My soon-to-be-wife and I are brewing delicious fortified wine. We do everything ourselves; we pick various berries, prepare and tap on bottles. This weekend we held a wine-tasting party, and I held a presentation of the whole wine-making-process.

Read more here (8.4MB, Norwegian): http://larsstrand.org/writings/pres/201004-Vin/Hjemmelaget-vin-2010.pdf

At my last place, I had a dedicated room full of servers. It was lovely mix of cra^Wold hardware running various flavors of Linux, BSD and Solaris. At my new place, we didn't have that much space so I was forced to do a cleanup. I bought a powerful server with sufficient RAM, CPU and disk. Now I have one server and a whole bunch of virtual machines running on it. (Throw in a couple of Linksys devices running openwrt and dd-wrt and I was happy.) There was one "problem" - the server had to be placed out on the balcony. It has been running out there for over a year now - how did that go?