Journal of Tormod Haugen

Yesterday saw an eventful evening at the “cabin” of one of my co-wokers. Johannes invited us to share an evening at his place in Skjold, where we were served shrimps, mussels and salmon. The food was delicious and the weather was really nice.

We participated in some activities, walked a bit round the local flora and fauna, saw the sights and ate some more. In addition to meeting our co-workers out of office, we had the chance to meet our / their significant others.

Now I’ve been working for Bouvet for a little bit more than two weeks. My title is Consultant, but I suspect (and hope) I will still have enough work as to be able to say “Developer” without lying through my teeth.

I’ve been lucky to get to know my co-workers a bit better; we had a social trip to Iceland one week into my time here. We were aprox. 80 people from the offices on the west-coast of Norway that went over there, and we all returned.

When Opera released a version of their browser with mouse gestures, I were hooked. Immediately. I’d repeatedly try and use mouse gestures in word documents, explorer windows, you name it. Later, when I switched to Firefox (out of unspecified reasons - I really can’t remember why) I quickly dug up an extension to feed my craving.

Just now a co-worker of mine, Bernhard, pointed me in the direction of StrokeIt. He did so under promise of violence and apocalypse after I saw him use mouse gestures in Windows. StrokeIt is a configurable gesture recognition program - that works out of the box. To get it to work with a new program, just add or edit an window identifier, then drag the finder over the application’s window. This probably need to be done if you’re using Firefox.