The following is a list of all entries tagged with diary.
5 CommentsCabel writes: Japan: URL’s are totally out. His photographic evidence is compelling. Reading it, I was reminded that I was still clinging to the www part of my web address; my prime argument was that the www is integral in saying “this is a website”. No more. If simple search keywords are the next big [...]
CommentIt’s grand opening day at my very first real webshop. So far, it’s entitled No Shop, but what it should really be called is me plotting posters on art canvas, packing it and sending it off to you. Because that’s what it is.
CommentResident digital life refurbishing outlet, Deskvu, or in humanspeak: website holding wallpapers, has been updated. There’s a refreshed layout, an updated frontpage and most interestingly: an option for you to submit your own wallpapers. Woohoo! Let’s see what happens to that. Unchanged is the amount of wallpapers there, or the features to instantly crop any [...]
2 CommentsSure, Star Trek-style teleportation seems like the next big thing. Sure we could go on vacation in July just by stepping on to a transporter pad and be instantly moved from A to B; B probably being Acapulco or somewhere really nice. Off the bat we would love it, but have you ever pondered the moral and ethical implications of teleportation?
3 CommentsRemember SVG? Pioneered by Adobe back in the day, Scalable Vector Graphics were to compete with Macromedias Flash. They never could (and so they bought them), but the result — the SVG standard, is interesting for HTML / CSS uses.
7 CommentsAvid readers of these snacksized portions of pointless stuff might have spotted a change in writing style around here. Bitter and arrogant as I have become, I dare say my writing has improved. Compared to one year ago, you’ll now find more text (not substance), profanity and mework details. You’ll find more odd synonyms than before and once in a while you’ll encounter words like poppycock and ooze.
7 CommentsTwitter surprised me. There’s nothing dull about talking to no-one in particular, that no-one most often the ether. Contrary to my initial assumption, tweeting is not about the odd fascination with exposing oneself. Well, maybe it is, but something much less intangible keeps people there. Twitter is a new way of being “in the loop”, almost literally. There’s a certain feeling that your banter will be picked up by people, even if it’s limited to groggy “Hello Coffee” morning-chatter.
9 CommentsOnce in a while, I invite a few friends up to our family house in Sweden for a weekend. We enjoy the fire in the garden, good usually cholesterol-laden food and alcoholic beverages. Sometimes, even music. Most recently, my dear sister whom is also a proprietor of our fine house, has purchased a phonograph. Convinced that such a device is all it takes to mount a successful expedition to said location, I have not only acquired a fine selection of gramophone records, but I have produced a poster to celebrate the occasion. The poster will also function as an invite-to-be-sent. Eventually.
3 CommentsNot so long ago, I gave a scathing review of the Citizendium, Wikipedia-co-founder Larry Sangers expert-guided alternative. I still don’t believe in the project, but I’ve given quite a bit of thought as to why I don’t believe in it.
I love Wikipedia. Everything about it, even how Wikipedia refuses to censor images of Muhammed in the face of very angry people. I genuinely believe that with the Wikipedia, we have a shot at bringing enlightenment to the world in a sweeping, world-changing way. In fact, I love Wikipedia so much that whenever someone tries to challenge the project, I’m immediately skeptical and negative towards the would-be usurpers. Then again, I occasionally visit both Wookieepedia and Memory Alpha, the Star Wars and Star Trek wikis. There simply exists content that doesn’t fit into an encyclopedia, content that instead fits into either of the aforementioned wikis instead. Irony. Flip-flopping. Hypocrisy. I should know better.
1 CommentWikipedia is a fantastic place. So fantastic that they’ve dedicated an entire article just detail articles that are considered unusual. I love it.
5 CommentsSidereel.com is the discovery of the month. It’s a website that gathers links to TV-shows hosted on a plethora of video services all over the web. While it looks legal, however, I’m pretty sure it’s not. But it should be.
7 CommentsTwitter is that social service everyone who isn’t talking about Facebook is talking about. It’s a form of nanoblogging wherein a single paragraph or a single link counts as publishable material. Sounds really really annoying and utterly useless you say? Yes and no. Lately I’ve found myself oddly attracted to the idea of delivering a continuous stream of useless bits of everyday life in the form of cleverly written one-liners. Now that I’ve been nominated for comment of the week (thanks Brendan), I might stand a chance.
6 CommentsAnd so it was that I decided to start selling prints. I’ve been doing graphical work for the fun of it for 6 years. November last year I decided to cut the lifeline that was my previous employment. Part of the reason for going freelance was to explore opportunities such as this.
12 CommentsNot two days ago, I hurled myself into the fray once more, discussing usability with the Wordpress developers. The topic of discussion was a recently unveiled demo site showing off work being done to improve the backend design for the next version.
I do usability reviews for a living. Among other things, I’ve worked with [...]
4 CommentsFor me, 2007 was the year of the wiki. I find myself looking up the oddest words on Wikipedia; did you know wiki is hawaiian for “fast”? It does and being able to look up such things all in one place made the web seem smaller. Really though, it just became useful.
Google wants in on [...]