Anders 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 sales. Even­though dig­i­tal cam­eras have been here for some years now, the real issues regard­ing pub­lic pho­tog­ra­phy first arise when peo­ple are car­ry­ing them prac­ti­cally every­where, all the time. I’m sure more prob­lems will sur­face as the cam­phones become more com­mon, some of them prob­a­bly chang­ing the way we think about copy­right, pri­vacy etc. for­ever. But all in all, get­ting all our gear wear­able and online is damn cool ;-)

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?

Gotta get mblog­ging, the phone is cho­sen, I’m think­ing of clever ways to beowse posts (try­ing to get some time to actu­ally make the code of this blog just a bit decent as well), but I have a major prob­lem: Due to cir­cum­stances which I don’t really want to com­ment on, this blog (as well as some other sites) is run­ning on a W2k server. My host allowed med to get on their beta server includ­ing some of the dif­fer­ent Perl scripts needed to run MT, but Python isn’t sup­ported and the best camphone-email-to-entry script I’ve found so far is Python. So what to do? I’ve found a few other Perl scripts that will prob­a­bly run with some tweaks but as always the trig­ger­ing of basi­cally any­thing on W2k servers can’t be done very ele­gantly. I’m think­ing of hack­ing some ASP or PHP code together using either Jmail or what­ever works best with PHP, and I sup­pose it’s doable, using every 10th visit or so for a trig­ger… Any good ideas keep­ing me from hav­ing to do just that will be greatly appre­ci­ated, though… can’t fig­ure out whether I should hack together some code or change host…leaning towards the lat­ter, need a proper Unix based host to play on any­way, recom­man­da­tions anyone?

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…

Mobile (online) cam­eras obvi­ously has a lot of side effects. This arti­cle dis­cusses some of them. Most of it is pretty obvi­ous stuff but I’ll bet cam­phone eti­quette is going to be on everybody’s lips within months. And what goes for voyeur porn: It’s going to be huuuge…

I gotta get mblog­ging, but I’m hav­ing dif­fi­cul­ties decid­ing what phone to choose. The Nokia 3650 is a smart­phone at a very rea­son­able price, but it’s a bit big and I’m not too sure I like the design. The Sony­Er­ic­s­son is far more ele­gant, way smaller, but it isn’t a real smart­phone and hasn’t got the Sym­bian OS. Its 2 MB of mem­ory isn’t exactly an advan­tage either. But they both take pic­tures and have email clients, which relly is all I need to do pic­ture posts. What to choose? Thoughts appre­ci­ated! My guess is I’m gonna miss the Sym­bian and all the stuff going on devel­op­ing for it.

Update: Did a lousy rescale to show the dif­fer­ence in size.