Mortens Blog

Living it up in the Cloud…

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:16:00 GMT

Before the summer of 2009 we started up a new company to bring Hosted SwyxWare to Norwegian resellers. We refer to this as Cloud Communication. Starting a company from scratch is a perfect way to be a little bold and try to do things differently. So, my quest as the CTO was to see just how ‘cloudy’ a company can be in the year of 2009…

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Wave goodbye…

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:17:31 GMT

There it was. Just like that. In my email inbox. An invitation to use Google Wave.

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The lady in LED…

morten@rokosz.no — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:37:59 GMT

I suddenly got interested in fashion and clothing. But not for the reason you think…

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The lady in LED…

morten@rokosz.no — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:26 GMT

I suddenly got interested in fashion and clothing. But not for the reason you think…

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Not so long ago…

morten@rokosz.no — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:29:42 GMT

I had just start reading an article about Google Wave ( O'Brien: Google Wave Is like e-mail, only way more complicated ). When I read the introduction, I had to smile a little bit:

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The man behind the graphical plan

morten@rokosz.no — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:25:02 GMT

By chance I stumbled over the website of a certain Mr. Bernd Baringhorst. Want to know more about the man behind the graphical profile of Swyx Solutions? Then visit his home page Bernd Baringhorst.

I spent the day wisely…

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:51:01 GMT

…and made a Swyxware video presentation. Use it at your own risk…

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This day in history…

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:48:14 GMT

Today is a special day. Well not the day in itself, but the date; 07.08.09. It will not happen again for a hundred years, so spend the day wisely…

Lobster anyone…

morten@rokosz.no — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:47:45 GMT

Just sharing my first experience of preparing lobster. Enjoy.

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A wave to live….

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:05:46 GMT

I just got the time too watch the complete Google I/O Wave presentation. I must say I am looking forward to this. A lot of the feature they are showing, is exactly the features I have missed.

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Basic Cloud Computing

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:43:20 GMT

You better do it yourself…

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:37:27 GMT

Maybe construction is not one of the skills your friends associate you with. But I am pretty sure you could have done better than this!

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UCIT – Cloud Communication

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:14:05 GMT

I have written about the startup of our company, UCIT. Finally every piece of the puzzle is in place.

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I am the missing link!!

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:45:38 GMT

Since I am so ego-centric, I always test new search engines by doing a search on my own name. Bing was no exception, but I may say I got myself a surprise when I checked out the image search.

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Universal Web Search

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:41:30 GMT

This is my latest project.

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Ports of Google

morten@rokosz.no — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:01:25 GMT

One of my favourite games for the Amiga was Ports of Call. I also bought it for the PC a couple of years ago. It is a trading simulator, where you transport goods from one port in the world to another.

So when I read about a project that is using Goolgle Earth to make a ship simulator, I tested it right away.

The ‘game’ is developed by Dinther Product Design.

Try it here: Ships

Jarre Back in Oslo

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:41:12 GMT

Tomorrow Jean-Michel Jarre will be back in Oslo as part of the World Tour. So now you know where to find me tomorrow…

0 Years

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:54:14 GMT

Swyx has been around for ten years. We just started our business, with strong focus on Swyx products and we are sure we will be successful delivering services based on the Swyx product range. The first step is now completed, we have an officelocation and the necessary IT systems up and running. The CRM, accounting and logistic system is a web-based solution from 24SevenOffice. Email and simple office applications are handled with Google Apps for Domains.

Our office is located in Østensjøveien 36, just 8 minutes from Oslo center with the Metro or car. We are renting two offices from another company. They rent the complete floor and rent some of the offices to us and another company.

We are very satisfied to get such a nice office location, for a quite reasonable price I think. Enjoy the photos of the office below.

The main entrance (photo: Bryn Eiendom)

View from the stairs, looking down at the main entrance (photo: Morten Rokosz)

The relax zone. Yeah, like we will ever be able to relax! ;) (photo: Morten Rokosz)

My office. The place I will be when not in the relax zone… (photo: Morten Rokosz)

The view from my office. A nice view of downtown Oslo and the Oslofjord, if not the white building had been blocking the view. (photo: Morten Rokosz)

We are ready for Swyx to come visit us… (photo: Morten Rokosz)

The meeting room we can use when Swyx is visiting… (photo: Bryn Eiendom)

A New Era

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:48:00 GMT

We decided to start our own company! I am no longer an YIT employee.

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If your real life is not enough

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:23:28 GMT

Check out this ‘game’ from Microsoft. Don’t limit yourself to be a geek in real life, step into your virtual parallel universe.

Designed to look like any C64 game, it’s fun (and yes, of course it is some kind of advertising)

Click the picture to play (requires Silverlight)

Share your toasted screen…

morten@rokosz.no — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:33:02 GMT

Are you into the business of sharing your screen. Here are two free tools to help you do just that.

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More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:30:41 GMT

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

GaaS

morten@rokosz.no — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:03:14 GMT

The use of the WEB just took yet another step in the right direction; Games as a Service.

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Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth

morten@rokosz.no — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:46:57 GMT

BATAVIA, IL—In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider—a $117 billion electromagnetic particle accelerator built to study astronomical phenomena by colliding Earth into various heavenly bodies—could potentially destroy Earth when it sends the planet careening headlong into Mars, Jupiter, or even the sun.

Read the rest here: The Onion

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

morten@rokosz.no — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:02:41 GMT

Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?