About this site
Just a little project to teach myself how to create and maintain a website, and maybe a place to share ideas and photographs.
Technical
I generally like to keep compatibility and standards compliance in mind when I make something, so this site is made and run with WordPress and should be purely valid XHTML and CSS. Using WordPress also allows for a great deal of flexibility and user interaction, so I’m excited to see where this might lead.
External links open in a new window by default. Yes, I know some consider it poor usability, but I feel like keeping it this way for now.
I’m by no means a mad skillz expert at web publishing, so if you experience any trouble or strangeness while browsing this page please give me notice so I can try to fix it.
Language
I have chosen to publish all the contents of my personal home page in English even though my mother tongue is Norwegian, because:
- Some of the information I publish here is going to be of interest to people anywhere, not just my Norwegian friends and family
- A few of my friends don’t understand Norwegian, and the same goes for most of the world for that matter
- The world wide web is an international medium, and introducing artificial barriers like language contradicts it’s original purpose
- Maybe my English improves from the training I get writing here
At one point, I considered publishing all technical/general interest topics in English and personal stuff like photo albums in Norwegian but the more I thought about it, the more awkward this kind of division seemed to me. However, you will probably be able to spot a few Norwegian words here and there in sections that are obviously not of general interest.
I believe this decision in the end includes considerably many more readers than it excludes, but please feel free to tell me your thoughts and I am happy to discuss them with you.