http://www.oxygenite.org/blog Polluting the web since 2007 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, I finally got around to finishing the redesign that I started several months ago. This time I actually brought both this blog and my photoblog along for the ride. This means that for the first time ever it's possible to see that the sites are related to each other. Perhaps ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=44 Cold turkey I stopped drinking coffee last Monday. Cold turkey. I'm on the fourth day now and my head has almost stopped hurting. But here's the interesting part: I feel much more alert I've always had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. Often having to be dragged out, kicking and ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=39 I couldn't help it when I saw Mary Roach's TED Talk titled "10 things you didn't know about orgasm". You really should watch it. It was great :) Click here if you don't see the video Update 26.5.2009: fixed the size of the embedded video http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=38 A Valentine’s Day Card to the Media Companies: "In thinking of me as an untrustworthy thief, you’re missing some great opportunities. There is a holy trinity of things I want desperately from you, because I can’t get them anywhere else: availability, quality, and metadata. By availability I mean give me ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=37 Yup, I just set up a photo blog. There's only one photo at the moment, but I'm going to try to update it more often than this blog :) I set it up using wordpress and the yet another photoblog plugin. Now if I could only find out how to post using MarsEdit ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=36 Blogging is hard. So I just started trying out this twitter thing. And I'm only about a million years late to the party, but better late than sorry - or something... :) I'm at http://twitter.com/zch I can promise the occasional bad joke if you start following me ;) http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=35 A short note on a small epiphany I just had: The lack of Firewire on the new MacBook Pros effectively close the security hole, where passwords can be retrieved through the firewire ports. Could this be one of the reasons for dumping Firewire, or is it just one of the few nice ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=34 Toolkitr is now deployed on a server provided by my employer, so everyone can have a shot at it and try it out! Toolkitr Syntax documentation A short example: panel ("Goggles") { horizontal { text_field "Search" button ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=33 Isn't it interesting that finnish YLE points out that a tragic event that has been reported in Finnish media has been picked up by media around the world - namely CNN and BBC? (as heard on the radio, so no link...) "Finally the big boys see us" And the very same event ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=32 oxGalry is a custom online photo gallery that I developed simply because 1. I was keen on trying Ramaze 2. All gallery software that Google could find contains millions of features I don't need. oxGalry is simple. It only shows photos arranged in albums as they are on disk (i.e. folders == albums). ... http://www.oxygenite.org/blog/?p=31