Thomas Buttenschøn – Hjerter Dame
Gør alt jeg kan for at elske det banale Ville da gerne redde den tredje verden, men har lidt travlt med min kabale.
Archive for 2008
System of a Down – A.D.D.
We fought your wars with all our hearts, You sent us back in body parts
People vs. persons →
From the department of language, here is a guide on when to use “persons” and when to use “people”. (Brief version: use “persons” if you want to seem formal, but “people” in most other cases.)
TV-2 – Helt Alene
Han var […] rastløs som en satellit.
Learn how to write →
No one wants to invest countless hours in a losing technology… you want to learn something that will be useful in the long run. I have just the skill for you, and it doesn’t matter what language you work with.
Learn to write well.
This is exactly why I want to study English at university, and not something like Computer Science, or other things specifically related to what I want to work with. This also points out a deeper thing about me as a software developer: I am not that much into mathematics. I appreciate it on a simple level, and I do not avoid applying mathematics to my programming, but I am just more interested in communication. This I probably one of the reasons I started working with the Web, and stuck with it. (The other of course being, that when you start out as a 12 year old doing programming, HTML is just a bit easier to grasp.) I am not one of those who want to solve the performance bits of a program, making it run n% faster by tweaking some engine using clever natural science; I am one of those who want to write software that helps people communicate.
Nick Cave – O'Malley's Bar
Don’t shoot I cried, I’m a man and all.
Bruce Perens for OSI President →
Sounds like my choice of a candidate.
Plain Old Discrimination
So, Gruber says that Hulu is out of beta. Yay; for all its Conservatism, Fox does have some pretty good shows (The Simpsons; Prison Break; Futurama). It even has movies, too.
So I check out The Usual Suspects, just for kicks. But, as it turns out, Fox and NBC do not like Europeans. At least they do not trust their content to us. “Well”, I think, “maybe it’s only like this for the films — that would make some sense”. So I check out Prison Break. Nope, no luck.
Now, I know calling discrimination is overly simplified, as there are copyrights and what not. But still, this is supposed to be Fox and NBC’s own content, why can they not show it to us overseas? The Daily Show works just fine here. No, maybe not all of the advertising would hit its aimed recipients, but you never have that certainty. You can do as much viewer analysis as you want to, you will never get a guarantee. So please, show it to us. Maybe we will even like the ads.
A Bear Market for User-Generated Content? →
It was if [sic] Karl Marx had risen from the dead and was poking people on Facebook.
Debugging in Python →
Quite thorough introduction to the Python Debugger. It is at a very basic level, apparently assuming no real Python experience, but it is a great list over commands for the pdb.