Briton and computer geek Matt Webb and his blog Interconnected continues to amaze me. The guy reads continental philosophy (Deleuze, no less), and discusses it like it was comic books. The way it should be discussed, at any rate. That goes for comic books, too, but the other conceptual way around. “A Thousand Plateaus was …
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Moved!
Have now moved. Phew. New address: > Prinsesse Charlottes Gade 40B, 3 th > 2200 København N > Denmark Update: This move also meant that I could make my first Plazes location historical, that is, inactive. Now it shows as grey and abandoned, signifying the deadness of the Plaze after I moved out.
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 in 5.3. Case study: Ain’t It Readable [Dive Into Greasemonkey]. For your pleasure.
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 guy from Portugal. You can read the points in this article at NewsForge “Finding an …
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 extra attributes of the applicant are listed: > Would like candidates with lisp, scheme, ml, …
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 little location notifier, which says something about where I’m at. That Plazes data. It’s free! …
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 folk-version. With Finnish lyrics. It’s brilliant. I feel better already. Can’t stress to these tunes.
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 the most, so she was (very) relieved to call and say she passed. Yes! Ice-cream …
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 the search URL of the Internet’s biggest movie database. Very handy. Especially for extra-special, custom …
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