Monthly Archives: October 2005

Olle in the wild: “Intense”

Intense Originally uploaded by Froda. I noted earler that I’d been professing my friendship to Mike, and here we are – documented by Copenhagen blog evangelist Jon Froda. (It could also be that I’m trying to explain some intricate delicacy … Continue reading

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Geek Dinner Copenhagen: So it begins

Met up with a number of Copenhagen bloggers at a sushi bar. Geek Dinner, in the tradition of Hugh McLeod, the New York blogger and cartoonist. Hugh has put up a wiki – [The Hugh Page](http://thehughpage.com/): > to give **bloggers** … Continue reading

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Moustache, Greek Cave Café and Grill

Moustache, Greek Cave Café and Grill Originally uploaded by plindberg. Stuff you miss not living in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Kiva: Loans to microbusinesses in the third world

Today I read some Seth Godin, and it turns out he is a great person. (Who’s Seth? A marketing guru. (Read more at Wikipedia.) He explains the service Kiva, which is a “microlending system”. > Kiva lets you connect with … Continue reading

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Cake PHP framework in alpha

Release announcement for “cake_0.10.0.1217_alpha”, which is more stable than any other release. Most of all, this release is about making the developer experience more cohesive, and “orthogonal”. Method calls and return values look more or less the same everywhere, and … Continue reading

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The end of the world is nigh. Newspeak is rife.

I heard the news today. That’s because I get up earlier. Part of a program of working smarter. On the news was a single Reuters story, just spoken from the telegram, no commentary or anything, this was “the news”. It … Continue reading

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Humour from Mr Gruber

Author of Markdown, and strange Mac funniness man: Gruber. Daring Fireball: The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

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Cabaret in Copenhagen: Livingstones Kabinet

Yesterday night, I was at the KafCaféen venue, where Livingstones Kabinet opened their new show “We love you too”, a political raunchy trip with the band’s trademark Weimar Republic feeling. The dancers – a new addition to the troupe’s shows … Continue reading

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Holy Modal Rounders’s naming, and Jeff Minter in repose

In the Wikipedia article on the geniuses of Holy Modal Rounders they have something profound on naming, a subject dear to programmers: > As regards the name, Peter Stampfel explained in Perfect Sound Forever: “We kept changing the name. First … Continue reading

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PEAR news: Validate_DK validates Danish numbers

Rejoice! A PEAR class for Danish numbers is now in alpha: Docs For Class Validate_DK are sparse, but you can see the four methods: * carReg * phoneNumber * postalCode * ssn I like this. One person, in this case … Continue reading

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