Why do I have the feeling that this would never be said in Sweden by someone running for office? Wonderful.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
December 19, 2007
14:38
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December 10, 2007
13:38
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Q10
I discovered a little gem the other day, a program called Q10. It is a wonderful little word processor, designed for writing and nothing else; it completely blacks out your entire screen and presents you with nothing but… writing. It even has little typewriter sounds to make it feel like you’re… writing. It inspires me [...]
December 7, 2007
22:44
22:44
The Web – a Flattening of Spaces
The Internet is one of the most amazing creations of the latter part of the 20th Century. Never before have so many been so connected; and it has never been easier to share and distribute information. For it shares a property with what some say about the Spirit world: There are no distances. The whole [...]
December 7, 2007
21:19
21:19
A List Apart
I am going to start reading “A List Apart”. Just read this lovely little quote from the Understanding Web Design article: Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Then read [...]
December 5, 2007
10:54
10:54
Threading is Bad
Threading, as a software method, is bad. The idea is good in itself: Make the program execution split up in several threads, which all run independently; creating an illusion that the program is doing several things simultaneously – and, if you have multiple cores, processors or hyperthreading, the program actually does several things at once. [...]
December 5, 2007
10:13
10:13
First Light
Operation Enduring Residence is underway. That is the fancy code-name for the move to my new apartment: A little three-room apartment not far from where I live now, but hopefully much, much quieter. It’s located in a rather rural part, and a friendly neighbor told me yesterday that it’s not unlikely to see sheep that [...]
December 1, 2007
11:20
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Random Clippings
… while intended to help this particular parasitic segment of the corporate world to behaviorally model the psychological predispositions of software developers at their work in an unrealistically simple way, it has instead turned into a system of limitations that developers have begun to impose upon themselves to the detriment of the advancement of software [...]