Fjodor’s thoughts

Positive action

By Fjodor on Nov. 19, 2008.

Comment spammers are a nuisance, and thus I just installed WP-HoneyPot. The author, naturally wishes to promote his plugin, and in this case, I’ll be happy to do that with this post!

Developmental dogmatism

By Fjodor on Nov. 19, 2008.

First of all, it should be said that I have only heard of Agile and Scrum, and thus doesn’t hold any certification in those methods. I think, however, that I have learned more about them by reading When Agile Projects Go Bad.

I heard the most I have heard about it while attending the JAOO conference, and I must say that it struck me as quite dogmatic for the sake of it own (and for the sake of raking in on certification fees), so it’s nice to hear one of the creators actually venting the same doubts. Not only as “wow, that’s what I thought, I must be great”, but more as “hey, anything so obvious, that still costs this much, must have been perverted somewhere along the lines”

A challenge!

By Fjodor on Sep. 9, 2008.

Let’s say that when they begin doing real experiments with the Large Hadron Collider (as opposed to just circulating some protons as they will begin doing tomorrow), the world actually does come to an end…

In that case, I am willing to buy a round of beer for every sensation- and conflict-worshipping pseudoscience journalist out there. If it doesn’t, however, I shall expect such an apologetical beer from every sorry one of them.

Request the address of my favourite bar in the comments section of this article guys!

…and that’s the end of that monstrosity.

By Fjodor on Jun. 1, 2008.

Enough with the telemagenta now. I still think it was a worthwhile point to make, but wow, it sure did look, erm, magenta

Also, instead of just changing back to the default theme, I’d like to try out the one you are seeing now. It’s called Mystefied, and it’s brought to you by the nice guys at http://www.xhtmlvalid.com. I think it looks nice, but if you disagree, please let me know

Edit: Incidentally, I like to provide Atom feeds as well as RSS, so I tweaked the theme a bit with a new image and link for that, which however left no space for the search form in it’s previous position. Thus, it has been moved to the sidebar, and it has been equipped with a submit-button. Most browsers do fine without them, but I’m unsure as to how it would work for a mobile browser without one…

I hope all this is fine with xhtmlvalid and Mr. Chaudhuri, both of whom I have notified.

Going telemagenta for a while

By Fjodor on Apr. 3, 2008.

As you may or may not be aware, http://www.engadget.com was recently asked to discontinue their use of the colour magenta, which is apparently trademarked by Deutsche Telekom AG in connections with its services and products.

Trying to extend this copyright to cover the services and products of Engadget.com seems like a long shot at best, and to show support, I have chosen to go with the html equivalent (#bf1773, found here) of the RAL4010 colour “Telemagenta”, which Engadget has identified as the one covered by Deutsche Telekom’s copyright in this previous post.

Oh, and in case anyone wants to place a phone call from my mobile, please mail me, and we’ll work out a small fee. How’s that for similar products and services?

AT&T propose to launch largest foot-shooting apparatus ever?

By Fjodor on Jan. 18, 2008.

Once again, I do little more than link to another blogger, but if by this, I can get just a few more to read that link than if I did nothing, then so much for the better.

In other words, this is why you should either sell your AT&T shares or, alternatively, contact all the fellow shareholders you can reach, and get them to side with you in demanding that the mastermind behind this proposition be tarred and feathered. I’d go for the money…

How to tell if a US judge is past his “best before” date

By Fjodor on Jan. 18, 2008.

This is just so mind-numbingly wrong that I am lost for words.

Luckily, however, CircleID pretty much sums it up…

Slashdot anniversary party

By Fjodor on Oct. 5, 2007.

As you may know, slashdot.org is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this month, suggesting that people throw parties all over. I have registered a party in Århus on Oct. 19th (that’s the current plan, anyways), so if you plan on being in Århus that night, please register at slashdot, and add yourself as an attendee at this URL.

Hope to see you,

Fjodor

EDIT (20071005:11:45:00GMT+1): There will be free t-shirts and thinkgeek.com gift certificates for people signing up no later than Oct. 13th (provided they don’t run out, which I doubt).

Now, where did that file go?

By Fjodor on Jul. 20, 2007.

Hal Licino did an interesting experiment, suggesting that Hotmail loses an indecently high number of mails containing attachments. Worth noting, he did the experiment with paid for accounts, not the free ones, even though the numbers would be outrageous even if that was the case.

Lost any mails in transfer lately? Using Hotmail? Go sue someone!

Efterfølger til Lunarstorm?

By Fjodor on Jun. 29, 2007.

Tænkte at smide et par tanker om en mulig efterfølger til lunarstorm…

Jeg forestiller mig at benytte Dolphin som er gratis og ser rigtigt smart ud, men så er der det med hosting.

Dolphin kræver cron og ssh-adgang, og dermed helst en slags linux. Mange hosts tilbyder linux, men ssh-adgang plejer at koste…

Jeg_er_handicappet på lunar snakker om mulighed for server og 10Mbit upload, hvilket lyder godt som en start, og så skal man vel have fundet ud af, om reklameindtægter ikke kunne give mulighed for dedikeret hosting på længere sigt for bedre upload-hastighed.

HolySeed snakkede vist om gerne at ville noget grafisk layout.

Flere idéer?

Edit: Glemte lige at foreslå http://solarbreeze.dk, da navnet lunarstorm nok er beskyttet, samt at foreslå, at man lige skriver sit lunar-nick. Jeg er kendt (or not) som Fëanor derinde…

Edit: Prøv evt at melde jer til på testsiden http://85.81.11.101/dolphin. Der er problemer med forumdelen og danske tegn, som jeg arbejder på at løse. Hvis det lykkes, er det nok smart at fortsætte videre diskussion der, da det jo er lavet til det. Om ikke andet, så kan I se lidt på, hvad dolphin er, og om det kan bruges.

Edit nok en gang: Jeg kan se, at der stadig er masser af folk, der læser denne post, så det er nok på sin plads at fortælle, at ovenstående link er taget ned, og samtidig gøre masser af reklame for Fez’ http://fate.dk, som nok er det sted, der har flest gamle lunarstormere. Vel mødt der