As many of you know, I arrived in Norway on October 3rd this year, almost\r\n\t2 months ago. Since then, I haven\u2019t found much time to update this blog with\r\n\tnew content. However, I always try to post at least one post per month, so here\r\n\tI am, on November 30th at 23:10 UTC writing this month\u2019s entry. With just under\r\n\tan hour to go, I\u2019m rushing to get this done.<\/p>\r\n
Anyway, the last two months have been exciting. Working for Opera<\/a> has\r\n\tbeen really fun and I\u2019m starting to adjust to my new life in Norway reasonably\r\n\twell. Although I can\u2019t yet tell you everything, I\u2019m working in the Core QA\r\n\tdepartment, finding and analysing bugs and working on some other really cool\r\n\tprojects.<\/p>\r\n I have, of course, continued my involvement with the W3C HTML, Web API and\r\n\tWAF working groups. The HTML WG recently published the first public working\r\n\tdraft of the HTML\r\n\tDesign Principles<\/a>. This is actually a really important document,\r\n\tsince it outlines the core principles and design aims behind HTML5. Unfortunately,\r\n\twe are yet to formally publish a first public working draft of the spec itself\r\n\t(the editors draft<\/a> is always available), we are really hoping we can resolve\r\n\tthe remaining issues sooner rather than later.<\/p>\r\n I\u2019m currently living in an apartment, sharing with three other Opera employees.\r\n\tSome photos\r\n\tof this place<\/a> have been published on my flickr account. My bedroom\r\n\tis a little bit small (it\u2019s only 1.7m \u00d7 4.7m), but somehow I\u2019ve managed to\r\n\tfit everything in.<\/p>\r\n One thing I\u2019ve noticed here, which has required a fair bit of adjusment,\r\n\tis that almost everything is backwards<\/em> here! Seriously!<\/em> Here\u2019s just a few things\r\n\tto which I\u2019ve had to adjust:<\/p>\r\n There\u2019s probably more, but I can\u2019t remember them all.<\/p>\r\n It started snowing here a few days ago, though it\u2019s still a little warm and\r\n\tit melts away during the afternoon. I\u2019m looking forward to the ski season starting\r\n\tsometime in the next few weeks. Although I wear warm clothes while walking to\r\n\twork, I generally walk around the office during the day wearing shorts and t-shirt.\r\n\tThe office is just too warm to be wearing long pants or a jumper, yet some people\r\n\tare still surprised to see me like that.<\/p>\r\n As those of you who\u2019ve been following my\r\n\t\ttwitter posts<\/a> would know, I recently\r\n\tbought myself a 17" MacBook Pro. I absolutely love it and I\u2019m finding myself\r\n\tusing it more and more instead of my PC. OS X Leopard rules! Windows Vista\r\n\t\tsucks. Seriously, I\u2019ve never seen an OS so bad and unusable. It\u2019s unbelievable\r\n\t\thow annoyed I got with it after only 5 minutes of use on a friends laptop.<\/p>\r\n Anyway, my time is almost up to get this published before the end of the\r\n\tday, so that\u2019s it for now. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As many of you know, I arrived in Norway on October 3rd this year, almost 2 months ago. Since then, I haven\u2019t found much time to update this blog with new content. However, I always try to post at least one post per month, so here I am, on November 30th at 23:10 UTC writing … Continue reading Life in Norway<\/span> \r\n\t