Random ruleset: Guidelines for my bank’s credit card image customization

I’m a sucker for customization. Here’s a random thing. My bank’s rules for VISA card image settings: Riktlinjer och regler för användning av egen bild: Bilden fÃ¥r inte kränka annans upphovsrätt, rätt till varumärke eller annan liknande rättighet och ska följa god sed. Detta innebär att bl a följande regler mÃ¥ste följas för att en …

Upcoming meetup poster: active redesigning and customizing

Indulge me. I allowed myself to make a little poster. Öresund JavaScript Meetup #10 on June 14, in Malmö, at Hypergene’s offices. I guess there are a couple of things wrong with it. The date and time are lacking. Monday June 14. At 19.00. The URL says those things. (But people looking at a poster …

Outsider architects

Watts Towers, (yes, that Watts) built by an Italian immigrant (to the USA). In Europe, same weirdness appears: 1879 – 1912 33 years of struggle 10 000 days 93 000 hours Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman, who built “Le Palais Idéal” by working in his spare time. Here’s a Wikipedia picture: Here is a …

Penrose: end-of-level math boss, or raving weirdo?

Roger Penrose, math rockstar, who later in life began to write longer and longer works. In new areas. Ever read any of his stuff? I never did. I did read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, and the plot contains tiling problems, quite clearly modeled on the idea of Penrose being a bad-ass math person. Anathem‘s the kind …

2009: Swedish Gov’t to help solar energy

Here is me, trying some auto-tran, to bring you some last-year’s news. Regulation (2009:689) on state aid for solar cells To contribute to the transformation of the energy and industrial development in the energy sector, the government decided in June to introduce a state support for the installation of all types of grid-connected photovoltaic systems. …