Archive for April, 2003

It appears Moi Caprice finally got their site ready. Nice lit­tle site with yummy mp3s to down­load. ” ‘Cause when art­boy meets art­girl there’s gonna be love”

…get­ting a brand new, huge desk and while dis­pos­ing the old one in the loft, find­ing a pretty big expan­sion tank plas­tered with asbestos warn­ing tape. Or maybe it isn’t…

Reboot6 will be held the 20th of June at Islands Brygge, Copen­hagen. Check out reboot.dk for a short intro — the new site will be up within the next cou­ple of days, so check back soon. But start suck­ing up to your boss to get some tick­ets, the soon-to-be-announced list of speak­ers is mindblowing…

The new iPods are here. It all loooks nice, but where is the mic option I expected? Hav­ing the abil­ity to record per­sonal notes, make inter­views etc. would make the Mini­Disk com­pletely obso­lete — now this fea­ture is still some­thing you have to take into con­sid­er­a­tion. Damn. Hope I just mis­read the infor­ma­tion on the site…

Arena is hap­pen­ing now! Nice, shared office space next to the lovely lakes of copen­hagen — and a mis­sion. Key­words are (or could be — Arena is what we make it!): Shar­ing, gen­er­ousity, room for thought, inno­va­tion, a hub… Add to the list your­self. Found­ing meet­ing, Wednes­day the 30th of April (site’s in dan­ish). See you there.

Bilbo Bag­gins video clip. Spock hairdo, danc­ing chicks with badges… my-oh-my… [via tveskov]

Clev­er­Cac­tus, a new PIM, is now in beta. The need for a decent way of orga­niz­ing the dif­fer­ent types of orga­ni­za­tion we han­dle every day is defi­nately there… I’ll be look­ing for­ward to the full-featured releases of Clev­er­Cac­tus, Chan­dler and the Mozilla Cal­en­der.

“Bow­ing to demand, or maybe just as an exper­i­ment” — Zeld­man’s giv­ing it a shot after­all… Rss feed here — and look at that sweet lit­tle favicon…

A new blog, defi­nately going to be well worth the read: Many-to-Many — by Eliz­a­beth Lane Law­ley, Clay Shirky, Ross May­field, Sébastien Paquet & Jes­sica Ham­mer.

I’ve been play­ing with a Power­Book for about a day now, and while most pro­grams (office tools, graphic soft­ware, browsers and mail clients etc.) basi­cally are the same on both plat­forms (usu­ally I’m on PC), some of all the tools that make life good doesn’t exist in cross plat­form ver­sions. But, hey — that’s what make con­vert­ing a good thing, get­ting to try out some of the soft­ware Mac users talk about. I solved my Jab­bing (?!) by installing PSI on both machines. I haven’t really fig­ured out whether it’s any bet­ter or worse than Exo­dus, but at least they’re the same. BBe­dit is going to take some getting-used-to — the lack of PC style tool bars feels funny — but I’ll defi­nately give it a try. If I under­stand things cor­rectly, everybody’s using it. Haven’t checked out the FTP func­tion­al­ity though, so when I found myself need­ing to down­load a lot of files this morn­ing, I found Cap­tain FTP. It’s free­ware and besides the tacky iden­tity they’ve got going, its like most other FTP clients, so that’s prob­a­bly fine. Import­ing my sub­scrip­tions exported from SharpReader into Net­NewsWire proved to cause the most trou­ble. As it turns out, their OPML isn’t exactly the same, so it took some search-and-replace (using BBe­dit, of course) to get Net­NewsWire to accept the import. Didn’t bother to find out exa­cly what caused it, though.

But every­hing else is run­ning smoothly and the OS X is a treat. Nice to expe­ri­ence a less tech­ni­cal approach to com­put­ing, and visu­ally it’s just more slick… I look for­ward to try out some of the Mac-only soft­ware out there, that I haven’t had a chance to try out yet (already found some stuff in my own cod­ing that make Safari fuck up even though it ren­ders fine in all other browsers) and learn­ing those lit­tle tricks that make every­thing easier. 

Recom­man­da­tions on must-haves as well as tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated.