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This post resonates with my recent experiences with booking flights to and from Italy. None of the websites (Transavia and Ryanair) were user-friendly at all. The variable pricing model Veen mentions baffles and frustrates me as well. Would love to get my
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Not a very practical solution to file management IMHO, but the demo sure looks cool.
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Eight pretty cool WordPress plugins. I wasn’t familiar with all of them.
My Wikipedia contrail
All the other cool kids are doing it, so here’s my Wikipedia contrail:
- Angel
- Cherub
- Hierarchy of angels
- Nintendo DS Lite
- WIMP (computing)
- Zooming User Interface
- Ring (Suzuki novel)
- Koji Suzuki
- Loop (novel)
- Matryoshka doll
- Rasen (novel)
Update: Reviewing the above list, I guess I have some explaining to do: all the angel-related stuff is due to me having spent too much time inside Italian churches, I’m looking forward to the DS Lite’s European release, I’ve recently checked out a this file-management interface-demo and yesterday I wrote a review of Suzuki’s Ringu-trilogy (for which I used the Matryoshka-metaphor) .
Do this yourself? Type “en.wikipedia.org/wiki” into your address bar and see what comes up…
links for 2006-06-23
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Joe McCarthy on the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium. He summarizes some interesting talks and then goes on to talk about permeability or cross-over effects between online and offline worlds.
links for 2006-06-22
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“Mashups have no clear rules on what they can and can’t do with people’s details”
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Danah makes a good argument for supporting as many browsers as you can when building social network apps.
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Ben reviews We Media 2006: “Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the conference was the missed opportunity the conference had to move the debate forward into new territory.”
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Metcalfe on web 2.0 in the enterprise: “if you want to add a bit of “Web2.0″, my quick and straight-to-the-point suggestion is to do your “Web2.0 stuff” in a satellite operation at arms length from the rest of your operation.”
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Hilarious satirical children’s book on file sharing.
Back
Back by dope demand. Yesterday I returned from my lovely trip to Italy. Dirty clothes are in the laundromat, I’ve caught up on paperwork and e-mail, now it’s time to start going through the huge amounts of photos. Me and my girlfriend have managed to knock off the first few days, but I’ve got literally thousands lying around (I know shouldn’t have bought a new camera…) So it’ll take a while before we’ve gone through ’em all. In the mean time the first few are up. Here’s my favourite of the batch.
Off to Italy
After a slight delay I’m off to Italy in a few hours. I’ll be visiting Rome, Florence and Venice. Expect plenty of photos when I return. Back in less than two weeks!
Shadow of the Colossus mini-review
One of the most rewarding gaming experience I’ve had in quite some time, Shadow of the Colossus is an exercise in restraint (something rarely found with game designers). Large parts of the game are spent riding a horse through a lavishly rich landscape, looking for a giant monster to battle. Felling one of the title colossi always involves solving a logical puzzle (real-world logic, as opposed to the so often found in-game logic) and is very satisfying. One of the best looking games I’ve ever seen on the PS2, riding, fighting and climbing cliff-faces are always esthetically pleasing and quite cinematic. Highly recommended!
Broken Flowers mini-review
This film provided what I expected of it: a typical apathetic looking Bill Murray who finds himself in various bizarre situations. The film seems to be about nothing, and lead nowhere, but in the end you find it under your skin, some of its images lingering. I particularly like the way in which the setup (Murray as Johnston receives a letter from an unknown ex-partner) has you constantly looking for clues as to who of the four women is the mother of Johnston’s alleged son. It plays on and portrays the way the human brain desperately looks for patterns in random phenomena – anything pink is loaded with significance, just because the initial letter is pink. Recommended.
(Also, the jazzy, “Ethiopian” music is very nice as well.)
Reboot 8.0 photos are up
I spend the morning going through my photos of Reboot 8.0. I had near 800 of them, so that was quite the exercise. Now there’s 147 in a set over at my Flickr account. It was nice to relive the whole experience while going through the shots, made me realize I saw and did a hell of a lot in two days. No wonder I was so tired when I got home.
Here’s my favorite shot of the set, aptly summarizing the theme of this year’s event, “renaissance?” with Ben Hammersley dancing around the stage flanked by Mona Lisa and a battered PowerBook.
Reboot 8.0 post mortem
I’m back in Utrecht after a few great days in Copenhagen. Reboot 8.0 was surprisingly good this year. I was afraid it wouldn’t measure up to the awesome quality of last year, but I was wrong. Perhaps this year was even better. I’ll have to digest everything a little more before I can say for sure.
I’ll get back later with some thoughts on important issues that were brought up during the event. But first I’m off to Italy for two weeks of vacation and some much needed rest.
So photos and in depth analysis will have to wait a little longer. Back in a few weeks!