42, 46, 98?

Oh the irony that is my tagline.

Initially i figured that writing would make more sense in the winter, since less time is spent outside then than in the summer months of lazy long sunny evenings. There by leaving more time to read articles, magazines and non fic books.

And by extension; more time to write and reflect, triggering more writing and musings.

Well, the last two years have shown a slight change in that idea. It seems almost like I'm mentally in a coma during the winter - I read, I get the job done and I play some games, watch some tv. But adding more value than 140 characters including a URL has not been a top priority.

Come summer and sun, the energy soars, the ideas floursih, the tv is all but banished (due to reruns of reruns from mid/early May), the games forgotten or unplayable with the sun going until late. And so the blogging picks up.

Hence it has been early summer that has triggered a resurgence of posts, and come fall this 10th year of blogging on and off I'll try to keep it going at a more measured pace.

Aiming for two post each week, possibly scheduled four at a time, seems like doing about five in a sitting works pretty well, as long as the drafts are there with links, quotes or snippets.

With 46 in the bank from May and June, another half year of twice weekly works out to around 98 for the year overall. a stretch but doable. First two full years clocked in at 107 and 98, so putting that out there as a ballpark seems right.


Update @15.7; despite a full stop the first part of the month, there are now ten posts published or scheduled 



- ...and the sun shines in the distance as I write this, who knows how it will be when I polish it up, or when it hits the blog proper...

Urgency is a state of mind

Of course you need to click and get all of it from Seth Godin: Urgent, please read asap

That's what gets done, of course. The urgent. [...] The problem, of course, is that the queue of urgent never ends, it merely changes its volume as it gets longer.

Stay the path

Back? Yes, you need to finish up here, then on to the next post or the next feed. Then that other app. And then newspaper. Quickly back to the inbox, skim a few more messages.

Fire off a reply, forward another message and push the third into the todo folder. Not the urgent folder, or the current project. Just the todo. For those days that never come.

The daily uploads to YouTube are probably more minutes of video than you will watch. Same for the snaps on insta. Not to mention the number of newspapers and tv channels around the world.

There is no way you can see, read, understand or watch it all. FIlters and priority is a fact of life. No one is going to celebrate if you give it the extra 5%. They will just assume you have yet another 5% and continue to push things your way.

Me? 

I turned off my work email on the iPad since that is my main device for consuming news and secondary for books. Set up auto away mode on the phone, and if I'm off for more than a weekend I'll turn off push notifications on the phone as well. Made 8 subfolders under to do, all for storing ideas and links that might be useful, depending on which project actually has priority at any given time.


How are you swimming in the currents, playing with the flow and surfing the expectations?
#urgenttodo

-...and the sun will shine, and the rain will fall, and we'll be here, through it all ...

This is MY place - for now

@avinash sharing Baekdal quoting Avinash,  with the subtlest prompt:

[If you read only one thing in Jan] *Rented or Owned: Where To Focus Your Brand Content*  

[src]

A good piece with some nice charts for illustrating how you can think about what content goes where, and why you should have a clear understanding of it. Still a must read for anyone doing more than "just" blogging for their own benefit.

As I've stated before lately, this blog goes back to pyralabs era, and the current google focus and understading leaves a bit to be desired. So I keep on pulling down a back-up, and playing around with WP options (occupational hazard at the moment as well) - and with a Kickstarter donation to Ghost (one of 5000 - yay!) I'll have to give that a spin in the fall.

27,000 code additions to the core repository in the last month (Ghost update)

Still it feels open enough at blogger, to let things roll along, at least the web interface works well enough for simple writing - and that should be the focus above all. Content, content, content. Then a sprinkling of links, and a small drop of design.

So the traction gets a bit harder, the volume a bit higher, and the swap is postponed once more. Until the fall at least, to see how far this "streak" of publishing can be extended. To see how "post Reader" Google behaves. 

I love to hate my blogger

Well this was strange, and crappy.

