Against entropy.
Forskningsavdelningen decided to have a RFID workshop on Thursday (today 27 August 2009), so please come today and bring your rfid tags and readers. As you may know, RFID is a technology used in transportation cards sucha as the new SkÃ¥netrafiken “Jojo”, Stockholm Länstrafik’s “Access”, and the London Underground “Oystercard”, as well as Öresundsbron bridge …
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I went to Poznan, Poland in 2007. They run a very nice conference on dynamic languages, mainly focused on Ruby and Python. The post-RuPy party was stellar. The atmosphere during the event was kind, interested, and curious. OK, what you do now is go there for me. You submit a talk, and say hi to …
POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort by Colin Bennett On this book about Charles Hoy Fort, that I was lent by a local sci-fi author. Quite talky at times, wandering around the subject, which is, a sad lonely poor writer, who was either a fool squandering his life in …
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Kiswahili (SW) Language Pack, an add-on for Firefox. A while ago I joined a Tanzanian mailing list called eThinkTank Tanzania (no longer online; 2018 update), which sports 1200 subscribers. It’s my source of cool East African IT news. I’ll try to republish good stuff here, and in my Delicious bookmarks feed. Some stories need some …
Oh, what a night! I’m home, have slept, and sitting the garden, typing up this event report. I started my event day in the afternoon, calling the event site, asking what needed to get fetched from the city. I was tasked with getting the projector for the lasertagging from the activist café in MöllevÃ¥ngen, Glassfabriken …
“When you lose your parents, you’ll know you’re up next. You’re mortal. Being mortal sets you free to do whatever you want to.” “Or, to be the best person you can be.” Reflecting, that might be the same thing, or it might not.
Can you do something for me? I want you to tell your hacker friend: there is a 11 July hacker festival (for free) in Malmö. This URL points you right at it:forskningsavd.se. Her friend knows others, so then at last everybody knows about it. Good? Good. Thanks, friend on the web. (If you did it, …
A man walks with a stick on his shoulder. The stick has gear attached. I get intrigued, and sidles up: “Nice rig. What is it?” He explains it is a large-format camera. 25cm square negatives! Hands me a business card that points to his website. (Oh! That website has a picture of the wonderful camera, …
Update: Rebike. I was in on building it. Had a long walk over the harbor area of Malmö, explaining it to Tilmann. We saw: Mai tai, of which we know nothing. A ship bar/restaurant. a skatepark, with a rock band (5 guitars, 1 bass, 1 drummer), and a set of Rock Band players, and two …
Solar bike panel folks Sebastian and Tomas showed a short “Rocket” wireless adapter, which I liked so much I had to do business with them and buy one. 2W of power consumption: best in the world. 2.5W under full load, streaming media through it. Met Peter Ferne, of Bristol Wireless, a social enterprise to hand …