Kabanossen tips

2007-10-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

I'm politically active in Sweden's green liberal party. Here's the new site for Södermalmscentern which is our local action group. And yes I produce it.

2007-08-14T03:49:00.000-07:00

This man. In this video you get the Barack Obama that people seem to like. He hasn't been that good in the debates but see this and you'll see a side of him that is very convincing. I believe this man will win if he just meets enough people face to face. When you see him like this you know he'd do a good job as president.

2007-03-13T15:42:00.000-07:00

Sharing is friendship

2006-08-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

Why speech is a bit problematic as user interface

"other modalities, most notably direct manipulation, had less cogntive load, lower latencies, caused less cognitive dissonance, and incited less social friction (eg there is a reason people text message on their phones) compared to speech"

2006-02-24T06:41:00.000-08:00

What I'd like google.com to be like

Here's a mockup showing what I'd like google.com to be like (click on the image). If you write your login name and press "Sign in" you get an alert box asking for your password...and if you search for "ride like the wind" and press "Images" you skip the Images search page and get the sweet results straight away.
The idea here is to make the page faster to use by making the buttons bigger, the branding less intrusive and by skipping unnecessary start pages. And yes I know Google's branding doesn't intrude much but they started this first-and-foremost-we-care-about-the-user-experience thing so I'm just doing what they've been doing all along.

2006-01-02T08:06:00.000-08:00

Coldplay sucks

and here's the confirmation.

2005-08-24T05:39:00.000-07:00

Jason Kottke writes about a future OS, think web-based with local cache. It's an interesting read but he makes the classic mistake of focusing on the functionality instead of the data. Networks are governed by data, not functionality. He writes about potential functionality; Gmail on your desktop, iTunes on the web, Flickr on your desktop and Word on the web, but doesn't mention the world where documents, photos, videos, spreadsheets and bookmarks are publicly available and enhanced by the network. That's where tomorrow's browser and tomorrow's OS will be.

2005-08-20T01:11:00.000-07:00

There is a book about Cascading Style Sheets that I find helpful and unique. It is Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions and the reason it is so helpful is that it focuses on what markup to use as much as on how to get your style sheets right. Learning to use style sheets is a bit tricky and getting the markup right is one part of the trick. So I highly recommend this book if you're just getting into style sheets or if you've tried before without success.

2005-05-26T16:26:00.000-07:00

Here's the best explanation of "API" I've seen. It explains a complex concept in a way that many regular people (eh...well yunno people people, not programmer people) should be able to understand. Well done John Maeda.

2005-05-15T13:44:00.000-07:00

There are discussions about APIs for web development and how to present your services to developers. Marc has some good points but misses something crucial, something the web should have taught him long ago. The best developers tools are the same tools everyday users use for... well usage.
The web is an excellent development platform because users and developers share the same data, structured the same way. It's not good because of the structural quality, html certainly isn't well structured, but because it attracts many developers, many people who document the medium, many people who find bugs and many end users who will go elsewhere if your service sucks.

2005-04-25T02:18:00.000-07:00

TV makes me smarter and here's the proof.

2005-03-22T01:54:00.000-08:00

Here's a question for you. What services and products will companies be able to sell when information is openly available to everyone, when the web is one big public domain?

2005-02-12T13:36:00.000-08:00

Open source search. Good idea and my guess is it will be very relevant but not yet. It will be relevant when more information is free and open. Then open source web services will rule the earth.

2005-01-28T06:43:00.000-08:00

I wrote a comment at Slashdot today:

"It would be more Google if they used Firefox to create a browser service instead of a browser software. After all, XUL lets you build the user interface as if it was a web page. That means Google could build a browser service that allows the user to set browser preferences as if they were search preferences [google.com] or Gmail preferences. Firefox would then render the browser interface according to your personal preferences. If you like your back button to be 500x500 pixels large that's just a setting. If you want a blue background for your browser menus that's just another setting. If you want a Gmail interface that's even richer than what's currently available...well then Firefox is the answer and Google probably don't have to alter the code that much since Gmail and XUL both use Javascript.
A browser service would also make more business sense since it gives people incentive to switch browser to Firefox, taking control away from Microsoft, without tying Google's future options in how to serve users."
Update: No one has bothered to grade the post or even read it. I mean read it, it's so full of insight and perspective. Anyone who reads it becomes enlightened, Vishnu-Ganesha-enlightened yunno.

