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January 28, 2003

Spatially aware displays for PDAs

''The small size of handheld computers provides the convenience of mobility at the expense of reduced screen space for display and interaction. [...] Enabling simultaneous navigation and manipulation yields the ability to create and edit objects larger than the screen and to drag and drop in 3-D.'' MORE...

January 24, 2003

Owner of Norwegian website napster.no convicted

None of the mp3 files in question were located at the napster.no server, but that didn't matter for the conviction... MORE...

January 22, 2003

More Norwegian weblogs starting up

Two more new, Norwegian weblog discoveries today; both focusing on content rather than being diary-style... MORE...

Annoying: Defective SecureDigital card...

Just after ordering my new Palm Tungsten, I headed off to buy some very reasonably priced supplies, including a Tungsten hardcase and a 128MB Secure Digital. When the package was delivered today, I was very disappointed. The card didn't work, and they won't send a replacement any time soon... MORE...

Sex offense excused by inexperience

Here's some sad news from the homeland up north that's bound to fuel some discussions... I find it shocking and appalling when people (no matter which colour or cultucal background) abuse vulnerable souls... MORE...

Norwegian author Eirik Newth starts blogging

Norwegian author Eirik Newth has started a weblog. (Sorry, Norwegian only (for now...?)) MORE...

January 21, 2003

Librarians googling for you...

Librarians are not a dying race. Au contraire! ''this is truly amazing stuff -- to be able to call up a live librarian and ask a question out of nowhere and get timely information. [...]'' MORE...

January 20, 2003

Trackback evolving

There is evolution in TrackBack-space. I came across The Internet Topic Exchange via brilliantcorners, and it lets users trackback on categories... MORE...

January 16, 2003

Odd audio: The 365 Days Project

The 365 Days Project posts oddball audio clips from a vast variety of sources, genres etc - one a day - all 2003. MORE...

January 14, 2003

New Blog: Love and the City

A friend of mine that has chosen to remain anonymous (for now) has started blogging over at LoveAndTheCity.blogspot.com MORE...

Congratulations, Nicole and Trygve

My childhood friend Trygve and his girlfriend (now fiancee) Nicole are getting married. MORE...

January 03, 2003

I'm on vacations!

I'm off! I like it! 3 weeks, 7 airports, umpteen flight legs ;-) MORE...

December 10, 2002

Simplified usability-testing

Big business meets open development in Uzilla - a Mozilla-based, commercial product for usability testing. MORE...

December 05, 2002

On virtual terrorism versus real-world terrorism

Is it easier to be a real-world terrorist than a virtual-world one? MORE...

Shoelace-maths

I love it when scientists go out and to something useful... MORE...

December 03, 2002

HTTP Status Code Tables

HTTP status codes are returned by web servers to indicate the status of a request. I came across some nice overview tables online showing all possible values and what they mean... MORE...

Joke: Norwegian weather

+15°C / 59°F This is as warm as it gets in Norway, so we'll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Norvegians are out in the sun, getting a tan. MORE...

November 27, 2002

George's Song

I got this song from a friend by email, and it's so funny I thought I'd share :-) MORE...

November 25, 2002

MT 2.6 Feature suggestion: Collaborative spam-blocking

Any time a legitimate Movable Type user blocks an IP address for commenting, a ping could be sent to movabletype.com (read more...) MORE...

Today is spam-day...

Now some Nigerian wrote a 419-email that skimmed below my SpamAssassin score threshold. Time for an upgrade... MORE...

November 21, 2002

Disenchanted on third world charity

As usual, Disenchanted hits the spot with their shocking article ''Play money'' about abuse of well-meant charity money from the west. MORE...

RFID and Silent Commerce go mainstream

Gilette leads the way in adopting ''Silent Commerce''. What is it? What will it be used for in the future? MORE...

November 18, 2002

Useful pre-flight information

Wow! A dynamic airport/flight information system with all the stuff you (the frequent traveller) wants to know! MORE...

November 11, 2002

Wardriving reaches Norway

Major newspaper Dagbladet.no got an ''IT Security Expert'' to demonstrate how he could access an unsecured Wireless LAN from a parking lot. Wooow. First page material? Hardly. Who's the hacker though? MORE...

November 08, 2002

Knowledge un-sharing on the Internet: Reversed extranets

For the first time I've seen information (presumably) made freely available on the net systematically blocked for subgroups of the online population. What do you think about it? MORE...

GSM woes 2: SMS network incompatiblities

I've nagged previously about GSM roaming woes. Another GSM woe is incompatible SMS networks. I just hate to discover that the text messages I have sent from my new mobile to friends in Norway and France haven't been delivered. MORE...

I need it...

God's gift to Geeks has arrived: Caffine soap... MORE...

November 06, 2002

Weblog/KLog-meetup: London 12 Nov 2002

Fellow weblogger and reader Martin Roell's in London for the KM Europe conference. All readers, webloggers and KM-interested parties are welcome to join us for dinner... MORE...

November 01, 2002

Open digital information exchange in Governments

It's been in the air for a while: spurred by increasing frustration over Micros~1 dominance in the ''Office'' market, there is a trend toward enforcing a more open exchange of information, starting with pressure on Governments. MORE...

October 31, 2002

Hacking the Information Economy 2

''Both Intentia and Reuters agree the Reuters reporter obtained Intentia's financial statement directly from Intentia's website.'' Here is how.. MORE...

October 29, 2002

Good things about London so far...

Bookmarks for myself (and others) after 2 days on my new project in London... MORE...

Hacking the Information Economy

In the Information Economy, knowledge can mean money, and information like the results Reuters allegedly picked up from some Swedish companies in financial trouble can give shady investors an edge in selling off their shares before investors relying on legal information channels knows what's about to hit them... MORE...

October 25, 2002

Blogger.com hacked

Looks like www.blogger.com has been hacked. Not a problem if you've never used them, but people who either blog or started off blogging with blogger.com should be aware... MORE...

Spam-alert: FriendGreetings.com

Damn! Read that licence agreement before installing ANY ActiveX controls on your Windows system! MORE...

October 22, 2002

Google sued by dodgy Search Engine Optimizer

More reactions to Google's new search algorithm: ''Google sued by search optimism company'' MORE...

October 16, 2002

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Read movie reviews: the evaluations of different movies and how their physics rate vs reality. MORE...

Spam, hype and SpamAssassin

Marketing hype for SpamAssassin? Rather real experiences. Compared to BBC's hype-piece on Mirapoint (which mentions that the software uses some 25 checks to score spam), SpamAssassin uses hundreds of tests, and has a quietly smiling crowd of followers with clean inboxes... MORE...

Game Review: Time Crisis 2 (PlayStation 2)

Wow! If you have a Playstation 2, like action films and games, and really want to have a lot of fun one evening; buy this game! MORE...

October 15, 2002

AllTheWeb vs Google

AllTheWeb has a new feature called the Alchemist that will let you write your own CSS to layout their pages as long as this style sheet is accessible from your browser. MORE...

GIS in developing countries

Digital maps of Bangladesh are proving invaluable in the fight against sleaze in a country branded as one of the most corrupt in the world. [...] ''Roads must connect the growth centres or local markets, not just a politician's house'' MORE...