What is that? An official blogger app for iOS. Updated May 6th 2013. Yay for list and status. Yay for edit. Nay for only bold/italic choices for formatting. Nay for no visible way of linking or editing existing links.

Considering that the web version doesn't work at all with chrome for iPad, I guess it is a small step up -  but compared to the Wordpress app it is scary bad. Proof that blogger isn't something google sees much value in, and that they have a hard time getting something decent together for tablets in general and iOS in particular.

Which like Reader seems strange to me, considering that they want to organize the worlds information, having it first hand would seem like a good choice? But I guess they crawl a lot better than they do UX, and probably more efficient all around.


But onto the quote and link for the post proper - another archived draft, this one from right after New Years, and related to dieting:

Controlling what you eat is an interesting challenge, but not nearly as important as controlling how you think.

[src] via Seth's Blog

Reading bit by bit "this will make you smarter", a collection of short essays as answers, each about two full screens in the kindle app.

Quotes would go here.... On something more suited that a google product... Stay tuned (and yay for crappy html as well - total fail) 

I am my mind;

If you lead an organization, or have the sort of job that demands that you think about the world, these tools are like magic hammers. They will help you, now and through life, to see the world better, and to see your own biases more accurately.

[location 583]

Bias is one of the points brought forth, which ties into my other non-fic reading at the moment; Dan Ariely and a bundle of all three books. Considered jumping onto his Coursera offering, but the time just wasn't there, but finally reading all three books back to back is a good treat non the less.

Bias is the thumb that experience puts on the scale [ibid 1227]

Biases are there, we are wired into thinking some ways - but it is in part predictable, so we can, should, work with it. Not letting it go unnoticed in the autopilot lane, but taking a few minutes to reflect on why and how we assumed. Doesn't have to be a complete written expose, but checking yourself makes a lot of sense.

There is no absolute truth, since quantum states as we understand them contain probabilities all over the place. But also at a higher level, it is often more about storytelling than actual impact or 'fact'. A "causation web" rather than a pure and simple trigger for some thing, and then we try to influence various aspects of the web - based on what "makes sense" in our story, our reference frame.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think the universe began after the domestication of the dog? [ibid, 860]

Because it makes it easier overall? Religion puts things into place, makes for an overall narrative and guidelines that make a lot of sense.

Be nice, you will be rewarded, there is a Truth out there.

Does the timeline matter in the day to day life? Does it change how you would look at gas prices and environment? Taking something for granted or realizing that it is a (rather) finite resource built up over thousands of years, not likely to be around in the time of our grandkids?

But but but...

Think happy thoughts, it is a simple saying but a profound impact. How does it relate to bias? Is it the same thing, that we shape our world by our understanding and stories of it?

No, you can't heal yourself solely with (Jedi) mind tricks, but in a lot of situations your view impacts the process and the result in terms if how it makes you feel.

Energized or worn down.

Impossible or stretch.

 Same thing or not?

...and the sun washed out any hope of getting further for now - just as i realized that i've passed 500 published posts. it all adds up. given time, same as this post, third time the charm and out it goes on schedule in the morning...

Maybe? Not an option

Do or do not. ..............


Did you fill out the rest of the quote?
Did it just jump into your head?

Why is it so memorable? Because it juxtaposes the normal way of saying it. Sure, but also because the point goes deeper. It makes sense on a base level.

Posted a long time ago about saying hell yeah based off a podcast by CC. Now he just had a post on saying NO. Which iterates some of the same points. Don't do anything just to do it. Don't do it halfway or partially. If you can't commit - don't bother. And if the other party can't? Same.


And by that little round a bout we get to the inspiration for the detours, namely

CREATIVITY IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

the title font just looks so right, guess we'll have to keep it...! The post is not new. I mailed it to myself end of May in 2011. No comments, no notes, just the link. No idea anymore where I picked it up unfortunately. And no idea what I might have planned on writing.

