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Watched Fucking Åmål tonight, nine years after the initial release. Brilliant movie. And only an hour and a half. What’s the deal with making movies so long. It’s great. If you get a chance, watch it.…

It’s the second time I ate at Cafe Zeleste in Nyhavn in Copenhagen, and it’s the second time I’ve had to ask to have the bill corrected. Last time, which is probably 4 years back, we’d had several tap…

I’m well underway with my free coaching guinea pigs. 7 clients have signed up so far, on 3 continents (US, Europe, Australia), 8 full sessions have been completed, and the feedback has been outstandin…

Now that I’m well underway with my training to become a coach, I wanted to give a brief summary of what it is, to take some of the mystery out of it.

The process has six simple steps. They’re not set…

The 12 bottles of olive oil that I ordered from Siena arrived today, whole and unscathed and on time. Looking good.

Back eons ago, when I was still in high school, we used to listen to an album by a Danish pianist and composer named Lars Brogård. The album was called “Danmark suiten”, the Denmark suite.

I don’t re…

I found some links and figure out how to get photos to show up on my computer screen immediately after taking them. Apparently, it’s called “tethered”, and it requires a USB cable between the camera…

I’m really glad I applied as a photographer at iStock, and I’m even more thrilled I got rejected. Why? Because the rejection mail included a link to this article on how to do a custom white balance,…

The New York Times published 101 great 10-minute recipes in short form a few weeks back, which I found thanks to my friend Mark Hurst. And now there’s even 10 more, this time reader-contributed.

I’ve…

Someone asked me about user-contributed localizations, where you ask your users to translate your software or other writing for you, as opposed to hiring a professional agency.

Here’s my response. Fe…