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Mar 05, 11 | 6:59 am

Pub talk

Latest pub joke (no room for it on Twitter)

Aug 05, 10 | 9:50 pm

Tajikistani images reduced

Increased demand on space forces me to reduce the size of images from my elections observation mission to Tajikistan in 2010.

May 04, 10 | 7:34 pm

Positive evaluation of musical competence

I was pretty agitated during yesterday’s test at the local teachers’ college. I’m trying to become a music teacher and I had almost no way to prove it save my practical test results.

Apr 01, 10 | 9:49 pm

Photos from Tajikistan

I’m back from Central Asia and brought photos with me.

Mar 04, 10 | 6:48 pm

50th birthday while on a mission

Amidst the Tajikistani parliamentary elections, I turned 50. Most of the birthday was spent in bed after exhausting observations as OSCE/ODIHR observer.

Feb 15, 10 | 11:41 pm

Tajikistan — here I come!

I’ll spend my 50th birthday somewhere hidden away between the mountains of Tajikistan. This is my modest sacrifice to the development of democracy in Central Asia.

Aug 19, 09 | 12:36 pm

Back to school again

I’m heading back to school. This Monday was my first day as student at the local teacher’s college.

Feb 15, 09 | 10:14 pm

No more Senhor Thau-Knudsen!

Three weeks ago I got an official notification that I was divorced in Portugal.

Feb 12, 09 | 7:51 pm

Hard considerations

Feb 10, 09 | 9:44 am

New, half-old e-mail address

A more than 5 years long test pe­ri­od of the e-mail services of my web hotel is over now. With cer­tain­ty at heart I hereby declare that you can use erik@thau-knudsen.dk as my e-mail address.

2012-02-01 | 11:09 am

iMac put to sleep with nasty virus

The Windows 7 partition of my iMac was severely hit by a virus yesterday. Fortunately, this is not my primary work environment, but my minor kids were tear-broken.

2010-04-29 | 8:40 am

Easy and fully functional

Official review of Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter, submitted to Apple Store 2010-04-29.

2010-02-17 | 4:05 pm

MacBook late 2007

My MacBook was acquired as a Christmas present for me. I have been almost inseparable from it ever since. Here are its data.

2009-10-29 | 9:48 pm

Internet Explorer version 8 hits the bell

Microsoft made a giant leap with Internet Explorer version 8. Most of the CSS parsing issues have been addressed. Please update if you haven’t already!

2009-06-24 | 6:51 am

Faster iPhone after upgrade to OS 3.0

Among the many improvements that Apple offered its iPhone users in iPhone OS 3.0 was a speed boost in many applications. Fellow iPhone users are recommended to upgrade immediately.

2009-05-26 | 4:27 pm

Attach images from WWW to contacts in iPhone

The Contacts list is the key to the 3rd Generation (3G) production line of iPhone. Here’s a few tricks on how to add a portrait photo to a contact, using the built-in Safari web browser.

2009-05-08 | 8:14 pm

Network confusion causes iPhone crash

A train ride with its frequent switching networks brought my iPhone to its knees. This posting is written from the 3G, so I did get it up and going. The problem was interesting, though.

2009-04-14 | 8:44 am

How to copy song lyrics from Metrolyrics.com

An iPhone/iPod Touch can show you the lyrics of the tunes being played, and users of these devices might want to sing along with their favourite artists. Most often, you’ll have to get the lyrics from some web sites showing them. One of the best is Metrolyrics.com. They prevent immediate copy-and-paste procedures, but there is a hack to that.

2009-02-16

News archive

This is a historical page. It covers events until February 11, 2008. Please consult my News page for later events.

Arkiv

Dato	Titel	Billede	Resume
2008-02-11	Repatriation from Pisa		The EU resolved on February 6, 2008, to cut down the number of Short-Term Observers for its Elections Observation Mission to the parliamentary elections to Pakistan. Out of more than 60 participants representing 20 member states on the security training in Pisa, Italy, only 23 could go, and I, alas! was not one of them.
2007-12-20	No deployment to Pakistan		EuropAid announced on December 20 that there will be no deployment of short term observers for the elections in Pakistan on January 8, 2008. This affects me as I was proposed as an STO by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2007-10-22	Short term observation in Pakistan?		The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs just invited me as an observer for the national and provincial assembly elections that are anticipated to be held in Pakistan during the first two weeks of January. I accepted the short term mission.
2007-08-20	My new iMac is a monster		I felt like Santa Claus was coming by, when a beautiful lady delivered me my latest computer acquisition — an iMac as of the late summer 2007 standards.
2006-12-12	Weblog launched for information technology issues		Blogging hit this web site in the end of November 2006, when I installed a web log about general issues (diary, opinions) in Danish. A new one saw the light to-day
2006-11-22	Shell takes me off the dole	Image of my future work place. Photo: Erik Thau-Knudsen, 2006-11-22	As of December 7, 2006, I shall start my training at the local Shell service station in Silkeborg to become a nightwatch.
2006-10-17	Google was a rivet	Google	Today, Google told me that there is not currently a position on the AdSense team that aligns with my experience and skills. Well, I pulled another rivet in my job lottery.
2006-10-09	Updated personal presentation		I have replaced my personal presentation page with a whole sub-site based on the house division known from astrology.
2006-10-04	Google phoned me!		And they will phone back for a job interview on October 10.
2006-09-01	Choose your stylesheet		Now, you can view this site in different layouts
2006-06-14	New page: About this site		To conform with what seems to be an upcoming international tendency, www.thau-knudsen.dk has also a page about this site. Now, an English version is also available.
2005-12-13	Home again		Just to leave nobody in doubt: I returned back to Denmark on Saturday 10 December 2005 after my seven weeks as an observer of ODIHR for the presidential elections this year.
2005-10-17	Itinerary for my travel to Kazakhstan		Here's my itinerary for my travel to Kazakhstan to carry out my long-term observation mission at the presidential elections 2005.
2005-10-13	Kazakhstan: Return of Erik		Kazakhstan won't leave me alone. ODIHR has approved me as an international long-term observer for the presidential elections that take place on December 4, 2005.
2004-09-27	Back home, still feeling attached
2004-08-20	Kazakstan is great		Food and air is OK in Kazakhstan.
2004-06-23	Writing for the Sony Ericsson T610
2003-12-02	Web sites produced
2003-08-06	Itinerary: Ljubljana 2003
2003-08-04	Look over my shoulder

2009-02-16