But that is the great thing about being in this wonderful month of June - flow all the way. 

Flow is a wonderful, and sometimes necessary, state. It is great when coding (rather than debugging or just tweaking). And when writing it is the fuel for the fire. Writing begets writing. One post sparks off ideas for more.

So why is that post from last year worth your time? Because of the attitude - birthright puts a spin on the rest of the post. This isn't just something you should pick up for fun or profit. It is something you are entitled to. Something you need to have, to use, to develop. Nurture it.

....chair-dancing to "lets go crazy" - vintage Prince & The Revolution...

Substitution - it really subs to be you

Seth, in an email this time - Domino;

A New York City publisher probably needs $2000 a page to acquire, edit, typeset, print and distribute a book (making up a number from thin air). A self-published ebook author needs $1 a page.
That’s not a cost-efficiency. That’s a totally different industry. But the if the viewer/reader doesn’t treat the two products as fundamentally different, if reading or watching one is a replacement for the other, then a crisis is right around the corner.

Dis-intermediation is one thing. But the democratization of production? Making everything digital, and then making the tools free? That is the real "killer".

And no, it is not the "same" tools as used by the pros, but for a lot of things, good enough is more than enough. It doesn't need to have 80 footnotes for each chapter if that is hard to make, it can just have a free companion book of notes, sources and ideas for further reading.


Take the Flinch, by Julien Smith. Yes, literally take it. It is free. Written, proofed, edited and with a cover. Uploaded to Amazon, hosted and distributed by them as well. All for free. Because the ideas are what matters. Getting more people exposed to it means more people hcaniging their life and our world.

Sure it might also give a boost to the rest of the Domino back catalog, some more traction for the blog, and related sales for Amazon of Pressfield amongst others. But the main point is that putting out a book for free can be close to free.

And it goes for a lot of other media content as well. The variety of choice enabled by global instant distribution, combined with digital back catalogs? Stunning.

Case in point; audio content and yours truly.

 (Caution; shameless self-links ahead - back in time)


Once upon a time audio was music. And music was cd's (well a few records and a bunch of tapes, but it took off with the shiny disc).

As I grew older I picked up back catalog for artists I liked, one or five golden oldies, and new releases every now and then. Then I had a rather modest 150. That is one a week for three years.

Then I got online radio streaming - and so I could listen any time and "any where"(well, at uni anyway). Whole new world, less planned music, more new and unknown stuff.

Then I got the Zen Micro. And started making digital copies of those 150 cd's. And enjoying them all over again in new ways.

Then I got podcasts - and suddenly a whole new world of audio content on the go poured in. First a lot of "talk". The stories as Escapepod led to Podcastle and Pseudopod. And now music at work - Tiesto, Gareth Emery, Sebastien B keeps me in the zone when coding or doing number crunching.

So from simply music, today there are four audio content sets competing for my time;

• 150+ albums in iTunes 
• DAB and streaming Pinnell radio
• Music podcasts at work
• Assorted podcasts on the go

Most of them at little or no cost to me beyond already sunk cost such as the radio, the internet connection and the iPhone.

And then there is Spotify and Wimp...


- ...and the sun is back - again - mixed day today, but bright summer nights keeps the sun on past 21:00 ...

From the third rock outwards

Wired had a piece on the Mars simulation mission - where they got to interact with some of the participants before and during the 'trip' to Mars.

I tried to find my original post on the announcement and call for participants, but only found this piece from 2007 on finding new planets way out there. And the reason was that I only posted about it in Norwegian. Back on November 1st 2009 actually. Here is a quick blurb, translated and edited;

Have you planned your vacation next year and the year after? If you really need a break ESA might be looking for you, as they are planning a full simulation of a round trip to Mars.

