Month: January 2007

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ART Day Out – In Real Life

ART Day Out – In Real Life

Henriette Weber Andersen of Toothless Tiger has been at it again – once she starts there ain’t no stoppin’.

So I’ve signed up for the first Art Day Out, I hope that that fact, will not discourage any of you 😉

Ses vi? Det tror jeg NOK vi gør!

The first ART Day Out is taking place on sunday the 29nd of April 2007.

ART day out is for anyone who thinks that culture is cool *s* – and can basically evolve around anything anyway the first Art Day Out is going something like this:

we are meeting at nørreport station in Copenhagen 10.00 and heading north to find a place to brunch ( depends of the number of people signing up where the place is going to be) – around 13.00 we are going to Louisiana, Humlebæk to see the Cindy Sherman” and “made in China” exhibition.

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Automonotoni – ‘Ungeren’ er en idé

Der er oprør i Danmark. Det skyldes at en række unge – og “lidt” ældre – mener at de fortsat skal have adgang til en bygning der blev stillet til rådighed af Købehavns Kommune i begyndelsen af 80erne. Takken til politikerne var dengang BUKSEVAND (seriøst Egon Weidekamp fik BUKSEVAND).

Nu står politikerne og velmenende aldrende sympatisører med dybe lommer i kø for at skaffe et alternativt sted, fordi de har solgt huset til nogle mennesker der HADER ideer.

Kære automonotome:
‘Ungeren’…Er en idé! IKKE et hus!
Deltag dog i det “mindst dårlige” demokrati i verden – HEY DET ER “VORES” – lav frivilligt arbejde, start foreninger, “indfiltrer” forvaltningnen der er ret vindunderlige mennesker (ja’ ve’ d’ ja’ har set d’).

I får faktisk lov til at passe jer selv, og jeg glæder mig til at se FLERE af jer f.eks. i min frivilliggruppe, Netværksgruppen i Mjølnerparken, nogle af jer har faktisk allerede fundet vej.

Huse er KONTROL mekanismer! Og det mest tåbelige ville da være hvis Ruth og hendes fundamentalistiske slæng fik deres kamp mod fritænkning og ideer finansieret af “Halal hippier”.

Og så må vi ikke glemme at Jagtvej 69 var et af de steder en af de vigtigeste projekter i menneskeheden var med til at blive startet, “Kvindebevægelsen”. Men huset der står der, er ikke et værdigt monument for kvindebevægelsen. Så riv huset ned, hey det er “os selv” det har misligeholdt det så det er ved at falde sammen, og byg et passende monument til kvinden og kvindesagen i stedet!

Huse kan dog være nødvendige: Det var altså pænt syret at se Björk til Oscar festen for et par år siden, specielt når jeg tænker på hvor jeg så hende første gang: I ‘Ungeren’, da hun var 16 og med i KUKL!

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Apple Computer Inc R.I.P

Apple Computer Inc is no more.

Apple believes that the puck is moving, and Steve Jobs thinks that Apple is the Wayne Gretsky of the ICT industry – he might be right.

Quote from the MacWorld San Francisco 2007 keynote on the 9th of January 2007:

“There’s an old Wayne Gretsky quote I love — ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it’s been.’ That’s what we try to do at Apple”

BTW…This is quote from what I wrote in September of 2006 after the special event presentation (from Kim Bach . Org: Apple Consumer Corporation – now commenting on unreleased products?:
The new products, and a Steve Jobs looking a little more enthusiastic than during the WWDC Keynote, made me wonder if Apple should change it’s name to Apple Consumer Corporation. Apple: I need a sub-note book with record breaking long battery life, PLEASE remain a Computer company.

And one more thing: The new Apple Inc. WILL be commenting on unreleased products, who’s copying who now?

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K.Job

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote – Engadget
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

Yes, Steve Jobs was quoting Alan Kay, my hero, when he announced the iPhone – the next generation mobile communications device.

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WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software – WordPerfect déjà-vu

WriteRoom | Hog Bay Software

While browsing the weblog of Emme, I stumbled upon the minimalistic word processor WriteRoom.

From the description on the website:

For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you’re used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

And it’s available for Windows as well. I think it’s a bit pricey at $24,95, and maybe it’s too minimalistic, but it sort of makes you miss WordPerfect 5.

Here’s an idea – I’d like a minimalistic word-processor like that, but it should understand wiki markup, parse it dynamically and have the ability to sync with wiki sites.

