Technology on Mandse™

Open as in OpenSSL?

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 02:42:42 +0200

As the dust settles around the Internet, and all the sysadmins around the world is finishing the huge amount of work involved in cleaning up after the Heardbleed bug, we as users of the Internet now…

Please update your PGP keys

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:57:25 +0200

You can find my new public key here.

Oracle Instaclient finally on OS X

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:49:00 +0100

If you use OS X to develop anything that connects to Oracle, then today is a good day!

TextMate Redux

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:42:00 +0100

Guess what? - I’m back on TextMate. I’ve been using TextMate a my primary editor since 2005, which means I have been using it for a little over 7 years.

Amateurs vs. Experts

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:14:00 +0100

If you think experts are expensive, you should see how much amateurs cost.

Howto get a 24h clock on the login screen

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:25:00 +0100

I’m using a slightly modified locale on my Mac because I like everything to be in english¹. However, I do not like the english date formats using AM and PM², so I fixed that by customizing the locale.

ACTA, SOPA and Piracy

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:42:00 +0100

I just read a very long rant by Asger Leth in the danish paper Politiken about Film Making and Piracy.

Don't be too clever...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:42:00 +0100

Debugging is twice as hard as writing code. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are not smart enough to debug it.

Wildcard repositories with Gitolite

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:42:00 +0100

A while ago I upgraded from Gitosis to Gitolite. I’ve been using Gitosis for a long time and while there is nothing wrong with Gitosis, Gitolite just does so much more.

iCloud Documents & Data sync - Part II

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:52:00 +0100

Yesterday I updated my iPhone 4S to the new iOS 5.0.1 pre-release version which is supposed to fix the horribly battery life everybody have been complaining about since the release of iOS 5.

About Technology

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:42:00 +0100

While reading Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis I stumbled upon this little gem from one of my favorite authors.

Unable to turn on Documents & Data sync in iCloud?

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:42:00 +0100

I have finally gotten all of iCloud to work! I’ve been using iCloud since the launch but I haven’t been able to get “Documents & Data” to work before now.

Unfortunately, That Day Has Come...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:43:00 +0100

This morning it was raining again for the first time in something like 10 days. My wife and I were driving to work, me driving, her reading the news about Steve on her iPad.

Let's Talk iPhone

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:50:00 +0100

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. It’s finally time for Apple to unveil the next iPhone and the next version of iOS.

Please create your own icons...

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:13:52 +0100

Not everyone creates their own icons

Man I love ePub

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:27:34 +0100

recently listened to a very interesting podcast from the Pragmatic Programmers featuring an interview with Uncle Bob. At the end they talked about a book Robert had recommended at the most recent…

Out For Delivery

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:48:11 +0100

I think today might be the day!
I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects.
I go online. My breath catches in my chest until I hear 3 little words,

iTunes error 5002 be gone!

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:09:30 +0100

the beta iTunes 9.2 I have been having an annoying problem. – Every time I click “Check for updates” I get an error from iTunes.

Did you remember?

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:40:50 +0100

Utility Towel

Public transportation in Maps.app

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:01:52 +0100

Maps.app is so much nicer than Rejseplanen.

It's just so nice!

Thu, 20 May 2010 09:38:02 +0100

The new iPad showing this site

Moving to a new job!

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:42:25 +0100

Im happy to announce that I have just signed a contract with Microsoft, and as of May 1st I will be part of the Windows Phone 7 Series team where I will be responsible creating the user interface of the future.
I almost can’t wait - It’s going to be insanely great!

Apple ties iPads to carrier with Micro SIMs?

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:16:53 +0100

Once again John Strand is spreading FUD in the danish press. This time Apples new iPad is the target, and this insanely stupid quote from Politiken.dk says it all:

Pick of the week: DocScanner™

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:08:23 +0100

on my weekly picks, Christmas, $work and life in general have kept me very busy lately, but I’ll try to get back to my weekly schedule again.

iDont care either...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:14:08 +0100

Nice response to the Droid teaser from Motorola. Should I care? I have yet to see Motorola create any kind of usable phone, but I welcome the competition.

