Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.
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Note: iTunes doesn’t make it easy to get info about podcasts out of the app, so this list is updated by hand.
Updated on Sunday, 2006-03-05.
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Quod Libet is an audio player for Unixes. It has nice file renaming capabilities and is generally a great player. I wanted to use the Audioscrobbler plugin so that I could update my Last.fm playlist. However, I couldn’t get it to work with the version that came with my Ubuntu install (5.10).
The solution was simply to run the latest version (0.17.1). Now I can continue to expose my poor taste in music, from the comfort of Linux!
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I had some problems with corrupted entries in the indexfile for
entriescache recently. Yesterday it happened again, which pissed
me off no end. So I’ve been researching ways to prevent this.
My first thoughts were to use a real version control system, like CVS or Subversion. I could then use the revision tags to keep track of creation and update times. But this wasn’t an option for me, as neither CVS nor SVN exist on my host, and I don’t feel like compiling them statically.
So I had a look at the entriescache plugin itself. There’s an option
to write a meta-creation_date when the post is indexed. This is
then “authoritative” in case the timestamp in the index file is
changed.
The problem was that I had edited my some of my posts a lot of times
since starting to use entriescache. So I wrote a script that updated
(or rather, backdated) the timestamps according to the data in the
index file (which had been restored from backups). After this, I
changed the option that controls whether the plugin will write a meta
tag, and reindexed.
Voila! I now have a meta tag in each and every post that can be used to keep track of the posts creation time if all else fails. And since it’s added by the plugin, I don’t have to add it manually in the editor.
I made a slight change to the plugin too: the default timestamp format is in the middle-endian US way (MM/DD/YYYY). I modified it to write and read ISO 8601 dates instead.
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Dave Winer has an elevator pitch for OPML blogging. What he means by “OPML blogging” is managing your weblog in an application, the OPML Editor, that enables you to choose whether to post an entry as a single sentence (or two) or in a more structured way with a title.
I can see the point. Sometimes you just want to post a link, or a quote, or an observation. That’s why I implemented my post-by-email feature to this blog. Any mail sent to an address with a certain subject line gets appended to that day’s observations post (if the file doesn’t exist, it is created.) The title of the post is always “Observations”. I got this idea from Fredrik Lundh, though I don’t think he posts via email.
I have a command-line version, but I usually just email from Gmail.
The cool thing about this approach, and the reason I call it a moblog application, is that I can post from my mobile phone via email. Granted, this doesn’t happen often, but it’s nice to be able to have the feature.
OK, so that’s my take: I agree with Dave that sometimes you just want to get the stuff out there, without writing an essay. I’m not sold on the application though. Granted, I haven’t used it yet, because as far as I know it doesn’t work with blosxom. But even if it did, where would I use it? I do some blogging at work (on breaks, naturally), some from a windows box at home, and some (like now) from a laptop running Linux. Each of these platforms supports emacs with remote editing via SSH, which is how I usually post. And when I don’t, I can use Gmail from any computer, or use my phone.
So, titleless blogging is cool, and liberating. Using the OPML Editor ties you to one application and one machine, that has to be running Windows or MacOS. That’s not so liberating.
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Apparently this year’s Winter Games have been Sweden’s best ever, medal-wise. But I haven’t seen squat on the TV (and we have no daily paper, so I miss a lot there too).
However, tomorrow is the “dream final” in ice hockey between Sweden and Finland — ancient rivals in this game — and I’ll do my best to see that at least.
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Here’s the dirty secret that most developers — and most assuredly, most development managers — don’t want to have to admit: Most of the problems they are confronted with just aren’t that complicated.
Apparently my tube station is now an oxygen bottle. And I get off at the Glory of the Sieve for work.
Via Stattin.
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You have IE for Windows, and I have
find,grep,xargs,sed, andrm. It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight, kid.
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[No, it’s not what you think.]
I found something nice at TPB today: The Hooters: Greatest Hits. Man, that takes me back. Satellite, And We Danced, Blood from a Stone. Great stuff.
