BLEEP — Digital Downloads from Warp Records

January 15, 2004 geezer

BLEEP — Dig­i­tal Down­loads from Warp Records is finally here. Oh joy.

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XML weather

January 14, 2004 geezer

Btw: While it’s rel­a­tively easy to get xml weather feeds with US/UK weather, I haven’t found any Dan­ish equiv­a­lents. DMI wants DKR 400,- ex. VAT pr. quar­ter — which I’m not too keen on pay­ing. Does any­one know of any free feeds?

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Messy templates

January 14, 2004 pollas

Mess­ing with tem­plates — stand back. Apolo­gies in advance…

Pollas.dk
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Doug Engelbart on mouse buttons

January 13, 2004 geezer

Doug Engel­bart on mouse but­tons:

We set­tled on three. That’s all we could fit. Now the three-button mouse has become stan­dard, except for the Mac. Steve Jobs insisted on only one but­ton. We haven’t spo­ken much since then.

Price­less. [via Com­monMe]

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I’m afraid — ban anything!

January 13, 2004 pollas

What’s going on in this world? Now Dan­ish media has picked up on the British story that cam­phones (3G in par­tic­u­lar for some rea­son) will prove a threat to chil­dren per­suaded to pho­to­graph them­selves and send the images off to pae­dophiles. And while this of course isn’t to be ignored, I’m sick and tired of the clas­sic, instant reac­tion of our times: Ban it! Chil­dren under the age of 18 shouldn’t be allowed to pur­chase this tech­nol­ogy (actu­ally, I’m look­ing for­ward to see how the big tel­cos will han­dle that; los­ing their biggest mar­ket while try­ing to be polit­i­cally cor­rect). Just as largest Dan­ish telco TDC had to make it clear, that their prod­ucts wasn’t to be used as instru­ments of bul­ly­ing fel­low class mem­bers. Sur­prise, surprise.

Dan Hon, ext|circ has a similar-sounding post: Burn the witch:

1. Child porn is evil and bad (not dis­puted in any way at all).
2. Tele­phones let pae­dophiles order porn using credit cards.
3. Actu­ally, credit cards let pae­dophiles order porn.
4. Cam­eras let pae­dophiles take pic­tures.
5. In fact, some­times porn is printed on paper.

In related news: Gutenberg’s bones were dug up today and cer­e­mo­ni­ally hung when it was dis­cov­ered that his inven­tion of the print­ing press enabled pae­dophiles to be billed for the porn they ordered.

Good news is, pres­i­dent of Red Bar­net Mimi Jacob­sen was inter­viewed this morn­ing, say­ing I don’t really believe in ban­ning evey­thing.

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More on blog comment spam — doesn’t look good

January 13, 2004 pollas

Squawks of the Par­rot: Like crap, falling from the sky. Some­one wrote an auto­mated com­ment spam­mer for Mov­able Type, forc­ing blog­gers with more traf­fic than the rest of us to turn off com­ments on older posts, older posts maybe not get­ting the chance to become that old… I’m still on the “Don’t give up team”, keep­ing con­ver­sa­tions alive is utterly impor­tant, but I have to admit, this i shite.

On the other hand, a sim­ple Tur­ing test shouldn’t really pose a real prob­lem to com­menters if the UI is right; slap the image just above the input fields — they’re gonna have to input some text any­way. And though I’m well aware (pre­vi­ous post) that this could become the next McJob, it should keep some of them from doing their thing. Or what?

Any­way, spam isn’t all bad:

Travel and fly on planes under any name!

Get job at preschool if con­victed molester!

(This is not spam. You signed up as Arab decent per­son look­ing for new iden­tity infor­ma­tion for new mission.)

(via Rel­e­vant His­tory)

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Speed test: G4/1 GHz iBook vs G4/1 GHz PowerBook

January 13, 2004 geezer

C.K. of 3650 and a 12-inch fame on the Speed­Zone duel show­ing lit­tle dif­fer­ence in hard­core pro­cess­ing abil­ity: Oh, yeah? Well my 867mhz first gen 12-inch is miss­ing all its feet! So there…

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File access

January 13, 2004 geezer

Every­one is get­ting more mobile, but what to do with all your files? Dan­ish Amitech just announced Home­Cen­ter, an easy-to-use file server for your home. Var­i­ous wifi-enabled hard dri­ves exist on the mar­ket as well. Or how about Tune­sAt­Work, OS X soft­ware for access­ing your iTunes music col­lec­tion from any­where. I guess some­thing sim­i­lar but not demand­ing either OS X or iTunes must exist. Seems as if it needs eg. WinAmp to stream files anyway.

