Atomic Playboy

After having read up on it, a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen (bite on that product name) looks more interesting than an iPod.

It’s slightly larger than an iPod and weighs about 30% more (though 268 grams is still nothing), and the interface doesn’t look especially interesting. What does sound compelling, though, is a 20 Gb hard drive for 200 SEK less than the cost of an iPod with 5 Gb. I’m wondering what the catch is…

It speaks Firewire and USB 2.0, so I’ll still need a Firewire card. If I buy the Zen from Datorbutiken, I’ll throw one in for about 300 SEK.

Total cost for Zen + Firewire card and shipping: 4140 SEK.

In case you’ve missed it, I’ve set up a separate blog for Audrey, the web-based RSS/RDF aggregator I’m working on. Or will start working on, rather.

Haven’t decided what license it will be released under yet (my first public project ever), but it will be open source.

Any further updates will be posted on the Audrey page.

• A Textile input plugin for MT. I’m tired of writing HTML when I write a post. I just want to focus on the writing and not have to think about HTML.
• “Template sets.” A function that allows you to store your current bunch of templates, and switch between different sets, though given MT’s current implementation it will take a rebuild to switch sets. In essence, I’m talking about themes. Good for when you’re poking around with your templates and just want to test stuff, and then revert to the old ones.
• The next version of MT. Required for the first point.

Most interesting. Today I stumbled across two old aquaintances: Henrik Torstensson and Tommy K Johansson, who wrote a comment on Mymarkup.net and Jogin.com, respectively.

Here’s the interesting part: they have both been my chief editors at one time. How big are the odds of me finding them both on the net on the same day?

Tommy used to run a Swedish site called “PC Online Magazine” (domain since stolen by squatters) with various news items about computer related stuff. I wrote a bunch of blurbs and a few articles.

I first got into contact with Henrik via Fidonet (long since dead, though the rigor mortis has yet to set in), where he asked me if I wanted to write for a small newsletter called Spelnytt (approx. “Game News”), which I did. And later, Henrik became the chief editor for Missil, a Swedish game magazine (which I reviewed games for) that began as an online magazine and eventually existed in paper form as well. Also dead and buried, as far as I know.

By tomorrow I’m expecting to stumble across two or three editors from Codex.

I’ll drop Tommy and Henrik a mail later in the week and say that I’m still alive.

1. I’ve become a decimeter taller during the night.
2. The sink in the bathroom is a decimeter lower than it used to be.
3. I’m imagining things.

I’m currently polling 35 feeds with Straw. I have a feeling that’s not very much compared to some other people… how many feeds do you follow?

(Five minutes later) Make that 36.

(Fifteen minutes later) 37.

I finally found a nice project I can work on: a web-based RSS aggregator, to be written in PHP.

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• A 100-crown bill with a someones lips on it and “Thanks!” written with, presumably, the same lipstick.
• Another 100-crown bill with a phone number and “I’m single!” written on it.
• Several 20-crown bills with Selma Lagerlöf adorned with, among other things, glasses and a Hitler mustasche.
• A 20-crown bill with a grocery list on the back.
• A torn, used and abused 50-crown bill, made more of sticky tape than paper.
• A 1000-crown bill where Gustav Vasa has a crosshair on his forehead.

I’ve got nothing to do here at work. Finished registering, so now I’ll just have to entertain myself as good as I can until the guards come with more bomb cases for me. (Why are they called “bomb cases,” you ask? Because they blow up if you open them without the proper key.)

So here I’m sitting, listening to Vinyl 107, reading about XML-RPC and thinking about how hard it could be to write a web-interface to ICQ in Perl using Net::ICQ.

I really feel like doing some programming. Haven’t done any serious coding for ages. And I want to learn new languages. Python and Ruby are prime candidates.

Friday is the last day at work. Then I’ll start to study soonish. I’ll check the possibilities to work here on weekends, though. It’s easy money.

Today is Elvis Presley’s 68th birthday.

There looks interesting. Not here, There. Though it looks like your average MMORPG, There is rather aiming at the chat/instant messaging market, but taking place in a large virtual world, where you can also buy stuff for virtual money that you earn or buy with real money.

Well, it could probably be fun for an hour or two… Personally, I’m sticking with ICQ.