Category: Other
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Word Cloud
This is a world cloud of my tweets to date. The names of some of my favorite authors are in the cloud: David Bohm, Henri Bortoft, Andreas Weber, Harrison Owen, robert wolff, Michael Jones, and Robert Rosen. Also Simon Robinson (@srerobinson), who introduced Henri Bortoft to me, is there. Major topics include life and work,…
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Adobe’s customer support isn’t customer care
I had a very poor experience with Adobe customer support the other day. Here’s my story: I contacted Adobe because I wanted to cancel a Creative Cloud membership from a future date. What happened was that the membership was cancelled immediately. When I noticed it and complained, I got what I thought was a free…
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Goodreads
Yay! I am the #1 top user at goodreads this week in Sweden.
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European cities do away with traffic signs
Spiegel Online reports that traffic signs are being removed in 7 European cities to good effect. “European traffic planners are dreaming of streets free of rules and directives. They want drivers and pedestrians to interact in a free and humane way, as brethren — by means of friendly gestures, nods of the head and eye contact,…
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Beat depression without drugs
Stephen Ilardi argues in The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs that the rate of depression is roughly ten times higher today than it was just two generations ago because our modern life-style. His lifestyle based cure for beating depression without antidepressants has six elements: Physical activity (exercise) Omega-3 fatty acids…
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Ett aprilskämt från 1998
HTTP 418 är ett felmeddelande som troligen inte kommer att dyka upp i din webbläsare. Det skapades 1998 som ett aprilskämt av de som definierar http-protokollet. HTTP 418 är ett fel som uppstår när du försöker brygga kaffe i en tekanna över internet. Enligt standarden gäller att: “Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot…
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Bloggen startad
Idag installerade jag bloggen på en egen web-server som körs på en ASUS EeeBox med Ubuntu. Nu kör vi!