And quotes from the full ESA Call for Candidates, deadline on November 5th 2009;

"The crew will follow a programme designed to simulate a 250-day journey to Mars, a 30-day surface exploration phase and 240 days travelling back to Earth. The isolation facility at IBMP in Moscow, Russia"
"... aged 20–50, motivated, in good health and no taller than 185 cm… Selection will be based on education, professional experience, medical fitness and social habits."

The concept is incredible in many ways. 

First off, the fact that we are actively planning and working on ways to explore Mars is beyond cool. And by we I refer to humanity in its broadest sense. Taking the long term view, we need to be able to get off Earth at some point. Either due to our own actions or inactions - or because the Sun makes things to hot for comfort. 

Secondly, actually locking someone up for more than 500 days? For science? That needs a pretty "big hairy goal" to justify. And the billions an actual trip wold probably cost, combined with the end goals do certainly fit that category.

But how to you go from thinking and acting like you are locked in a box, to acting like you are actually the first humans bound for, and landing on, Mars? 

Sure, Big Brother and the rest of reality TV has shown that a lot of people are completely able to forget where they are. But then you have the actual prize in the end to vye for. And on a real trip, that prize would be truly spectacular. As for sitting in a box? Not going to get you all that much attention when you get out. 

Still, I would have signed up for the real thing. Strings be damned - to boldly go and so forth. 

My couch or your?

Wired [19.03] - finally getting rid of the stack, both the digital one in terms of drafts from (oh yeah) last year, and the paper one of old issues of Wired mag, saved for a post or two.


Main topic was a mention of couchsurfing - and the founder Casey Fenton.
The concept sounds really appealing, get around the world by hooking up with other (presumably) geeky people for a few days at a time. Even so, I think I'd personally feel more comfortable using something like aribnb - at least as a main solution, it just feels more right to spend a bit of money on the transaction.

I do love having friends over, and a spare room for those that either live out of town, or have to leave the car for a few hours. And I'd probably lend it to a friend of a friend as well, without any reservations. But beyond that? Not so sure. How about you? Where do you draw the line "in the sand"? Who and how long is OK for a house guest? Should they help with chores, do some shopping, or are they guest first and foremost?


ad for; Eee Slate Ep121 - windows7 !!??!! seriously? and a stylus to boot? Nice that it has usb, hdmi and then some, but since it is in all but name a laptop sans the keyboard I'm not really impressed. Sort of makes sense as a second device for the C-level and consultant lifestyle - if it supports MS Office fully, that is.

But I'll give Asus one thing, they keep pushing assorted form factors into the market, looking to either give the consumers a lot of choice, or just hoping to find one that sticks. But seriously - the Eee Pad range? Right ho'.



I'll be scheduling these old post up for the week ahead at the time of writing, so June of 2012 will be the most posted month for quite some time. Maybe a revival of sorts as we enter the final ten months of the first ten years (!!!).  Today it is 3-6-12, and so a good magic number for doubling up on content and ideas. in the early evening sun.

- ...and the sun shines bright enough to open the windows wide...

Shall I compare thee...

Shakespeare Empowers Me to Speak:

My response is always, “Once you’ve had a donkey head on stage reciting Shakespeare, you can do anything.”

- a great quote from the post by CC, reminds me of way way way back when memorizing one of the sonnets, mostly for recital in English class, but also partly as a conversation piece and memory exercise.

Today is The Bard’s birthday and I’m writing this post as part of the global celebration.

Strange how many things happen on a given day, and which ones we choose to mark, remember or let move us to action. 'tis truly a mystery how man walks the stage.

the book as poster

The power of visualization:

Data is not useful until it becomes information, and that's because data is hard for human beings to digest.

Brilliant idea by Godin, and a whole new set of options for pushing information in a visual way, taking it beyond a small infographic that is skimmed in twenty seconds.

- and lo and behold, somehow the g reader to blogger works again, or perhaps just for this link with this version chrome. Fingers crossed that the actual posting will work as well!
-...and the sun don't shine...

The big 450?

