can buy the Canon at tripple the price :)\n","title":"Macro Photography in US","type":"posts"},{"content":"How else to throw away some time than just sitting still close to the hedge in the backyard waiting for some bugs to crawl by \u0026hellip; strange what you can see when you go very close. These guys were either fighting, playing, or mating, not sure.\nNot even sure what they are called, any input on that is welcome :)\n","date":"15 June 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/bugs-in-the-hedge/","section":"Posts","summary":"How else to throw away some time than just sitting still close to the hedge in the backyard waiting for some bugs to crawl by … strange what you can see when you go very close. These guys were either fighting, playing, or mating, not sure.\n","title":"Bugs in the hedge","type":"posts"},{"content":"Earlier this spring we rented a cabin from my employer, they have some few cabins around Norway for employees. This time my family went with my sister and her family to enjoy some days together. Very nice time with melting snow and a lot of fog, some rain and a wee bit of sunshine. Here are some of the shots I took while we were up there.\n","date":"14 June 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/spring-cabin-visit-to-hemsedal/","section":"Posts","summary":"Earlier this spring we rented a cabin from my employer, they have some few cabins around Norway for employees. This time my family went with my sister and her family to enjoy some days together. Very nice time with melting snow and a lot of fog, some rain and a wee bit of sunshine. Here are some of the shots I took while we were up there.\n","title":"Spring cabin visit to Hemsedal","type":"posts"},{"content":"So when I was in the US I got some extension tubes for my Canon camera and this gives the opportunity to take extreme closeups with any standard lens. This is a \u0026ldquo;cheat\u0026rdquo; to turn any lens into a macro lens. Very well, I have tested with both my 18-250mm and the 50mm 1.4 and they both work great for macro shots. The 50mm is much more light sensitive and that means you need to go very close for the nice shots and that does not always work well with for instance insects and similar.\nHere are two examples that I have taken with my 18-250mm and all extension tubes connected giving 65mm distance from the lens to the sensor and the maximum macro.\nNote that using all tubes makes it very hard to get nice focus. Starting with fewer tubes and rather zoom and cut the image later might be a good idea.\n","date":"8 June 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/macro-photography/","section":"Posts","summary":"So when I was in the US I got some extension tubes for my Canon camera and this gives the opportunity to take extreme closeups with any standard lens. This is a “cheat” to turn any lens into a macro lens. Very well, I have tested with both my 18-250mm and the 50mm 1.4 and they both work great for macro shots. The 50mm is much more light sensitive and that means you need to go very close for the nice shots and that does not always work well with for instance insects and similar.\n","title":"Macro photography","type":"posts"},{"content":"So when I was in the US I got some extension tubes for my Canon camera and this gives the opportunity to take extreme closeups with any standard lens. This is a \u0026ldquo;cheat\u0026rdquo; to turn any lens into a macro lens. Very well, I have tested with both my 18-250mm and the 50mm 1.4 and they both work great for macro shots. The 50mm is much more light sensitive and that means you need to go very close for the nice shots and that does not always work well with for instance insects and similar.\nHere are two examples that I have taken with my 18-250mm and all extension tubes connected giving 65mm distance from the lens to the sensor and the maximum macro.\nNote that using all tubes makes it very hard to get nice focus. Starting with fewer tubes and rather zoom and cut the image later might be a good idea.\n","date":"22 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/macro-photography-2/","section":"Posts","summary":"So when I was in the US I got some extension tubes for my Canon camera and this gives the opportunity to take extreme closeups with any standard lens. This is a “cheat” to turn any lens into a macro lens. Very well, I have tested with both my 18-250mm and the 50mm 1.4 and they both work great for macro shots. The 50mm is much more light sensitive and that means you need to go very close for the nice shots and that does not always work well with for instance insects and similar.\n","title":"Macro photography","type":"posts"},{"content":"So today I played around with Lightroom 5 and had some fun. I was looking at the new Lens Correction setting and also the spot removal and healing tools. Quite fun actually and if I can get this good a result imagine what the professionals can do. :)\nBelow you can see both the final result and the before / after shot. What two things changed apart from the lens correction?\n\\ \\ ","date":"20 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/lightroom-5-beta-fun/","section":"Posts","summary":"So today I played around with Lightroom 5 and had some fun. I was looking at the new Lens Correction setting and also the spot removal and healing tools. Quite fun actually and if I can get this good a result imagine what the professionals can do. :)\n","title":"Lightroom 5 Beta Fun","type":"posts"},{"content":"Tweets by @sbarmen\n","date":"14 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/twitter-feed/","section":"Pages","summary":"Tweets by @sbarmen\n","title":"Twitter Feed","type":"pages"},{"content":"My mother and Jan has built this cabin on Barmøyna on Barmen. This location is just wonderful and we love to travel there for holidays. Sadly it is quite far to drive so we are not there as often as we want to :)\nVis Barmen - Havørna i et større kart ","date":"14 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/havorna-cabin-on-barmen/","section":"Posts","summary":"My mother and Jan has built this cabin on Barmøyna on Barmen. This location is just wonderful and we love to travel there for holidays. Sadly it is quite far to drive so we are not there as often as we want to :)\n","title":"Havørna Cabin on Barmen","type":"posts"},{"content":"Ok so finally my new blogg is coming together and even though not perfect at least it looks OK now. Was browsing through some old photos and came across these, you where it is? The images were taken in 2002 and they do contain geo information if you know how to extract that :)\n[learn_more caption=\u0026ldquo;Open this box for the answer:\u0026rdquo;]\nThese images are from Hopdalen, in Vedvik where my grandmother and grandfather lived. This was actually the home my grandfather lived his whole life I believe. The house has now been sold to a new family and from what I know they are enjoying and taking care of it like it deserves and that is good.