Archive for November, 2003

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.

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…

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…?!

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?

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.

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

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]

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…

Flash site cre­ated “live”

Prevn’s sam­taler, barske beretninger fra detail­han­de­len. “Jeg elsker at score damer i byen, og jeg er n�sten helt sikker p� at jeg har pr�vet sex”.