This article from the Telegraphy, features an interview with Jonathan Ive, top designer from Apple. The attention to detail, like the design of screen hinge on the iMac G5, is really made clear from reading this interview.
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My blogs some in danish some in english
The European Homepage For The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
I just stumbled upon the official website of the Hubble Space Telescope, spacetelescope.org. spacetelescope.org is a great site, the place to go for all those amazing images, that keeps coming, after Hubble has been in service for 15 years.
The final version of Firefox 1.5 was released Nov-29th. It seems like a safe bet. I’ve been running RC2 and RC3, with no major problems, for a couple of weeks now. I really like the tab-organiser and of course that we now have a danish version of 1.5.
But what to make of the announcement on mozilla.org, that Firefox and Thunderbird has been given “a new home”?
The “new home” is mozilla.com (Mozilla Corporation) rather than mozilla.org (Mozilla Foundation), I suppose this marks some kind of new direction and/or strategy for the Firefox project.
ESA – Results from Mars Express and Huygens
The European Space Agency has published results from findings of the Mars Express and Huygens probes.
There are strong hints that liquid water-ice exists deep underground on Mars. Existence of water is a prerequisite for extended stays on Mars, e.g. colonies, where the settlers will have to live off the land.
The Huygens probe, that was hitching a ride with the Cassini Saturn orbiter, discovered that Titan is, in many respects, similar to Earth.
Congratulations to ESA with the success of these missions, and the groundbreaking science that they have provided.
The Apple Sudden Motion Sensor
Just to follow up on the previous post, where I mentioned kernelthread.com…
I stumbled upon kernelthread.com because Amit Singh, who runs the site, has written some cool utilites that utilise the sudden motion sensor (AMS) in the newest PowerBooks (since january 2005). The article also digs into some OS X internals, for the so inclined.
Here’s a QuickTime clip that shows the utilties in action.
The AMS really has some potiential, real-world, applications, and it must be something quite similar that is used for the controller, that has been announced for the Nintendo Revolution console.
A History of Apple’s Operating Systems
This is a great article on the history of Apple’s OSes since the very begining.
It is taken from the excelent site kernelthread.com that is managed by Amit Singh.
Amit Singh is currently working on a book called “OS X Internals”, it sounds like a “must have”.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Sex Pistols join rock’s fame list
This is quite funny, considering that Johnny Rotten reportedly called the “Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame” a “Hall of Shame”, and “the place that old rockers go to die”.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Probe ‘gathers asteroid material’
The Japaneese space probe, Hayabusa, has sucessfully gathered material from the asteroid Itokawa.
Congratulations to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), with the success, after the mission originally seemed to have failed.
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Jeg er blevet gjort opmærksom på at det er en uvane, at mit standard tema viser første tegn i et ord med store bogstaver. Jeg skal lige have hacket mit devenir-en-gris tema, så det holder op med det.
Lørdag den 26-November 2005 var der julefrokost i Netværksgruppen…
Det var et fremragende arrangement, som jeg syntes viste at vi er ved at blive en ret fasttømret forening.
Jeg havde taget min PowerBook og projektor med, og havde planlagt at lave en præsentation, der dog var ca. 99% improviseret. Jeg høstede rigtig mange positive kommentarer for mine billeder, som jeg kunne se at mange af lektiehjælperne nød, og jeg fik i øvrigt generel ros for min præsentation. Som havde overskriften:
“Hej, jeg hedder Kim…Jeg er lektiehjælper…For halvanden år siden havde jeg et arbejde, nu er jeg lektiehjælper” – sagt med et smil på læben, og glimt i øjet 😉