Author Archives: pollas

TypePad is here

August 2, 2003 pollas

Type­Pad News: Reg­is­tra­tion opens August 4th.. While not hav­ing tested it myself, I’m con­fi­dent that Type­Pad will prove to be way cool. I’ve been more than happy with Mov­able­Type and think a feature-rich, hosted solu­tion is just what we need. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Amazon RSS Feed Builder

July 29, 2003 pollas

So Amazon’s got RSS, you say. But how do I add a feed to my news aggre­ga­tor? Easy peasy, Paul Bausch at OnFo­cus has put together a nice, lit­tle Ama­zon RSS Feed Builder. A lit­tle rough round the edges, but … Con­tinue read­ing →

Syndication
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Quality agent’s lack of quality

July 28, 2003 pollas

When­ever that Netscape qual­ity feed­back agent is pop­ping up from Mizilla Fire­bird it crashes the Fire­bird, closes all win­dows and it then takes for­ever to reopen. But how do I pro­vide the feed­back explain­ing that…hmmm…

Misc.
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Apple, the tool of Satan

July 28, 2003 pollas

This arti­cle, Evo­lu­tion­ism Pro­pa­ganda (which isn’t exactly new, but only came to my atten­tion today), sums up how Apple is a tool of Satan and that Open Source is just another word for com­mu­nism — just to name a few. … Con­tinue read­ing →

Misc.
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Digital Patina

July 23, 2003 pollas

Inter­est­ing The­Fea­ture arti­cle fea­tur­ing Eric Pau­los and his idea to leave RFID tags on pub­lic places. Pau­los wants to add an addi­tional layer of wire­less dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion over this exist­ing layer of phys­i­cal mark­ers. This is what he calls the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Tech
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Carrying files

July 21, 2003 pollas

Nilesh on some­thing I too thought of the other day: At the moment I actu­ally got more mem­ory in my phone than on the CF card I use in my cam­era and on the mem­ory bird I’ve get­ting used to … Con­tinue read­ing →

Tech
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Wanna buy a friend?

July 21, 2003 pollas

Marc Can­ter (reboot6 crooner) wraps up some of all the Friend­ster fun going on, partly as a result of these guys sell­ing their Frined­ster net­work on eBay. Some inter­est­ing thoughts in the dif­fer­ent dis­cu­sions linked. down­load fast & furi­ous 4 hd

Misc.
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Banksy exhibition

July 20, 2003 pollas

Just came back from the small but cool Banksy exhibiton at V1 (Absa­lon­gade 21B — about 20m up, on your right if you are com­ing from Ist­edgade). Also check out the fine stuff here. [Lis­ten­ing to: Hype @ Accel­er­ated Cul­ture … Con­tinue read­ing →

Culture
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Ejected for wearing “Suspected Terrorist” button

July 20, 2003 pollas

John Gilmore: I was ejected from a plane for wear­ing “Sus­pected Ter­ror­ist” but­ton [via Boing­Bo­ing]. Sud­denly a flight stew­ard, Cabin Ser­vice Direc­tor Khaleel Miyan, loomed in front of me and demanded that I remove a small 1″ but­ton pinned to … Con­tinue read­ing →

Misc.
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Forgotten Places

July 19, 2003 pollas

Beau­ti­ful pic­tures at For­got­ten Places [via Pat Pitiée]. movie ice quake Update: Anger­mann sug­gests a dan­ish equiv­a­lent — I’m game… [Lis­ten­ing to: Red One @ The End 04/JUL/03 — (01:08:24)]

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[DK] Lynsupport

July 18, 2003 pollas

Det ser ud til, at Azero har løst et prob­lem vi alle kender; at fÃ¥ timerne pÃ¥ døgnet til at slÃ¥ til… “Døgnsupport pÃ¥ 1 time” — Gad vide, hvad de bruger resten af tiden til i sup­porten… down­load looney, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Misc.
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Updating, part II

July 18, 2003 pollas

Updates con­tinue. Most of the tem­plates are now get­ting there, only need all code to val­i­date, seper­at­ing it into includes etc. The blog roll is back, just need to upload my cur­rent OPML file — no point in dis­play­ing an … Con­tinue read­ing →

