Archive for February, 2007

• To Hel­vetica and Back | FontShop News | Feb­ru­ary 2007
  (tags: typog­ra­phy hel­vetica)
• The Cen­tury of the Self — Google Video
  (tags: video bbc towatch doc­u­men­tary)

• Date-maskinen
  Auto­planer for dating
  (tags: gen­start labs dat­ing auto­matic)
• YouTube — deerhoof
  Deer­hoof, yeah!
  (tags: deer­hoof youtube video)

• Our Crazy Neigh­bor — a pho­to­set on Flickr
  A bril­liant idea! Mad­ness track­ing using yel­low arrow and Flickr.
  (tags: mad­ness track­ing neigh­bour pho­to­set flickr yel­lowar­row the­re­al­glans)

• At leve i fængsel
  En guide.
  (tags: handy guide prison jail)
• Print­ing the Web: Solu­tions and Tech­niques | Smash­ing Magazine
  A quick overview of some inter­est­ing solu­tions you can use to gen­er­ate print lay­outs “on the fly”.
  (tags: CSS web­dev print via:haugstrup)

Af switch­ing to a proper iPod sup­ported by last.fm (= not a Shuf­fle), I’ve been won­der­ing why my stats page didn’t seem to reflect the music I’m actu­ally lis­ten­ing to (95% iPod / 5% lap­top). Turns out I hadn’t been logged in for almost a year (found a friend request 250+ days old) — and that I had to adjust my preferences.

See, last.fm uses has iPod sub­mis­sions on by default…but looks for a playlist named ‘Recently played’. On my Dan­ish OS lan­guage Mac, that playlist is called ‘Sen­est afspillet’. Bummer.

I’ve changed it, hope it’ll work.

• 23 video interview
  “ComON har besøgt »23«, der i bed­ste web 2.0-stil har ændret form i hæn­derne på brugerne.”
  (tags: myg­dal 23 stef­fen video inter­view)
• Web 2.0 Webdesign-Tutorials | Dr. Web Weblog
  All the dirty, dirty tricks. Unite! Look similar!
  (tags: web2.0 design tuto­r­ial)
• Seven steps to remark­able cus­tomer ser­vice — Joel on Software
  (tags: ser­vice)
• Geek to Live: Take great notes — Lifehacker
  Sys­tems for tak­ing worth­while notes
  (tags: gtd orga­ni­za­tion tricks notes)
• » Jump­cut Case Study: Blue­print for a prod­uct acqui­si­tion — Startup Review Blog
  (tags: case acqui­si­tion busi­ness startup video)
• sub­tlety : a remote sub­ver­sion excursion
  Take a remote, pub­lic sub­ver­sion repos­i­tory (http:// or svn://) and give you an rss feed of the changes.
  (tags: feed gen­er­a­tor sub­ver­sion svn pub­lic)
• Home and Away (Mac) — Lifehacker
  Mac OS X only: Free­ware appli­ca­tion Home and Away auto­mat­i­cally mounts net­work vol­umes, launches appli­ca­tions, and opens files based on what net­work you’re con­nected to.
  (tags: handy osx net­work launch mount)

I was eagerly await­ing FON’s entry on the Dan­ish mar­ket. They even decided (clever move, btw.) to give away a bunch of routers for free instead of spend­ing too much money on tra­di­tional marketing.

So I ordered one way before christ­mas and waited. And waited. And waited some more. Ok, maybe some con­tact was needed. So I con­tacted them. Waited. Waited more. Con­tacted again. And again. The third time, a mes­sage in their web­site from hell (seri­ously, this is 2007) said they’d been hav­ing some trou­ble and any­one that haven’t heard from them should try again. So I did. More wait­ing. Still nothing.

I’m not sure if I tried again or if that was the time where I decided to look else­where for help. In their forum, it seemed that a FON employee was pretty present. I signed up, hoped that all the com­plaints about the man­ual acti­va­tion from the FON staff were about every­one else but me and hoped for the best.

I still haven’t heard any­thing. Leav­ing me with no FON router, appa­rantly no way — at all — to get in touch with FON. And a pretty bad expe­ri­ence with what was sup­posed to be their cus­tomer sup­port. One thing is their web­site that is close to use­less as they’ve obvi­ously gone for some stan­dard order­ing setup that makes it wuite hard to input an address that’ll make sense to the poor deliv­ery guy (which is prob­a­bly what hap­pened to my router). But it’s far worse that some­thing as sim­ple as an email doesn’t get answered. Come on peo­ple, play ball.

If I believed that a sec­ond order would be of any help to my sit­u­a­tion, I would gladly pay the few dol­lars a router costs. That’s not the point. The thing is…I don’t. Just as I havent’t been both­ered to help my mom get a replace­ment for the one she actu­ally _did_ receive but appeared to be bro­ken. Too much work…

All this just to say, that even if you do run a suc­cess­ful com­pany that’s prob­a­bly drown­ing in logis­tics and sup­port requests and what have you, ignor­ing your cus­tomers hurt you. Make sure you’re set up prop­erly before open­ing your doors.

Beta on web apps, sure. Beta on cus­tomer sup­port and logis­tics, no way.

• willmayo.com » CSS Speech Bubbles
  Flex­i­ble
  (tags: CSS web­dev speech­bub­bles)
• The GTD Mas­tery 100: Check­list for Greatness
  (tags: pro­duc­tiv­ity gtd check­list anal)
• Urban Cura­tors
  “The goal of the Urban Cura­tors project is to engage the pub­lic in the cel­e­bra­tion of the decay­ing urban envi­ron­ment, recog– niz­ing its inher­ent aes­thetic qual­i­ties as well as the impor­tant role that it plays within our cul­tural habi­tat. The project achie
  (tags: guerilla stree­tart urban city cul­ture art)
• igar­goyle — cyborg and wear­able com­put­ing news
  T-shirt pic­ture: “Bitches don’t know bout my nuclear program”
  (tags: nuclear bitches tshirt)
• Com­pres­sion in GarageBand
  Use­ful pod­cast­ing how-to.
  (tags: garage­band howto pod­cast­ing audio)
• Declut­ter Your Desk
  “Actu­ally, every­thing is mounted under­neath using MDF peg­board and some wire.” How to fix all your clutter
  (tags: desk­top diy fur­ni­ture home office orga­ni­za­tion clut­ter peg­board mdf tidi­ness)
• Design­ing for Con­tent | GarrettDimon.com
  “Even the longest jour­neys begin with a sin­gle step. The redesign of this site is just that—one step. It isn’t meant to be rev­o­lu­tion­ary or flashy. Instead, it’s meant to enable and focus on the cre­ation of bet­ter content.”
  (tags: design typog­ra­phy web­dev redesign)

The Vet Made Me Cry


Orig­i­nally uploaded by been­bair.

As a long sub­scriber to the ‘geezer’-tag, I’ve seen my part of geezer-related stuff from the world very-wide web.

This just in: The Vet Made Me Cry.

I can’t fig­ure out if this is a cruel thing to do or a kind ges­ture to peo­ple who love their pets. In any case, the com­bi­na­tion of ‘geezer’ and ‘dog’ appa­rantly isn’t my invention. 

Any­way, let’s see if I end up putting my own geezer down this year.. It’s as if time has frozen over there…

• blog.plazes.com » Blog Archive » Plazes on Ger­man TV tonight
  Can’t say I’m sur­prised that Plazes is demoed at St. Ober­holz. Good choice.
  (tags: ober­holz berlin plazes tv demo)
• Philippe Chan­cel
  Cool pic­tures from Korea
  (tags: pho­tog­ra­phy korea)