October 11, 2002

Review: Mike Gayle: Dinner for two

A funny read for women who want to understand men better, and for men trying to understand why women understand so little sometimes ;-) MORE...

Wired goes Accessible AND Usable

When discussing usability and accessibility with clients, I've encountered the following argument many times: ''Why should we do it if noone else does it?''. Now there is another credential. MORE...

October 08, 2002

Big things start small: Open Source in schools

''By bypassing Microsoft Windows and Office we will save approximately $40.000 the next three years'', says Felix Laate, the ICT coordinator of Harestad primary school. ''In the longer run, Norwegian schools can save millions [...] For us, there is no reason in the world to purchase products from Microsoft'' MORE...

What is "cloaking"?

Creating accessible pages will implicitly mean creating pages that are as easily read by search engine spiders as by blind people and other disabled visitors. Unfortunately this doesn't go down well with many in the whiz-bang-funky-design-webmaster world... The alternative they've come up with is ''cloaking''. MORE...

October 07, 2002

Republishing Weblog content all over again...

Blogmints seems to nab text right off my webpage and slap it up on their frontpage. Regardless of ''opt-out'' options offered, I think a lot of people are not aware of this happening with their content... MORE...

Registering air travellers?

''All the fancy computerized biometric systems in the world won't tell you if the person holding the card is a would-be terrorist who successfully qualified for registered status.'' MORE...

October 05, 2002

Defining Geekdom vs Webloggers' beliefs

The Register has a guest editorial today discussing fundamental beliefs every 'real geek' need to adhere to. Reading it made me think about whether there are similar 'fundamental beliefs' among webloggers? MORE...

October 04, 2002

Usabilityzilla

There is an incredibly comprehensive collection of usability/accessibility studies and information available from Wichita State University's Software Usability Research Lab. MORE...

InforWorld on WiFi and Warchalking

Industry publication InfoWorld published a couple of interesting quotes on Wi-Fi, ethics and warchalking this morning. MORE...

October 03, 2002

Leaving Holland...

I have no idea where or when my next project will be. It may be starting Monday, and it might very well not be... For now, I'll just have to wait and see. Now I'm off home to my appartment to finish the packing. Wish me luck :-) MORE...

Miracles of Science: The World's funniest joke

Could that still qualify as the "world's funniest" -- if it makes the most people laugh...? Or should it be the joke that provokes the strongest laughter, for a more limited group...? ... time for a new study, me thinks... MORE...

October 02, 2002

Luggage purchases

I'm moving away from my Rotterdam appartment this Friday. Not quite sure where I'm going next, but as part of the preparations, I went shopping for some heavy-duty, oversized bags. MORE...

The 99 cent KM solution

Another article on cheap KM solutions (weblogs, mailinglists with archives and more) MORE...

September 30, 2002

"Mobile cloak"?

The device does only one thing as far as I can see, and that's to render the wireless communication device as useless as if it was turned off...? MORE...

The future of libraries in "digital times"

On the future role of libraries in a publishing society increasingly preoccupied with Digital Rights management and royalty collection. MORE...

How Google can make money with News

Jeremy Zawodny asks how Google can make money off this service, and ever-creative a klog apart has a pretty good answer... MORE...

September 25, 2002

Disenchanted proposes "Write-by-wire"

Again reaching beyond what's currently possible, I do believe this is something thad could theoretically be implemented in the future... MORE...

Cigarette break or a quick news-check?

I think employees who are updated on what happens in the world and in their field of expertise are more productive than employees that have this privilege removed... What do you think? MORE...

September 24, 2002

Linkfest: Ad-Hoc Wireless P2P networking

The Internet itself is just plumbing; the applications that will follow are the most interesting... MORE...

IBM to study social networks

I frequently find myself relying not only on what I know, but rather on the fact the I know who knows, who to ask about who knows and last but not least I know my way around Google... MORE...

September 23, 2002

World axes

Did you ever wonder what USA, Afghanistan and South Africa have in common? Check out the interactive "Axis World Map" art project! MORE...

RSS news for individual stocks

Weblogger Jeremy Zawodny also happens to work for Yahoo, and he has created a set of RSS feeds for different stock tickers. MORE...

Building what the user wants

Funny cartoon on design vs development vs user requirements: The Tire Swing MORE...

PaSaMuF - P2P Document Management

PaSaMuF is a filesharing system which indexes and shares common document types (Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, plain text, etc). MORE...

MIT revolutionizes education online

This is so great and so very much in line with the initial spirit of the web: ''Why don't we, instead of trying to sell our knowledge over the internet, just give it away.'' MORE...

Feature suggestion for MT 2.5 or later: subscribe to followup on comments

Per-comment-email-subscription would be a nice and easy(?) thing to implement in Movable Type, which already has functionality for email subscriptions overall and a nice way of handling comments. MORE...

September 20, 2002

Nick Hornby (ed): Speaking With the Angel

12 authors, 12 first-person short stories that are as different as they possibly can be, yet maintaining high quality throughout. MORE...

September 18, 2002

Tracking paedophiles' locations electronically...

...''we now have the technology which would enable us to track where an individual is. The paedophiles could be banned from being near schools, and we could use this technology to automatically alert police if this person went near a school''... Technology will come enabling such monitoring. Should we use it? MORE...

Weirdest website so far? Funaral homes' calendars...

Bikini-girls and coffins? Italian & weird weird weird! MORE...

September 17, 2002

Most desperate anti-piracy move so far?

A US record company has issued reviewers with portable CD players that are glued shut to prevent two new albums from being pirated online before their official releases. MORE...

September 16, 2002

Virgin Atlantic forced to refit planes due to mile-high sex...

Yahoo/Reuters: 'Mile High Club' Forces Airplane Refit... MORE...

Haxial takes spammer-hunting to the next level...

Haxial.com takes spammer-hunting to a new level... MORE...

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...

I like writing articles and other content for my weblog, and I like tinkering with design - visually and technically. Now, wangjianshuo.com has copied my CSS stylesheet and also other MT config elements very closely... MORE...

September 13, 2002

Computer Archaeology: The Smiley

The first ever use of the smiley has been unearthed from old backup tapes. It will have an anniversary Sept 19! MORE...

September 12, 2002

SaysGod.com

Get it directly from the source... An ironic listing of "new" statements from God... MORE...

September 11, 2002

Faiz Chopdat goes to jail for playing tetris on cellphone during flight

I'm not defending Mr Chopdat's actions - no matter how excited he was after his honeymoon, he should still follow the instructions from the cabin crew; but still - a more thorough scientific investigation needs to be made into inflight interference before people go to jail for it...? MORE...

Trillian 1.0 / TrillianPro also features RSS newsreader!

Internet chat tool Trillian in it's newest version now features ''Information Hub'' functionality, including an RSS aggregator. MORE...

September 10, 2002

Corporate weblogs: are they a Threat or Adding Value?

I am a believer in that intranet-based weblogs / ''Knowledge logs'' can add value for a company; and also that putting in place a Corporate Weblog Policy can clarify the distinction between prefessional and personal blogging. MORE...