\nClick this button Google Maps for more information: [button link=\u0026ldquo;http://goo.gl/maps/9UmhU\"] Google Maps[/button]\n[/learn_more]\n","date":"14 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/where-is-this/","section":"Posts","summary":"Ok so finally my new blogg is coming together and even though not perfect at least it looks OK now. Was browsing through some old photos and came across these, you where it is? The images were taken in 2002 and they do contain geo information if you know how to extract that :)\n","title":"Where is this?","type":"posts"},{"content":"In the summer of 2012 we visited a lot of Italy and drove from Rome to Rafadali on Sicilia and back up again. This was a very interesting trip where we got to see a lot of the cities as-well as the more rural side of Italy.\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/travels-in-italy/","section":"Posts","summary":"In the summer of 2012 we visited a lot of Italy and drove from Rome to Rafadali on Sicilia and back up again. This was a very interesting trip where we got to see a lot of the cities as-well as the more rural side of Italy.\n","title":"Travels in Italy","type":"posts"},{"content":"Photos from our Safari trip in South-Africa in 2010. We had a great time in Pilanesbarg national park just outside of Pretoria. The whole area is protected and you can go on guided tours, and we have done that twice. Every time a great experience. For more information about Pilanesberg park, please see here: http://www.pilanesberg-game-reserve.co.za/\nWe learned later that “Steroids” was put to sleep as he harassed many visitors to the reserve and he enjoyed playing with the cars. Sad story but understandable.\nThe big elephant, named “Steroids” almost pushed us off the road. We have made a video of the whole incident that is on YouTube, please have a look:\n\\http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q7-yKrvv7w\\\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/safari-in-south-africa/","section":"Posts","summary":"Photos from our Safari trip in South-Africa in 2010. We had a great time in Pilanesbarg national park just outside of Pretoria. The whole area is protected and you can go on guided tours, and we have done that twice. Every time a great experience. For more information about Pilanesberg park, please see here: http://www.pilanesberg-game-reserve.co.za/\n","title":"Safari in South Africa","type":"posts"},{"content":"My family blog: www.barmen.nu My open source XMPP Server: www.jabber.no\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/links/","section":"Pages","summary":"My family blog: www.barmen.nu My open source XMPP Server: www.jabber.no\n","title":"Links","type":"pages"},{"content":"If you need to contact me use the following form:\n[contact-form subject=\u0026lsquo;Contact form stian.barmen.nu\u0026rsquo;][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Name\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;name\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Email\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;email\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Website\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;url\u0026rsquo;/][contact-field label=\u0026lsquo;Comment\u0026rsquo; type=\u0026lsquo;textarea\u0026rsquo; required=\u0026lsquo;1\u0026rsquo;/][/contact-form]\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/contact/","section":"Pages","summary":"If you need to contact me use the following form:\n[contact-form subject=‘Contact form stian.barmen.nu’][contact-field label=‘Name’ type=‘name’ required=‘1’/][contact-field label=‘Email’ type=‘email’ required=‘1’/][contact-field label=‘Website’ type=‘url’/][contact-field label=‘Comment’ type=‘textarea’ required=‘1’/][/contact-form]\n","title":"Contact","type":"pages"},{"content":"Here are some photos from 2012 when we drove via Trollstigen on our way from Molde to Måløy. Trollstigen is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma, Norway that is very famous and attracts tourists from near and far. The mountains closeby also attracts a lot of basejumpers and other “risktakers”.\nThe road itself is to parts quite narrow and can be a bit scary for the faint of heart. Last years there have been made improvements and enhancements to the most critical parts so you can safely traverse with a normal size car and small RVs or even buses.\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/trollstigen/","section":"Posts","summary":"Here are some photos from 2012 when we drove via Trollstigen on our way from Molde to Måløy. Trollstigen is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma, Norway that is very famous and attracts tourists from near and far. The mountains closeby also attracts a lot of basejumpers and other “risktakers”.\n","title":"Trollstigen","type":"posts"},{"content":"Having had some few nice days in the summertime at the wonderful island of Barmen in Nordfjord we got to enjoy some magnificant sunsets and of course I had to capture them with my camera. With the use of a zoom lens and a tripod I got some quite nice shots.\n","date":"12 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/photos-from-barmen/","section":"Posts","summary":"Having had some few nice days in the summertime at the wonderful island of Barmen in Nordfjord we got to enjoy some magnificant sunsets and of course I had to capture them with my camera. With the use of a zoom lens and a tripod I got some quite nice shots.\n","title":"Photos from Barmen","type":"posts"},{"content":" $ whoami stian - Chief Technology Officer, Proact IT Norge $ ls hobbies/ family/ photography/ boat/ travel/ homelab/ Hi, I\u0026rsquo;m Stian. By day I lead technology at Proact IT Norge, where I\u0026rsquo;ve spent years working with infrastructure, storage, and cloud — the kind of thing that occasionally spills over into the posts here.\nOutside of work it\u0026rsquo;s family (a wife and three kids), photography, the boat, travel, and whatever home-lab project is currently threatening to eat a weekend. This site has no grand mission beyond writing about what interests me and posting more photos than is probably reasonable.\nFind me elsewhere:\nLinkedIn GitHub X / Twitter Instagram YouTube ","date":"8 April 2013","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"","summary":"$ whoami stian - Chief Technology Officer, Proact IT Norge $ ls hobbies/ family/ photography/ boat/ travel/ homelab/ Hi, I’m Stian. By day I lead technology at Proact IT Norge, where I’ve spent years working with infrastructure, storage, and cloud — the kind of thing that occasionally spills over into the posts here.\n","title":"About","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/all/","section":"","summary":"archives","title":"All","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/search/","section":"","summary":"Search","title":"Search","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"}]