Finally Skype is available for OS X users. Been a betatester a while, and it looks great. 
Aug 312004
Aug 302004
A couple of hours ago my blog was spammed with lots of comments. They all got caught, so no worries, but what surprised me was that although they were clearly spamming for the same host, they came almost all from differen IP-adresses, radically different IP-adresses: 12.22.85.3
193.145.88.17, 193.165.223.2, 200.35.83.27
200.56.233.5, 202.125.129.138, 203.150.28.215, 203.169.115.134, 203.246.165.35, 206.163.199.1, 210.3.7.150, 210.4.143.254, 210.5.71.243, 212.47.27.186, 213.253.212.101, 61.19.243.11, 63.81.122.87, 64.19.80.100, 64.3.231.3, 65.112.88.98, 66.178.7.6, 66.192.31.98, 67.136.50.93, 80.53.138.10, 80.55.131.150, 80.58.20.235, 80.58.46.235, 80.84.154.70, 81.118.4.4.
Someone is having a bit more fun with distributed computing than they should.
Aug 292004
Having seen Nicer Titles demonstrated at Binary Bonsai, I decided to incorporate it into my page. Don’t seem to work too well with Safari, though.
Aug 282004
Hi. I came across del.icio.us in an Infoworld article, and figured: What if we make an RFC for categories. If we had a set of standardized categories people could choose to use, we could have blog indexes where we could subscribe on a category in a language as an rss feed and receive only interesting topics on that. An example of a category could be Music/Early Music/Renaissance, as opposed to Art/Renaissance/Vermeer. I’d love to receive blogging on Vermeer and Renaissance music without having to hunt these blogs down and add them to my RSS feed.
Aug 282004
Rob Wilks is blogging in sign language
Aug 262004
Found this at SeanBonner: 
Aug 262004
Spammers tarpit has been posted. It’s a plugin that’s supposed to ask spammers to go away. Not an ideal solution as far as I can say. I’d prefer just increasing the delay, first a minute, then a minute and a half, until they go away. Using bad language isn’t any much help. And oh, it has it’s bugs. When posting this, my screen reads: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /disks/ideraid1/web/saers.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/tarpit.php on line 51. Go figure. But good to see that people are working on this, and good luck to the developers continuing the development.
Update: this bug is due to that they don’t add a list of IPs. So you’ll have to figure that one out for yourself, make an array of IPs. Like I’m going to add that to my daily workload. No thanks.
Aug 262004
In Marc’s Voice today, Marc shows this video of Momentshowing. I don’t know about the guy who made this, but this kind of thing freaks me out. He’s assuming that just because a person is outside, he has the right to videotape him and show him around to everyone. Assuming, of course, that the story is true and not just produced. This is why people are afraid of cellphones with videocameras and such, that people will just allow themselves to not only watch people and stalk people, but do it with the world as their audience. What do you think about this?
Aug 252004
Keith Robinson writes on Dealing With Creative Conflict Within a Team. These things just can’t be said often enough. I’ve read them many times. I’ve said them many times. Yet I and many of my peers overlook them many times.
FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 is available, happy testing, everyone. Also, the long avaited Enlightenment DR16.7.1 has been released. I don’t know how many years ago Enlightenment was my favourite deskmanager. Year 2000 or thereabouts, perhaps. Congratulations! Perhaps I’ll give this a spin sometime soon.
Aug 252004
Fylker er tydeligvis avleggs, nå skal Norge deles inn i syv regioner. Større og større kommuner, nå “superfylkene”. Mer makt til færre politikere med mindre lokaltilknytning. Dette er ganske langt fra veien vi burde gå, mot økt lokaldemokrati.
Aug 242004
Helge wrote down some RSS usability guidelines that seemed to settle our discussion at the Weblog Tools Collection.
Aug 232004
I came across an ok site with introductionary examples of Ars Subtilior, music from around Avignon and Northern Italy (roughly 1370-1410) (see Wikipedia for more.
Aug 232004
Way cool, Skype is coming to OS X! IP telephony, here I come!
Aug 232004
Way cool, Skype is coming to OS X! IP telephony, here I come!
Aug 232004
Aug 222004
About 11.50 today we could read that Scream [and the Madonna has been] stolen from Norway museum. Not in BBC World, of course, but in Aftenposten and at NRK. Four, then three, and now two armed & masked robbers have stolen Munch’s paintings Scream and the Madonna, and the museums expect a demand for randsom. This is not the first time Norwegian treasures like this are stolen (if you can read Norwegian, see this story in VG), but luckily they have so far usually turned up again after some time. After all, would you let anyone into your home knowing you had a hot painting in it?
Aug 212004
New Canon EOS camera out. I read this review
and particularly I noted The camera also has long exposure noise reduction as an option. Does anyone have any experience with such noise reduction? Does it work satisfactory?
Aug 182004
According to SmallBusinessComputing, Maxtor Rocks on With DiamondMax. I assume that means that we’ll have one really noisy harddrive on the market. Cleverly, they haven’t mentioned the sound it makes at all. I expect heavy noise pollution
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Whoops, I seem to have sparked a debate on RSS feeds and comments at WebLog Tools Collection.
Good to have these kinds of dicsussions going in this kind of open forum 