I’m think­ing of build­ing my own litle server using a Mini-ITX board and cus­tom cas­ing. I’ll let you know how I get along. Any must-have soft­ware for a per­sonal file/web-server?

Update: Hartvig reminds me of Samba — and Matt Croy­don of post­neo posts a link to The Guide to a Linux iTunes Server

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Living is…

January 12, 2004 pollas

…hav­ing your strong as hell lattes accom­pa­nied by free wifi access and iTunes play­ing your newly ripped-from-vinyl “Latino Vir­gins” drum’n’bass track.

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Pumpin elektroclash featuring chicks with powertools. Bullet proof concept: Benn001/ PowerTool Movie

January 11, 2004 pollas

Pumpin elek­tro­clash fea­tur­ing chicks with pow­er­tools. Bul­let proof con­cept: Benn001/ Pow­er­Tool Movie

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Subscribing to OPML — get that RSS rolling

January 8, 2004 geezer

It’s all hap­pen­ing at Dawe Winer’s. The Who sub­scribes to my feed thing is a nice idea, more pow­er­ful, though, is the idea of sub­scrib­ing to OPML files.

Imag­ine Jenny the Librar­ian man­ag­ing a set of librar­ian feeds for pro­gram­mers. Or Tae­gan God­dard keep­ing a set of polit­i­cal feeds for peo­ple who want to watch all the cam­paigns. Script­ing News: 1/8/2004

I’m still wait­ing for the big RSS rev­o­lu­tion. Last year I started preach­ing a bit, but didn’t really put enough of an effort into it. That’s gotta change. RSS is pow­er­ful and for all of us using it, nearly impos­si­ble not to have. To a point where I don’t really read sites with­out them. In the last cou­ple of days I’ve found quite a lot of really inter­est­ing blogs … that I already know I’ll for­get in a day or two. Which is a shame.

What we need is feeds on all the blog­ging tools, some sort of stan­dard help text on those stu­pid, orange XML but­tons which con­tinue to puz­zle non-techies and a cen­tral (or at least just rea­son­able) “What is an aggre­ga­tor and where can I find one” page (I know of a few, but we still all need to make some use of them). And maybe the styling of the XML-files them­selves so that they don’t come up as com­ple gib­ber­ish would be an idea to implement.

All this just to say, that for RSS and OPML to become truly use­ful, we need to get every­one to use it. Email wouldn’t be fun either, if only the techies had access. Sub­scrib­ing to trusted people’s OPML is hard to explain when RSS, aggre­ga­tors etc. have to be intro­duced at the same time. RSS preach­ers, any suggestions?

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Man is suing his cable company for making his wife fat and his kids lazy. “I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years”

January 8, 2004 geezer

Man is suing his cable com­pany for mak­ing his wife fat and his kids lazy. “I believe that the rea­son I smoke and drink every day and my wife is over­weight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years“

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TV2 is moblogging

January 4, 2004 geezer

Dan­ish national tele­vi­sion is offer­ing a moblog ser­vice. Could very well be the move to spread the moblog­ging con­cept to a wider audi­ence. In any case, now it’s defi­nately mainstream

Update: They even got RSS feeds. Why not check out mad­man comic Geo’s feed? (no images in the feeds, though)

Btw: I know I’ve been a bad blog­ger. Apolo­gies. Too much work. Will return soon. Happy new year, everyone.

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Johnny Cash: Desperado / Monkey on a horse flash tribute. Excellent!

December 24, 2003 pollas

Johnny Cash: Des­per­ado / Mon­key on a horse flash trib­ute. Excellent!

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Vesterbro vinyl online

December 13, 2003 pollas

Good news: Copeland is now online!

Misc.
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Is Mr. Smithers gay?

December 5, 2003 geezer

Is Mr. Smithers gay?

