Erlend Reigstad

Congratulations IIMA!

Erlend Reigstad — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:30:56 +0000

It seems the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad (IIMA) are finally entering the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings, starting with an impressive 11th. I have fond memories from my exchange stay at IIMA in 2006 and wish the institution, students and faculty all the best.

As I’m sure it’s articulated at WIMWI right now – Good show!

TED

Erlend Reigstad — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:33:43 +0000

Would you look at that!

On sheer coincidence i noticed my alma mater is holding a TED event the same day I read this (on one of my favourite sarcasm websites).

Tip of the day

Erlend Reigstad — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:05:03 +0000

Lifehacker.com gives the advice that you should enable those who find your missing camera to find you. While the solution offered (including a set of photos of yourself showing messages on a whiteboard) might be over the top for most of us there should be no reason not to have a single text-file on your internal camera memory with your contact information.

http://lifehacker.com/5433329/get-your-camera-returned-with-a-great-photo-message

Playground

Erlend Reigstad — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:11:54 +0000

Expect this site to act as a virtual playground with frequent changes until we are through doing some experimenting on which wordpress theme to use on oekonomi.no

Update 20/10-09: It seems the current theme om oekonomi.no is perfect in every way so we’re sticking to it

Upgrade

Erlend Reigstad — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:22:07 +0000

Has just completed my first wordpress upgrade and it went mostly smoothly.

The only real obstacle was using the WP-phpMyAdmin plugin to do a database backup, this has been failing to load ever since it worked the first few times doing backups of http://www.oekonomi.no/ and http://oekonomi.no/ordliste/. Since there is not much content at this site* I took my chances just doing an export of the content before upgrading. The upgrade seems ok and now there is an automatic upgrade option, which is probably a good idea. I’m guessing quite a few people have found themselves deleting the wrong folders using ftp to replace old files, as well as losing their settings in wp-config.php.

(*) It never was meant to, neither, this is more of a playground and test-site.

As for new features and improvements I’m not sure yet. Just browsing through the wp-admin I don’t see many changes apart from a whole new layout and some minor additions. Under the hood is another chapter, one I’m not qualified to decipher

14 Reasons Not to Invest in Car Manufacturers

Erlend Reigstad — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:38:18 +0000

http://www.businessinsider.com/unsold-cars-around-the-world-2009-2

(From The Business Insider via Consumerist.com)

On Truthfulness

Erlend Reigstad — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:36:39 +0000

One is reminded of the story of the Italian anarchist who on trying in immigrate in the 1920s when asked to answer the question:

“Do you advocate the overthrow of United States by force or violence?”

Circled “force”.

Comment from “Joe Smith” on the Freakonomics-blog

Picture of the Year?

Erlend Reigstad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:47:34 +0000

I just finished “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon. The book is real good, detective stories is not normally my cup of tea (with a few exceptions) but this one resonates with me. It has a counter-factual history backdrop, but presented in a very subtle manner and leaves one thinking there should be some sort of appendix.

Also it’s dark and hence the title of this post. It’s silly but I can best describe the book as a “film noir” and it didn’t take long before I started thinking someone should make a movie based on the book. At this point I checked IMDB and guess what? The Coen-brothers are writing and directing the picture, scheduled for theatres in 2010. Excellent story, brilliant directors – sound like a recipe for a great movie.

Bad News on a Sunday Night

Erlend Reigstad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:27:20 +0000

Time: 19.59 Location: On the airport express bus

Text: The flight is delayed, expected departure 21:40

and then again

Time: 21.03 Location: At the airport

Text: The flight is delayed, expected departure 22:20

“Kitchen essentials, and items you can pass by”

Erlend Reigstad — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:07:31 +0000

I need a bigger kitchen…

Update (24/5-09):

It seems I’m not alone