should i stay or should i go (2)

I think I'll go.
But first a list of tedious tasks to perform before I can move:

• export this set of posts
• format it to be able to upload it to WP (hopefully don't loose the posting dates)
• import into WP
• correct, edit images, ...

pffff ...

should i stay or should i go

No, this is not the terrible Clash song, but my doubts about moving over from Blogspot to
WordPress.





Pro's :

• nice layouts
• snappy reaction (vs. long loading and crappy rendering of Blogspot)
• not surrounded by spamblogs
• more user tools

Con's :

• no "foo-fu" as a userid, nor in the url, only letters and numbers
• moving over effort
• losing link (or silly forward pages)
• how reliable is the export/import ?

This requires some sleeping over ...

.not .notter. nottest

Bzzzt ... wrong!

Despite being laughed at by the whole world (squirting anyone?), you try making friends (well actually, buying friends) and they still screw you over.

island in the sun

With all the talk lately about Piratbyrån (founders of the Pirate Bay) wanting to purchase Sealand in order to find a safe haven for their servers, I would suggest them to just buy an island themselves. Just compare where you would rather be.

intercrastination

We all know procrastination i.e. when you start pushing your tasks forward and end up doing little or nothing.

Over at Lifehacker a reader popped the question about a similar phenomena: procrastinating your spare time in between to tasks or parts of a task.
(Like taking a small sanitary break and ending up reading the entire newspaper or more familiar: just checking your mail and finishing your evening still behind the screen reading all wonders of the internets.)

As this is a procrastination alike issue but then in between tasks the proposed term is "inter-crastination".

For those curious about the relation to the image : "Thief Of Time" should suffice.

and phone has site

Now we have it official on apple's site :

• iPhone
• Apple TV

Be warned, site is slow. I guess everybody is watching this now.

we have phone

Finally the ghost is out of the bottle : Apple just announced it's long awaited phone (referred to as iPhone) on the San Fransisco 2007 MacWorld.

Basically its a widescreen iPod with full calendar syncing and a new touchscreen alike interface. Syncs with iTunes, 3.5 inch screen ,...

More over at MacRumorsLive ...

Ohh... and also AppleTV (former iTV)

about foo-fu

Sunday being my day of rest and thinking things through, I considered it a good moment to give a bit more explanation about "foo-fu" and what it means for me.

Let's look at the two parts of foo-fu: foo and fu.

On itself foo is generally known as a metasyntactic variable, especially in programming examples like "if foo=1 then ..." .
This is even specified in its own RFC (RFC 3092)!

Foo is also a type of chinese dog.
Well more correctly, "foo" carries the connotation "lucky" in Standard chinese. Therefor you have the dogs guarding a doorway called foo-dog as they're intended to bring luck or to conserve luck for those behind this door.

Although sometimes considered an alternative method of writing of the word "foo", in itself "fu" has an other meaning which also happens to be the one I intended for this blog which is "expertise".
This is especially through if you look at martial arts where the pupil will obtain a certain level of "fu" from his master or through his/her learnings.
Although a bit "Karate Kid"-esque, it relates to real life, in a sense that, through trial and error, you grow skills and learn to master the art of living your life.

"Fu" is also an extention regularly added to wordt to describe the mastering of something. Mostly in a joking way. A very popular version of this is animefu, an anime enthousiasts site.

the future of 2007

Like every year around this period, Robert Cringely posts his predictions on IT for the coming year.

Apart from the fact the a lot of these predictions are spot on - which is rare in the IT prediction world, some analysts even manage to make no correct prediction at all for one quarter, let alone a year- he is the kind of guy who's not afraid to look back and evaluate his last years predictions.

With an average prediction rate of around 75% I'd say he does a great job.

Here's one that, IHMO could also happen here in Europe :

10) The year the net crashed (in the USA). Video overwhelms the net and we all learn that the broadband ISPs have been selling us something they can't really deliver.

(via /.)

stupidoverload

While copying the link of the famous "Look at me I'm an attention whore" I noticed the main site this image resides on.
And off course as there is a collector of wisdom in the form of Wikipedia, there should be a counterpart or this would not be the internets.

Ladies and gentlemen ...
I present you ...
The Encyclopedia Of Stupid !
(which is exactly what it's name says, just look at the picture with this post which was the first one I got to see on this site ... need I say more ?)


Enjoy a good reading!

translucent

Sometimes it's fun just to just find a word which you feel sounds great and the look at the results in google image search (SafeSearch turned off).

I tried it with " translucent" and the resulting puctures vary from a crappy card with a translucent heart in it, to a stunning photo of greenish amber pills .

The most funny result were these translucent water sandals from www.artlex.com.


Oh, and these are the search results as they appeared to me.

married to the sea

Priceless !
Take an old print, preferable eighteenth on nineteenth century tech related, and add a new tagline to it.
Married To The Sea.

(via Sh3Ll4C's blog)

no good deed

Following the outrage these last days when some bloggers announced microsoft gave them a shiny new laptop (apparently the new Acer Ferrari is the only machine apt to run vista at a decent speed) pre-packed with vista, it seems it's now time for a big 180.

After Laughing Squid announced they would auction of the laptop and send the money over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Marshall Kirkpatrick, one of those lucky being on the receiving end of one of these "demo-models", mentioned he got a follow-up message from microsoft telling him - contrary to the original letter joining the laptop gift - to either give it away or send it back.

After all ... "I strongly recommend you disclose that we sent you this machine for review, and I hope you give your honest opinions."


(via slashdot)

ui gone wrong

You know that feeling you get when you watch a movie and things seem out of place?
The guys over at useit definitely had this when watching computers being manipulated in quite a lot of movies.
They made a top ten of the most unlikely computer user interface manifestations.
A nice follow up to the earlier remarks by drivle.

While CSS' turns 10, Smashing Magazine runs a list of 50 great examples of what you can accomplish with CSS in site design.

In the list also fellow country(wo)men Veerle Pieters

(via Eskimokaka)

css turns 10

This year W3C celebrates the tenth anniversary of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
They have an entire portion of their site dedicated to it, including a hall of fame.

Off course the inevitable css Zen Garden is also referenced as one of the classic examples of what you can do with CSS.

Skype TV

The long announced IPTV /VoD /webTV /whateveryouwantocallit project of the Skype founders - the venice project - has announced it's full beta stage.

You can now apply for beta-tester status, probalby among a crowd as this is currently headlining on about any tech site out there.

If succesfull this may well be a shot across the bow of all those in pursuit of IPTV happiness.