Anders Pollas

Hard at work on com­puter restor­ing and var­i­ous yummy projects, I thought I should share Pro­tein° OS with you. Loads of deli­cious radio sta­tions in there, some old faves and quite a lot I haven’t come across before. Some­how I feel every­body else prob­a­bly know this already… Good news is, I found it while check­ing up on good old AmmoC­ity which appears to be a bit closer to a proper relaunch.

Until then I’ll be work­ing on the launch of geezer.dk (it’s get­ting closer, really), the UI devel­op­ment of some of my back­end tools, two client projects I’ve been work­ing on for some time now — and get­ting my main com­puter back to nor­mal… When that’s all cool and sorted, I’ll try to do the much needed re-coding of this site — added a feed image ear­lier today, but there are loads of other stuff I’d like to exper­i­ment with as well. Much.work.faster.or.sleep.less…

My main com­puter crashed yes­ter­day and I haven’t been able to boot it ever since. I’m post­ing this from my ancient lap­top which is sort of up and run­ning, but I might not get to my mail as quickly as nor­mal, so apolo­gies if I don’t get back right away. I lost a good amount of mails as well as my cal­en­der, so if you sent me any­thing impor­tant over the past week, please send it again. Hope­fully, a Sat­ur­day spent buy­ing and installing hard­ware should solve the prob­lems…
UPDATE: Appa­rantly, Win­dows XP just crashed itself, so I saved myself the trou­ble buy­ing new hard­ware and did a refor­mat of my main hard drive. SO now I’m up and run­ning, lost quite some mail though. Lead­ing to this ques­tion: What mail client do you use? Good backup pos­si­bil­i­ties and mail fil­ter­ing are top pri­or­i­ties. Sug­ges­tions greatly appre­ci­ated as I haven’t got a clue what’s going on in that part of world…
UPDATE II: Oh, and more good news, the file sys­tem wasn’t com­pletely mashed, so the files copied to a sec­ondary drive dur­ing my des­per­ate attempts to res­cue data with mount­ing the drive on another machine seemed to have been worth it — my mails are back! Work­ing like a dog to set up proper backup rou­tines and chang­ing my main email addressess to IMAP. And once you get over los­ing loads of time and var­i­ous data, it’s amaz­ing what a clean install of the good ol’ OS can do for you… My machine boots at least three times as fast, my desk­top and my pro­grams aren’t clut­tered with junk etc. etc. It’s a brain cleanup…

Damn, this SKUM fea­ture (in Dan­ish) is bal­anc­ing on the edge… Good fun, though — so is the Guantanamo-gotchi and oh, the Nik & Jay $ell-out con­struc­tion set is kind of funny too. Try to cen­sor that, Quasi :)

I attended Myg­dal’s open­space gath­er­ing (which is an excel­lent way of orga­niz­ing meet­ings!) and beside some really inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions on how we facil­i­tate the energy, work together, share thoughts and ideas while find­ing joy in our envi­ron­ment of work, relax­ing, social­iz­ing (it’s about the buzz, baby — not the hype) — the meetup included meet­ing some really nice peo­ple. Unfor­tu­nately I hadn’t got the time to stay and find out who was who, but what do ya know, mblog comes to the res­cue. It turns out I’ve been read­ing some of these people’s blogs for quite some time and this blog even appears on one of the blogrolls. What my point is? Well, when offered the chance, one (read: I) should really go for some good, old-fashioned human-to-human inter­ac­tion. Every­thing else is just plain silly…

I just hijacked my com­pany web­site.

curi­ousLee has found some apps to keep track of day and night and the time around the world. Now I know if it’s still dark in Cow­boy World.

After 1991 you just instinctly know what just hap­pened when you see those green CNN shots, don’t you…

Ear­lier tonight, I sub­scribed to this ser­vice from Dan­ish national tele­vi­sion to get updated on the war. BBC (Radio1 actu­ally :) beat them to it, though — 5 min­utes ago I received an sms announc­ing Bush’s speech — which took place half an hour ago…

M.O.A.B., sir? No, thanks, I’ll have the F.O.A.F. And I don’t want Free­dom Fries to go with that…

While hard at work with var­i­ous projects, the redesign of geezer.dk doesn’t get the proper atten­tion. But while doing some client graph­ics, I acci­dently made some geezer wall­pa­pers. One of them is uploaded to geezer.dk — it’s noth­ing pretty, but it’s the thought that counts, you know. Put a cou­ple of lomo style cov­ers up there last week by the way…

The fight between usabil­ity and Sad­dam Hus­sein — and the win­ner is… [off the mighty fine GUUUI]

I’ve been miss­ing my Bricks are Heavy cd by L7 for over a year. A cou­ple of weeks ago I found it under a shelv­ing unit and today I put it on. It’s truly a great record and in the light of the soon-to-be war against Iraq, the track War­gasm has a truth or two in there:

War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Tie a yel­low rib­bon around the amputee
Mas­tur­bate watch it on TV
Croc­o­dile tears for the refugee
War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Smutty, bloody pic­tures, ecstasy
Blue balls wait­ing impa­tiently
From Alca­traz to Lady Lib­erty
Body bags and drop­ping bombs
The pen­ta­gon knows how to turn us on
War­gasm, war­gasm one, two, three
Peo­ple, peo­ple, ecstasy
Wave those flags high in the air
As long as it takes place over there
War­gasm
Turn us on
Wargasm

(Ok, it not that damn pro­found — but hey, it’s a cool record. Chicks with gui­tars and all…)