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Kings of Leon concert

November 29, 2003 geezer

Went to the sold out Kings of Leon con­cert at Lop­pen last night. They went on stage pretty late and the whole thing was over in about 40 min­utes. Heavy applause didn’t make them come back, instead the light came on… But what 40 min­utes it was! Good sound at the venue, loads of happy peo­ple hav­ing a huge party and a tight, cow­boy style set of good rock. They played most of the songs from their record, Youth and Young Man­hood (which I hereby rec­om­mend), and kept the pace all the way. All in all a good experience.

Frekvens posts a link to an arti­cle in the Guardian: The hell­fire keeps on burn­ing.

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Click for thumbnail…

November 29, 2003 geezer

Blog­fo­rum atten­dees Flix has posted an arti­cle. The front page has a strange fea­ture; when you click at the forced-enlarged blurry image, you get the orig­i­nal sized one…

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Adios Comments — from the .NET guy

November 28, 2003 pollas

The .NET Guy is say­ing “Adios Com­ments”, so is a lot of other peo­ple, tired of com­ment spam and con­vinced that the tools for fight­ing it won’t suf­fice. I’ve men­tioned it before and while I have to admit that I too believe we haven’t seen the worst part yet (and that we have to get used to it ) I’m not too pleased with the fact, that blog­gers world­wide are shut­ting down com­ments and track­backs. It’s one of the things that makes blog­ging worth­while, hav­ing the pos­si­bil­ity to host inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions. I would prob­a­bly sur­vive even if I didn’t have com­ments, but if I can find some way of mak­ing it bear­able to fight spam, I defi­nately will. Spam­mers will do to blog­ging what they’ve done to email? Prob­a­bly true, it’s a pain in the ass — but we’re still using email, right…?!

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Save the HREFs

November 28, 2003 pollas

While con­tin­u­ing my incre­men­tal live updat­ing of this blog, I finally got around to try­ing to do some­thing about the highly annoy­ing REFC delim­iter val­i­da­tion errors that have been bug­ging me since I started with MT. It’s all about char­ac­ter escap­ing — no sur­prises there — but for some rea­son MT doesn’t encode URIs when sav­ing posts. SafeHref to the res­cue! A nifty con­tainer tag, where you just spec­ify that you wants your urls “safe” — and that’s it. A few tweaks here and there around the site and it all val­i­dates. No, really. I even did a few bad hacks to the google­hits and MTre­f­er­ers scripts sup­plied by code mas­ter Dalager, mak­ing the links pass the val­ida­tor as hot but­ter. Now I’m afraid to get caught by the PHP police, though… Still need to check my markup for mean­ing but once I fin­ish, I’ll try to look into the var­i­ous plu­g­ins for MT and list the ones I find par­tic­u­lar use­ful. Some good stuff out there, which ones can’t you live without?

Web Development
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Belkin iPod Voice Recorder

November 26, 2003 pollas

I’ve bitched about the miss­ing mic option on the new iPods before, but totally for­got to post the link to the Belkin iPod Voice Recorder. Nice one. Sorted.

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Does Madonna have the right to tell you how to dispose of your jeans?

November 25, 2003 pollas

Does Madonna have the right to tell you how to dis­pose of your jeans? From the way Time Warner, the Gap stores, and eBay are act­ing, you’d think she does

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Standard compliance with ASP.NET around the corner

November 25, 2003 pollas

ScottGu’s Blog: Next ASP.NET mile­stone to offer stan­dard com­pli­ant XHTML. Hooray, at last, yummy, yahooooo — or “maybe the back­end peo­ple won’t screw my pre­cious markup up any­more, then”. Great news. [via WaSP]

Web Development
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Warp Records to launch pay-per-track MP3 service

November 25, 2003 geezer

Elec­tronic record label Warp Records is launch­ing bleep.com in Decem­ber 2003, offer­ing their whole back cat­a­logue as well as any new releases to come as pay-per-track down­laods. No pro­pri­etary soft­ware will be needed to download.

Great news — and nice to see one of the most inter­est­ing record labels out there doing their bit for the cause. Hope­fully, the money will actu­ally get into the pock­ets of the artist…

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Flash site created “live”

November 24, 2003 geezer

Flash site cre­ated “live“

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