Tired and annoyed by not having a free online dictionary that translates between english and norwegian, and allows the user to easily participate in the organic growth of the vocabulary by requesting missing translations, I developed Lookopp. As time passes and more users discover Lookopp I hope it can develop into a full-blown dictionary. Feel free to check it out.
I finished the site for Fysiomoves today. Now the web site appears to be 100% cross browser compatible, rendered identical on all popular browsers. Popular refers to MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Opera and Safari. According to my experience, if these browsers does not deviate, the remaining browsers out there won't either.
Currently the pages are only displaying placeholder text and graphics, as the content is mostly not my responsibility. I have edited a dozen or so images to be used on the page, and setup an initial menu. The rest will be produced by Silvia Lesoil over at Napp Design the following weeks or so.
Started working on a new web project today, a physiotherapy clinic located in Nesbru, about 25 minutes outside Oslo. The site will be developed together with Silvia Lesoil at Napp Design.
The project will require web based content editing, meaning fully editable menues and headlines in addition to the body text. The new site will be much more visually oriented, and my goal is to make it open, clean and professional. The latest development is available online, showing the current project status in the upper right corner.
The Kingdom of Norway is not a particularly vast country, however it is very narrow. If you start in Sweden and head west, you could cross the land and reach the Norwegian west coast in little over an hour. In addition there are less Norwegians on earth than there are people living in St. Petersburg, or kids living in the state of New York. Still Norway has its own language - well, several actually - and almost a hundred thousand square kilometre of unspoiled nature. Needless to say, if you meet a Norwegian and you don't like the outdoors, chances are you will end up talking about the weather or even worse, football (as in soccer).
All I know about football is that it's round (not oval) and that we are one of the two countries Brazil has played, but never beaten. I know this because our newspapers love recycling headlines that point out how good we are. Even though we individually claim to be humble, Norway as a whole loves to think we are the best, no matter what topic. Well, except movies.
Basically all Norwegian movies are an embarrassment. Every aspect of the production is for the most part a complete disaster; the rest is just hilariously awful, especially if you consider the dialogue. There is nothing natural about it. It often appears like the author deliberately avoids every naturally spoken word of the Norwegian language. The result is so artificial and involuntarily funny you either crack open laughing or stop watching all together, for me it's mostly the latter.
So, even though I hate to brag, I feel pretty sure that Norway is the world leader when it comes to making horribly bad movies. And just to get things started, I would recommend picking up Hud, Dis and Lasse og Geir - three typically bad Norwegian movies.
Enjoy!
