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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. …

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. :-(

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…

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 hit factory

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…

Sour notes:

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…

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…

ASP.NET for Apache ... unfortunately, it only runs on Windows.

1. Install Dave’s bar.
   
   
2. Download oacs.xml
   
   
3. Save it into C:\Program Files\Quick Search Deskbar\searches
   
   

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…