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Henriette is getting nervous. Come on! When organising ANYTHING, the biggest problem is setting the date and the venue, then things happen (almost) by magic.
I’ve offered to bring my projector, now I wonder it there’s any electricity at the venue?
Anyway, if there’s anything further I can do to help, give me a shout-out!
I’ve said it before, but it bares repeating…
Sometimes French hip-hop seems to be the future of hip-hop, Kalash is no exception to that rule.
I’d love to see them live.
And WOW what a cool logo!
I just signed up for the first BarCampCopenhagen.
Might prove interesting for a co-creationist – hey is that a new word – like myself…I’m considering bringing some rabbits…YES! I mean it…A physical rabbit!
The very first BarCampCopenhagen will take place on November 17 at 17 o’clock.
The basis of BarCamp is sharing – which means that you have to bring a demo or do a talk about something you are interested in. Maybe show off your newest idea? Anything is possible as long as you contribute.
* Maybe people, who are going to do a talk could put a quick note at this page, writing what they’re going to talk about? Even if it’s not completely settled.
NB: BarCamp Copenhagen is going to be held in English, because we have foreign guests *s*
BarCampCopenhagen is initiated by Toothless Tiger aka. Henriette Weber Andersen and Thomas Kristiansen.
Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft. Your name will be recorded onto a microchip that will be placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the asteroid belt. After entering your name below, you will have the opportunity to print a document that verifies your journey aboard the spacecraft.
My name is travelling on the Dawn mission, a fitting birthday gift. Thank you to NASA.
If you did a poll among adult Danish Internet users on why they have a computer and an Internet connection, I’m pretty sure that home banking would come out on top, but do we really need home banking in Denmark.
I’ll put in an argument that private users don’t need it, and that the nightmarish security threats, alone, should disqualify home banking as an application for home users.
I need to pay my bills?
Hmm…Do you really?
If you ask ordinary people, they will say that they only need to enter bills 1-2 times every month, so couldn’t you just do that at the nearest ATM, it’s very few people that NEVER go outside.
The reason that Danes need to pay that few bills, is that we In Denmark has a long tradition, it’s been in existence since the 70-ies, of automated electronic payments. Most of the payments can be automated by signing up with the common payment service of the Danish banks, BS (BetalingService= Payment Service), and all bills will be automatically charged to your account, this means that it’s VERY rare that you need to enter bills manually, and when you do, you can usually choose to have the bill registered with BS automatically, so that it will be charged automatically in the future.
I only get printed statements every third month
Hmm…Do you actually need home banking to get that?
The next argument is that you no longer get a printed statement from the bank, well the statement could be e-mailed, using encrypted e-mail, to you at set levels, e.g. after 10 transactions, daily, weekly etc., but why not make it into a RSS feed that you could subscribe to? And you can get a printed statement at the nearest ATM 24-7-365!
You can also use the good old voice service over the phone, or the WAP/SMS based services that the banks are offering. I’d say that the security of the phone solutions always were questionable.
Conclusion
The majority of us could live without computer based home-banking.
So dear banks here’s a challenge, start working on making the anachronism desktop PCs and home banking a thing of the past, most private users need mobile and SIMPLE solutions, not the bloated incompatible applications that require lots of computing power and quite often are tied to specific platforms, that we have right now.
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What Is A Portable App?
portable – carried or moved with ease
app – a computer program like a web browser or word processorA portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind.
JPL.NASA.GOV: Feature Stories: The Spark of a New Era
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating it’s 70th birthday.
In this feature the early history of JPL is described.
I consider the JPL to be the most succesful NASA subdivision, as the true pioneeers of planetary exploration.
70 years ago my own mother was born and my father was 7. Back then, the things we do today would have been considered so far into the future, that you might have been committed to a closed ward, if you had suggested that humanity could, for instance, visit all the planets in the solar system within a lifetime. Just try to imagine where we can be in another 70 years, what put’s it into perspective is that it might be so amazing, that we can’t even begin to imagine it.
Congratulations to the JPL.
NASA – ‘McMurdo’ Panorama from Spirit’s ‘Winter Haven’
To celebrate the 1,000th sol of the Spirit rover Mars mission, NASA has released a panorama.
Congratulations to NASA with this amazing success, makes you wonder what the next generation of rovers will achieve.
Oct. 26, 2006, marks Spirit’s 1,000th sol of what was planned as a 90-sol mission. (A sol is a Martian day, which lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). The rover has lived through the most challenging part of its second Martian winter. Its solar power levels are rising again. Spring in the southern hemisphere of Mars will begin in early 2007. Before that, the rover team hopes to start driving Spirit again toward scientifically interesting places in the “Inner Basin” and “Columbia Hills” inside Gusev crater. The McMurdo panorama is providing team members with key pieces of scientific and topographic information for choosing where to continue Spirit’s exploration adventure.
With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed | CNET News.com
FirefoXXXy 2.0 has been released, and so far it’s gr8! All my feeds and quick links (e.g. the WordPress bookmarklets that I couldn’t live without) still works. The UI is a little sleeker, and it seems more responsive. I’ve also installed my first plug-ins – the new spelling dictionaries – and yes, there’s one in Danish, can’t wait to let it loose on my Wiki projects, if it works, this is really, really good news.
Nothing runs like a Fox (hey wasn’t that the motto of a Microsoft product sometime?)
On a curious note, the Firefox team received a cake from the Microsoft IE team congratulating them on shipping. I REALLY REALLY like the Microsoft IE team!
“The key focus in Firefox 2 is making sure that what we are focusing on is tightness and efficiency–with the ability of turning that browser into exactly what one needs, focusing on security, stability and speed,” said Mike Beltzner, who Mozilla describes as its “phenomenologist.”
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MIAOOOUUUWW! Leopards are KEWL…Go get’em “Tiger”!