May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
2 posts
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tanze, tanzen.
“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative and deals with contradiction and criticism only as a means, only involuntarily — the three tasks for which educators are required. One must learn to see, one must learn to think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture. Learning to see — accustoming the eye to calmness, to...
January 2012
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The descension of Hakan the great.
The ascension of Håkan Juholt to party leader of the Swedish Socialist party, the Social Democrats, was meteoric. None of us knew of this relative insider and none of us, knew what to expect.. if anything.
Like all things velocity related, there’s a a law of nature that comes into play when the meteor hits the atmosphere of a planet. Let’s call it friction.
Håkan, a very friendly...
December 2011
3 posts
loose canon; the swedish compromise
Reading forums and talking to .. well lets call them “passionate” consumers of fiction, be it tv-series, comics or books spanning entire forests, you often find them touting and challenging the canonicity of the writer/creators own “universe” of fiction.
This often due to cross-franchise entertainment like games, comics and movies made out of, say, a series of tu.. oh...
“Free the imprisoned Egyptian bloggers!
In times when freedom of the press is...”
November 2011
5 posts
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net1 and the use of permissive software
One of the basic tenements of network security is the first principle, networks are non-permissive enviroments.
What this means is that every system that you introduce into the enviroment, you take good care to lock down to avoid outside operators gaining access.
The standard operating procedure for introducing new systems into an operating enviroment is trial by vetting and standardisation.
...
“We, too, have mobilized. We come from near and far, by any means necessary, some...”
– John Kenney: “We Are the One Per Cent” : The New Yorker
on books and genres.
Having had the wonderful oppurtunity to work via the internet for most of my career also means i’ve spent an ungodly amount of time socializing via the net, meeting new people, goading nublets on support forums and well, forming relationships with people on the other side of the globe.
One of those friends is a guy in Germany, Falk — no really, that’s his name — he’s...
shenanigans
The Occupy movement has by the the time of writing been an ongoing display of gusto aimed at the financial oligarchies around the world. Private Military Contractors were sent in to deal with the Occupy camp in phoenix, Paramilitary groups have been spotted besting about other cities, police in NY, Oakland, San Francisco and Seattle have at several times brutalised the Occupy activists.
Now the...
August 2011
3 posts
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HP to pull the plug on WebOS devices
jIn addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.
- HP.com Pressrelease it’s sad to see one of the few real contenders to the iPad/iOS platform throw in the towel but two months into the game.
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Separation
Separating is never easy on anyone involved.
Me and Catherine have went our separate ways and I ask people to respect this and I ask that you respect our privacy and let us handle this on our ends.
Sincerely, Robert
July 2011
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G , not your regular cup o' joe
I’ve been putting far too much time into google , over the course of just a few days, i’ve managed to send out over 400 invites and hitting the proverbial roof.First off, the UX of the interface is minimalistic and easy to use, the whole ui has a “no guidance needed” feeling to it. To add friends, Google sources your current contacts and frequent email correspondents. But...
May 2011
2 posts
“What if the US government subpoena ‘Reality check network corp’ for all...”
– via The Brooks Review
Ok i’ll say this once, use chromium or safari.
A Case in point of Anger's ability to change us.
Anger and resentment can easily stops you in your tracks and after watching and enduring many difficult situations, that’s what I know now. That it needs nothing to scald but the air and the life that it can swallow and smother.
It is real though, the fury, it’s real. It changes you, it turns you, it can transform you and mold you into someone you’re not.
The only upside of all of this, then is...
April 2011
3 posts
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location, location & Location.
Apple has been found out. Apparently they store location data triangulated from femtocell towers on the phone and any computer you sync with. What this means is that statistics, on when, where & how long you were at a single location can be played back, like a movie.
Now, the powerbrokers are angry, the transparency buffs are tooting the horns and the geeks are amping up their Low Orbit Ion...
“Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks...”
– kippo - SSH Honeypot
March 2011
10 posts
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Cisco vs. Xsigo
This is why I rather work with Xsigo hardware and vendor relations than Cisco, Less bullshit & nonsense. technical specs aside ;)
The VP of Xsigo dissects the Competetive material presented to the Cisco Salesdrones.
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“Speaking just for myself, the next Bon Jovi concert I’ll consider attending now...”
– An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi On What’s Really “Killing The Music Business” | iLounge Backstage
Attention Cravings!
(cross-posted to lucarne)
I’m having a sort of communications crisis. too many inboxes and too many messages. much guilt of wading in it all.
It’s not a gratification post, but by each passing day i get more and more messages. Email? four adresses to keep up with, and as that wasnt enough, try two phones, twitter, facebook and foursquare requests.
Yesterday I received an email from the...
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do 'droids dream of eclectic sheep?
For the last few months, i’ve been working my hiney off in my spare time to port newer android builds to the kendo m7 (booq vero, dmtech p7 etc) alas i’m at wits end since i managed to physically break the usb port.