Pick of the week: Tweetie 2

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:00:59 +0100

I have blogged about this weeks pick before but I never made it a pick of the week before. The recent update to Tweetie rocks, so if you are into Twitter I suggest you head over to the App Store and…

Pick of the week: Pixelmator

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:44:52 +0100

This weeks pick is a mac app called Pixelmator. Pixelmator is a lightning fast image editor for the mac - kinda like a Photoshop lite but unlike Photoshop , Pixelmator really feels like it was build…

The price of Tweetie 2

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:09:58 +0100

I have written about App Store pricing before, and I still fail to understand the “We want free upgrades for life” and “Anything more than $1 is too much” mentality that apparently rules in the App…

Americans: Welcome to The Future!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:50:22 +0100

and congratulations on finally getting MMS on the iPhone. I really don’t get what all the fuss is about - I first used MMS way back in 2000 or 2001 and haven’t really used it since. Just to sum it…

Pick of the week: Autodesk SketchBook Mobile

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:25:06 +0100

A recent tweet by @drwave from Pixar prompted me to check out SketchBook Mobile from Autodesk, and boy am I glad I did! I have always wanted to get better at drawing, and this might help.

Pick of the week: My iPhone

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:19:11 +0100

so late that it is actually a pick for both this week and last week. As you might have guessed from the picture it’s my iPhone. While on vacation in northern Jylland myMacBook Pro died :-(. So for…

Pick of the week: xScope

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0100

weeks pick is cute little utillity app from the Iconfactory called xScope. If you do any kind of design work xScope will most certainly help you in your day to day work. xScope is really a…

Spaces just got a whole lot better!

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:20:33 +0100

Spaces a lot and today it just got a whole lot better! Back in the olden days I used VirtueDesktops which in my opinion was way better than Spaces, but the project died and we were left with Spaces.

Pick of the week: PTHPasteboard

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:55:04 +0100

weeks pick is an oldie, but a goodie. It is a Mac app that I can’t live without. I work with computers all day long developing software for various $clients. When developing software I spend a great…

Pick of the week: BeejiveIM

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:37:45 +0100

all about communicating, and it’s an iPhone app ). With Apples release of iPhone OS 3.0 we got push notifications - a clever way to avoid having apps running constantly on the iPhone, thereby…

Pick of the week: Git

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:18:53 +0100

I have been using source code management systems ) for more than a decade, but I have never been quite happy with how they worked until I switched to git

Pick of the week: 1Password

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:28:23 +0100

tool that is usualy the first thing I install on a new computer . It’s an app that keeps my personal information safe. It’s an app called 1Password that totally replaces MacOSX’ build in Keychain. So…

WWDC09 predictions

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:33:56 +0100

Man I wish I was in San Francisco right now and as you may already know today is the first day of the WWDC, also known as keynote-day. The rumor mill is running rampart with all kind of craziness - some make sense…

Pick of the week: Flight Control

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:30:04 +0100

Inspired by Leo and his gang on TWiT, I am starting a weekly post series about apps and technology I find particular cool. This weeks pick is a small game called Flight Control from Firemint

To Bing or not to Bing

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:34:05 +0100

So Microsoft released a new search engine called Bing. Yes that’s right Bing, what an awesome name… or maybe not.

1Password touch 2.0 and 1Password 3.0

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:19:23 +0100

Everyone’s favorite credential manager will be out in version 3.0 later this year with a completely redesigned UI. Agile offered us a sneak-peak of the new Locked Screen, and I must say it looks spiffy

Geocaching

Sun, 10 May 2009 23:42:36 +0100

Geocaching for a long time, and today I finally did. Today was just another lazy Sunday, and then on a whim I suggested to my family “Hey lets go look for hidden treasures”. I picked an easy nearby…

Going green!

Sun, 10 May 2009 13:23:15 +0100

careful consideration we, The Olrik Family, have decided to go green! We will try to minimize our CO2 footprint on the world in everything we do through the clever use of technology. This doesn’t…

My top 8 favourite iPhone apps

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:42:05 +0100

started writing this blog post, it was called My top 5 favorite iPhone apps. But as I sorted through my installed apps, I had a really hard time limiting my self to just 5 apps - so I changed the…

Creative use of Apples Time Machine

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:14:59 +0100

moment! A moment where you truly feel the amount of thought that goes into creating all the cool stuff at Apple. I was just about to install the latest beta of the iPhone 3.0 SDK, when I ran out of…

A new Perspective on GTD

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:11:00 +0100

By now I am sure you all have heard of OmniFocus, and if not let me start by stating that:

Pragmatic Books now in ePub!

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:01:49 +0100

I tweeted about the latest news from the Pragmatic Programmers. This morning I received the official newsletter in my inbox with all the details. All of the Pragmatic Programmers eBooks are now…

Share your active Wordpress plugins

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:32:58 +0100

A friendof mine challenged me to share my active Wordpress plugins. So here goes, from one plugin addict to another :-) [table id=1 /] If I had to limit my self to 10 plugins these are the ones I simply can’t live without:

Wordpress migration

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:21:19 +0100

month ago I began contemplating a move from Movable Type to Wordpress, and for the last 14 days or so I have been running my blog on Wordpress. I must say that the experience have been very nice so…

The time is now 1234567890!

