Nåh, det har været heftige to uger m. rejse til England, hårdt arbejde før og efter, gallamiddag i cirkusbygningen (i forbindelse med Copenhagen Film Festival. Det var …interessant, men hvad gik de der Elvis- og Sinatrashows ud på?!), tre timers søvn, og så afsted til Fyn til bryllup (der ikke endte helt appelsinfri), tilbage til København (efter tre timers søvn), og til en to-do liste der har formeret sig som en kaninfarm på en cocktail af viagra og amfetamin.
Sådan skal det være!
The last few weeks have been quite eventful. The week before my stint to Cornwall I had the probably busiest week of my life. It took me a couple of days to unwind enough to actually enjoy the calm. The children loved it of course, and their affection towards the tractor and the Gloucester Old-Spot pigs grew for every day.
The day after my return, I went to the Galla Award show of the Copenhagen Film Festival (we made them a player). The food was good, there was some free wine, and Wallmans (owners of Cirkusbygningen where it took place) threw a Las Vegas kind of show with singing and dancing. Tributes to Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. I’m not really into that kind of stuff, but I know that when I’ll be fifty, I’ll sit at events like that with my wife. The entertainment will cover up the awkwardness of having run out of things to say to each other.
The day after that I attended a glamourous wedding on a large estate on Funen.
Yesterday i
at skrive på engelsk alligevel. Mand.
Hrmpf.
That’s it: I’m outta here. Off for one week’s worth of tea, scones and clotted cream. Farm animals. Happy children.
Lovely job.
I’m preparing a talk about how to use “video on the internet”. I’ve pretty much mapped out what the areas of interest are, and for the next couple of weeks I’ll try to cram those into what should hopefully become 50 minutes of inspiration, knowledge, insight, fun, waouw-experiences etc… The challenge is always to limit it. There’s nothing worse than leaving a speech, with more questions than you came with.
I’ve put a first braindump on the wiki (in Danish). If you know any cool and inspiring links that deserve to be mentioned, feel free to put them there. Now the question is: powerpoint or not?
Worth checking out: crossroadscopenhagen.com, and in real life Ørbæks Ølbar where I tasted a sweeeeet Herslev Pale Ale.
I’m preparing a talk about how to use “video on the internet”. I’ve pretty much mapped out what the areas of interest are, and for the next couple of weeks I’ll try to cram those into what should hopefully become 50 minutes of inspiration, knowledge, insight, fun, waouw-experiences etc… The challenge is always to limit it. There’s nothing worse than leaving a speech, with more questions than you came with.
I’ve put a first braindump on the wiki (in Danish). If you know any cool and inspiring links that deserve to be mentioned, feel free to put them there. Now the question is: powerpoint or not?
Worth checking out: crossroadscopenhagen.com, and in real life Ørbæks Ølbar where I tasted a sweeeeet Herslev Pale Ale.
Uncategorized — 14.08.05 kl 4:41 pm
Use one, several or a combination of the tips below:
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Fictitious Example
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Start your blogpost title with
“How to” and end it with “ in ten easy steps“ |
Look right above |
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Make a preposterous claim about
bloggers |
“34% of bloggers forced
to medicate themselves in their quest for a lay” |
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Reveal sensational facts about
popular companies/applications |
“Sure, Google is useful
for finding information at the tip of your fingertips. But sources reveal
that Silicon Valley insiders have started rumours about a serious scaling problem in their Santa Monica servers. The party just might be over for Sergei and Larry.” |
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Throw in a SEO-tip |
“Improve your ranking
by commenting any weblog with an IP-number lower than your own” |
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Be sure to link to a free service |
“Banco de Sonidos: One of the largest ressources of free sound effects in the northern hemisphere” |
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Criticize one of the A-list
bloggers, but be sure to make it easily refutable so you’re sure they will (they’re busy people too) |
“What’s John d’Addario doing on the A-list? He hasn’t linked to original material one single time
since he began blogging in 200X!” |
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A CSS tutorial will always
make it into the popular list on delicious |
Square Corners with CSS, a
beginners guide: Paste the following code into your stylesheet:
{.squarecorners
/*rounded = none, nada, niet*/
} |
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Proclaim to the world that
you’ve solved the spamming problem |
“The secret to getting
rid of spam is simple, yet effective: change your e-mail adress every day.” |
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Connect information technology
to a human dimension |
“In the long run, mastering
the skills of interface design will make you a better parent. Children need the same simple guidance as the average computer user.” |
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Tag your entry profusely |
Look further below |
And if that doesn’t work: Do the opposite of what Jason Kottke suggests combined in one, single entry.
Uncategorized — 12.08.05 kl 7:54 am
For old times sake, I’ve decided to ressucitate a battered version of the visITfilm screensaver. We coded it in 2001, to livestream a reality show (24/24 for three months!) but it has been laying dormant since. At the time we tried to sell a model with built-in RSS-reader, but most people just thought it was too frigging weird.
Now : showing a gallery of pictures sent in by cameraphone (you can contribute too!).
You can change the settings by right-clicking on the desktop, choose “properties -> screensaver”.
It’s works perfectly but there are some minor link-issues. You can always uninstall it. Guaranteed spyware-free and all that jazz.
Uncategorized — 11.08.05 kl 8:12 am
Started writing a loooong (and unreadable) essay about how we should try and understand politics with the help of the idealism/materialism dichotomy (in the strictest philosophical sense), rather than through the worn-out and shattered left/right glasses.
But for now: somehow things got all muddled up. Fundamentally, the left is materialistic, and the right is idealistic, not the other way round. If you accept that premise, it helps you understand everything much better, and can perhaps make you rethink your political standpoint, without the constraints of the left/right straitjacket.
Appliance: whenever confronted with a political proposal, try to figure out whether the politician believes in the basic thesis that the objective reality shapes our lives. The answer usually reveals a swarm of self-contradictions, and that behind their valuesystems, most politicians are either deeply confused or two-tongued hypocrites.
Hope to elaborate on that. Some, sunny day.
