Monthly Archives: June 2005
Fix for earlier post on accessibility
OK, there’s been quite a stir around Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that adds user scripts to the discerning web user’s toolbox. And here are some more, with the knowledge to go with it. The handbook Dive into Greasemonkey says it … Continue reading
Open Source programming recruting
At the Reboot conference, I attended a less formal talk-session on how to make money on Open Source programming. In the group were among others: myself, David Axmark of MySQL AB, Copenhagen’s Umbraco (.NET content management system/framework), and the nice … Continue reading
Job positions, and who to fill them
Very seldom do we see this kind of lists in job postings. This here is an ad for a job in Portland, Oregon. (“PERL Application Developer”) We cut to the chase, to the last part of the posting, where special … Continue reading
Geo-location fun with Plazes
Now that I met Peter Rukavina, I am involved in the Plazes development effort. This blog post explains what Plazes is. Peter does it, too, at his Rukapedia. In the bar at the right-hand side of this page is a … Continue reading
An IT conversation with Meg Hourihan
Via misbehaving.net I got a link to the first interview with a woman at IT Conversations, the place for podcast interviews with people in IT.
Eläkeläiset
Found some Eläkeläiset music today. I love that band. Finnish, funny. Image of the true being of Eläkeläiset. The music consisted of humppa – their own brand of folk music – covers of 90s hits. Gangsta’s Paradise in a Finnish … Continue reading
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Exam woes over: She made it
Luisa came through beautifully today, in an exam. The question for this oral exam was: > Modern Copenhagen and the expansion of the urban public sphere That is her core topic, her passion and interest. Also, that’s where she’s read … Continue reading
Impressive Ruby on Rails social software: YubNub
Social software + Web 2.0 + command-line action: YubNub. YubNub lets you create link shortcuts, like in Mozilla Firefox, after some configuration you could type this into your address bar: imdb life of brian, and have those strings glued to … Continue reading
Fixing ill-looking web content: Mozdev’ top50
This is an old post, which I’ll just publish, in the light of the increasing Greasemonkey adoption. An example of amazing Wikipedia usage. Yes, it’s the animate the diff list. Very fancy. Here, the old text: This thing started with … Continue reading
Swedish art scene in few words
My main man and artist Paul Steen gives it up on the state of the art scene in Sweden, right now: > Konsten lever i hålor och dunkla källare enligt min senaste > undersökning i modetidningen bon. det är inne … Continue reading