How Sid Meier drives kids to war...

''In democracy, when you move one military unit out of its home city two people become unhappy,'' says the nine-year-old... MORE...

September 09, 2002

Be Afraid, for Big Brother is coming closer

A high school in California has implemented ''security procedures'' that start resembling what we know from Orwell's ''1984''... MORE...

Offline weekend

I've enjoyed an offline weekend. No instant messaging, no email, just real, interpersonal relationships. More people should unplug; more often... (now; the week starts again...) MORE...

September 06, 2002

Call your own spammer!

For those of you who wonder, I did have a 20 minute phonecall with the president of the ''advertising company'' I mentioned I had hunted down yesterday. More on this will come separatly. In the meantime, I thought I'd share some techniques and tips you can use if you want to call your spammer... MORE...

September 05, 2002

Siebel in the news today; 3 times...

Tom Siebel saying he hasn't brought along an analysis of how sales are shaping up? That's a little like Yo-Yo Ma neglecting to pack his cello for an appearance with the philharmonic. MORE...

We've been HardOCP'ed...

Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story ''Flash Crowd'' predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest... MORE...

I've "caught" a spammer

I've ''caught'' a spammer red handed. Well.. Let me explain [...] Now I need some advice: What should I do? MORE...

September 03, 2002

Security: Top 10 tips to spoil a wireless hacker's day

While I'm all pro free-for-all wireless networking, systems adiministrators for companies deploying a Wireless LAN should take care not to expose confidential information to bypassing warchalkers... MORE...

More official newsfeeds

BBC launches public beta RSS newsfeeds. May other news providers follow suit... (Update: now the list contains almost 40 feeds!) MORE...

Lessons learnt: K-Logging

Phil over at a klog apart has summarized a good bit of ''lessons learnt'' when implementing company-internal knowledge weblogs. MORE...

Implanting chips to track missing children?

''If she was kidnapped her exact location would be discovered via a computer.'' -- Of course, such a stunt rise more questions than it answers: in the given future where such a technology exists - would it be advisable to use it? Would the Gonvernments of the world tag all newborns by default? Who would be responsible for avoiding abuse of the tracking system? MORE...

September 02, 2002

Web Economy Bullshit Generator

Do you need to 'synthesize mission-critical deliverables'? 'innovate leading-edge web services'? 'generate open-source experiences'? Then the Web Economy Bullshit Generator is for you... MORE...

Air Marshals or Trigger-happy Rambos?

It sounds like a few too-happy-to-finally-be-in-action newly trained Air Marshals were on a recent flight bound for Philadelphia... MORE...

September 01, 2002

Time for a new desktop background?

Some Russian designers (with a 'barcode fetish') have published some beautiful/cool/{add your acronym here} background images... MORE...

"Wiring" a whole city on wireless

A non-profit organization in Dutch university town Leiden is setting up a wireless infrastructure, city wide... MORE...

How non-programmers use documentation

Reference to a very valid article for software developers and people involved in writing documentation and on-line help for both application and online websites... MORE...

August 31, 2002

"Spotlight Site" :-)

We're currently a featured Movable Type ''Spotlight Site''! Nice... :) MORE...

Sri Chinmoy cult "spamming" weblogs.com?

While working on an application that finds patterns in the data supplied by Weblogs.com, Mo Morgan found some disturbing patterns: ''[...] between midnight and five there had been over 60 pings to Weblogs.com from sites that contained the string ''srichinmoy'' in their URI.'' MORE...

August 30, 2002

Movable Type notifications to Instant Messenger?

Radio users now have the option of subscribing to Instant Message notifications when their favourite weblog(s) are updated. MORE...

eCommerce 101: It's more than a pretty website!

E-Commerce: It's All About the Experience - on customer service online and how important it is to retain customers... MORE...

Big Boss is watching...?

N. Y. Times' ''It Isn't Just Big Brother Who Is Watching''-article deals with employees getting fired because of their employers' opinion of the contents on their personal websites(!) MORE...

August 29, 2002

Statistical analysis of spam

Lars is looking into statistical analysis of spam using a corpus of several thousand SpamAssassin-analysed messages. (Updated with initial results) MORE...

Where DO they get the quotes from?

In the Morning News article ''This Is The [Best] Article Of The Summer!'', Matthew Baldwin examines something I've always been curious about -- when you see quotes from movie reviews on movie marketing posters: are they accurately quoted? MORE...

Tom Siebel on Webservices in CRM

Tom Siebel: ''Companies that don't make the transition to Web services are going to be like the companies that didn't make the transition to client/server'' MORE...

ISSN# for Norwegian weblogs denied

ISSN Norway has decided that homepages (including blogs) are not assigned ISSNs. Ah well... (updated Aug 29) MORE...

August 27, 2002

My RSS Subscriptions

I've decided to publish my news aggregator's subscription-list online. To automate the process, I've created an XSLT style sheet that processes the OPML file that Aggie produces and I use it to generate a separate webpage. MORE...

The BlogMD Initiative - getting blog metadata right

The creators of multiple weblog-metadata websites have joined forces and created the BlogMD (Metadata) Initiative... MORE...

August 26, 2002

EasyJet problems coming up?

A strike would severely impact travellers, as EasyJet is a budget airline with none of the usual procedures for stranded passengers (i.e. they will refund your ticket, but not automatically provide you with a hotel, put you on another airline or similar...) MORE...

Quotable quote

Mark Russell: ''The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.'' MORE...

Tab-completion in Windows 2000

Just in case others are interested; here's how to get ''tab completion'' (famous from the UNIX world) in Windows 2000. MORE...

August 25, 2002

Vice Funds - investing in immoral stuff

The "Vice Fund" invests in alcohol, tobacco, war-related industires and gambling -- all profitable industires while the once profitable IT stocks are plummeting... MORE...

"The Invisible Library"

Recently I read Jorge Luis Borges' story ''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'', and it contained a lot of references to imaginary books in which an entirely imaginary country's history, political life et cetera is detailed, including ''History of the Land Called Uqbar'' and ''First Encyclopedia of Tlön''. Now, Brian Quinette has created the ''Invisible Library'', collecting information about all kinds of imaginary books that appear inside other books. MORE...

August 24, 2002

Corporate weblog policies

A number of people at Groove are writing weblogs, and this has lead to the creation of a very sensible set of "Personal Website and Weblog Guidelines". MORE...

August 23, 2002

Is SpamAssassin helping the spammers too much?

I'm starting to wonder if SpamAssassin has been too successful and that spammers now are actively testing their mails themselves before sending them out? MORE...

Update on "official" newsfeeds

After posting my Open letter of request to newspapers to provide RSS feeds last night and emailing a couple of Norwegian news sources, VG and digi.no have already gotten back to me with information on their RDF feeds. MORE...

August 22, 2002

Open letter of request / suggestion to newspapers to provide RSS feeds

Having found a nice news-reader; now I'm on a different quest, one for native RSS feeds from news-providers! (Posting contains information about existing feeds and information for content providers on how & why create an RSS feed) MORE...

ISSN for weblogs

I've applied for an ISSN number for my weblog. Here's how (and more about ISSN). MORE...

