Interesting. Via Jeremy Keith, one very plausible explanation for Microsoft’s curious choice of skipping version 9 and going straight to 10 for Windows. If only short-sighted developers would stop resorting to such measures.
Now, Apple’s reasons for labelling the sixth generation of its phone ‘iPhone 5’ (and subsequently naming the eighth generation ‘iPhone 6’) are unclear; that’s just plain stupid.
Der blæser for alvor nye vinde i DBU.
Forfriskende, og det er svært at være uenig i at Lars Berendt har været symbol på en meget nedladende organisation. Olsen kan stadig til tider godt ligge under for det; det bliver interessant at se om han på sigt kan åbne op for at andre end han selv kan have rimelige meninger om det danske landsholds præstationer.
(Bold.dk’s uddrag fordi jeg ikke har adgang til DIF’s foreningsblad.)
Erik Weijers’ summary of Julian Jaynes’ absolutely fascinating thesis about the origin of the human consciousness.
Via Bret Victor’s Links 2013, which I heartily recommend checking out. (Yes, it’s a list of links from 2013, but they’re not especially topical for 2013, and many of them [like this one] are indeed from way before 2013.)
Klinikmatch er et site min kæreste administrerer som en del af hendes praktikforløb, med information om klinikker og privathospitaler i Danmark.
Jeremy Keith’s guide to parse webmentions, pretty much the ideal solution for what I saw as the problem with blog comments six years ago (and that is almost exactly six years ago; three days off).
I see WordPress plugins both ways for this in the future.
Information wants to be free.
They should have just used Justin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me. They sound exactly alike.
Via John Gruber, the tragic news that Aaron Swartz has committed suicide.
I cannot claim to have known Aaron Swartz well, beyond a few brief email exchanges I have had nothing to do with him. Yet he is a person I feel I have a relationship with.
Swartz was one of the first people I remember started following when I started going beyond the mainstream internet. Being a few years younger than him, I highly admired him for his accomplishments at ages comparable to mine.
Swartz’ last time was obviously marred by a criminal investigation, but I feel Swartz had more to contribute to this world. He will be missed, and my thoughts go out to his friends and family.
A wonderfully done timeline of the history of the Internet. I think it’s a little oddly lacking for the current stuff – a lot of discussions of browser releases in the 90s, but neither Chrome nor Safari’s releases are mentioned, at all. Python (the general purpose language, which I don’t believe anyone uses without some Web-specific framework on top of it for producing Web stuff) is mentioned, so is Perl and PHP. And Ruby on Rails. Also no mention of HTML5, CSS3, WHATWG or other acronyms that are part of pushing the Web forward today.
It is very nice though. On iOS – and, I’m sure, other touch-enabled operating systems – the navigational arrows are replaced with swipe gestures.
I’m a Chelsea fan. As such, I’m inclined to give Terry the benefit of the doubt. No-one knows what really happened, and these trials haven’t really made any conclusive proof either way.
What is important is that we get rid of racism, in football and anywhere else. If Terry is guilty, he should be punished severely for his behaviour.
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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.