It took a bit of time, and quite a few stops and restarts - but this should be post number 450 here on the 3-3-3 blog. So still some room for growth, and perhaps a more planned celebration/recap on closing in on 500 posts or ten years (depending on what comes first/last...) Stay subscribed - RSS is the ONLY meaningful way to get the erratic posts.

The main topic of the day isn't all meta - but almost;

Information (..) could not only get that, but then she’d be given recipes specific to the location where she’s looking at the wine: chowder pairings in Boston and chili recommendations in Austin.

Quote from mr Brogan - don't get hung up on tech - sure it needs location awareness, some sort of id input (code, name, qr,..) and a database, but for the user it is all about getting more from their interaction with the wine, on her own terms.

Which is a good reminder - it is really easy to fall in love with shiny objects (be they iPads or CSS regions prototypes), especially when you spend most of every working hour either learning, developing, testing or debugging new stuff.

so how to keep the open mindedness needed to reboot while keeping things grounded? How to be playful and exploratory, yet at the same time focus on the everyday nuisances the users don't even really know they have?

Manhattan state of mind

One of the few comics I have on close to pre-order at Amazon is DMZ by Brian Wood, following the trials and tribulations of journalistic-hopeful Matthew Roth inside the hot-zone of Manhattan (the DMZ - civil war more or less rages in and across the US)

So reading the interviews over at Live from the DMZ is both great and a little sad, since it is in a way counting down to the end of the series (issue 72 in december). Volume ten of the trades just came out (and is making it way in my direction really soon), and if you haven't read any the first trade used is less than a latte at $3.35 right now in the affiliate box ;D

Interesting concept as well - a DVD style commentary to supplement each trade, giving room for more in depth than the normal page or two of intro in the printed edition.


The other mainstay of my comic diet, Freakangels, is also winding down - just a few more 'issues' to go. Being a webcomic has made the interaction and commentary directly available, with the Whitechapel Forum "to discuss this week's installment." creating a community along the way.


Side note of the post; the site is based on tumblr - a really good alternative for small and quick set-ups. Just like here on blogger you can adjust the template and add inn additionally custom html and css, but the post-types, dashboard, app and tablet (iPad) use takes things to another level.

Also the API looks like a real 'killer' for reusing tumblr content in a larger editorial setting (such as a full scale CMS)... just saying (and playing for now)

Show them the money?

How should you treat your best customers?:

"But what if you define 'best customer' as the person who brings you new customers through frequent referrals, and who sticks with you through thick and thin? That customer, I think, is worth far more than what she might pay you in any one transaction. In fact, if you think of that customer as your best marketer instead, it might change everything."

Great post by Seth Godin, simply putting another moniker on the segment or group turns the perception around. And thereby also the scope for what kind of activities to consider, the communication and then some.

-...and the sun is somewhere for 2011, but not to sure where...

Paint me a picture, sing me a song

Amongst other things the evening has been given partially over to reading up on some blogs, and a great post from Mitch at Six Pixels sparked of some ideas of my own;


When The Definitions Are Wrong

One of the biggest disruptions you may have noticed since the pervasiveness of Social Media is our definition of things

So what is a blog?

For me it is mostly a personal journal, that is available to me at anytime and any place. Yes it is public, but mostly only technically so as there are few links and prompts for readers.
It is a place to reflect, gather up links, insights and ideas. To make things clearer by putting them into writing, and to challenge myself in terms of concepts and ideas that need a bit more thought.

For a lot of people it is a way of life - the teen blogs and fashion blogs spring to mind. It is how they interact with their peers, how they define and shape themselves. It is about communication certainly, but also about building an image (or a brand?), shaping the story.

Above all it is everything it has ever been - meaning archives by date, tag or topic - a repository of collected posts, comments, links and media (images, video etc)

So what is a website?

Simply a subset of content, structured and presented at a certain time to a certain user. On a blog everything is (in principle) there for everybody, whilst a website might adapt to the user (dynamic content, personalized) and vary over time with out storing the older versions.


