Archive for March, 2005

As always, I’m at the local water­ing hole, try­ing to wake up, sip­ping some lattes (yes, I vote as a latte-drinker too), get­ting up to speed on emails etc. 

The cou­ple across from me though, have a dif­fer­ent agenda. They’re chat­ting on scor.dk, try­ing to pick up other swingers. 

These peo­ple obvi­ously aren’t the most dis­crete (oth­er­wise I wouldn’t know what they’re doing, right), but I imag­ine that for some, it could be just a bit impor­tant, hav­ing a secure net­work. I haven’t got a clue about how to sniff wire­less traf­fic, but my guess is it isn’t that hard (as you can learn how to do a lot of stuff — and bombs — off the internet). 

This wifi has got­ten funky, I tell you.

We’ve grown out of our old office and we’re now look­ing for a new one. We are Bum­bech, Umbraco and my own one-man-army, Geezer. Ide­ally, our new home is around 100m2, located in nice sur­round­ings with plenty of cof­fee shops. 

If you think you can help, please give us a shout: anders(at)geezer.dk

DMI pod­caster: Lyt til vejrudsigten på din iPod, iPaq eller Mp3-afspiller. Det var heller ikke gået op for, at de et stykke tid har serveret nyheder og måne­dens vejr som RSS. Ganske fint. Eneste prob­lem: Jeg hører gerne pod­casts ifm. trans­port — altså når jeg har for­ladt mit hjem og er ude i vejret.

Mor­ris­sey Wants Jon Stew­art For Pres­i­dent:

I Park Like An Idiot — You suck at park­ing! Let the world know it!

Hey you, in the red truck, shave your mus­tache.:

Finally received my pre­miere issue of MAKE, O’Reilly’s DIY/hacking/remix mag­a­zine. Like the lay­out, like the stuff they put in. I’m not sure if I think the bits on ecto and other lit­tle software-thingies add that much to the DIY vibe but all in all it’s a plea­sure see­ing a mag­a­zine tar­geted to this excact, grow­ing com­mu­nity of peo­ple deter­mined to hack everything.

Great tips on kite aer­ial pho­tog­ra­phy, decent sol­der­ing, cam­ou­flag­ing your SUV to look off­cial, thereby avoid­ing park­ing tick­ets, pick­ing tools to unscrew screws not meant to be unscrewed etc.

Oh, and it seems to be a bit Mac-centric. Nice1.

Greet­ings. I’ve been away for a good month now, not on pur­pose though. The server host­ing this blog started crash­ing when­ver I tried to post some­thing. First track­back spam got to it, then when post­ing, it would save the post but choke on the rebuild. When you get a call on your mobile from your host when you try to post, you know it’s time to switch blog­ging plat­form, some­thing I’ve been try­ing des­per­ately to avoid as I fig­ured it would take ages to migrate all the stuff, get­ting into the new plat­form etc.

How­ever, I’ve recently had pleas­ant expe­ri­ences set­ting up Word­Press for friends so I gave it a shot — and here we are.

Still lots of things to do, con­tent to migrate, design to, well, do (I’m not to happy with the stan­dard tem­plate, so I made it look worse on pur­pose — at least it’s a bit more mine now) — and lots and lots of tweaks.

So, bye bye MT. It’s been nice all in all, but that rebuild may­hem got to me in the end (I know, I know, dynamic tem­plates and stuff, but I like to make the shift with­out being forced to do it) and they’re pretty damn cor­po­rate any­way these days (and yes, I payed for it, that’s not the point).

I’m back at one sin­gle feed for now; all my stuff get spliced; the cam­blog is run via Flickr any­way, the side­blog is reduced to a cat­e­gory (very poorly I might add, I’ll post a bit about the con­ver­sion process later) — so I’ve 301’ed my pre­vi­ous feeds to the mas­ter feed. I’ll try and fig­ure some­thing out with regards to the old cam­blog archives.

Expect any­thing — and a bit of blog­ging on that very sub­ject — for the next cou­ple of weeks.

Great notes by Cory Doc­torow from Emerg­ing Tech. What’s even bet­ter, I stum­bled across a nice word: Tech­ni­cally Inex­pe­ri­enced Peo­ple (TIP­pies). Gotta love it.

I’m doing a tour through the out­skirts of Den­mark again. At time of writ­ing I’m sit­ting at a cafe in Kold­ing. I’ve been here before and even though I don’t like the place all that much (the music’s loud and hor­ri­ble and the cof­fee over­priced) they’ve done some­thing nice: The wifi’s no longer pro­vided by the evil empire — it’s free. I asked if that was on pur­pose and was told that it’s been free for quite some time now. Nice move! Usu­ally, it’s the other way round…