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.tel

kristian — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:32:22 +0000

Been listening to the Technometria podcast, and found this episode http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4424.html , with guest Henri Asseily talking about .tel domains. I had never thought about domain info as once property. That one can use the zone file to tell other people how to get in touch, where to find someone in which context and no doubt there will be new usages “invented”/discovered as the .tel domains become more popular.

Minimalistic computing environment

kristian — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:29:45 +0000

Lately I have become interested in a more minimalistic approach to
computing. Do more with less, so to speak. Understand the basic
principles of an operating system, network, compilers and so forth.

No longer will I be a slave to overly complicated solutions, provided by
companies that don’t seem to understand the power of simplicity.

One way of computing to rule them all…

kristian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:31:48 +0000

I’m annoyed by the concept of the average user, especially the talk
about what the average user needs or want of their computer.

Different parties want to describe not what the average user wants,
but why the average user wants their product or service. Which is in
most situations wrong as the person(s) making the statement is not in
fact describing the average user as they are influenced by the product
they are providing.

Anyway, I believe the average user is like me, that they want one
interface and one way of dealing with their computing tasks. That they
crave consistency and intelligent interfaces.

Which means Emacs for all and everyone!

7th Son, book 1

kristian — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:44:22 +0000

Currently I’m listening to the audio book 7th Son, available from

http://www.7thsonnovel.com/

Just started listening, but this seems like a very good book.

From what I have gathered from the web page, the author J.C. Hutchins
have released three books in the 7th Son series for free as episodic
downloads on his website.

Seems like this book(s) have created a lot of buzz about his authorship,
a very smart thing to do. Hats off to Mr. Hutchins!

Anyone have another book recommendation for me? Audio or printed?

PS. In these twitter-days I was very glad indeed when I found this
book recommendation in an old-fashion forum.

PSS. Why don’t libraries keep a list of completed free audio books?

PSSS. Does any library do that?

No more Last.fm for me

kristian — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:33:03 +0000

I have been trying out Rhythmbox, which comes with Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha,
and discovered that it was possible to tune in to Last.fm. It was a nice
feature of the default (I think?) media player to do so, but I still
liked the web radio and podcast feature more.

According to http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement the service
Last.fm will cost money for users not located in Germany, UK and
US. Just what you need in the era of the internet, geographical
restrictions on a service that don’t seem like it need to be
restricted. The announcement does not say why it should not be free any
more, or why users from the three countries don’t need to subscribe, and
I immediately deleted my account. Because I don’t believe in treating
people differently based on seemingly false/wrong reason. If they
figured out that 3 Euro from some percentage of 30 million users will
make them a lot of money, why not make 3 Euro of 100 percent of their
users? It would be a crying shame if they are trying to make money of
every country except the top three to prevent a massive
account-cancellation-storm.

So, back to services like radio and Jamendo, I won’t miss you Last.fm.

Best error message I have seen

kristian — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:50:08 +0000

error: no error

hating the windows mobile

kristian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:59:47 +0000

why oh why is windows mobile such a bad program/application/plattform/insert-microsoft-buzzword-here. my next phone will be a freerunner.

trying to learn dvorak-layout…

kristian — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:18:03 +0000

not only are the words harder to get right, but Emacs commands is
suddently not where they my fingers expect. Might be good for my brain
to learn another layout, and break some bad habits with the same strike.

You know you have influence when…

kristian — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:03:44 +0000

You know you have influence when:
"Stortinget (stortinget) is now listening to your notices on Identi.ca."
"Norges regjering (regjeringen) is now listening to your notices on Identi.ca."

Stortinget = Norwegian Parliament
Norges regjering = Norwegian Governmet

If they only did my bidding based on my posting to identi.ca….

The Year of the…

kristian — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:59:07 +0000

In almost all the major "mainstream" computer shops in Norway I see a
lot of portable computers (laptops) which have screens from 16 inches
and larger, with a full keyboard, numpad and everything. If this trend
continue I predict that 2009 will be the year of stationary laptops /
barely-portable protable-computers.