Archive for August, 2004

I so need a MicroSaver, should’ve got­ten one a long time ago. Any­way, now I finally remem­bered but I’m think­ing: Key or code? The dif­fer­ences are pretty obvi­ous and I don’t like the dig­i­tal janitor-look, car­ry­ing a Power­book and a large bunch of keys, but apart from the ‘uh, maybe some­one guesses your code’ are there any phys­i­cal dif­fer­ences between the two?

Any­one?

Arh — det er da et fjol­let bjergnavn… Til gengæld har man ærlig og redeligt fort­jent at over­leve hvis man bliver væk netop der… Gad vide om So Fanta nogensinde har været i bjergene?

(Denne post står i skærende kon­trast til mit ønske om at lave en bedre og mere begavet blog — jeg vil prøve at lade være med sådan noget pjat…)

Lidt forsin­ket, men here goes. Fra pressemed­delelsen:

Sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske løsblade

Café Tjili Pop, Rantzaus­gade 28, 2200 Køben­havn N
Ferniser­ing fredag den 13. august 2004, kl. 18–21

Kul­tur­forenin­gen LOLA præsen­terer i peri­o­den 14. august til 12. sep­tem­ber 2004 udstill­in­gen Sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske løs­blade. Udstill­in­gen består af fly­ers, man­i­fester, løbes­edler og plakater fra folkene omkring sit­u­a­tion­ist­bevægelserne – dog med Jens Jør­gen Thors­ens aktiviteter i 60erne og 70erne som omdrejningspunkt.

Udstill­in­gen består blandt andet af essayet Kun­stens Kom­mu­nika­tive Fase i mask­in­skrevet orig­i­nal­manuskript med Jens Jør­gen Thors­ens hånd­skrevne ret­telser, lille orig­i­nal col­lage af Jens Jør­gen Thorsen samt ikke mindst Jens Jør­gen Thors­ens pas!

I forbindelse med udstill­in­gen afholder LOLA i dagene 13.-16. august desu­den en række arrangementer.

Pro­gram

Fredag den 13.august
kl. 18 – 21: Ferniser­ing & ponyrid­ning på Rantzausgade.

Lørdag den 14.august
kl. 15 – 17: Særvis­ning af Jens Jør­gen Thorsen maleri samt cock­tails på
Gl. Kongevej. Afgang fra Tjili Pop kl. 15.
kl. 21 — 23: Dj-set, Neu-Deutsche Jelle & Andyfar

Søndag den 15 august
kl. 15 – 17: Fremvis­ning af sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske film: “Skue­spilsam­fun­det” og
“Kan dialek­tik knække mursten“
kl. 19 – 20: Råb og det, der er værre ved Lars Bukdahl

Mandag den 16. august
kl. 19 –21: Oplæs­ning ved Peter Laugesen

Arrange­menterne er gratis og åben for alle.

I for­læn­gelse af udstill­in­gen fremvises desu­den en række sit­u­a­tion­is­tiske tidsskrifter og pub­lika­tioner, bla. Bauhaus Sit­u­a­tion­niste, The Sit­u­a­tion­ist Times no. 4, Sit­u­a­tion­is­ter i Kon­sten samt Drak­abygget nr. 2–11 mm. Fremvis­nin­gen foregår i et læseværelse over Café Tjili Pop og er åben mandag den 23. og 30. august kl. 19–21 samt efter aftale.

Det udstillede mate­ri­ale samt pub­lika­tion­erne i læseværelset er ven­ligst udlånt af pri­vate sam­lere. Dele af udstill­in­gen er til salg.

For yderligere infor­ma­tion kon­takt Tanya Lind­kvist Chris­tiansen på tlf. 28837945 eller e-mail: lindkvist1706@hotmail.com. 

Ferniserin­gen var et hit; ponyrid­ning og en mal­ende hest. I aften er der lidt plader på Tjili Pop — lur mig, om ikke Andy­far godt kunne vise sig at være undertegnede…der hvis musik­stilen kører efter den foreløbige plan, primært vil bidrage med en bil­lig mixer og lystige tilråb. Neu-Deutsche Welle er det — det skal nok blive fint.