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:31:02 +0100

It’s like newyear, only better! At 23:31:30 UTC tonight the time since the eopch will be 1234567890. Ain’t Unix great? Lets celebrate!

Is Telia condoning Jailbreaking?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:10:42 +0100

order to get a kosher iPhone 3G here in Denmark, you have to suffer Telia. So when I upgraded my first generation iPhone to a 3G version I got a Telia iGo subscription which includes a monthly…

Apple lifts the friggin NDA

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:42:42 +0100

Today is a glorious day! Apple has finally decided to remove the NDA. …and there was much rejoicing - YAY! Seriously though, this is insanely great!

Using your iPhone as a laptop replacement

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:42:42 +0100

I recently went to YAPC::Europe 2008 which was a technology conference about perl. Usually when I go to these kinds of events I log my laptop along and a big bag for cables and stuff. At this YAPC I did too - for the first day. The second day I did an experiment:

Tunnelblick alive and kicking - Now on Google Code

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:42:42 +0100

favorite VPN client interface GUI has been updated and is now on Google Code. For awhile there, it seemed to have gone stale, but it is now more alive than ever! Get the latest beta here Kudos to the…

Beautiful Perl

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:42:42 +0100

conference! Great speakers and great people. I had tons of fun! A huge “Thank you!” goes to the organizers for making this a memorable event.

DataCase 1.0 has finally appeared in the AppStore

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:02:15 +0100

your files" app has finally appeared in the App Store, and at a very nice price as well ;-) I have tried both Files and DataCase, both are nice - each of them have their strengths and weaknesses. For…

I see stupid people...

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:42:42 +0100

people stupid, after all Stupid is as stupid does. But I am getting increasingly annoyed over silly one star ratings in the App Store. Lets point some fingers and look at an example. Here is a “user”…

DataCase vs. Files

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:42:42 +0100

One thing I really miss from my jail broken 1. generation iPhone is “file storage”. The ability to bring important files with you where ever you go. Fortunately there are now at least a couple of…

iPhone firmware 2.0.1: Bug fixes

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:16:47 +0100

Apple has released iPhone firmware 2.0.1 which fixes the following…

Apple up its game: 1Password reviewed in 3 days

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:42:42 +0100

570" alt="" width=“158” height=“148” />Looks like Apple is getting better at the review process in the App Store. 1Password touch version 1.2 has hit the App Store less than a week after being submitted. Nice! If Apple could get the review time down to 1 business day, that would be totally excellent!

Delicious 2.0

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:42:42 +0100

del.icio.us was relaunched as delicious.com with a revamped design and lots of speed improvements. This relaunch comes at the best time possible, as I was just about to move all my bookmarks to…

OmniFocus for iPhone 1.0.2 released

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:42:42 +0100

OmniFocus for the iPhone has hit the App Store with lots of nice new features and fixes. If there is something you miss in OmniFocus you should definitely chime in on The OmniGroup Forums. The Omni…

1Password on the iPhone

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:35:40 +0100

Agile Web Solutions released version 1.0 of 1Password for the iPhone. This is truly a must have for both the Mac and the iPhone and best of all the iPhone version is free! I have played around with…

Perfect solution for a long gone problem

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:27:45 +0100

more than a year ago I had a problem. My then state of the art P990icouldn’t sync with my mac. MarkSpace has recently announced The Missing Sync for Symbian which completely solves this problem, alas…

DataCase public beta looks promising

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:00:08 +0100

Yesterday I signed up for the public beta of DataCase for the iPhone from Veiosoft. There are only 100 beta slots available, and I hope I get picked!

Unlocking a danish iPhone (the official way)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:38:47 +0100

a call to Telia support, a “quick” restore in iTunes, and a “hefty fine”:http://iphone.vildmedmac.dk/?p=900, I now have a unlocked iPhone. The only thing missing was setting up voice mail and call…

Free! - Free at last!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:42:42 +0100

3G coverage because I live in a densely populated area where I usually can get a Wifi-signal, but in the year 2008 I really expect the GSM coverage to be stellar. “Telia’s”:http://telia.dk/ GSM…

Very appropriate waiting music

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:56:36 +0100

Here in Denmark Telia is the sole iPhone service provider, and just like AT&T their 3G coverage is spotty at best. So I find their choice of “waiting music”:http://www.thomashelmig.dk/resources/lyrics.php?track_id=1 (“iTunes”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=202830070&id=202830040&s=143458) on their support hotline very appropriate.

