On technology and development

We own a Dell Latitude laptop. This week it suddenly stopped chargeing the battery and when we inserted the power supply there was an error message stating that there was something wrong with the power supply and that we needed to contact Dell support.
Bummer, I was sure this ment a trip back to the dealer [...]

I recently got accepted to the XBOX Live update preview program. This update is to be made available in Norway in November. The update contains Twitter and Facebook support as well as Zune video store. Last.fm and news are not available in Norway (atleast not in this beta).

Facebook I don’t use so this was not [...]

According to an article at Digi.no twitter is struggling to keep it’s users. According to the article Nielsen Online has made a study that shows that less that 40% of American users return to the service the next month.
Another article at itavisen.no states that 10% of the users are generating 90% of the tweets. [...]

I går falt dommen i den svenske tingretten. De fire medlemmene i The Pirate Bay ble dømt til å betale 30 millioner svenske kroner i erstatning samt ett år i fengsel. Selve utfallet var vel ikke særlig overraskende. Det hersker vel liten tvil om at nettstedet er laget for å distribuere “piratvare”.

I was playing with Silverlight and Expression Blend trying to create a small animated figure to use in a project. I had the image in PNG format, but I needed it in XAML so I could animate parts of it.
Surely Blend would have an import from PNG option? Or convert PNG to XAML? Nope! Ok, [...]

I en artikkel på Digi.no kan man lese at IBM har levert inn en patentsøknad på en «metode og prosess for å slå ned på defokuserende virksomhet under utvalgte avtalte møter». Oppfinnelsen beskrives som programvare for å hindre distraherende pc-relaterte aktiviteter på møter. Man kan vel anta at det er chat, twitter, facebook, blogging etc. [...]

I finally decided to move away from Blogger.com and export my blog to WordPress on my own domain. Installation of WordPress was impressingly easy, even on a Windows platform. This leaves much to be desired for my own web applications which sometimes can be quite hard to install and setup.
I’m probably going to experiment some [...]

I en artikkel i Teknisk ukeblad (web) kan man lese at utviklingsdirektør Lars Tveit i Bergen kommune advarer mot overdreven fokus på teknologi fremfor hva IT skal bidra til å løse.
Han mener at det er alt for sterk fokus på de tekniske løsningene fremfor oppgavene som teknologien skal løse. Fornyingsdepartementet ønsker sterk fokus på åpen [...]