Today, my wonderful little sister, Charlotte has her 21st birthday. Happy Birthday Charlotte!

(The picture is a test shot from when we had to shoot the photo for the CBS Case Competition Christmas card — but I think this one turned out quite fine, I think. And for those of you who did not know, it is Charlotte in the photo.)

Those who know me, know that I’m fond of cars, very fond of BMW, and particularly fond of the BMW M5. Well, I can’t but share this video my brother pointed to me on YouTube.

This weekend we had the annual (well, as annual as it gets, when it is the second time we do it) CBS Case Competition Kick Off Weekend. What a blast. To my surprise and liking, we went to the southern part of Jutland — Sønderjylland — which is the part of the country that I come from, if it had slipped anyone’s attention :-).

This is a picture from our walk in the Åtte Mountains (mountains in Denmark are non-existent… we have hills, and the Åtte Mountains, which they are actually called, don’t go above 60-70 metres). The two in the foreground are Thomas (Big T) and I — we write this year’s case. On the far right in the picture is Thomas Bo, my business partner.

Yesterday (September 16) around midday, my sister Bettina delivered a baby boy (4,035 g, 52 cm), which makes her a proud mother, Jens (my brother-in-law) a proud father, and — of course — me a proud uncle.

Life is so beautiful.

One of my latest blog roll additions is a blog called indexed, which is actually a pretty new blog (the archive goes back to the beginning of August this year) — and it is both hilariously funny, relevant and intelligent. The content generated consists of small posts with pictures of index cards, making a point using a nice hand-drawn illustration. Below, an index card called “Keepin’ it real“, posted yesterday.

The 2007 Triumph Bonneville – wow, it’s so hot! I’ve put it down on my wishlist for Christmas (who am I kidding?) — well, at least it is on my shopping list for this spring.

In the beginning of the year, I signed up as a user on last.fm, one of these many social, web 2.0 web sites going around—this one about music. Last.fm has a little feature that tells you who your “musical neighbours” are. Naturally, I had to explore who was on my neighbour list, and I bumped into a wonderful blog called The Girl in the Café maintained by a Dutch girl called Ingrid, who lived in Aarhus, Denmark, at the time (and now lives in London).

From what I gather from her blog, Ingrid loves a movie called, also, The Girl in the Café so much that she had the wonderful idea of starting a dvd tour, which everyone can sign up for. I was so inspired by Ingrid’s blog, what she wrote, and her idea, that I simply had to sign up to see what this movie was all about. In order to participate, you have to write a review of the movie, and post it to your blog, so here goes:

Movie Review: The Girl in the Café

The movie takes place in England, where we meet Lawrence, a researcher for the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is dull, lacks both self-esteem and self-confidence, and has nothing in his life but his job. One day, at a café, he bumps into a girl, Gina, who seems very shy at first. After this, they meet a couple of times, subsequent to which Lawrence invites her to a G8 summit in Iceland.

Once in Iceland, the movie takes a turn. Gina’s character is suddenly not so shy and she embarrasses Lawrence at several occasions in front of some very important people (presidents, ministers and their like). She ends up being escorted away and home, and he ends up losing his job.

That is the setting—and it is about as exciting as I have written it here. The only interesting thing is how two lost people can find love and happiness in a world like ours, but the movie is abused and turned into a political plot, where, according to the movie, everything is black and white—compromise seems like a notion the movie doesn’t embrace (or want to embrace). The political agenda steals the attention, and that’s a shame, because the story of the two people would have been much more interesting.

All in all, the movie is very monotonous, with an average cast (except Bill Nighy), which is not worth much more than 2 stars (of 6).

Read about The Girl in the Café at IMDb.

That said, I think the project is a wonderful idea, and I urge you to go to Ingrid’s website, follow her blog (which is very good) and sign up for the tour, so you can see and judge the movie for yourself.

For those abroad, those not living in Copenhagen, or those who might have had their head in a bush the last four days: The Copenhagen Jazz Festival is right here, right now, and it is rocking swinging.

Being a jazz enthusiast myself (I play the saxophone–and I simply love Jazz), this is one of the best times to be in Copenhagen. I have not had as free a schedule as I would have liked these two weeks, but I get to see a little. And–Jamie Cullum is playing in Tivoli on Friday!

The Montreux Jazz Festival is also running right now. I wish I had the time to go, but Montreux will have to be next year . I promise. (I hope….) — (I was in Montreux in the fall–what a wonderful trip…)

It has been a while, since I’ve posted something. The main reason is that my beloved ThinkPad (of all computers) has decided that it wanted to break its own motherboard. Whaaaat! I need to copy my hard drive, before I send it in for repair, so there might go some weeks, before I’m fit for fight again.

On a positive note, this little crash made me look at Apple’s website (which I do quite often anyway), and I fell in love with the new MacBooks, so that might be my next computer. Go have a look at them; you’ll fall in love too :-).

In the latest issue of Times, Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are elected as Time’s Persons of the Year. I particularly like the introductory bit to the article (reproduced below).

“For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME’s Persons of the Year.”

Read the entire Times article at their website.