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Hilarious exchange between Cory Doctorow and a “lawer”.
Do you really feel that my spelling ability has any thing to do with slander ?
Yay, the syndication wars are back, only now it’s a civil war in the RSS camp. The Atom crowd is quietly triumphant. Me, I’m popping popcorn, cracking open a brew and settling in for some smackdown!!
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I hela mitt liv har jag sett till att hålla mig väl med it-supporten. När en it-supportperson hjälper dig extra, ge honom eller henne en flaska rött. Genom denna metod, samt ett inte oävet användade av förnedrande könstaktiker som att lägga huvudet på sned och se söt och lite korkad ut (nej, ni behöver inte säga att det ligger för mig, jag vet det så väl) har jag alltid klarat sånt här utan att egentligen behöva förstå något.
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We had a discussion at work today regarding some people’s work times. We agreed that everyone should be in the office between 10:00 and 17:00, even though I personally feel that 9:00—16:00 would be better. I was also informed that working from home is not allowed except under special circumstances, which makes me even less inclined to help the US team while I’m at home. If I can’t be able to get credit for it, why should I do it for free?
One good thing is that there won’t be time-clocks or other paraphernalia of fascist oppression, but I’d still like to have some kind of check of how much I’m working. So I’d like to find a web-based (AJAXy?) time-tracker/scheduler that could allow me to keep tabs on what I’m doing. Especially since the support of the fugly hack that is our online questionnaire system was just dumped in our lap as a kind of reverse gift. A white, leprous, incontinent elephant that will suck up even more of our copious free time.
I’m a bit disappointed that we had to have this meeting at all. It would seem to me pretty clear that if you’re part of a team you should try to be in the premises at least from 9:30 in the morning, even if you work late as a result of coming in late. “Lone hacker” just doesn’t cut it anymore at work.
Then there’s the case of the mothership foisting their email naming scheme on us without our consent or agreement. I personally feel that this is an issue that’s so unimportant that it’s barely worth mentioning. Lets hope we can defuse the situation before it gets out of hand and kicked upstairs for “arbitration”.
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Looks interesting. I’ll hear how it sounds tomorrow when I subscribe to the feed in iTunes.
That reminds me, I have to create a podroll.
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This looks interesting, a watchmaker’s blog
journal. Lots of info
about watches and gears and stuff. Pretty interesting. But there’s no
feed! How come? Just an excerpt is enough, if you want to drive
traffic to your site.
Another site that should have RSS is The Luminous Landscape.
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Kenneth Starr of Monicagate fame is going after the PCAOB (paywall warning). This is the regulating authority set up by the SOX act. If he and his “free-enterprise” cronies could get it declared unconstitutional, SOX could be history.
As someone who has suffered the death of a thousand cuts that is a SOX audit, I wish them the best of luck. I’m sure that US business needed chastisement after Enron, but SOX goes way too far in the other direction. It’s like a farce, a parody of bureaucratic interference in business practices.
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Apparently you can’t format volumes larger than 32GB in FAT32 under WinXP. Anything larger will have to use NTFS. I’ve got a largish drive in a USB-connected enclosure that I’d like to use under Linux, so NTFS was out. As far as I know, the Linux support for it is still experimental.
Well, as the good book says, Google, and ye shall find. The first
suggestions from MS was to boot into Win98/ME and use their FORMAT
command to do this. This is akin to performing brain surgery with a
butter knife dipped in pus.
But I also found Jens-Uwe Mager’s Windows port of the Linux command
mkdosfs that worked like a charm.
So now I’m backing up the MP3’s on this machine. Can life get much better?
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Jon Udell suggested in the latest Gillmor Gang podcast that blogs should be seen as the extension and evolution of resumes. If you’re a professional in the English and American sense of the word (i.e. an architect, lawyer, scientist, support engineer etc.) you should write about what you know, what you’ve learnt, and how you work in your blog. After all, any employer worth their salt will do a Google on a prospective hire before asking them to sign the dotted line. It can be embarrassing to know that you posted beginner’s SQL questions on a forum just weeks before applying for that DBA job.