2005-01-10T16:56:00.000-08:00

Some decent thoughts on why MS won't run the consumer electronics world the way they have computer desktops. All comments except that one are wrong on what competition MS are fighting. It's networks, not Apple, Real or Linux...NETWORKS. And that's an unbeatable market force:-)

2004-12-03T02:53:00.000-08:00

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

2004-09-20T02:43:00.000-07:00

For reference, all versions of Mozilla in a downloadable archive:-)

2004-08-22T17:12:00.000-07:00

Hey there, check out my new blog pet. Nice no?

2004-08-06T01:34:00.000-07:00

In november John Kerry will be elected president of USA. Here is one of many reasons.

2004-07-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

This is written from Blogger's rich text editor. Pretty cool. Let's try a link. Some colour. Fonts and sizes.

2004-07-12T11:12:00.000-07:00

This is new. I have a Google Account!! This is a screenshot from my browser:

2004-07-01T02:28:00.000-07:00

This intrigues me!. If someone knows which version of MSN Search that's up now please send a message. I don't think it's the legendary version nr 3 but this is starting to look like a real competitor to Google. I've written before that people will choose whatever search service has the best search results, it's no more complex than that. Watching MS improve in this area is very interesting. I hope of course that Google is up for it and will improve their algorithms at a faster pace but we are watching the beginning of the Algorithm Wars.

2004-06-18T05:08:00.000-07:00

Now here's what I call REST improvement. A9, the Amazon search service, has simplified the URL-line API. Searching for "kabanossen" results in this:

http://a9.com/kabanossen

That's it, no questionmarks, no .php, no search=, no query etcetera etcetera. The domain and the search term. Searching for "kabanossen tips":

http://a9.com/kabanossen%20tips

%20 being the ascii, hexa... eh some standard way of writing space bar. Amazon, oh Amazon. To be continued...

2004-06-18T05:00:00.000-07:00

What happened to the Plog? I can't find mine any longer and I can't find preferences to show it either. I haven't really had time to try it out much but as an avid fan of all Amazon interface technology I'd sure like to give it a go now. Hello..?

2004-06-16T01:59:00.000-07:00

Having downloaded the latest version of Firefox two feature requests come to mind.

A keyboard shortcut for moving from one tab to another (like the shortcut I use in Safari)
Keyboard shortcuts for hiding and displaying toolbars and navigation menus

Tried to find a place to submit those as feature requests but couldn't find one. Any suggestions are welcome and no I'm not going to implement it on my own. You wiseass you.

2004-05-24T10:33:00.000-07:00

Whohooo I got a gmail account. Never thought of myself as a frequent poster, nor talented, so I guess any old dick can have it now. First impression, the pages load as quickly as the Google search results which is much faster than Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. That alone could make me switch.

2004-05-17T16:24:00.000-07:00

What is it that keeps me from posting here more often? Dallas and the publishing system that makes the Dallas site tick. Once it's finished there'll be more activity here... well not that you care.

2004-02-24T01:57:00.000-08:00

Bob Frankston on connectivity:

"The broadcast, cable, cellular and telephone industries are now all the same. They are all moving towards using the same Internet protocols the rest of us use. The differentiations are accidental and temporary. The only differences are in how they connect to their customer. For wired connections it doesn't really matter if they use fiber or copper. You can get the same servers on either though, for now, copper is not normally used for television though that was the original purpose of DSL. Cellular companies do deploy towers but they are connected using the same wired infrastructure. The TV broadcast industry is becoming irrelevant because their one-way delivery system cannot provide effective connectivity.
The commoditization of the transport is making it increasingly difficult to make money just because you own the pipe. The cable industries have a long history of owning the content and demanding a share in companies whose signals they deign to carry. As gatekeepers they have the ability to command a high fee for passage. The problem is that the scarcity is going away and with the shift to narrowcasting (as in Video on Demand) there is no scarcity."

