Yesterday I spend 10 hours in school, going from this:

to this:

after we were done walking around putting up posters it was time some of this (which was pretty sweet):

And today I’ve been hard at work with this:

I’m back from the UK. All in all it went pretty good! The game turned out pretty good and I think all the players thought it was good fun. Unfortunately, we didn’t get many players :/

Some comments on the trip, first of all: British food sucks.

For some reason they only seem to eat bacon and french fries (or “chips”). Now granted that the food experience from this trip might be a bit biased because the number of restaurants and in general the different kinds of food available at the venue were limited. We were unable to find anything that had not been deep-fried except “pot noodles”. So we ate noodles most of the time. One time I tried a chicken and mushroom pie, which is what you can see here to the right.

It didn’t suck horribly, but it was some sort of crusty pie filled with slime accompanied by luke-warm chips on which you could still taste the oil from the deep-fryer. We did manage to find some good food in the end though (read on to find out what )

They have several of these “ROOM OF LUXURY” deals, which is pretty fun

This is a picture of the “Egyptian hall”. Some Egyptian dude bought Harrods a while back and is now owned by an Egyptian family. It has these Egyptian influences here and there.

This was the Christmas room, bunch of decorations lights and cards!

This was one of the coolest things in the place. The orange text says Luxury Seatoys and it’s like a mini-waterjet-scooter-thingie that you hold on to and it drags you in the water. It can be used for cruising the surface or to dive and do all sorts of acrobatics under water. It’s pretty awesome, the most expensive model was £80,000 and the cheapest (in the picture) was £7,300 or something like that.

After Harrods we went back to the Tube and headed off to Heathrow. We intentionally headed to Heathrow pretty early because we have started a tradition in which we eat a nice good meal at the airport to talk and relax and put the trip behind us and prepare for the things to come when we get back home (like school 12 hours a day again).

This time we found a cool place called “Gordon Ramsay plane food”, they had an early supper menu in which you got a 3 course dinner for a discounted prize (because it was early) so we got that and it was some of the best food I’ve ever eaten! Especially the entrée pictured below.

This was beetroot with walnut and a pesto with goat cheese salad. The white stuff there is the goat cheese and it was incredibly awesome, best I’ve ever had with a myriad of flavors that melted in your mouth.

If you’re at Heathrow and want a really good meal – go to “Gordon Ramsays plane food”.

The main course was roast chicken with mashed potatoes for me and penne with tomatoes for Emanuel.

And for dessert we had an Apple and blueberry crumble with some sort of custard sauce.

And of course to top it all off we had a bottle of nice Italian red wine.

Perfect end to a trip and perfect start of a new shitload of work.

After this, we went home. I haven’t flown in the dark in a while and it was pretty cozy.

Do you see that green spot in the middle of the picture? That’s a football field, there were a lot of these, at one time I had three within my field of vision from one single window and they were all lit up to look like it was day on the field

All in all – it’s always nice to get a away for a while.

Yesterday I left home at 7.45 AM to get to the airport in Copenhagen. It’s time for another i-Series event!

When we landed we took the tube into London, where we were going to meet up with my sister (who lives there). Before she could come to meet us we had like 45 minutes to kill on Oxford street so we went around window-shopping and just looking around a bit.

First up was this place, I think I know someone that might have wanted to be there as well ;P

Walking by the HMV store I found this little gem. It certainly didn’t want to make me want to play Modern Warfare 2 less.

We found a MUJI store as well, selling real Japanese candy with the price-tags in Japanese still there. Awesome feeling to see some Japanese and to be in a “Japanese” store like that. Love it.

After all this window-shopping we had to confess our sins, so we headed over to church.

After we had eaten we left London pretty much right away, around 15:00 or so. The venue is Newbury Racecourse quite a bit outside London, it was really a bitch getting there because we were supposed to take the train from Paddington station, but when we got there, there was this dude we asked about with platform to be on that told us to take this-and-this train to Reading station. We did what he said because we thought it would save us time. Turns out we had to wait an hour at Reading station for the train to Newbury, that was like a local train so it stopped pretty much everywhere.

When we got the venue it was dark as shit and raining and we sort of had to follow some people that looked like gamers and hoped they were going the same place we were supposed to go.

It’s unfortunate to say and I can sort of understand it but – when we got here, we didn’t really get a nice welcoming, in fact we barely got any at all and we had to ask quite a lot of times to even get to know where we were supposed to sleep. It had turned out like 3 days earlier that we had to buy bedding because the beds here didn’t have sheets or anything. So we managed to get someone to drive us to a Tesco store so we could buy duvet covers and pillows and stuff. After that we were pretty beat so we just went to bed pretty much right away.

Today is sort of a bit better, we hope to be done with the game pretty quick and meet some players, meeting the players is always the most fun, no matter if it’s here or at DreamHack.

I just had breakfast and have read up on the stuff that happened on the Internet yesterday (we have no internet or cellular reception at the room we’re sleeping in).

Now I’m gonna get working on the tasks, we have a pretty clear outline but there’s still some work to be done.

I’ve been keeping quite busy the last couple of days. School takes up a lot but the little extra time I have I spend trying to make a little file upload demo in Cappuccino, which is really awesome. I love being able to code Objective-C and then just refresh my browser to see my application running in there instead of on the desktop.

Another very awesome thing is that I have now been officially approved as an iPhone Developer, meaning I can develop apps on my own phone and if they get good enough I can start selling them in the App Store. The entire application process took only 6 work-days which I have to say is very impressive! I’ve heard of people having to wait months for their licenses so that was pretty awesome. The first app up for development is essentially a phone version of DHG, which I hope can get quite awesome.

There is in fact so much awesome, that I can’t stop thinking about all of this awesome, resulting in me not getting any sleep. The upside of this is that it will result in tomorrow being very much less awesome and hopefully I’ll be able to get some sleep then.

I can’t wait till Christmas break when I’ll actually have some free time!