Fantasy answering machine message

''please consider whether you really need to leave me a message. If it's about something that I'm supposed to be working on for you, I'm working on it. If it's about something else, I won't be working on it in the near future (at least not until human cloning has been perfected).'' MORE...

Can Web Services Make CRM Lovable?

Web services -- basically, software that is used by other software via Internet protocols and formats to link and integrate applications -- is going to remake CRM integration as it is currently known and hated. The article suggests proviging services from the CRM application itself towards a portal/frontend to avoid CRM applications' sometimes cranky interfaces. MORE...

Wi-Fi and free lunches

John Patrick writes about the emergence of ubiquitous ''free'' Wi-Fi access. MORE...

All I want for Christmas is... a space shuttle ;-)

There's an eBay action for a full-size space shuttle flight deck simulator... MORE...

August 21, 2002

Liberal versus strict XML parsing

An old fundamental of Internet Netiquette that I still am a believer in is: ''Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive.'' It was originally (I think) meant for content of for example emails, but has also been adopted for technical services like (mail) servers. MORE...

Pinging blo.gs

Just a short notice: This blog now also pings blo.gs when updated. How? Using Phil Ringnalda's Multi-ping in Movable Type-hack. MORE...

Algebra is a key subject even in primary school

Algebra is a significant educational barrier, educators say. Advocates of better mathematics instruction complain that parents and elementary school teachers frighten children by speaking of algebra as if it were an ugly troll guarding the bridge to math and science courses. MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 7) - Review & Recommendation: Aggie

After trying all kinds of news aggregators - web-based and windows-applications, I've found one I really - REALLY - like... MORE...

Google increasing spidering frequency: Covering more news-sites & weblogs

Last December, Google announced that it was spidering 3 million pages each day where freshness had been determined to be crucial. Now the search engine has gone beyond those core pages, though it won't say exactly how far. It looks like a lot of "the Living Web" is being crawled more than weekly, giving Daypop some competition. MORE...

The quest for the ideal news aggregator (part 6) - AmphetaDesk revisited

Last night I had a very polite and helpful Morbus Iff approach me online on ICQ, offering some suggestions for my use of AmphetaDesk and options for feedback. Here's how it went... MORE...

Need more planets, urgently...

It looks like my travelling in particular is heavy on the environment (they only list up to 100 hours of flying each year, I do at least twice that). According to the quiz, we would need 4.7 ''planet earth equivalents'' if everyone was living like me :-/ MORE...

August 20, 2002

Review: Resident Evil Survivor 2 (Code: Veronica)

so disappointing that it's almost scary that this game ever left the doors of Capcom... I played Die Hard Trilogy on the PSOne in 1998(?) and it was 10 times better! This cannot possibly be state-of-the art exploitation of the PS2's possibilities? MORE...

Mixing it up: Publicists approaching bloggers...

''In fact, many bloggers have no experience at being pitched by publicists. Recently, we conducted outreach to several blogs on behalf of our client Business 2.0 magazine, which had published an article about the Web log phenomenon. What was striking throughout the pitching process was the discovery that most bloggers were rarely, if ever, approached by PR professionals.'' MORE...

Bloggers' professions

Seb's Open Research has an article entitled "Professions in the blogosphere: is there a pattern?" He lists a lot of known groups of blogger occupations including software developers, journalists, librarians, educators and lawyers. I think there are more. MORE...

August 19, 2002

Living in the Blog-osphere

MSNBC: ''With a new blogger joining the crowd every 40 seconds, Weblogs are officially the explosion du jour on the Net.'' MORE...

August 16, 2002

10 tips on writing for the living web

A couple of pretty decent weblog-articles: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web & How to Write a Better Weblog MORE...

August 14, 2002

New blog: The Amazon blog

Inspired by the Google blog: The Amazon Weblog! MORE...

Search Engine "power user" resources

Just came across a few search engine "power user" tidbits I thought I'd share: finding what's invisible on the Web & the "Google Dance Tool"... MORE...

Eatonweb cleans up

The Eatonweb portal - already a major collection of weblogs - is doing it's post-summer spring cleaning. Have a blog? Update your info! MORE...

August 13, 2002

Eating Whale Steak

First - how to prepare a decent meal if you can get hold of this fine, red meat: I translate one reciepe from Norwegian whale meat cooking website hvalbiff.no MORE...

Optimizing your Movable Type Installation (part 4) - XML syndication

''Syndicate this site'', it says. Sometimes with an orange button labelled ''XML'' or ''RSS'' beside it. What is it? How can you use it? MORE...

August 12, 2002

Two random words... Syzygy & Theremin

Today I learned two new words, and I thought I'd share them with you: Syzygy & Theremin MORE...

Ari Behn: Trist som faen (short stories)

Behn, having married the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise, has been hyped as a ''cool'' author the last few years, so I thought I'd read his (only) book... MORE...

Nick Hornby: How to be Good

What a Great book! It really made me think about what it means to be truly good... MORE...

I want one of those .com

I have no idea why a friend of mine just sent me this link: iwantoneofthose.com... really... On second thoughts - it might be because they've got all the stuff I... MORE...

Women in the Norwegian Military Forces

It seems to be common belief - at least in some circles (of girls) - that if a Norwegian girl is unmarried at the age of 30, she's obliged to enroll for military service. MORE...

August 09, 2002

Effects of Jet Contrails on the climate

After September 11 last year, scientists used the opportunity (when all planes were grounded) to study their effects on the environment. More links here. MORE...

Movable Type Survey

The creators of Movable Type are doing a survey to learn more about how people use it and how many people use it actively... If you use MT, participate here.... MORE...

August 08, 2002

Extreme Ironing

This is one of the funniest ''sports'' I've seen in a long time: Extreme Ironing MORE...

Cross-site knowledge management with TrackBack

I didn't find a good place to collect book-reviews online, so I created an interactive repository of book-reviews from multiple weblog authors: other MT users can ''ping'' this site whenever they write a review, and the site will automatically link back to the entry. MORE...

August 07, 2002

Beautiful Science: The Analemma

Taking a picture of the analemma is a project requiring painstaking patience and attention to detail. What is the analemma? If you photograph the sun once a week at the... MORE...

IQ vs Haircolor

For proper testing, attend one arranged by for example Mensa... MORE...

August 06, 2002

Yann Arthus Bertrand

Yann Arthus Bertrand has published some magnifiscent pictures of the earth. Some samples are available on the following website: www.yannarthusbertrand.com Around Scandinavia (and probably soon to a place near you)... MORE...

My first proper post in MT

All the content of ''andersja's blog'' has been converted from blogger to Moveable Type. MORE...

August 05, 2002

Blogger --> Movable Type

Ok. I couldn't stand it anymore... ;-) I've initiated an account upgrade to an Advanced account at pair and I'll be starting to convert to movable type as soon as... MORE...

More on pro-anorexia websites

I blogged earlier about pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites. Today I also found an interesting article in TIME Magazine: Anorexia Goes High Tech:Developing an eating disorder is no easy task. Becoming... MORE...