2004-01-27T03:56:00.000-08:00

Brilliant. Were Dean followers so pleased with the way things were going that they didn't bother to turn up at the Iowa caucus? Clay has found a connection between the Iowa caucus results and social software:
"When I was 19, I remember seeing a bunch of guys in a parking lot in New Jersey absolutely rocking out to Twisted Sister at top volume, “Oh we’re not gonna take it, No, we ain’t gonna take it, Oh we’re not gonna take it anymo-o-o-o-ore” and I remember thinking the song was using up the energy that would otherwise go into rebellion.
Just rocking out to Twisted Sister so hard, and feeling so good about it, made those guys feel like they’d already stood up to The Man, making it less likely that they would actually do so in the real world, when the time came. And I’m wondering if the Dean campaign has been singing a version of that song, or, rather, I’m wondering if the bottom-up tools they’ve been using have been helping their supporters sing that song to each other."

2003-12-30T09:30:00.000-08:00

Hahahahahahahahaha this is the most ridiculous thing I've read since terrorism became a priority on the planets agenda. I remember thinking american policemen being really cool guys with a cool agenda (stopping latino druglords from destroying the neighborhood and stuff). You know, people like Barretta, Kojak and that guy riding a horse in NYC (was it McLane?). What happened?

2003-12-10T03:56:00.000-08:00

This seems big, huge if you like, but hasn't gotten much media attention. The title is a bit misdirecting, there might be a divide but read this quote:

"Despite their broad differences, however, the governments agreed in their preparatory meetings on some broad principles - including developing domestic legislation that guarantees the independence of the media - and on an action plan that includes ensuring that by 2015 all of the world's population has access to television and radio services and that more than half has access to some form of information and communications technologies."

That's in ten years!

2003-11-17T10:43:00.000-08:00

Make your own version of Microsoft Word.

2003-10-24T06:37:00.000-07:00

Steven Johnson has written an interesting essay on The Daily Us in Discovery and here's a comment I made at his weblog:
By indexing the pages in Open Directory to see the most common words in each category you'd have something to match weblogs against.
For example take the Breaking News list, make a list of common words for each document in the list, match every common-word-list against the common words in each Open Directory category and you get Breaking News divided into categories which is one step closer to the Daily Us. How about that:-)

2003-10-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

Seth has written an interesting take on next generation web designers.

2003-09-11T01:25:00.000-07:00

Fan, fan, fan, FAAAN!

2003-07-01T16:32:00.000-07:00

George Bush

2003-06-26T10:47:00.000-07:00

This is a funny thing. People seem very assured that Google will stay on top for a looong time, that their search is just too good and the simplicity of the interface and their goodness and bla bla bla. I think MS might change the search landscape quite quickly. The reason is that people go to the search engine that delivers the best results, period. That's the reason Google rules and that's what it takes to become the global search king. The Best Search Results!
Now if you think it's hard to deliver better search results than Google you're right, it is. BUT, there are many promising ways to improve search and I find user context and user knowledge the two most interesting. If you know what context the user is in when she performs a search you can filter out the stuff that doesn't belong and if you know how much the user knows about a certain topic there are many ways to sort the results that will enhance the results for the user. So delivering better search results is not impossible and I'm sure MS will think of some things that Google hasn't thought about. I don't like the thought but I won't go into denial just because the truth is a bit uncomfortable.

2003-06-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

Here's why Scotty will be able to beam you up.
Here's why Scotty won't be able to beam you up.