Just those two words give so much meaning and so many expectations when we navigate the web. Will the page be there tomorrow? Will it look the same, and will it give us the same information?

I took some time put to watch a video on MTV - in and of itself a rare occurrence these days, as the music videos have almost all moved to the sub-channels that are premium paid - namely Runaway by Kayne West (YouTube).
No doubt a video that stretches the definition and scope of music video, more like a mini movie or the visual equivalent of a concept album. Yet it was still clearly a music video. The visuals tied into and built around the music. The story was there but served mostly to lift the different segments (verses?) into their own setting.

Would it have been better at five minutes?

Maybe, but sometimes to change and evolve things we need to push it beyond the natural limits, cross into a different but related realm in order to get a new frame of reference. Disruption and discomfort breeds innovation and change. You don't change by looking closer at yourself, but by looking at other things, other fields, other industries, other people or cultures.


Or like a short but thoughtful post put it (talking about people first, then companies):

Brand-driven businesses are of necessity mired in the competitive trap of trying to be somebody. To be the biggest, loudest, bestest somebody on the block. Innovation-driven businesses are trying to do something: they win by making better, doing better and being better.

(unfinished business)

So if you are trying to BE a blog - how is that working out? And just what is a blog - for YOU?

- ...and the sun is so far away, and sorely missed - ten below for weeks now...

News draft

Reflections of a Newsosaur: A tale of two very different journalism start-ups:

Crovitz "late 1990s, one-year WSJ.com sub. cost $49, the incremental cost to serve a new subscriber was $8, By 2006, the price was $99 while the cost had dropped to 85 cents."

Publish2 - Karp, the venture’s CEO:
"Google and others have taken over distribution. And newspapers are at the tail end, which is the least profitable.”
“Collecting links should be a work product, Newsrooms can use and publish those links instead of throwing away that research.”

combine those two views with
"The Next Twitter or Facebook is the Open Web" a blog post from micropersuasion

"Marketers need to really embrace the fact that it's peers and their data, rather than brand, that will become the primary way we make decisions."

Reccomendations first from your friends, then from their network, then from everybody?
circles of trust, weight and degree of match (people like you thought this was a 4.1 - ref. netflix challenge - see older post)

what does that amount to for news?
journalists we trust?
editors as stars?
the return of the personal anchor?
blogs and gateways - and using a cross section to get our overall picture?

???


??

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Getting Money from Readers Who Won't Pay for Online News

"I'm sorry, but on the Web -- with 15 years of free news already in the bag -- the reality is that it's not worth much coming from most non-niche daily newspapers. So learn to sell something else to support the journalism."

Membership - because it is worth it... think crm, think overall relationship and insight, added value for members and for 'sponsors' (aka advertisers giving something more as member benefits)

Then, to finish off - head over to brogan for some thoughts on 'The Next Media Company' - nothing less... way general, way first draft (at least it was back then), but good list to get the mind moving in new directions and challenge the assumptions we currently hold.

Endning the day on a meta note

Well, 2010 is set to shortly surpass 2009 in terms of posting and production... in general the first five months of 2009 had at least on post per month. Then junior came along, and during the summer I attended Bloggcamp - got a free WP suitable hosting, set that up along with a free WP install, a Tumblr and a bit more time on Twitter. So I shared content, and I wrote a bit - but a lot of it in Norwegain, some of it "just" retweeted rather than commented and expanded on, and none of it here.


Now the assorted Norwegian blogs and experiments have all lapsed and been migrated into one common, free and hosted Wordpress.com blog (really good things happening with the 3.0 version, and merging MU back into the main branch) - and the Tumblr is set a temp storage for tweets and ideas in general. Sort of an extended draft box.


That means that after basically a full year hiatus (one comic and one book initiated post not withstanding), the time has come to get 3-3-3 back up to speed.

