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Back up here, too
You can read the extended version of the story over at collaboraid.biz, but basically I’ve had a hard drive crash, and I didn’t have adequate backups.
I’ve set up a version of the site from June 15. …
Not available here...
Bugger. I was going to sign up for listen.com, because it sounds like just the right thing, but they’re not available outside the US. :-(
Techno-fetishism
I normally don’t read any books in Danish, because the chance that the best book on a topic happens to be in English is much greater than the probability that it should be in Danish. Although that’s t…
Computers are unusable
During the past two days, I’ve had two opportunities to experience the pain that normal people experience when using normal computers. A couple of friends, both with higher degrees of education, had h…
Nokia's R&D Style
One of his first steps was to drastically accelerate the expansion of R&D sites, while keeping the teams within them small. His reasoning is simple: The smothering influence of the…
The music industry ... still not getting it
If the industry were smart, it would seize this moment. Instead of trying to hack its customers, it would seduce them with a pitch that goes like this: Getting free music is a dodgy affair…
Designing the smell
It wasn’t until recently that I heard about how the sounds that a car says when the door closes is carefully design by sound design artists. This morning I heard how they also consciously design the s…
To install the OpenACS bboard thing...
- Install Dave’s bar.
- Download oacs.xml
- Save it into C:\Program Files\Quick Search Deskbar\searches
OpenACS bboards search for Dave's quick search deskbar
I’ve created a search for OpenACS bboards for Dave’s quick search deskbar, so you can say oacs form builder
or oacs whatever
, and immediately jump to search the bboards.
Creating more of these are in…