I mor­gen kom­mer Buk­dahl og råber, mandag kom­mer Peter Lauge­sen og læser op, en kende mere roligt, vil jeg tro.

Blog redesign is all the rage these days. Of course it always is due to the play­ful, geeky nature of the web — and blogs in par­tic­u­lar for some rea­son — but the past month seems to be just a bit more intense. Maybe it’s a vaca­tion thing; fel­low geeks think­ing they can finally work on pri­vate projects, although they should prob­a­bly get out in the sun. Maybe they do actu­ally get out­side — a lot of the redesings seem to start off a bit like I’m start­ing off now: No promises, first a lot of ini­tial blah blah…

Any­way. I won’t go into great detail on why I’m think­ing of doing another redesign, just aknowl­edge the fact that pollas.dk doesn’t even come close to what a decent blog should look and feel like in my book — and that pre­vi­ous revamps pri­mar­ily have dealt with code and silly lit­tle exper­i­ments. I’m also well aware, that although hav­ing stated sev­eral times (lat­est at webmercial’s just after blog­fo­rum) that maybe I should try to write bet­ter instead of focus­ing on turn­ing blog knobs, I’ve been a bad boy — noth­ing has hap­pened, really.

And here I am, real­iz­ing that maybe the ends meet after­all as the blog knob turn­ing just might be what I do best (how’s that for a way to make a liv­ing?): The miss­ing dis­cus­sions on the blog should be about web devel­op­ment as I intended in the first place — a redesign writeup could serve as a start­ing point.

I’m not sure I have the guts to try out the approach afore­men­tioned web­mer­cial went for last year; a live redesign with write­ups on the dif­fer­ent parts of the actual devel­op­ment (can’t find the link, sorry). I’m known to approach per­sonal web projects in a more cowboy-ish fash­ion, a lit­tle bit of code here, a server crash here, lots of “uh, it’s com­ing soon” pages etc. But I should be able to log thoughts on func­tion­al­ity and design issues, hope­fully trig­ger­ing just a lit­tle bit of comments. 

My per­sonal web space is still sup­posed to be a play­ground so I won’t nesse­car­ily go for the per­fect solu­tion, the most beau­ti­ful graphic design etc. This isn’t rocket sci­ence and I’m not claim­ing to know bet­ter than any­one else — but hope­fully some­one will catch the bait and dis­cuss best uses on top­ics like syn­di­ca­tion (if that’s the right term!), meta data, graphic design, com­ments, cat­e­gories, var­i­ous forms of inte­grat­ing side– and moblogs etc etc.

I have no idea what­so­ever on the whens and the hows, but I’ll try and get off my ass and con­vert my wire­frame scrib­bles into some­thing dig­i­tal and read­able and post the thoughts on func­tion­al­ity I have so far. I have a feel­ing I don’t have time for this at all, but a lot of the ‘work’ is already there and I need a project not directly work related. There’s just too much real work…

While doing that, I’ll try and think of ways of break­ing the process into sen­si­ble bits, allow­ing for a decent mix­ture of dis­cus­sion and actual development.

Off Roland Tanglao’s:

From SubEthaK­wiki — OSCON 2004: QUOTEThis Kwiki was SubEthaEdit enabled dur­ing the con­ven­tion. If you were using Mac OS X and have SubEthaEdit innstalled, you could have clicked on the icon to edit any page col­lab­o­ra­tively in SubEthaEdit

Pretty damn cool! And as Tanglao says him­self, if only SubEthaEdit had a Win­dows ver­sion and all wikis and blogs, not just kwiki, could be SubEthaEdit powered…

Out­foxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Jour­nal­ism, a doc­u­men­tary on Fox News, seems inter­est­ing. A Fox News reporter has this com­ment:

“It’s unfair, it’s slanted and it’s a hit job. And I haven’t even seen it yet.”

There’s also a peti­tion to strip Fox News of their mis­lead­ing trade­mark “Fair and Balanced”.

Kalsey on a new com­ment spam tech­nique

In the war on spam if you are not for us; if you choose to look the other way and allow spam­mers to use your site; if you feel that keep­ing your site free from spam is too much trou­ble — you are against us. 

It’s about appa­rantly decent links to decent sites, the catch being that those sites have loads of spam already there. Google juice at work…