Archive for June, 2003

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 ;-)

Feed­De­mon beta is here — go download…

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?

Good news! Black­beltjones reports of the BBC (good old BBC, if it’s good enough for the queen mom then it’s good enough for me) RSS’ing all their news indexes. Bril­liant! Now I come to think of it, Hoe­jberg did a post once, claim­ing that DR (the dan­ish equiv­a­lent to the BBC) should have done the same… Won­der if it’s true… Any­way, defi­nately the way to go… [via Boing­Bo­ing]

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, hop­ing that I’m not per­ma­nently removed from news aggre­ga­tors etc. I’m aim­ing at full Xhtml 1.0 Strict com­pli­ance and have started imple­ment­ing some of the code. Apart from the main index though, every­thing is pretty much hor­ri­ble. I apologize.

reboot was a blast, it felt weird not being able to blog at this site dur­ing the event, and a lot of inter­est­ing things are going on in these weeks, so I’m glad to be back. More thoughts on reboot later, check out the excel­lent speak­ers from the reboot video site ’till then.

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 as I go through the code of the site… which is going to hap­pen soon. If you find any bugs, please mail me.

I’m going to change the host on pollas.dk later today. I’m not exactly sure when and how, and in a cou­ple of hours I’ll be away from my com­puter so I won’t be able to sort it all out imme­di­atly. So the site might crash later today, email accounts too, so in case you need to con­tact me, please use my com­pany address, anders@geezer.dk.

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 is work­ing on this exact issue and even bet­ter, he’s plan­ning on work­ing with other devel­op­ers, allow­ing synch­ing between dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions. Damn, that’s the spirit.

Quite funny Sim­ple Guide to the A-List Blog­gers. [lifted from Roland Tanglao’s Weblog]

Found this excel­lent post by Jeremy Zawodny explain­ing how to get your indexes rebuilt when Track­Backs are posted to your blog. The thing is, if you’re not too fond of pop­ups (which I’m not, I killed mine some months ago), you’re prob­a­bly using Sim­pleCom­ments or some­thing sim­i­lar, inte­grat­ing your Track­Backs into your ordi­nary tem­plates. But as you then no longer use the stan­dard Track­Back tem­plate, your Track­Backs aren’t being mon­i­tored. Indexes don’t get rebuilt by default when you’re pinged, so you end up with miss­ing Track­Backs. And that we can’t have. Some hack­ery exist already, but this is the typ­i­cal “goes miss­ing when you upgrade”-scenario; here you have a command-line script you can acti­vate from a cron job. Superb! Reminds me, I need to get off this stu­pid MS host. Must.change.host.soon…