Google Zeitgeist vs Lycos 50

I always thought the Google Zeitgeist was cool, but that was until I discovered "Lycos 50". How cool would it be if Google got some inspiration off this and updated... MORE...

August 04, 2002

Goldmember (Not the movie ;-)

Goldmember (Not the movie ;-) I must admit it straigt away: Although I fly KLM almost all the time - I really really prefer Star Alliance whenever possible... For many... MORE...

August 02, 2002

Rough Science

I just saw a program on BBC Two called Rough Science. Scientists/engineering types get different challenges and have to solve them in MacGyver-fashion on an "isolated" island. In tonight's show... MORE...

August 01, 2002

Norway "greatest place on earth"?

Norway was announced UN Best Country to Live in 2002... Well.. I guess it isn't all that bad actually... If you've ever wanted to understand more about Norwegians, the article... MORE...

Norwegian woman flying domestic flight carrying guns

July 21st 2002: A Norwegian woman was allowed to board a domestic flight without security controls, and carried six firearms and 225 shells with her, including a loaded revolver. Source:... MORE...

July 31, 2002

Duct Tape Wall Tapings

Weird stuff: Duct Tape Wall Tapings by the Duct Tape Guys... (Source: not.so.soft's summer bookmark cleanup)... MORE...

"UltraCon incident"

A sci-fi "short story" in the form of an email and a newsposting about a revolutionary cinema technology, the "UltraCon incident" deals with the future possibilities of cinematographic effects including... MORE...

The Arensito keyboard

Browsing some old classmates' sites, I came across The Arensito Keyboard Layout created by Håkon. Just like the k,uyp-keyboard mentioned earlier, the Arensito layout has been created using statistical analysis... MORE...

July 30, 2002

IBM to Buy "Monday"

IBM to Buy Pricewaterhouse Consulting (aka ''Monday'') MORE...

Angela's doodles

Random site of the day: Angela draws cool doodles. Ok. I'm getting tired. It's time to get back to work...... MORE...

Etiquette 101

Ah...! Finally someone writes an "Etiquette 101 for modern people"-article... Some very quotable advice in here: On airplanes, the people with books or headphones are using them to avoid interaction.... MORE...

Google News Search

No shit - this is pretty cool: Google News Search What's different about Google's News Search is the unique grouping technology Google has developed to automatically put related stories together... MORE...

The minimalist web project

Less is more! The minimalist web project lists ''good-looking websites that are built with minimalism in mind, the idea of beauty through 'less is more'.'' MORE...

Great...

Great... The only day Rotterdam has +28ºC I volunteer to sit behind and draw RUP use cases... Procrastinating with reading some news, some blogging and listening music before I get... MORE...

The Non-Expert’s Desk: Girls

Hilarious... The Non-Expert’s Desk: The Mystery of Girls... Experts answer what they know. Dennis answers anything. The Non-Expert’s Desk handles all subjects:Question: Explain girls. [...] Conclulsion: The true explanation of... MORE...

Catharina's paintings

My friend Catharina has created a new website and added a new set of paintings to the collection that was online before. MORE...

July 29, 2002

Yevgeny Podkletnov / Eugene Podkletnov

VG alerted me that BBC runs a story today in their science section about Boeing picking up the theories of Yevgeny (Eugene) Podkletnov.Boeing is the latest in a series of... MORE...

Peru may move to open-source software

Now Peru may be moving towards open-source software, and Microsoft is ~~peeing their pants~~ asking them to reconsider. MORE...

The etymology of "blog"

William Safire writes about the etymology of the word ''blog'' in this article from NY Times: ''Blog is a shortening of Web log...'' MORE...

July 28, 2002

My first birdie!

Historical day today. We were playing nine holes at Victoria Golf Club with the lads and I hit my first birdie ever on hole 7 (I used 2 strokes on... MORE...

July 27, 2002

Mobile phone ringtones

MSNBC has a funny article about people's choices of ringtones for their mobiles: If I hear ‘Für Elise’ one more time ... Come to think of it, maybe you should... MORE...

Stuck in an elevator

Just coming home from the housewarming party of a friend & colleague... 8 people in the lift that max holds ... 8... Of course we had to get stuck there.... MORE...

July 26, 2002

Fat guy sues fast-food firms for inducing obesity

This could only happen in America: Fat guy sues fast-food firms for inducing his obesity... Hello? What's next? Someone suing the breweries because they got them drunk? I mean -... MORE...

Mini review: Salmon of Doubt

I just finished reading Douglas Adam's ''Salmon of Doubt'': Although I really enjoyed the Hitchiker's trilogy (of five) and the Dirk Gently series, this book was a piece of cr@p... Stay away unless you are a true TRUE hardcore Adams-fan MORE...

havardot's blog

I mentioned havardot earlier -- now he's started a blog too: havardot's blog... He's now the third person (after Lars and ThomaZ) to be inspired by my blog... :-)... MORE...

July 25, 2002

Blog - HOT or NOT?

The folks that created the original, once hilariously funny hot or not sites has made a new one for weblogs... Could be funny to see if it develops... :-) Is... MORE...

Christian hotels

Want to Check In? Be Without Sin! The Hosanna Hotel, on the island of Trinidad, touts itself as the ''Christian hotel of the Caribbean.'' MORE...

Fredrik Norman

It's a really small world out there... I was browsing a couple of Norwegian weblogs when I came across Fredrik's blog. I had seen it before, but today I posted... MORE...

July 24, 2002

The Obscure Store and Reading Room

The Obscure Store and Reading Room - weird news and tidbits from around the web... Guaranteed something for my friend Thomas who always sends me the weirdest stuff he picks... MORE...

Lars Ludvigsen

I got quite envious when Lars installed Movable Type, so he gave me a test account on his server, and I used his installation og MT to create the andersja-test-blog...... MORE...

The medium is the message...

The medium is the message.... A more practical example of this than my friend havardot's page is hard to find... Thorleif sticks to a more traditional homepage-format :-)... MORE...

Google paying less interest to weblogs?

I noticed that while my blog up to recently got many hits from searches on Google, it has now entirely disappeared from the search engine's database. Weird. Maybe the guys... MORE...

July 23, 2002

The Strap-on Duckmaster

How did anyone ever survive before the invention of the strap-on Duckmaster? The Duckmaster is being marketed as ''an ultra-efficient anatomical wake-up device'' MORE...

NetMD FAQ

MiniDisc.org has published a NetMD FAQ, including topics like What is known about the information transferred over the USB link? and Is there any way of transferring MP3s to MD without using OpenMG Jukebox? MORE...

Cellular phones and cancer

According to Itavisen.no (in Norwegian), radiation from cellular telephones does not induce cancer in rats. Surely, this is not an authorative answer, nor can it have studied truly long-term effects of the radiation we surround us with in our modern day to day lives MORE...

July 20, 2002

Review: Renault Laguna

Renault Laguna Estate: too big for me alone, but fabulous for a group of people or a family going for a holiday by car or just for everyday use... MORE...

Initial review: Sony MZ-N1 NetMD

Initial review and lessons learnt derived from my initial experiences with the Sony MZ-N1:Ripping music: It doesn't help with a funky PC, 580+ Mb of RAM etc -- if you... MORE...