2003-05-28T16:43:00.000-07:00

I wrote a comment at Keith Pleas weblog in reply to another comment that stated:
"Because cross-platform is a silly concept that only works on paper. The truth is, 98% of the world uses only two platforms (Windows and Mac). It doesn't make sense to use a crappy data entry design (the browser) just so 2% of the world can run it."

My reply: "Standard mistake. It's not the clients that should be cross platform, it's the data. Then you can implement clients for any platform. In a network, data is important, not code."

2003-05-15T16:50:00.000-07:00

President without precedent

2003-05-09T06:31:00.000-07:00

Just trying out Frequency which is a simple Blogger client. Nothing to see here, move along.

2003-05-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

My definition of Freedom Zero:

Let there be multiple choices, always!

Here's Tim's definition and here is Craig's take on the subject.

2003-04-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

Jon Udell
"URLs and HTML metadata are the two most basic kinds of APIs. They are the best ways to encourage unintended use. The failure to recognize them as APIs, and therefore to design them accordingly, is of course endemic. It's not just library OPACs who miss these opportunities. Hardly anyone gets this easy stuff right."
Most technology should be designed this way. It's not a coincidence that the web is so diverse, big and immortal. The design is that of nature improved. And that's not saying a little.

2003-03-31T08:05:00.000-08:00

Clay Shirky on WiFi vs 3G:
"The second problem is that 3G services don't just have the wrong prices, they have the wrong kind of prices -- metered -- while Wifi is flat-rate. Metered data gives the user an incentive to wait out the cab ride or commute and save their data intensive applications for home or office, where sending or receiving large files creates no additional cost. The more data intensive a users needs are, the greater the price advantage of Wifi, and the greater their incentive to buy Wifi equipment. At current prices, a user can buy a Wifi access point for the cost of receiving a few PDF files over a 3G network, and the access point, once paid for, will allow for unlimited use at much higher speeds."
Boo-ya-ka-sha Shirky-san.

2003-03-19T07:14:00.000-08:00

Why doesn't the media get the fucking point? The war in Iraq is an important issue but it's not the reason people are upset with the american government. The reason for it is that Bush is killing democracy. What they are telling us is that their opinion, their way of solving things, their modus operandi is what will rule this world. The Bush government is taking away my freedom to live the way I choose and I can't vote for or against them so in effect they are forcing me to live in a way that they choose. I'll repeat that, they are taking away my freedom to live the way I choose. THAT is why I'm upset, not the Middle-East conflict (although that upsets me too).

2003-02-12T17:44:00.000-08:00

I LIKE IT. This doesn't happen to be an open source project, does it?

2003-01-28T02:28:00.000-08:00

What? Is this a joke?

2003-01-27T07:32:00.000-08:00

JD Lasica: Thinking of the web as a bunch of services.

2003-01-17T04:28:00.000-08:00

Nicholas Negroponte in Technology Review: "The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. Usually this ability resides in people with very wide backgrounds, multidisciplinary minds, and a broad spectrum of experiences. Family influences, role models, travel, and living in diverse settings are obvious contributors, as are educational systems and the way cultures value youth and perspective."

2002-12-23T02:20:00.000-08:00

How People Learn (free and recommended online book)

2002-12-10T05:17:00.000-08:00

ZDNet: "We believe that, beginning in late 2004, Microsoft (and its partners) will begin moving some of its (to-date) proprietary application enablers (e.g., .Net components) to the Linux environment; this will gradually include the major Microsoft back-office products, such as SQL Server, IIS, and Exchange," META Group said.

2002-12-04T05:46:00.000-08:00

Just thought this deserves some attention.

2002-11-29T17:20:00.000-08:00

iJog

2002-11-25T14:45:00.000-08:00

Holovaty: BBC changes page colours from looking at your surfing patterns.

