From the archive – Denmark holiday
Pregnant Siri and husband Tor in August last year – their son is now 9 months old. Århus, Denmark.
(If anyone has a hat like that for sale – I’m buying)
Woman checking her luggage before boarding ferry to Norway. Hirtshals, Denmark.
From the archive – scenes from Mumbai
Had to go into my archive from last year to find some specific pictures for a friend, and found these.
From when I was in Mumbai in February of last year on an assignment on surrogacy in India.
These are random pictures from going from place to place.
Assignment – Runners in Eldoret, for Plot
9 out of 10 world record holders for the marathon are Kenyan, and they’re all from Eldoret.
So why do white people even try? At their best they can never beat the runners from Kenya, they’re not even close.
Published in a 31-page spread in the newest addition to the Norwegian magazine flora – PLOT.
Some of these were in the article, some of them didn’t make the cut.
Also, they’re in no particular order.
21 kilometers uphill. At the 11 km mark
Sunrise in Eldoret, around 5 am
Sindre Buraas at the office
Kenyan runner training
Runners stretching after workout
Winner of New York marathon, Edna Kiplagat, at airport in Eldoret
Kipchoge (“Kip”) Keino at Eldoret country club
Kip Keinos childrens home
Runners are everywhere in Eldoret
View of Rift Valley
Stretching after workout
Sindre Buraas at the office
Relaxing after workout
Workout
Getting some sleep en route to uphill workout
Sindre Buraas after finishing 21 km uphill run
Carbohydrates are usually bad, but needed after heavy workouts
Ngong racetracks
Horserace at Ngong racetrack, outside Nairobi.
- When are the races? I asked.
- Almost every sunday, they replied.
Results board
Betting
Cheering
One of six races
Peptalk
Some loose
Some win
Backup strategy when on the move
After last weeks ordeal with a harddrive going bad, I’ve decided to take action and be prepared.
This is going to be my daily routine from now on (or at least every day I use my mac to check e-mail, empty memorycards, etc).
Some people have already pointed out that the only truly safe way to back up data is offsite backup. While this is true, it is generally not practically possible while traveling, due to low quality networks and bad connections. When I’m working I produce as much as 20-30 GB every day, so uploading that back to my office in Norway is not possible; there’s simply not enough time.
- I will always travel with an extra external harddrive, equal in size to my internal one, which I will clone every night before going to bed. This clone will be bootable, so in case my internal drive goes bad, I can not only restore it fully; if need be, I can continue working off my external bootable drive.
- I will have my mailserver forward every mail I get to my Gmail account, which will sort it under its own folder. This is my backup mail, in case everything goes south.
- I will keep a version of OSX on an emergency USB flashdrive, which will also contain some select diagnostical software and software for repairing non-hardware-damages to the internal drive. This will be lightweight, which means it’s small and boots fast.
- The bootable flashdrive will also be used to restore my drive’s directories once every month. This is to both keep my drive healthy, but also to discover any faults before they become corrupted beyond repair.
Hopefully these simple points will prove sufficient, easy to follow, and keep me from loosing data the next time (knock on wood) my drive fail.