July 17, 2002

Teaching kids about criticizing online sources

The Washington Post has a very interesting article on how young students are or may be losing the capability of criticizing the sources of information online: Point. Click. Think? When... MORE...

WebWord.com: "Netchecking"

WebWord.com: NetcheckingPeople are getting tired of other people making claims about things without first checking their facts using Google or some other search engine. [...] Just for fun, I'll call... MORE...

The dialpad.com spam keeps on flowing

The dialpad.com spam keeps on flowing. New "partners" offer pretty much all the same things that other spammers offer: free credit reports, pre-approved credit cards, car loans and all the... MORE...

Google's Integrity

Duncan Wilcox explains bits and pieces of Google's inner workings and links to a lot of relevant articles in this article. However, he expresses a fear that blogs can bias... MORE...

July 16, 2002

John Patrick: The Spam Has Got to Go

John Patrick: The Spam Has Got To Go If you are new to the Internet or if you have not participated in discussion groups or registered at many web sites,... MORE...

HavenCo

The hosting company HavenCo on the tiny, independent island Sealand is turning a profit according to BBC... Not surprisingly, I guess, seeing as they allow online gambling etc. However, they... MORE...

July 15, 2002

Lars Ludvigsen's blog

An old pal of mine from CISV and University -- Lars -- has started writing a blog! :-) He's online at www.ludvig.no/blog/...... MORE...

Dialpad.com spam

A loong time ago (possibly around the fall of 1999 or in the winter of 2000), I gave the dialpad service a spin (they do cheap, IP-based telephony for consumers).... MORE...

July 12, 2002

Agnar and Solveig's wedding

Today, I'm flying to attend my two good friends Agnar and Solveig's wedding. It will be some 3 hour effective flying time (it's pretty far north... :-) I look very... MORE...

July 11, 2002

Only in America...

Only in America: ''[A] man interfered with a police investigation, swore at the cops and called them pigs. He had the option to spend three days in jail, or to spend two hours on a street corner with Dolly and a sign ...'' MORE...

US Senate candidates turn to email marketing

US Senate elections are coming up, and the candidates are going online with renewed marketing strategies: away with fancy websites, roll on some cool, new technology: the idea described in... MORE...

Logophilia

People who know me, know that I like ... words ... :-) so I was thrilled when I came across Logophilia - a very thoroughly researched site of new words... MORE...

July 10, 2002

Blogger socializing & Blogchalking

There's this whole thing of blogger-socializing going on: :: there's blog.meetup.com - unfortunately only one blogger currently in Rotterdam (me...) :: some brazilian guy has come up with "Blogchalking" (see... MORE...

July 09, 2002

70 things to say when you're losing a technical argument

Amusing (and sometimes even useful ;-) consultant-speak 70 Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument... [From: Martin Roell's weblog (posting)]... MORE...

July 08, 2002

"The date my sister project"

Although most of the contents of TheSpark.com's science pages are disgusting, there's a tidbit in The Date-My-Sister Project -- some guy is using all kinds of tricks, surveillance technology, friends... MORE...

Diplomacy 101

Norwegial blogger vvalberg gives the Americans a lesson in diplomacy in this article (archived: Diplomacy 101 - Lying like a rug): "an international treaty is like a high-society lady, or... MORE...

New 35 Teraflop Supercomputer released

While real-time weather forecasting is a snap for this processing monster, it's intended for something even more important: disaster prediction. MORE...

Holland less liberal?

Wow... Holland has been famously liberal (for soft drugs, immigration and more) for a long time. If may be over as Dutch Christian Democrat (CDA) leader Jan Peter Balkenende set... MORE...

French Presidential amnesties

You've got to love the French sometimes. Every year of presidential elections, motorists start parking anywhere (more chaotically than usual(!)), because traditionally (starting 1965), a newly elected president gives amnesty... MORE...

July 07, 2002

OpenCola

The pharmaceutical industry has been struggling with the introduction of ''generic drugs'' for quite some time; Now, the open-source movement of software has spurred the world's first open source consumer product: OpenCola MORE...

Temple Treatments

According to New Scientist, a six-week stay at a Hindu temple can produce the same improvement in people with severe psychiatric disorders as a month-long course of standard drugs... MORE...

Acronym tag

jill/txt has blogged about the "Acronym tag" in HTML. It's a very handy tag if you are presenting very technical information with lots of abbreviations and acronyms, and it also... MORE...

July 03, 2002

Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Having studied a fair bit of scientific subjects myself; this site caught my eye: A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. Here are loads of things that can help you win... MORE...

Wired: How One Spam Leads to Another

''If you want to be your own boss and make money working from home while increasing the size of your penis and shopping for cut-rate electronic products from China -- you're in luck.'' MORE...

Voodoo economics

Disenchanted has some theories about why all the current usability gurus (like Jakob Nielsen) are wrong in this article... MORE...

The Secrets of Cocaine Inc

Business 2.0 reveals some scary truths about the Colombian Cocaine Cartels in this article: The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. -- "In a sense, the cartels are putting their own... MORE...

Electronic Flight Bag

Boeing is launching an ''electronic flight bag'', a package of advanced software and hardware in a box built into the cockpit, meant to replace the pilot’s briefcase full of maps and manuals. MORE...

How does the light gun on a video game work?

As I mentioned earlier, I'm buying a "gun" for my Playstation2. This, of course, led me to start thinking how this gun actually works; how do they know where on... MORE...

July 02, 2002

Cellular phone radiation

Mobile phones are miniature radio senders and receivers... When they're off or gone, no electro magnetic radiation remains; if you are afraid of harmful effects, turn it off... MORE...

Business 2.0 - "Top of the Heap"

Journalist David Gallagher embarked on a quest to top the search rankings for his name in Google. Not completely suprisingly, he managed... MORE...

Another plane crash occurred last night...

Another plane crash occurred last night... we'll see what, in the end, caused it, but it's time for European regulatory bodies to wake up and require TCAS installed on all... MORE...

July 01, 2002

Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan

Los Angeles Times is running a series of articles about untold stories from the war in Afghanistan. This article is about the intelligence-gathering process and about the tools and techniques of the interrogators. MORE...

Time Crisis II and Gun

PS2 / Cool stuff: I've just ordered Time Crisis II + accompanying gun from Amazon... Can't wait to give it a shot... ;-)... MORE...

Beach Physics Puzzles

Consider the hours you’ve spent searching for the perfect skipping stone. If engineers would just tell us what one looks like, we’d find them more quickly, thus increasing fun efficiency. Alas, the physics aren’t simple... MORE...

Kevin Mitnick is writing a book

Barred by the terms of his probation from messing with computers, ex-convict hacker Kevin Mitnick has turned to writing about them, baring the tricks of his former trade in a forthcoming book. MORE...

June 28, 2002

Take Two Candies, Call in the morning

Brazilian pharmacies will soon start selling medicines for children camoflaged as candy. MORE...

June 27, 2002

Music - the food of brain cells?

Musicians have larger and more sensitive brains than their non-musical audiences, researchers have found. MORE...