(Jon’s argument is in text form in a blog entry.)
I’m not sure I buy into the argument, though. Most bloggers keep a pretty relaxed view about their professional life. After all, if you spend your work days thinking, which is basically what professionals do, you might want to kick back with a rant on politics in the evening. And even if your employer allows you to blog, would they be happy if you do it during working hours, especially if you’re building your online resume, so to speak?
I’m not sure what my current employer says about blogging. We have signed a Code of Conduct, which is basically a marketing device to enable the mothership to claim that their employees are ethical, or that they have at least signed a paper saying they know the difference between right and wrong. But from what I remember there was no mention of blogging.
We do have an internal blog, where I sometimes post stuff that’s relevant to the day to day work of my department. But that’s more something that fits between a “Staff.All” email and a casual water-cooler conversation with someone from another department. I doubt I could wax lyrical there about the latest trends in ticket tracking and support work. Is this the place for that? I highly doubt it. Like I said, I want to relax after work. Work sucks. I really don’t want to think about it too much outside 9—5.
That said, I do try to keep stuff from wandering way out of line here, because this is my digital identity, so to speak. (I also try to not mention where I work, even though my co-workers obviously know.) I personally find some weblogs fascinating in their mixture of professional writings and things of a more personal nature. And that’s OK, because I do think the line between work and personal life is blurring. Not only in work’s favour, I hope. What I mean is that if it’s OK for me to be online helping out the US team at 22:00, it’s also OK for me to take a morning off to take the kid to the dentist. It’s give and take.
Hmm, this post has the earmarks of late-night rambling. Better stop before my professional credibility is eroded.
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Gotta love Russ. A few days after exposing his utter-non-hipness and confessing he doesn’t “get” MySpace he signs up for an account and starts trying to grok it.
I’m pretty glad my job doesn’t involve trying to fathom the fickle youth market. Like Russ, I don’t feel especially old, but the stuff that the kids are into (communities like Helgon and of course MSN chat) is out of my radar. I understand it in principle, but I don’t grasp the finer points. This blog is basically a personal broadsheet, the model is a hypothetical online journal from perhaps the nineteenth century — genteel, feelings under wraps, “stiff upper lip” etc. I can’t imagine letting it all hang out here. That’s not the kind of guy I am.
It should cheer him up that older people have consistently made money from younger ones throughout the ages (or at least since “teens” appeared as a consumer group) and if you just try your best you can probably manage.
At least with the older kids I have some kind of cred. My 5 minutes of manual reading have enabled me to use BitTorrent effectively, which is something my so-called internet literary youngsters have not figured out. But I shudder to think of what kind of fuddy-duddy I will appear in the four-year old’s eyes in about 7 years…
Yeah, I’m getting old, and it sucks.
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I sat down and made some minor changes to Frank Hecker’s most excellent feedback plugin.
I “removed” the email option from the submit page. In the standard plugin, if someone submits an email address, it’s displayed and not obfuscated. I don’t feel that’s right. Even if I would say that the email is displayed, I doubt people would notice. And if they did notice, they’d demand that I do something about it. So now the option only reads “URL”, even though you basically can put any string there anyway.
I downloaded version 0.19 from Frank’s site, but a quick diff didn’t
show any big changes. I’m going with my version (0.16) because if it
ain’t broke, why fix it?
To continue an immortal Engadget neologism, props be to Frank for producing a plugin that easily enables comments in Blosxom.
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A Discworld novel dealing with the evils of organised religion. Readable, but I’ve read funnier stuff.
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Syndication politics are every bit as twisted as any soap opera you’ll see on daytime television. Only without the sex. And with a bunch of bearded fat guys in place of the pretty models.
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Russ:
New mobile services are centered squarely at the MySpace culture and demographic… if I don’t grok them, I may not grok the future of mobility.
