Monthly Archives: September 2005

“Svindyrt ringa mobilt över Sundet”

Det är svindyrt ringa mobilt över Sundet, enligt vetenskapligt test. Öresundsinstitutet testade att sända SMS och ringa lite: > Då framkom att 45 procent av både svenskarna och danskarna tycker att de höga samtalskostnaderna utgör ett större problem än eventuella kulturella hinder eller språkproblem. Ja, det är svindyrt. [VoipBuster](http://www.voipbuster.com) kanske kan vara något? Gratis till fasta (alltså landbaserade) [...]
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Fixing horrible websites

Sometimes the choices someone else did in their CSS does not suit you. Often, you give up, never to come back to their site, or fiddle with the size of your browser window. Using Firefox and its [Developer Toolbar](http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/) extension by Chris Pedrick, I have now gotten around to using my own stylesheets (with small [...]
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Greg Costikyan resigns from Nokia, starts up company

Games designer Greg Costikyan has resigned from his position at Nokia, and started a new company, [Manifesto Games](http://manifestogames.com/). It aims to provide “a viable path to market for independent developers, and a more effective way of marketing and distributing niche PC game styles to gamers.” A fine motto: > “PC Gamers of the World Unite! You Have [...]
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CakePHP : a rapid development framework :: Downloads

Now Cake has nightlies on the Downloads page. Enjoy it!
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Street art: Copenhagen

Political poster 2 Originally uploaded by Jeppe Norsker. Jeppe finds a beautiful piece of street art remixing a political poster for incompetent idiots. Maybe they are just a bit too competent. “That’s why this country’s going to the dogs”. Mutter, grumble.
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Dogs in the Vineyard, the Vision

Dogs in the Vineyard, the Vision is a story about how the game “DitV” came into its own: became itself. Oh, I am moved. Take a load of this > I have wanted to contact you ever since I bought the game. As a member of the LDS faith, an avid role-player, a student of history, [...]
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Neologism: “Podmenting” (augment media using podcast)

O’Reilly tech dude Rael Dornfest is also a Battlestar Galactica fan, I take it. He tips us off to **a podcast you can watch in tandem with the TV episodes**. The producers have used this “small parts loosely coupled” methodology to give fans more than they can cram onto DVD’s (that are on tight shipping schedules [...]
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Do it! Ride your bike to work

Riders on their way to work in Copenhagen Originally uploaded by olleolleolle. To show that many others do it, I herewith present a photo of my fellow riders. I shall see them tomorrow. This propaganda will go on.
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Do ride your bike to work

Peter rides his bike 1.9 km (in about 8 mins). This is a first, and I am much-pleased that others do this, too. Makes all kinds of sense. I don’t need to go through the plusses of going around on bikes. Just start with it.
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Nikolaj is living through tags

[Nikolaj Nyholm](http://nyholm.net/decibel/), a Copenhagen resident, alpha geek and a guy who seems to rack up Frequent Flier points like crazy, blogs about “Living through tags”, a rather fine extension of using del.icio.us and other tagging services as a “data context” for places you are going or living in. > New (temporary) subscriptions today: vesterbro (well, I’ll [...]
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