patterns of activity (excerpts)

Purple haze

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:44:42 GMT

As time, trends and technology have degraded the design of eVirtus!net, it has ~~recently become~~ been painfully clear for some time that a major redesign of the site was unavoidable. I'm also using this opportunity to implement some other changes to the site's setup, so expect some weirdness while I realign the bits 'n pieces.

Exit music (for a film)

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:59:58 GMT

Stumbled across this little gem earlier today on Twitter; A new music video from Radiohead for "All I Need", made in collaboration with MTV to raise awareness of the EXIT campaign. The video, definitively worth 3:48 of your time, makes one of the best and most intense songs from "In Rainbows" even more powerful.

The Rubberbandman

Thu, 01 May 2008 01:50:02 GMT

Imagine you're a couple of days away from premiering a much avaited and much talked about movie. Imagine that a large online community is throwing a screening, inviting 600 fans, bloggers and influencers. What would you do? If you're Marvel; send a cease and desist letter demanding the event cancelled...

Pixelated passage

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:42:39 GMT

At first you might think it's a stripped down Zelda clone, but you quickly find there's fewer actions to perform, blockier graphics, simpler sounds and less story. Then it hits you right in the face and you realize that Passage is so much more than the 100*16 pixels you see on screen.

Let's have a war

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:19:09 GMT

From the department for news I didn't think we'd receive this year, comes word from Redmond that not only is Internet Explorer still in development - it passes the Acid2 test! Great news that totally took me by surprise. Kudos and congratulations to developers on the IE team! This is a huge first step towards turning IE into a standards compliant browser.

This is not news!

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:18:18 GMT

For one or another reason I opened NRKs "foreign news" section today (I usually don't as I use a feed reader). Their top story; "Nå «is» det over". I could have understood it if it was Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch or if Scoble had pushed it to the top of TechMeme. But not as the top foreign news story on what's supposed to be the most credible and serious news source here in Norway. WTF?

json-feed flickr badge

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:04:03 GMT

Although flickr provides some great services, their "badge" leaves a lot to be desired. Basically I just want something that validates, provides some basic configuration options and is fully styleable through CSS. Not finding a suitable replacement (coupled with the fact that I needed to find solutions to some of IE's js quirks anyway), I decided this would be a good opportunity to expand on my js abilities.