June 26, 2002

"Kinder" smuggling

Kinder can't be sold legally in USA because the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the toy is a choking hazard. MORE...

Space.com: Why Reality is a gray area in Astronomy

The discussions about the ''real colour'' of the Universe has been going on for a while, and ... well... since none of us are going to travel the distance necessary to verify the research in a while, I guess the discussion is nowhere near the end... MORE...

Wired: A New Twist on Light Speed

A recent discovery by five physicists from Scotland has opened the door to packing more information into a beam of light. [...] it could lead to faster and better quantum cryptography and communications, with many more applications if it can be adapted for fiber optics. MORE...

Worthy cause of the day: Skolelinux

Worthy cause of the day: a Norwegian open-source project called Skolelinux aims to save the Norwegian Government the 175 million NOK ( = approx US$ 23.5 million) currently spent each... MORE...

Disenchanted dictionary: Accidental cooperative commerce

''When a third party takes advantage of an accident to bring a buyer and a seller together through some means of automated cooperation...'' MORE...

Blogspace Under the Microscope

Blogspace Under the Microscope - an interesting article on new developments in "blogspace": "organically" growing lists of referring links enabling a whole new reader/feedback experience. Very cool, and first pioneered... MORE...

b3ta hijacks "Monday" in UK

The folks behind humour/sarcasm site b3ta have hijacked Monday/PwC's ''Introducing Monday'' domain name in the UK... MORE...

June 25, 2002

ZDNet: Are you ready for angry robots?

An Australian company called Mindsystems has devised an Artificial Intelligence system for simulating human emotion. MORE...

June 24, 2002

Big Brother at the office

How much do you think your employer would pay to make sure that you did not spend half your day browsing an online book store, watching sports, or downloading music files? MORE...

Deep-linking 3

''if a Danish court decides that Newsbooster's ''deep links'' to newspaper sites violates the newspapers' intellectual property rights, the legal landscape of the Web could be dramatically altered...'' MORE...

June 23, 2002

With GPS, The World Is Your Canvas

While sculptors over the ages have used many different tools to reveal the beautiful in the ordinary, two digital artists with the help of a Global Positioning System are walking, driving and cycling down the world's roads to trace out enormous works of art. MORE...

Technology Review: The Programmable Building

Neil Gershenfeld thinks every light switch, power outlet, doorknob and thermostat should be on the Internet. MORE...

June 21, 2002

Internet’s thinkers sound warning cry

''The Internet’s potential for promoting expression and empowering citizens is under threat from corporate and government policies that clash with the medium’s long-standing culture of openness...'' MORE...

Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors

Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors -- "A Japanese cryptographer has demonstrated how fingerprint recognition devices can be fooled using a combination of low cunning, cheap kitchen supplies and a digital... MORE...

June 20, 2002

Deep-linking 2: Want to Read This? Ask

''[...] denying deep-linking would be similar to a TV news show locking out a viewer wanting only to see the sports report at 11:22 p.m. because s/he didn't turn to the channel exactly at the top of the hour [...]'' MORE...

'Tooth phone'

Excuse me, my tooth is ringing... MORE...

CNN.com: Cool Science: 'Killer' bees

Coffee plants (coffea arabica) are capable of self-pollination, so for a long time researchers did not think insects made much difference to the crop. MORE...

The Wireless World of the Future

Perhaps one of the weirdest possible impacts the new wireless technology may have is that it could actually alienate us from the real world around us. MORE...

'Thinking' robot in escape bid

Scientists running a pioneering experiment with 'living robots' which think for themselves today said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it 'lives'. MORE...

Galleri Catharina Gilje

Galleri Catharina Gilje Catharina - an old friend of mine - has opened an online gallery...... MORE...

June 19, 2002

GoogleAPI

After Google's release of their SOAP-based GoogleAPI recently, a variety of cool new applications have been launched, and the most useful I've found so far are the instant messenger websearch-clients:... MORE...

Sun's Full Assault on .NET

High-end computer maker Sun Microsystems announced a free software initiative Wednesday aimed at undercutting Microsoft in the battle to set the standards of the next-generation Internet. MORE...

Washington Post: Artful Deception

College students who pay somebody else to write their term papers can be -- and often are -- expelled. [...] There's a word for it when you persuade people to pay money for something under false pretenses: fraud. [...] But publishers seem exempt. MORE...

Yahoo: Bush saves the world?!

Yahoo: Bush saves the world?! ... holy %%&@ -- the All-American Marketing Machine(tm) strikes again -- unmanipulated or not, this photo portrays Bush as Messiah! :-( (most people I know... MORE...

Propaganda Analysis

Propaganda Analysis -- "As generally understood, propaganda is opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing actions of individuals or groups... Propaganda thus differs fundamentally from scientific analysis. The propagandist tries... MORE...

New Scientist Q&A: Does beheading hurt?

Does beheading hurt...? And, if so, for how long is the severed head aware of its plight? MORE...

Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist nonsense

Intelligent design theory proponents are using doubts over Darwin as a wedge for introducing religious discussions in American schools, in the science classes! How low can they sink...? MORE...

BBC: Copyright rows ring down the centuries

''Record companies warn that internet piracy could spell the end of the music business as we know it. But we've heard these arguments before, from the likes of Dickens and Conan Doyle. [...] '' MORE...

BBC: US Army websites expose security data

US Army websites have been criticised for publishing potentially sensitive information that could be of use to terrorists. MORE...

MIT's Blogdex

Similar to Daypop, MIT Media Labs' Blogdex indexes online weblogs, including this blog... "blogdex is a system built to harness the power of personal news, amalgamating and organizing personal news... MORE...

Daypop

Daypop Top 40 Links -- "What are the hot topics in the weblogging community today? The Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers... MORE...

Find the blog!

Find the blog! Various blog-catalogues, search-engines etc from enger.priv.no - a Norwegian blogger.... MORE...

Coffee Sites

Coffee Sites -- Kimberly writes: "Q: What are Coffee Sites? A: Coffee Sites are independent sites I peruse while I drink my first cup of coffee."... MORE...

June 18, 2002

MSNBC: Business pros flock to weblogs

MSNBC: Business pros flock to Weblogs -- "Increasingly professionals in many fields are adopting a technology that until recently was considered to be largely the province of insomniac teen diarists... MORE...

Ananova: Artist sells his soul

''A hard-up graduate has sold his soul on an internet auction site for £11.61. [...] The 26-year-old, of Byker, Newcastle, posted an advert on the eBay site and his soul was bought by a man from Oklahoma for £11.61.'' MORE...

Google Zeitgeist

Google Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. Not a bad page at all - quite some treasure-troves for journalists and others interested - and many amusing... MORE...

conceptlab.com Various forms of 'net art

Try The Simulator to live the life of an McD employee for a day... MORE...

"Global Mind Control ..."

''Global Mind Control ...'' Holy cr@p... Some people are FAAAR out... MORE...

CNN: 'Star Trek' teleporter nearer reality

Australian university researchers in quantum optics say they have teleported a message in a laser beam using the same technology principles that enabled Scotty to beam up Captain Kirk. MORE...

