We ordered some new machines the other day, four Dell XPS 720, two of those are in Denmark and the other two are currently in my office – look at these babies:

I have a couple of lang-haul flights in the upcoming months (Seattle and Israel) and is currently seriously looking into noise canceling headphones. I tried a pair from Bose at an Apple Store in Raleigh two days ago and they were amazingly effective, they would make for a great companion on flight and on the train when I get back home. Unfortunately the technology is quite pricey with the top-of-the-range Bose headphones leading the field at around 300 dollars. I am also considering getting one of the new 8 gig iPod nanos (yes I know, I said I would never get one of those, leave me alone!) to go with the head phones. The iPod is actually considerably _cheaper_ than the headphones.

If anyone has any headphone recommendations, please put them in the comments to this post. I have read this positive New York Times review of different types of headphones, the technology looks pretty mature.

Now for some news for the non-geeks reading this site (I think that would pretty much only be members of my family, correct me if I’m wrong).
I arrived in Durham Wednesday evening after a rather long drive from Chatham, New Jersey. The traffic was heavy most of the way, but never completely congested. On the way I passed a few miles from the national mall in Washington D.C. and I was able to see (again) the Washington Monument and the Capitol from the highway, yay.
Wow, the installation has completed. Let me reboot and continue this post after that.
Okay, back. Anyways, I am staying in a town house in Durham that I share with two other Duke students, the house is really nice and my room is several times larger than the tiny thing I had in New Jersey.
I am more or less settled now, I will use next week to hopefully get a North Carolina drivers license and get my car titled here. I could write a lot of other stuff here, but I feel more like playing with my laptop now, see ya :)

I arrived on friday and spent the rest of the day trying to stay awake with Ash, my australian friend from AT&T. I spent four hours saturday morning trying to get a temporary registration for my car at the New Jersey DMV, which I finally got (hint: It is much easier if you have a US drivers license). Ash and I then went in to New York and met up with Maritza and Haakon in Central Park. We ended up going to a few bars near Columbia and I spend the night on a huuge air matress in Maritzas Columbia apartment.
The next day we went to a Yankees game agains Tamba bay, we had bleacher seats and sat in the sun for a few hours before we agreed that the Yankees were too far behind to win. Ash, Maritza and I then cooked a big meal, complete with deserts and appetizers. We went to bed early and did a tour of the UN head quarters after a very late breakfast at 12pm.

Well, I should really be doing that review, see ya :)

(I reserve the right to get grumpy in 10 hours where I am supposed to be waiting three hours in Hearthrow for a connecting flight to Copenhagen, and then in 16 hours where I am supposed to wait for a connecting flight to Aarhus, and then in 18 hours where I am in the airport bus to Aarhus and then in 18½ hours where I am trying to find a bus or cab to take me to the dorms.)

Anyways, we went to see Les Miserables on Saturday. The production was awesome and I enjoyed it very much, this also increases my total Broadway musical count to 3 over the last two months, not too shabby :). Other than that I haven’t done much interesting in the last week, we have gone to see quite a few movies at a local cinema. We have seen Simpsons, Bourne Ultimatum and the new Die Hard movie. The Bourne movie were a bit disappointing, but I would recommend the other two strongly. And when you go see the simpsons movie, be sure to stay through the credits :)

Having a car completely changes the way I live around here, we can now go to see a movie whenever we want to. We can easily get groceries when we need them, and we do not have to walk 45 minutes to get to the laundry place, yay.

Tonight I am going to a party in New Brunswick, we will probably spend the night in one of the dorms at Rutgers University, which is more or less right next door to the place we are going to. We will then probably go to New York Cite with some other interns on saturday and maybe get tickets to a Broadway show, we’ll see.

Now, Mikkel – it is your turn to blog again! (Or have Martin do it, it is about time he contributed :) )