2002-11-15T05:43:00.000-08:00

Salon: At one juncture in the nonstop get-together that is #abiword, one contributor to the effort had a moment of near despair as he became overwhelmed by the magnitude of a task he was trying to solve. Another developer, Dom Lachowicz, who along with Sevior is one of the primary engines of AbiWord's locomotion, reached out a soothing hand.
"Try not to feel discouraged or burned out," he typed. "Focus on the things that make you feel good. Ignore the noise."

2002-11-12T17:44:00.000-08:00

Man, oh man, oh man, oh MAN. Alan Kay is coming here on friday!! I will kill to watch this seminar. Yes kill. So don't stand in my way... unless your name is Alan:-)
Update: I missed it, fucking unbelievable, I missed it. It was full and they didn't let anyone in who didn't have a pass. No I didn't kill the doormen to get in. I mean killing people who do you think I am, a nut?

2002-11-12T16:23:00.000-08:00

Joel on Software: "abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning"

2002-11-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

A correct explanation why the adoption of XML doesn't mean MS has changed course to become an open enterprise:
"Microsoft's DTD (Document Type Definitions) are proprietary, which makes use of the open framework XML just as proprietary."

2002-10-29T13:46:00.000-08:00

What the hell, it's not April 1st is it?
News.com: "RealNetworks on Tuesday publicly disclosed the software blueprint to its streaming media technology in an effort to take on Microsoft."

2002-10-29T13:42:00.000-08:00

News.com: "America Online said it would allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ"
AT LAST! This will delay MSN Messenger for a while and we all need that while. Never thought I'd say this but THANK YOU AOL.

2002-10-22T15:27:00.000-07:00

Here's something I hadn't considered until today. In what ways will your actions affect the world you left if you travel forward in time?

2002-10-17T17:17:00.000-07:00

John Hiler on Lawrence Lessig's blog: "...last week I came across a blog that was so worthwhile that I felt honored just to read it..."
John, your blog and your articles are some of the most worthwhile reads on the web. Thank you and I hope you regain your health.

2002-10-16T14:23:00.000-07:00

Daring Fireball: "In what world does a person getting paid to write Microsoft PR qualify as an “actual customer”?"

2002-10-16T05:55:00.000-07:00

Hypergene MediaBlog
News from the bottom up

2002-10-04T11:38:00.000-07:00

Robert Fisk: "Nato used the same old trick when it made Milosevic an offer he could only refuse." and "He's not meant to accept this. Which is why the Anglo-American draft for the UN is intended to give us war, rather than peace and security from weapons of mass destruction."

2002-10-03T11:37:00.000-07:00

Clay Shirky: "This issue's essay addresses the ways weblogs destroy the financial value of publishing, by fixing the inefficiencies publishing relies on."
This makes me consider the inefficiencies MS rely on, our efforts to communicate with each other, the speed of markets and our ability to grasp complex structures.

2002-09-30T15:12:00.000-07:00

Oh no I'm an endangered species, someone please help.
Update: It was just a hoax, I'm not endangered anymore. I get to live, yahooo.

2002-09-30T08:38:00.000-07:00

Tim O'Reilly: Free software and open source tend to:

Fill niches where commercial vendors haven't yet identified a market.
Commoditize markets.
Allow people versed in computers to share information more easily, lowering the barriers to entry and advancing innovation.

2002-09-23T21:02:00.000-07:00

Already my favourite news service!

2002-09-16T16:41:00.000-07:00

At last someone thinks long- term about terrorism:
Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien on monday tied the WTC bombings to a neglect of the world's poor.
"Helping Africa get on its feet is in our interest from the perspective of our common humanity, from the perspective of creating a more prosperous world with new markets," he said.
"And it is profoundly in our self-interest from the point of view of our own security. We have seen right here in New York the tragic consequences that can result from failed states in faraway places."

2002-09-16T16:35:00.000-07:00

Swedish voters reject extreme right and left and I couldn't be happier. For once people seem to understand the value of long- term solutions, social welfare and leftist liberalism. Hopefully we are seeing the beginning of a european trend.