Seven years and close to four months have passed since the initial posting [pre post titles and page per post even], one of 12 during that first month, but the total for the year petered out at 37.

Then came the "golden" years of '04 and '05 both with 100+ posts - followed by two years of 50+, before '08 just inched past 40 after a big finish (15 posts in December, lots of ideas needed to drain and sort through)

First goal for the year is at least one post per month the rest of the way - and a total above 25. 

Considering the stack of Wired mags, and the possible goldmine in the "shared" feed in Google Reader (197 and counting), it should be pretty feasible.


And the big dual shout for actually kick starting this goes to mr Seth Godin (laying the groundwork via Linchpin, my first iBooks book) and Steven Pressfield with the War of Art (just got 20 pages in, so I guess it works - hard copy, doodling and lining my way ;D)

Mo'money?

Yes, I've jumped on the glorious bandwagon - a double whammy of corporate inducements joined the ride as I jumped onto a new template based design for the blog (and finally got around to getting it wider, nice touch with slider for both total and sidebar widths)

First off I added AdSense to get some first hand experience from tweaking it and adjusting the settings - not that the current or historical traffic numbers give me too much to work with...

The second thing that has been on the todo list for a while, was to try out the Amazon Affiliate integration that was being touted. As a mild Amazon Addict myself, it seems like a good fit - and also a good excuse to actually write up a few short posts on some of the books I've flown through after getting the Kindle Global Edition.

I now have the Kindle software on my Touch (used mainly for listening to podcasts and podiobooks), my personal laptop (less and less in use - see next item), the iPad (great for watching web video, playing games, twitter, mail and general news overview) and on my iPhone.

But still I read on the actual Kindle device and love it - for a lot of the same points raised by JES in his post 
"Kindle – my perfect vacation companion" - this afternoon I was outside in the sun while junior was splashing in his tiny pool and running around the terrace. So the 'book' was in the side pocket of my cargo shorts, and I could get a couple of pages at a time when he was occupied. Lightweight, stays "on" and great in bright light? Perfect summer reading.

Sing me a sing - with Duet

Trying o a new browser for the iPad, namely Duet,
Which should allow me to use the blogger interface along with the other window for grabbing and inserting links... Or thats the plan anyways.
And it seems to work pretty well, the link above is to an article in the New Yorker, on dystopian childrens books, supposedly a new trend or at least a bit more prominent than previously.
With this app it might actually be possible to get some writing done here again, with a small boy in the house pulling out the laptop just isn't as feasible, but a few minutes on the iPad is doable.
-...and the sun shines brightly still, 'tis summertime in Norway for sure...

Fictional dimension

Dimensions in Mathematics - a phantom, a chimera

Readers who will have snagged a copy of Stieg Larsson's newest thriller The Girl Who Played with Fire ... HUP blogpost de-bunking the book - a shame since it sounded like a great read. As is the Millenium Trilogy by the afore mentioned mr Larsson (Stieg not Steig as the have it), crime with a twisted backstory and a bit of tech thrown in more or less likely.


As for the more meta dimension on this blog - I've been blogging a bit in Norwegian on two different WP blogs (consolidated them last week) the last six months, as well as playing around with Tumblr and WP in general to get a feel for the systems. Also Twitter has been eating up a fair share of time - skimming tweets, reading articles and re-tweeting rather than reflecting a bit more in-depth. But today being 2-2-10 (or binary 2 ;D) it was time to get some thoughts flowing again for the new month, year and decade

...and the sun shone somewhere behind the clouds today - as the snow kept on falling...

Soundtrack; Gareth Emery podcast, epi 87 - bit of backlog there as well

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What do you want to do
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Yes it took a while to find the extra letters hidden on a hold n drag
tab with the keyboard here. But now it seems to work like a charm.

Writing this with easy writer, quite nice for the task at hand. And
responsive as well. So it is more a matter of mind over fingers than
system lag.

Let the musing begin!
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- touching you