You know I fell partly responsible for the killing of WordPerfect. I remember clearly the first time I saw WordPerfect, it was version 3.3 and the company wasn’t called WordPerfect Corp. yet, but Satellite Software.

The uncluttered screen, showing only a line and column indicator, at that point in time the fashion was so called Lotus style menus, cascaded menus on the bottom, was so fresh, and I loved it, especially since you only had a screen that showed 80 characters and 25 lines.

But no, I wanted easy access to the advanced functions, and I loved WYSIWYG. But WYSIWYG has only brought us complicated UIs and mandatory education, in order to learn something as simple as writing on a computer, and since we’re no longer crating content, primarily for printing, we could do away with the paper metaphor when writing on a computer, at least if it’s creative writing.

But seriously, WordPerfect 5 running on a modern Mac, is complete overkill.

WordPerfect 5 ran PERFECTLY from one floppy under DOS 2.11 on the great sub-notebook Compaq/LTE in…1989!
So much for rapid progress…

ps. Hey…The One Laptop Per Child looks like the Compaq/LTE.

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JOSBLOG Live! » Gallery Manager at last.

JOSBLOG Live! » Gallery Manager at last.

Cool tip from my old friend Jose C. of Orange/Telia fame.

He’s using a plug-in, called CoppermineSC, to integrate WordPress and Coppermine.

I use WordPress, I use Coppermine, but I’m switching to Flickr for my public photos, and I will continue to use .Mac and iWeb for private photos.

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Drupal – Incompatible environment

If you get this error from Drupal:

Incompatible environment

The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:

Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information. (Currently using Unicode library Error)

It can be fixed by adding the following lines to your settings.php file in the PHP settings section:

/* PHP.ini overrides */
ini_set('mbstring.http_input', 'pass');
ini_set('mbstring.http_output', 'pass');

Thank you to Henrik for fixing this for me, Surftown accounts need this setting in order for Drupal 5 to work.

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:: macnyt :: danmark :: it’s MINE…MINE…MINE!!!

:: macnyt :: danmark ::

Hmm…Efter et par måneders pause fra Macnyt har jeg taget lidt revanche og konverteret den til min personlige blog – IGEN ;-).

Dette skyldtes at der faktisk var et par interessante tråde, som HELT sikkert irriterer nogle, og helt sikkert er HAMRENDE off-topic, men det er jo NETOP det jeg ELSKER ved Macnyt.

And on that note: We cue the music!!!!

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Julens 12te dag

Julen slutter som bekendt den 6-1, på Hellig Tre Kongers Dag, Julens 12te dag.

På julens første dag giver elskeren en agerhøne i et pæretræ, på den anden er det to turtelduer, men hvad er det nu det er på den 12te,
12?…

Jo det er 12 trommespillere….trommespillende trommespillere none the less!

Og i følge denne side http://www.carols.org.uk/the_twe1ve_days_of_christmas.htm, referer det til apostlenes 12 gerninger/løfter.

Det er jo dybt, dybt! spirituelt det der…Det SJOVE er at det er Anders And bladet der har givet mig det klareste billede af den “julesalme” (det der hedder en “Christmas Carol” på Engelsk).

Appropos Julen:
Hvert år foreslår jeg til jul at vi synger “Dejlig er den himmelblå”, det er den salme jeg ELSKER højst i hele verdenen, i år ytrede jeg ikke det ønske – selv om jeg BRÆNDENDE ønskede det.

Jeg er nødt til at afsøge mit sind for et svar…Hmm…Google og sindet i forening valgte dette link…http://www.dyhret.dk/Jul/Julesang03.htm, det var selvfølgelig det der havde musik, og nu har jeg tårer i øjnene – og jeg kende godt svaret:

Julen betyder også uendeligt meget for mig, men lige nu er det dag 2 og 3, sådan i “Sinatra domænet”, der optager mig, og der var jeg ikke komplet i år.

Kære Gud hvorfor sender du nu så klare signaler igen, og hvem tog det billede?

Elle existe Dieu?

ps. Fatter du ikke et muk? “Hellig Tre Kongers dag er min Dåbsdag”, hjalp det lidt? Nok ikke!

pps. Og da jeg trykker på send link på denne artikel…så vælger FrontRow: “Den Himmelblå”? Stop stop stop…Jeg VED det er TILFÆDIGT! Jeg VED det!