2002-09-06T12:10:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, Dave, I love you. Not often, but sometimes:
"...So what was the lesson of 9-11 that the US has failed to learn? I think it's that God doesn't think we're as important as we do. The concept of national security is obsolete. We can't close our borders. We live on this planet with everyone else. Global warming, AIDs, terrorism, all penetrate all borders. New York is a world city. The last gasps of isolationism will be snuffed out by more humiliation, until we get the truth, we aren't above the rest of the world, but we are part of it..."

2002-09-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

Tim O'Reilly: "Sun calls for a set of open XML formats for Office documents. I always thought the antitrust missed a trick on remedies. Forcing Microsoft to open the office file formats would have done more to encourage competition than just about anyone else. It would be nice to see users' data belong to them again, with the power to switch to other applications if they so choose."

2002-09-04T05:51:00.000-07:00

Ray Ozzie comments on Joel Spolskys' Platforms article: "...Healthy platform businesses are optimized mixtures of platform margins, layered application margins, and layered professional services margins, along with a very very healthy ecosystem doing the same. Companies like IBM are masters at this - as Doc says, playing the platform business like a chess board..."

2002-09-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

Parker the philosopher

2002-08-20T07:17:00.000-07:00

Another free book from O'Reilly:
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

2002-08-19T09:16:00.000-07:00

Seth Godin: "...Remarkable is necessary to market today, because unremarkable products don’t get talked about, they just fade away. And the opposite of remarkable is “very good.” Trying hard doesn’t make you remarkable. Doing a good job doesn’t make you remarkable. What makes you remarkable is being amazing, outstanding, surprising, elegant and noteworthy..."

2002-08-18T10:04:00.000-07:00

O'Reilly Network:
"...it would be better to force them to increase their disclosure. Require officials to document their acquisition critieria, require companies to publish their licensing policies, insist on use of open file formats for publicly accessible documents. That is, increase the flow of information and the range of choices, rather than trying to decrease them. That's what Open Source is supposed to be about - increasing choices, right..."

2002-07-21T09:59:00.000-07:00

"The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging."

2002-07-18T17:38:00.000-07:00

danheskett at slashdot:
"There always will be some idiot who won't abide by any kind of limitation, even if it means death for thousands of others ..
Please explain to me how any of the limitations being imposed would have stopped the hijakers that day? That's all I want. A few, MAYBE, MAYBE, might have been arrested because of VISA violations, but up till last September, and even today, a violation of thier sort (legal Visa, but stay is over extended) would narely set off a flag (it is *very* common). The rest were perfectly legal, perfectly law abiding foreign citizens traveling to the West Coast. They carried no contra band. There is no possible regulation or search that would have or will detect these people in the future."

2002-07-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

"Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant "information commons" - the shared information resources and cultural assets that we own as a people..."

2002-07-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

Some days I just wish Doc was MY father

2002-07-05T11:14:00.000-07:00

Understanding Free Software Copyrights

2002-07-01T18:43:00.000-07:00

naasking of slashdot writes some of the most well put words on violence i've ever read:
"...Your arguments indicate that you believe it is perfectly fine for families to kill each other if it is in their own self-interest. Thus, you are advocating a return to pre-civilized society. Your judgements about what is threatening are completely subjective and your willingness to sacrifice others to benefit yourself is frightening. What if you managed to create humanity in the image of your beliefs? Modern civilization would collapse and humanity would revert back to small hunterer-gatherer societies each looking after their own. The mark of civilization and morality is that we have developed alternatives to violence. Recourse to violence is only justified when violence is brought against you first.
Your beliefs lead to a conundrum: what if the person you were to kill with that button found out and decided to kill you before he could be killed? Who is in the right? You who are trying to save your family, or the stranger who is trying to save his life? Don't you see the huge problem with this moral relativism? The only possible resolution to this problem is that the initiator of violence is always wrong..."