But a small status update:
2.3 Runs but without opengl, sound and other bits.
2.2 Frozen Yogurt, runs albeit with a few snagglez, openglES support is flaky to say the...
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Over the rainbow.
I’d like to tell you a story, i’d like you to listen when I #Talk-about-it. Imagine that you have for the last week before thanksgiving been wondering why your 11 year old daughter has been more than a little depressed, locking herself in her room and not wanting to go to school in the mornings. On thanksgiving you receive a call at work, its from the principal of the school your...
SkyNE^H^H Google Profiles
The Google Blog:
We think this new design helps highlight the information that’s most important to you, making it easier for people who visit your profile to get to know you. As the new layout gradually rolls out, current users of Google Profiles will notice that their existing profile will automatically update to the new style. To update and add to your profile, simply click on the new “Edit...
February 2011
3 posts
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the Ivory Tower of missed oppurtunities
The current bleeding-edge public web applications and services in use today represents a convergence of technology, standardization and social attitudes.
This revolution in web-design and social trends has reached critical mass over the past 3 years, after an arduos evolution of how designers leverage the internet’s potential as a platform; That is, as a sphere-of-interaction for connecting...
January 2011
14 posts
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of revolutionaries and Egypt
The last few days has seen two protests spawning wide reform and revolutions in two North-African countries, Tunisia and Egypt.
Fueled by the mistrust of their regimes due to malfeasance, corruption and nepotism, the educated youth and enabled equality wanting citizens have taken to the streets, in what to me are the first signs of struggle for democracy that I’ve witnessed first hand.
The...
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Alla är vi övervakade av nådens kärleksfulla...
“Control is not discipline. You do not confine people with a highway. But by making highways, you multiply the means of control. I am not saying this is the only aim of highways, but people can travel infinitely and ‘freely’ without being confined while being perfectly controlled. That is our future.” – Gilles Deleuze,Two Regimes of Madness
Det här började som en rad tankar, inte mer än något...
Rooting the kendo m7
Over here in cold dark Sweden, whose market I had thought impervious to cheap shenzhen shite, i got my hands on a kendo m7 tablet. The kendo m7, is a rebranded yifang m7 / booq vero, using the rockchip 2818 (rk2818) ref. platform. Now rockchip are known GPL violators, they never produce the sourcecode for their kernels and userland tools. this is of little importancy. nevertheless a GPL violation...
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The fallacy of the semantic web
The heart of the semantic web is the philosophy that the worlds information can be rationalized. Indeed a noble proposition that extends to our innermost desire to make sense of the world around us, and which isnt unique to just the narrow AI community which co-founded the semantic web. With this worldview comes the assertion of a universal truth, an all-encompassing, conquering, logical...
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Defining the robot.
Whenever i discuss robotics with my peers we all seldom disagree on the semantics but of late i’ve begun to ask cursorely before we initiate, what is a robot, to you? most often reply “I know a robot when i see it, but can’t explain it” which is kind of a bummer really, since I can, given enough time, be quite eqvivoque about my ideas concerning the definition of a robot. What strikes me as quite...
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““I will not be pushed, filed, stamped,
indexed, briefed, debriefed
or...”
– Excerpt from The Prisoner.
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Evheads ten rules of web startups
Evan Williams Ten Rules for Web Startups:
Be Narrow
Be Different
Be Casual
Be Picky
Be User-Centric
Be Self-Centred
Be Greedy
Be Tiny
Be Agile
Be Balanced
Be Wary
Each point is unpacked for your pleasure over at his blog, read and devour the information, hat-tip to Andreas Sundgren for inspiring my memory to recall it.
Evan founded such companies as blogger (blogspot) and that minor...
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Civility, in the age of the Social.
Virtuos readers of ReadWriteWeb will have noticed the PEW study on “The Social Side of the Internet” challenging the vulgar notion of internet users being less socially apt than non-internet users.
their reactions to the survey is representative of what I myself have seen on the ‘net in my 16 internet-years.
That old stereotype that Internet users are isolated and anti-social is getting harder...
Google Introduces Mobile Printing For Gmail From iOS Devices :: App Advice January 25, 2011 – Google whipping apples airprint feature infront of themselves.
Sharp Galapagos 3D Android Phone ~ Chris Pirillo January 25, 2011 – Sharp launches their first android phones with. a. Bang! the phones are sporting the same 3d display that are on the new nintendo ds. forcing the parallax barrier!
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“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped,
indexed, briefed, debriefed
or numbered!
- My life is mine.
- Is it?“
Excerpt from The Prisoner.
Great quote; remembered herein.
Whenever i discuss robotics with my peers we all seldom disagree on the semantics but of late i’ve begun to ask cursorely before we initiate, what is a robot, to you?
most often reply “I know a robot when i see it, but can’t explain it” which is kind of a bummer really, since I can, given enough time, be quite eqvivoque about my ideas concerning the definition of a robot.
What strikes me as...