OmniFocus: My favorite iPhone app

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:42:42 +0100

have had my iPhone 3G for just about a week now, and I already have a favorite app. As you might have guessed from the screen shot it’s OmniFocus for iPhone. Having your todo list where ever you go…

friend Book not available

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:36:51 +0100

tried to down load “friend Book”:http://tapulous.com/friendbook/ from “Tapulous”:http://tapulous.com/, but was greeted with a “not available” message in iTunes. So not only does it take Apple forever…

iPhone hand waving voodoo

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:10:52 +0100

So I got this shiny new iPhone 3G, but my Mail.app would quit as soon as I started it, and no number of restores would fix it…

iPhone 3G - Its in the mail...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:42:42 +0100

3G](http://www.apple.com/iphone/) day! The day of 3G has finally arrived, but as we’re getting too old and have too many kids to stand inline for several hours, so we hit the Telia web-store at 07:00…

Firefox downloaded!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:57:08 +0100

So the Americans finally went to bed, and the Firefox servers are now actually responding to requests without timing out… You can still make it, if you haven’t downloaded Firefox yet, please download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008. That’s 10:00 a.m. in Mountain View, 1:00 p.m. in Toronto, 2:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 7:00 p.m. in Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 9:00 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. in Beijing and 2:00 a.m. in Tokyo.

Firefox download day - June 17th

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:31:15 +0100

The world’s best browser is going to set a world record - come join us at “Spreadfirefox.com”:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Java makes people sick

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:00:50 +0100

It’s true - Java makes people sick. Lets hope they get the Moscone Center disinfected in time for the WWDC, so the same won’t be true for Apple. ;-) btw. Hope you all get well soon! =)

I really miss VirtueDesktops...

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:14:24 +0100

Man I miss VirtueDesktops … Even after using Leopard for what seems to be more than a year, I still haven’t gotten used to Spaces and the way Apple thinks app switching/organizing should work (Actually its more like 6 months, but it feels like a year because of the extreme suckines of Spaces). At least I am not the only one that thinks Spaces sucks …

0xe0030005 I loathe thee

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:27:42 +0100

Yesterday my MacBook Pro started to act weird, and I began getting a lot of these in my system.log

Apple please buy Yahoo!

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:42:42 +0100

It would be really cool if Apple bought Yahoo! instead of Microsoft, that way Apple could really take .Mac to the next level - and Microsoft wouldn’t ruin flickr. So Steve, please convince the rest of the board that Apple should buy Yahoo!

Apple IIc unboxing

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:38:54 +0100

Now this is cool!

Command line pasting

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:59:34 +0100

$work, I found the need to copy the output from a command into my pasteboard. A little digging around turned up [cc lang=“bash”]pbcopy[/cc] and [cc lang=“bash”]pbpaste[/cc], which is shipped with…

Addicted to Apple?

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:42:53 +0100

friends already know… I have an addiction - I’m a technophile, with a passion for everything that glows in the dark :-) This of-course includes products from Apple, and now you too can find out if…

Avatars 1.1

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:54:17 +0100

little plugin for Address Book, that’ll let you look up gravatars and pavartars for your contacts - Nifty! And to quote TUAW “Now I just need more friends with avatars” ;-)

It has begun!

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:50:28 +0100

Well… it actually began quite a while ago, I have just been to busy to write about it, and it should have been finished by now

One-Click patent is still old and obvious

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:35:39 +0100

Guess “USPTO”:http://uspto.gov/ has _some_ common sense as they have just “reaffirmed that the 1-Click Claim is ‘Old And Obvious’":http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/1933206. They should just abandon software patents altogether, as they are “bad”:http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html - which is old news, and equally obvious.

Happy Birthday Perl!

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:42:42 +0100

has it that this fine december day, Perl5Porters is giving us “Perl 5.10”:http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/, the best Perl 5 yet. I hope its true, because 5.10 contains loads of fun and useful…

Is numeric?

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:57:21 +0100

table on an Oracle 8i database, and I wanted to select only those tuples that contain numbers. Had I used PostgreSQL I could just have used a regex, which is nice and Perl like. But this is Oracle…

Numbers are fun! - And can't be censored...

