Simply Jonathan

Link Archive

TeliaSonera to sell iPhone in the Nordic and Baltic markets 

Fuck yeah! Not that Telia are going to be the carrier, I’m not too fond of them, but I’m delighted that there are now official plans on the iPhone coming to Denmark.

List of Power Rangers Villains 

I love Wikipedia.

Manager sacked for being too successful 

Heart-wrenching story of the problems facing tiny English football club Lewes, struggling to make ends meet, and not be automatically relegated from the Conference Division.

Twitter refuse to uphold TOS 

This doesn’t look good for that small company.

I am obviously on Ariel’s side (although I don’t know anything about her), but I don’t like the sound of Flickr’s actions as well — that they ban accounts that might even very loosely be considered as harassment; that doesn’t sound like healthy practice either.

Debugging Django 

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Great little guide by Simon Willison into the basics of Django debugging.

PHP sucks, but it doesn't matter 

Jeff Atwood:

The only conclusion I can draw is that building a compelling application is far more important than choice of language. While PHP wouldn’t be my choice, and if pressed, I might argue that it should never be the choice for any rational human being sitting in front of a computer, I can’t argue with the results.

Amen. I have argued that PHP’s main strength is its deployability, and I hold that stance. I still think it’s a crappy language.

The Trouble with EM 'n EN (and Other Shady Characters) 

I have no idea why I haven’t bookmarked this essential guide to dashes before, but here it is.

When Your Mom Forwards Email 

Sad but true. What’s up with that?

BlubML 

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Incredible what two days can do. I’m somehow reminded of Benedick in Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, who changes his viewpoint on love in an instant.

Seth Godin on Mother's Day 

Amen. And I feel the same for Father’s Day (obviously) and Valentine’s Day. I have always had stronger opinions on Valentine’s Day; ever since I started seeing my girlfriend a little over two years ago (20 February 2006, to be precise) I have made it absolutely clear to her that I would not treat Valentine’s Day any different than any other day. This isn’t much a statement, of course, since we have our anniversary less than a week later but still. I hold my position.

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.