TODO: Buy a Cinemateket Malmö card today!

Analog film is dying. Digital film is slow in creation. A percent perhaps, of all film, is digitally available. It’s becoming harder to borrow film from archives. So, not even the places showing old films know how it’s going to be. Therefore, Malmö’s wonderful film club Cinemateket will sell half-year memberships now. 200 SEK to …

NoSQL meeting report

So I went to a NoSQLSummer meeting yesterday night. Upon entering the deathly empty MINC complex, I thought “startups never sleep?”, but I found most of Neo’s staff in a cosy war-room called “Innovation Lab”. No coffee, but soda bottles. Copies of the paper were spread around the large table. We met. We hung out. …

Malmö tech city

A summer’s rainy morning in Malmö. I’ve just hopped off the morning train from Copenhagen, clutching a crumpled paper that I just finished. I got wind of it through the NoSQL Summer reading club’s Malmö instance. On the way into the office, I saw my FOSS friend T, waiting for a car. Handing him the …

4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup report

The 4th Øresund JavaScript Meetup was just held at Hypergene‘s Malmö offices, yesterday night. Eight brave souls made the journey to Malmö C and came to Hypergene’s quite fancy offices. After a little pizza snack and introductory conversation, we repaired to a meeting room. Networking was in full swing, in at least three languages, when …

Pen buying recommendation in Malmö

Drewex has the art supplies that I need, according to my comics artist friend. She showed some pens that were also brushes. It’s situated in a backstreet, and is cheap and popular with the active artists. These facts sum up to a great endorsement. I’ll report back when I’ve been there. In other news: Rainer …

On the town: met a photographer

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, …

Hardware stores for the electronics enthusiast

This is just me linking to my nearby local stores that I’ve gotten recommended. I’ll revise the list when I’ve experienced these. Malmö At Jägersro Center the local electronics specialist Bejoken is joined by almost-an-institution Elfa (Jägershillgatan 20. Open 8AM-6PM Mon-Fri). More inner-city access can be given by Electrokit at Södervärn. They’re open daily at …

Hackmeetup, on Javascript, July 22

Hi friends, This coming Tuesday night, July 22 we’ll deal with Javascript. It’s thus a theme. And, no less than two people asked to make presentations: Morgan Roderick (from Gazebo) explains Event Delegates Mark Wubben (sIFR lead developer) will do a short version of “Bringing Typography to the Web with sIFR 3” Location: Västergatan 23, …