Its almost Christmas 2007, and some months ago I moved to this country where I actually have a proper chance of having a white Christmas. Its already pretty white, really. Mostly due to being quite cold, not so much due to snowfall.

As you may know I’ve been working on my favorite OpenDocument implementation for some years, enjoying myself and pushing for this open format that allows information access for all. I’ve also been a member of the Technical Committee of the OpenDocument format, for quite some time now. Which proves to me its really an open standard, its cool that a lone coder that I was back then can have a vote in deciding the direction of the format.
So, you can imagine that I was pretty happy that just a couple of months after I moved to Oslo that my country of origin decided to have ODF as its official standard, stating that any MS format was not good enough.
Now imagine me laughing like a mad cow (with a party hat on) when I read the news today that Norwas, my new ‘home’ country, did the same!

Just a couple of days ago I looked out the window at work and noticed that, actually, its a pretty stunning view; so I think I can continue the trend that I have seen various people set to post a picture of “what I see when I’m not actually working”

To all, have some great holidays and I wish you a fantastic 2008.