My Malmö buddy Isak blogs, too. In the tracked-back post here, he tells about Martin Fowler‘s idea of post-modern programming. Mr. Fowler is a computer book author, and he wrote Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, a nice book. It made me find a great list of “refactoring smells”, which is Fowler-speak for indications …
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Spike doll?
A plastic doll of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer character. For adults. (Ok, not those images in my head, thank you.) I mean, an action figure. People collect these. And pay great money for them.
Konsumentverket rocks
Konsumentverket in Sweden lets you blow the whistle on spammers. Du som har en e-postadress har säkert fÃ¥tt e-postreklam som du inte har beställt. SÃ¥dan reklam, som du fÃ¥tt frÃ¥n och med den 1 april, kan du anmäla till Konsumentverket/KO genom att använda vÃ¥rt formulär. In English: “You who have an email address have surely …
Coffee and booze: a party
Recap of my Friday night, out to coffee and then to a wild party. Wilder than me, it turns out.
Defibrillators now in the Copenhagen metro
There are now defibrillators, for public use, in the metros in Copenhagen. The public is important in saving lives, or something to that effect. Will the machines be used for pranks? Will they work? Will the public understand the machines? Will they “play heroes”? Make up your own mind about this, because when your own …
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Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
www.skepticsannotatedbible.com boasts the coolest domain name ever. “Skeptic’s Annotated Bible / Quran (Koran) / Book of Mormon” gives it up on religious texts. Dig it.
My big brother’s new hobby
The new fish my brother holds in a tank in Skara, Sweden. Informative website, with nice graphics of the fish data. (Hehe, I typed “brig brother” in the Title. Funny, we have never been to jail together.)
James Ellroy Interview
I currently read James Ellroy, and he delivers in interviews: “Parenthetically, it’s very odd that on the past few trips to Britain, I’m continually questioned about Quentin Tarantino, who I think is a fatuous child. I think Reservoir Dogs is garbage and the forty minutes of Pulp Fiction that I saw is most excruciatingly naive …
Malmö: Computer game development and marriage stories
Me and the SO went to Malmö this weekend. Lovely. Met my GM Tomas in Malmö, and he told me about his new project: to become a game developer. “I used to want to become a game programmer, now I am becoming one.” So, I decided to get deeper into the question, first by looking …
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My man Fred
He is not an addict, he has no criminal record, and he is mentally stable. Someone made a really, really bad photo here.