rants
Bill Gates losing it
I’m admiring Bill Gates for his new project, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Rich people everywhere should learn from him: Give away all (or most of) your money. But I seriously think Bill should leave Microsoft now. Why wait until July 2008? Now he’s just making a fool of himself. This is what he told [...]
Buy the Oscar movies
Apple has put up a great page with all the nominees of the 79th Oscar awards. With links to trailers in HD, soundtracks in iTunes etc. Now, mr. boss of huge movie company: Let me buy the movies! I have my credit card ready. I’m willing to let my computer download all night to get [...]
Mr. Winter, you’re fired
Meg guest posts at Kottke: Please consider this letter notice of your termination, effective immediately. Despite clear expectations and requirements — January temperatures not to exceed 40° F, consistent snow and blustery conditions, minimum of one blizzard with white-out per annum, &c. &c. — you have failed to date to meet expectations and deliver even [...]
The beauty of Christmas (and holidays)
I was looking through my contacts pictures of Flickr today, and saw this picture by Mary-Anne. The text under it reads… My sister is visiting from halfway across the country. I asked her how long she’s staying. She said “Till Sunday.” And I realized… that meant absolutely nothing to me. This is a good thing. [...]
Mobile phone (not cell phone)
24ways.org makes this good point: If you’re a U.S. resident, listen up: You must rid your vocabulary of the term “cell phone”. We’re one of the few economies on the planet to refer to a mobile phone accordingly. If you care to find yourself in any of the worthwhile mobile development circles, begin using terms [...]
Beatles on iTunes
Ok, so the big news on CNN today is that Beatles will be on iTunes soon. At the same time, BBC reports that the copyright in Britain will NOT be extended: But an independent review is to recommend the terms are not extended, a well-placed government source has said. Gee, let me think. So “Love [...]
Tag your photos with GPS positions
Sony today announced cameras that tag photos with GPS data. Excellent. Just as I predicted in april 2005: In a few years, most cameras and cameraphones could have small GPS units inside, that stores the exact location every picture is taken. It’s nice when the future (for once) comes faster than predicted. Now, let’s have [...]
The small things
Scoble is doing his exit interview: A asks: “What would you say is the biggest flaw at Microsoft?” Its inability to see small things when those things are still small. Hello every boss out there. Copy. Open new text document. Paste. Select all. Font size: 300 pts. Print. Put on wall in front of desk. [...]
xxl.no
[rant_mode on] Here’s a promise: I will not shop at XXL more. Period. XXL is a chain of huge shops with sports equipment. They sell shoes, sportswear, bikes, skis, tents, helmets, rackets, balls etc. They have a quite good website at XXL.no where you can buy sports equipment online. Almost every week all households around [...]
Most stupid ad ever made
If you have a blog, MySpace, LiveJournal, whatever… DO link to the most stupid ad ever made. And feel free to call the link “most stupid ad ever made”. Here are the slogans that ends the first of two 60-second “masterpieces” (you can see both of them on the page as both QT and WMV). [...]
BBC gets it
BBC will redesign their site, bbc.co.uk, to focus on three concepts: Share, find and play. The site should be bulit up around usergenerated content like blogs and videos, hoping to become the public service version of MySpace.com. BBC also plan to their entire programme catalogue online. Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology [...]
Thomas Hawk gets into “trouble” again…
He asks me if I *really* want him to call the police. Again, I answer nicely, yes. At this point he goes back inside. I go around to shoot the other side of the building and his boss comes out and he’s pissed. You’re not allowed to photograph this building he says. “Says who,” I [...]
More “Africa” in your computer
Eirik posted about a Wired article from 1995, that we talked about a loooooong time ago. Brian Eno says (about computers): “What’s pissing me off is that it uses so little of my body. You’re just sitting there, and it’s quite boring. You’ve got this stupid little mouse that requires one hand, and your eyes. [...]
Technorati messing things up
My blog is not indexed by Technorati at the moment, and they don’t answer support e-mails. That is NOT good. I really dislike companies that don’t answer when people contact them. After brilliantdays.com hasn’t been updated on Technorati for several weeks, I deleted it and tried to put it back in again. Nah. No, I [...]
Honey, I shrunk the software!
Gizmodo reports that Apple has shrunk the box of the new iLife package. “If there’s one thing that really stands out about Apple lately, it’s that its products keep getting smaller and smaller. Just as Apple shrank the iPod with the nano (and subsequently its packaging), the company’s latest consumer software offerings are also arriving [...]