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I borrowed a Powerbook G4 from work yesterday, just to see what all the fuss was about. And sure, it was gorgeous, but it wasn’t for me. Give me a 3-year old surplus lappy running Ubuntu anyday. Sure, mostly it’s a question of what you’re used to, but I still didn’t feel at home with the Mac.
If any Mac zealot wants to convert me, however, I’m open for some free kit…
[Apologies for the Unicode-impaired, the weird char in the middle of the title is supposed to be a heart.]
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For $100K I’d say nothing. Really. Two days of silence.
Let the bidding commence…
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Many of my age are quite knowledgeable about the the global challenges that lie ahead of us. My generation, born in the 70s, grew up with a fundamental environmental awareness, Many of us have travelled the world and seen the gaps between rich and poor. Yet so few with knowledge and talent really put their potential to use for these issues.
I think that doubt is a paralysing obstacle — doubt that we can achieve results in these areas, doubt that small-scale action can have large scale impact. When the difficulties are immense and no solutions are in reach, it’s easier just to ignore the threats.
To mobilize much talent, I wish that there was more belief that the big, complex challenges of today really can be solved. A bit more hope and some courage could do wonders.
— David Sjögren
Original version from Visions from the Present, Compositions and Contributions from participants of the Tällberg Forum 2005, published by the Tällberg Foundation, Stockholm 2006.
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Allteftersom tiden blir det svårare att skaffa vänner. Kanske den gyllene tiden för detta är runt 20-årsåldern, då man äntligen kommer hemifrån och kan träffa andra människor i samma ålder och med liknande intressen.
För en lite nervös 22-åring på KTHs borggård en solig septemberdag tog det inte lång tid att inse att Stockholm inte var Lund — här kom en stor del av kurskamraterna ifrån stan, med egna färdiga sociala nätverk.
David Sjögren var, vid första anblicken, en av dessa. Vi var med i samma nolleuppdragsgrupp, och efter fullbordat värv (vi satte upp skyltar i Tekniska Högskolans T-banestation som påminde om att föhsarna ständigt var närvarande) samlades vi hemma i Davids föräldrahem för att sätta ihop en presentation för att slå resten av årskursen med häpnad. (Detta var tiden före PowerPoint, så det var diabilder och kassettband som gällde.)
Efteråt kom jag ihåg att jag tänkte att David visserligen var mycket trevlig, men att jag inte skulle ingå i hans sociala nätverk i framtiden.
Turligt nog hade inte David några sådana fördomar. Jag minns inte exakt hur det skedde, men vi började umgås mer och mer. Upptäckten att jag var fyra år äldre än honom minns jag slog honom med viss häpnad: så här i efterhand vet jag inte om jag var milt förolämpad eller smickrad, men det gick snabbt över. I mångt och mycket var David den äldre av oss.
När vi lämnade KTH var vi vänner, tillsammans med
många andra. Vi kom att arbeta på samma arbetsplats, ett
företag fylld av smarta människor (en del från KTH,
tack och lov inte alla). David var otvivelaktigen en av de smartare,
även om jag kunde slå honom på fingrarna i esoteriska
datorfrågor. En gång medan jag gjorde mitt exjobb fick jag
ett samtal från David. Han hade fått i uppdrag att
sätta upp en Solaris-server och råkat skapa en fil som
började med “-“. Som av en slump hade jag inte mer än
några timmar läst om hur man blir av med en sådan
fil, och mitt blixtsnabba svar “använd rm -- -fil” måste
ha gjort djupt intryck.
Några år senare började ett halvt dussin av oss samlas hos varandra för herrmiddagar. Detta var tämligen välstädade tillställningar med mild one-up-manship vad gällde matlagningen. David var svår att slå på den fronten. Han hade alltid en massa goda recept på lager, och om han fick stå vid spisen mer än andra så var det desto mer uppskattat.
Det finns många saker jag kommer att sakna nu när David är borta. Hans glada humör, sättet han liksom spratt till när något roligt var i görningen, hans mail med länkar till Berglin-teckningar och filmer med biljardtrick. Men framförallt kommer jag att sakna honom som vän: som en person som alltid var där, som man i sin okunskap om vad som komma skall tror kommer att vara där för överskådlig framtid.