Forbes.com: The World's Most Expensive Hotel Rooms

Forbes.com: The World's Most Expensive Hotel Rooms -- "What will $25,000 get you these days? A modest down payment on a home? A year of college tuition? How about a... MORE...

June 17, 2002

Wired: IM'ers Get a Secure Chat Room

My advice: Download Trillian instead (FREE), and enable their SecureIM instead -- I have! MORE...

CNN: E equals MC-wha?

Are american citizens capable of debating science-related politics when then don't know what they're talking about?... MORE...

New 'T-ray' Space Camera Also sees through Clothes and walls

A new British science program aims to produce cameras for use in space that are so sensitive they will see through fog, smoke and even walls and clothing. MORE...

June 14, 2002

Leaky Cyber Borders

A U.S. shield against foreign spam and hackers: national security or censorship? MORE...

Wired: New Virus Infects Pictures

Wired: New Virus Infects Picture Files -- ''A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet's most common and useful activities: sharing family photos...'' MORE...

June 13, 2002

Business 2.0: Eight Technologies That will change the world

What happens when today's tech trends begin to intersect and feed off one another? They'll spawn new fields of knowledge that will transform everything. MORE...

Deep-linking: To link or not?

What's the point of the Internet if no deep-linking is allowed? Should I write in my blog that MSNBC has an article on deep linking today - good luck finding it? I don't think so! MORE...

NOCPeople / EBone

NOCPeople / EBone -- news from behind the scenes of the KPNQwest bankrupcy...... MORE...

BBC: Money-men see space for profit

Scientists regard space as the final frontier, but for business people it could represent the next Industrial Revolution. MORE...

Wired: Microsoft Discloses Software Flaw

Wired: Microsoft Discloses Software Flaw -- ''Microsoft acknowledged a serious flaw Wednesday in its Internet server software[...]'' MORE...

Hivelogic JavaScript Email Address Encoder

Hivelogic JavaScript Email Address Encoder Neat - I'll have to try this myself soon -- "this web-based tool will encode your email address using Numerical Equivalents and wrap the result... MORE...

June 12, 2002

Calculators vs. PDAs: Who wins?

Infinity makes a software graphing plug-in for Palm Inc. personal digital assistants. So what is TI doing? Making its calculators more like handhelds. MORE...

Some online friends

Some university-pals of mine who still keep a webpage online...Lars Ludvigsen Jeanine Lilleng Agnar (& Solveig) Ødegård Per Kristian Hove Bård Skaflestad William Juul Steffen Thorsen ... a lot of... MORE...

Scenes From a 'Weird' Tech Fest

Billed as the 'Festival of Inappropriate Technologies,' the one-day extravaganza packed several hundred attendees into Camden Town Hall ... MORE...

Device detects cell phone bugs

With a slight modification, cell phones become high-quality bugs. An owner can call the phone from anywhere in the world without it emitting a ringing tone while its screen remains blank, apparently turned off. MORE...

'Massive abuse' of privacy feared

The UK Government this week unveiled a draft list of organisations that will be given the right to request information about the web, telephone and fax lives of British citizens under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. MORE...

IBM puts new spin on nano-storage

IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information. MORE...

Aussie Gets Into Pickle With Spam

Aussie Gets Into Pickle With Spam Hey - I'd complain about a Norwegian spammer too, but this poor soul in Australia is getting sued for having reported a spammer to... MORE...

June 11, 2002

Laser powers 'paper plane'

Japanese scientists have developed a laser powered paper plane. MORE...

Sydney shuts down for filming of Matrix 2

One of the world's busiest cities will shut down for two days, all in the name of show business. MORE...

Slashdot | ADTI Whitepaper Released

tons of more info on the ADTI paper (from Slashdot.org) MORE...

Roaring Penguin Software (AdTI on Open Source)

Roaring Penguin Software (AdTI on Open-Source): Is Open Source Insecure? an answer from the Open-Source community to the paper published by Alexis de Tocqueville Institution... MORE...

Google "PigeonRank(TM)" Technology

Google "PigeonRank(TM)" Technology -- "PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The... MORE...

How Bad Can a 'Dirty Bomb' be?

The Russians tried to clean it up for years, and they eventually gave up. It just wasn't economically viable... MORE...

ADTI: Report Flays Open-Source Licenses --

After appearing on the Web for a few hours last week, a much-anticipated report on the possible threats to national security posed by open-source software was pulled by its authors, who said that the report needed more editing. MORE...

June 10, 2002

Hackers find way into Norway's past

An organization called for aid in hacking into one of its own databases to which the password was lost... MORE...

Digital kommunikasjon og organisatoriske utfordringer

Digital kommunikasjon og organisatoriske utfordringer -- Per R. Stokke's subject at NTNU. Recommended.... MORE...

Why Follow-Ons Are a Red Flag

Why Follow-Ons Are a Red Flag -- Although the rationale behind a stock sale varies depending on the firm, in almost all cases companies issue more shares because they are... MORE...

Study: Monkey brains move cursor

Study: Monkey brains move cursor -- Monkeys implanted with special electrodes moved a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it, and learned how to do it better... MORE...

"Have Doubly-Charmed Baryons Been Discovered?"

Have Doubly-Charmed Baryons Been Discovered? -- Hunting the Doubly-Charmed Baryon... MORE...

Can a PC think for itself?

Can a PC think for itself? -- Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope... MORE...

First Strike or Asteroid Impact?

First Strike or Asteroid Impact? The Urgent Need to Know the Difference - Military strategists and space scientists that wonder and worry about a run-in between Earth and a comet... MORE...

Statistical forecasts of the Soccer World Cup

Statistical forecasts of the Soccer World Cup - they claim they got it mostly right so far (but that may just be a claim??) ... anyway the favourite is Argentina...... MORE...

June 07, 2002

guimp: world's smallest website

That's it really - not much can be said except -- you can't make it much smaller than this... MORE...

"Sony Trademark Takes a Walk, Man"

International trademark laws are a big headache; when is a word a brand, and when is it so well-accepted that it actually describes a family of products, not only from one supplier? MORE...

Version 0.73 of Trillian released

Version 0.73 of Trillian is out. I use it to stay in touch with friends across networks (Yahoo, AIM, MSN, ICQ...) Get it at www.trillian.cc... MORE...

June 06, 2002

Spamassassin works!!!

Spamassassin works!!! Below is the log of my first filtered spam: Subject: *****SPAM***** ADV: Low Cost Life Insurance -- FREE Quote voxtn SPAM:... MORE...

I finally installed SpamAssassin

I finally installed SpamAssassin on my old mailaccounts. Hopefully it will do the trick for the 99.95% SPAM I currently receive there (approx 1000 emails/months out of which maybe 3-4... MORE...

Dead Men Tell No Passwords

The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway's most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. MORE...

Y3K - Norwegian discussion forum

Y3K - Norwegian discussion forum for the technology, society, literature etc of the future... arch-y3k... MORE...

Scientific American's Web Awards

Nice science links on Scientific American's Web Awards 2002: http://www.sciam.com/explorations/2002/060302webawards/... MORE...

Click-and-play publishing

Blogger.com a click-and-play publishing revolution... :-)... MORE...