2002-07-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

Clay Shirky on the phrase: "Half of humanity has not yet made a phone call"
"...Statists are people who believe that the world either is or should be a controlled, predictable place. Dynamists, by contrast, see the world as a set of dynamic processes. This distinction is the key to The Phrase. Anyone who uses it is affirming the statist point of view, even if unconsciously, because they are treating telecommunications infrastructure as if it were frozen in time..."

2002-06-28T06:13:00.000-07:00

Douglas Rushkoff: "...as our oil baron president also recognizes, for the wealthy in the US to remain in power, we must perpetuate our needless and dangerous addiction to oil and other non-replenishable energy sources. (This is why the Bush coup was so necessary to the powers that be - to reinvent our foreign policy and environmental policy on behalf of the oil industry.)..."

2002-06-26T10:44:00.000-07:00

Zen of Palm is a lovely document written by the founders and inventors of Palm. Read and reread it:
"...Before we go, let's review a minute. To design great Palm OS products you must set aside the instincts that you may have learned in the PC world. Avoid the siren call of "features for features' sake." It will lead you down the path of suffering and small market share. Instead, focus on the user's experience with your product. Convenience and usability are power..."

2002-06-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

Computer Human Values:
"...what type of person is your interface most like? Is it helpful or boorish? Is it nice or impatient? Is it dumb or does it make reasonable assumptions? Is it something you would want to spend a lot of time with?..."

2002-06-23T17:35:00.000-07:00

"...weblogs tend to point to the coolest news, or the most emotional news..."

2002-06-23T17:10:00.000-07:00

Before the end of this decade both George Bush and Ariel Sharon will have retired from politics. I long for that day. Imagine the comfort of forgetting about them.

2002-06-23T10:15:00.000-07:00

Well, so much for winning the World Cup:-(

2002-06-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

Robert Fisk: "...the intelligence men of the United States are not going to beat their real enemies like this. Theirs is a mission impossible, because they will not be allowed to do what any crime-fighting organisation does to ensures success – to search for a motive for the crime. They are not going to be allowed to ask the "why" question. Only the "who" and "how"..."

2002-06-12T01:42:00.000-07:00

Sweden 1 - Argentina 1
Stockholm 10.46: People are running on the streets cheering and singing. It feels like the entire country stopped at 8.30 to watch our champs win the Group of Death. On Sunday, June 30th, we'll beat Germany in the final and win the gold.

2002-06-09T17:31:00.000-07:00

Why does Google still write: "New! Advertise with Google's cost-per-click AdWords Select." on their front page? It's not new anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. They are usually very good at details like this. Why not this time?

2002-05-31T09:38:00.000-07:00

A clever idea from the Google Programming Contest:

"...selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future. For example, the Google programming contest can be found using this link..."

If I were selling web domains this idea would scare the living daylights out of me.

2002-05-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

This is the most wicked java applet I think I've ever seen:

Los Angeles International AirportMonitor (Java applet)

2002-05-28T11:07:00.000-07:00

Paul Boutin writes: "Paul Graham's Revenge of the Nerds is the best explanation I've ever read of why computer programmers who use the Lisp language seem so snobby about it: The short explanation of why this 1950s language is not obsolete is that it was not technology but math, and math doesn't get stale."

2002-05-21T08:47:00.000-07:00

Google Labs

2002-05-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

AMZNVista "AMZNVista allows you to browse Amazon's Collaborative Filter ("people who bought this also bought X, Y and Z") data."

2002-05-07T08:15:00.000-07:00

Dave Sims: Is it good that Google puts Tim O'Reilly's article on Michael Eisner higher than a biography about the man?
I wrote this comment :
Different kinds of documents in the same list
The problem is that criticism against Eisner as well as his biography and interviews with him end up in the same list, sorted as one big unhappy category. If Google knew what Tim was writing about, it could label the text "Criticism" and it could label Eisner's own page "Personal page" etcetera. That's what they should be working on in my opinion.
/Rikard