Thu, 03 May 2007 06:42:00 +0100

Everyones new favorit number seems to be 13256278887989457651018865901401704640 or if you want it in hex 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 It even has a website

Speech unrecognition

Wed, 02 May 2007 18:42:00 +0100

Isn’t it great? - You know us living here in the future! The calendar says 2007, and most scifi-movies about the future take place in the years that closely follows the year 2000… Even in “Star…

TextMate & Remote editing

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:01:00 +0100

I really like TextMate but it one serious flaw: When editing a “large” project on a remote volume, saving and switching to and from TextMate is extremely slow due to the fact that TextMate is…

Irssi, Jabber & Adium

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:42:00 +0100

A while ago I switched from Colloquy to Irssi, and I haven’t looked back since - not even once.

Firebug 1.0 released!

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:42:00 +0100

One of my favorite tools just went one point oh! - An oh what an upgrade! Firebug went from totally cool, to insanely great - if you haven’t upgaded already then hurry up, if you haven’t installed it, the do it - you won’t regret it! It has even obsoleted a couple of other plugins as you can now do inline editing of CSS and lots of other cool stuff! For users of lesser browsers, there is even a lite version so they can develop with Firebug and use all the cool features on their development site that we can use on any site! Oh… did it forget to mention it is free ?

Firefox and lori

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:34:00 +0100

For a long time I have been using lori - Life of request info with much joy. - Then came Firefox 2.0 … Nice browser, but lori stopped working… :-( Today I really needed it, so I unpacked it and changed the max version from 1.5 to 2.0, and now it works again :-) You can download it here, but I can’t guaranty it won’t blow up you your computer, but it works for me.

iTerm redux

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:12:00 +0100

I have great news for all you new Mac convertiees who dislike Apples Terminal.app for one reason or another. ITerm has just been released in version 0.9.0

Can your wintel box do this ?

Fri, 26 May 2006 05:40:00 +0100

All new *Books from Apple has a build in motion sensor that is there protect the harddrive for harm, should you descide to hurl your *Book through the room. Some clever guys wrote a piece of software that that allows you to use the sensor to perform actions in DesktopManager like “go to the next desktop”. Some other clever guys wrote another piece of software that does the same for VirtueDesktops, which is a much cooler fork of DesktopManager and my perfered virtual desktop program. Now that is cool! =)

Life, the Universe and Everything

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:35:00 +0100

Kevin Kelly from Wired magazine has written an article about quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd who says “The universe is one giant, hackable computer.” - Let’s hope it’s not running Windows.

Apple's wierd sometimes...

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:47:00 +0100

I really dig Apple’s products, they look nice, they feel nice, they even work nice… But when things break, Apple sometimes sucks… I broke my arrow down key on my almost shinny new PowerBook, guess I read too much mail. I walked up to Apple’s booth on LinuxForum last saturday, and asked them how to get this fixed as easy as possible - I really just need the arrow down key - and they said: “You must send it in for repairs, we’ll change the entire keyboard”. How stupid is that? - I couldn’t even buy the missing key, and I can’t live with out my laptop as it is my main workstation for both $work and $home. Come on Apple, you can do better than that!

LinuxForum v9

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:26:00 +0100

Right now i am sitting in auditorium #1, listening to Dan Klein on Perfect Data in an Imperfect World. Great fun, and quite interesting! All in all it has been a great day here at LinuxForum.

Typo sidebar plugin: Countdown timer

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:02:00 +0100

I needed a cute countdown timer for my website, so I created one. You can download it here!

Emacs Keybindings in Firefox

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:37:00 +0100

I have decided to use Firefox as my main browser for a little while

Now we are cooking!

Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:13:42 +0100

I finally got NSI to fix the glue record for ns.hashbang.org, so now everything should work as it should! - Sorry for the downtime. The whole thing is now running on 4 machines, with two more to be added shortly.

My Palm IIIx has passed away!

Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0100

service, my trusted Palm IIIx has passed away. Guess it couldn’t handle year 2K being a leap year. 8-) It traveled with me all over the world in sunshine, snow and rain, only to end its final days…

Say no to software patents!

Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:32:13 +0100

Since Amazon isn’t giving up its ludicrous software patent I have decided to boycott them! As of today I have removed all links to Amazon! The reason for the boycott is because Amazon has filed filed suit against Barnes & Noble over this ludicrous patent. These kind of patents threatens to put a halt on technological innovation and ruin the Internet for all of us. The technology that Amazon has patented, is their ‘one-click ordering’ system ¹) which is a simple system based on cookies! To patent this would be like patenting ’the process of taking a credit card order over the phone. Stop typing Amazon

Linux World Expo

Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:42:00 +0100

Just got home from Linux World Expo in San Jose, California. What a trip, met all kinds of interesting people, saw all kinds of wonderful places.