Saknaden efter David är djup, och jag påminns nästan dagligen om att han är borta. Jag är glad och stolt över att ha kunnat räkna honom som en av mina bästa vänner.
En minnesfond i Davids namn har startats. Den är för utvecklingen av unga afrikanska ledare:
Jag vill tacka Frederic och SSSK för informationsmötet där vi fick tillfälle att ställa frågor till dom som var med när det hände.
Updated on Tuesday, 2006-06-20.
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I’ve made most of the preparations for tomorrow:
Still to do: iron the white shirt, and try to find something to cover my head that’s not a baseball cap.
Right now I’m writing this entry and listening to Reeperbahn.
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I glanced at the Archives yesterday and was shocked to see that
all entries before this year were dated in January 2005. The file that
entries_cache uses to record timestamps was corrupt. I
restored the file from backups, but I was a bit tense. Although most
posts aren’t date-specific, there’s enough stuff in there to make me
nervous of losing the date part of the post.
I’ve been looking at Wordpress for a while, mostly as a new way of doing stuff. I’ve moved away from using Blosxom as an “online notebook”, with an emacs open in a screen session all the time. I’ve also started using WP at work, and I think it’s a really slick tool.
An eventual migration would be a bore though. I’d have to generate post titles in exactly the right way to keep permalinks, and I’d have to hack the templates to something I like. Sure it would be fun if I had copious free time, but that particular commodity is in very short supply right now.
Update: blergh, just installed WP to have a look and there are a lot of issues to solve before a migration:
mod_rewrite magic.
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Eliminating network neutrality means giving one participant in the value chain a tool to extract a greater share of revenues without delivering greater value.
The question management needs to ask itself is the one that can’t be easily quantified: how many future sales are you willing to sacrifice in order to generate a few pennies in support?
Quote taken joyfully out of context.
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If you say that your house is forty feet tall, you would be rightly annoyed to have G.H. Hardy to come and ridicule you for being unable to distinguish between the numbers 40 and 41.37.
Wikis aren’t just for encyclopedias, though. In situations where you need centralized information, with multiple contributors building the knowledge pool slowly as time permits, a wiki can be a tremendous asset. Whether it’s simply storing the development group coding standards, documenting and adapting as time passes, or the small corporation internal website where events and information is relayed, a wiki can be a boon.
Mmm…, en smaklös gul puré utan vitaminer eller mineraler. Vem kan passa på något sånt. Först till kvarn!
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SMS från Henrik:
Hej. Idag födde Liselotte en flicka som ska heta Ellen. Båda damerna är något trötta men mår mycket bra!
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The habit of staying up late, surfing Bloglines and generally not getting eight hours of beauty sleep (and at my age, you need the beauty sleep, believe you me). I’m as awake as I’m always am in the morning, but during the day my effectiveness at work goes towards zero, and I’m essentially marking time until the factory whistle blows.
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I’ve started using the keyboard shortcuts in Bloglines more and more. Thankfully, they share the J and K keys for next and previous item with Gmail. (I believe this is from vi, mnemonics are jump and klimb). S jumps to the next subscription, and R refreshes the list of subs.
This is incredibly useful. I find myself reaching for the keyboard when reading blogs with lots of entries, and of course when using spit Outlook Web Abscess. Naturally, even if MS discovers keyboard accelerators, they will most definitely not be industry standard and we can expect to see them in 2009.
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Grabbed from my del.icio.us links.
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Grabbed from my del.icio.us links.
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Tagged by Frank.
Four jobs I’ve had
FourOne movie I can watch over and over
(this was harder than I thought, I don’t often re-watch movies)
Four places I’ve lived
Four TV shows I love, or have loved
(Gah, that was predictable…)
Four places I’ve vacationed
Four of my favourite dishes
Four sites I visit daily
Four places I’d rather be right now
Four bloggers I’m tagging
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