Pollas.dk
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Branding issues

July 18, 2003 pollas

From Sig­nal vs. Noise: If you were an energy com­pany called POWERGEN & you had a sub­sidiary that oper­ated in Italy, what would you call the company’s web­site? prob­a­bly not www.powergen­i­talia.com, but… they did: www.powergenitalia.com The words con­tin­gency and brand­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

Misc.
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Updating

July 18, 2003 pollas

Doing some updates on the blog, so bear with me while I’m get­ting every­thing into place. Loads of but­tons etc. not work­ing at the moment — I started off with the lay­out, so now it’s up there with­out the cod­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

Pollas.dk
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CphBlog

July 14, 2003 pollas

It’s been a while. Not because of hol­i­day or time off, on the con­trary… I’m being a busy geezer, try­ing to get loads of work done in order to take a cou­ple of days off before the snow sets in. … Con­tinue read­ing →

Blogging
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Digital shoplifting

June 30, 2003 pollas

Accord­ing to BBC Japan­ese book­stores are launch­ing a nation­wide cam­paign to stop what they call infor­ma­tion theft. Teenagers are tak­ing pic­tures of mag­a­zine cov­ers etc. to dis­cuss var­i­ous lifestyle issues — the pub­lish­ers fear they are miss­ing out on pos­si­ble … Con­tinue read­ing →

Tech
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Finding wireless access in Denmark

June 25, 2003 pollas

Is there any proper lists of open net­works in den­mark any­where? I know of a few, but they just include the hotspot at Copen­hagen Air­port… I’m going to Kold­ing tomor­row — any­one know of a spot to get access?

Tech
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… And back again

June 25, 2003 pollas

Been down for a while. Moved to yet another host, this time I’m stay­ing. Got some stuff planned design– and fea­ture wise, so this tem­po­rary design will have to do for a cou­ple of days — just wanted to re-surface, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Pollas.dk
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Back again

June 13, 2003 pollas

I think I man­aged to move the files to the new server all­right. It appears to be work­ing, but I had to get rid of some of the lit­tle ASP-functions around the site. I’ll be replac­ing them with PHP ver­sions … Con­tinue read­ing →

Pollas.dk
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News aggregator synching

June 11, 2003 pollas

Inter­est­ing com­ments added to this post by Jeremy Zawodny. He men­tions a prob­lem becom­ing increas­ingly annoy­ing to me, the lack of syn­chro­niza­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties between dif­fer­ent installs of aggre­ga­tors on dif­fer­ent machines. But what d’ya know — Brent Sim­mons of Ranchero … Con­tinue read­ing →

Syndication
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News aggregator happiness

June 10, 2003 pollas

Some pleas­ant news: Shrook, an RSS reader for OS X. It’s look­ing mighty fine — I’m giv­ing it a go side-by-side with Net­NewsWire. SharpReader is out in ver­sion 0.91. Var­i­ous bug fixes and my favourite: Space­bar moves to next unread … Con­tinue read­ing →

Syndication
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Upgraded Movable Type

June 9, 2003 pollas

.!. Just upgraded to Mov­able Type 2.51. Still look­ing for­ward to adding more fea­tures and proper XHTML … just found out this looks really bad in Mozilla.

Pollas.dk
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Blogspot, or how to spot bloggers

June 5, 2003 pollas

I’m pretty sure I saw these two blog­gers in the back of a bus as I was dri­ving up north, relax­ing and get­ting some of that good sun. Pretty scary when you think about it, reck­og­niz­ing peo­ple out there in … Con­tinue read­ing →

Blogging
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[DK] Rollo bortført

June 3, 2003 pollas

Indrømmet, da jeg læste over­skriften troede jeg lidt nogen mÃ¥ske blot endelig rea­gerede pÃ¥ util­tal­ende adfærd i pladebranchen.

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Nokia 3650, OSX sync etc

June 3, 2003 pollas

Loud Think­ing has the final argu­ments, per­suad­ing me (although I actu­ally already have it cov­ered) to buy the Nokia3650. OSX sync and to-dos… mmm… the rite movies

Tech
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