When I was dabbling in QBasic and Visual Basic a decade ago, I never thought about using version control. Later, I learnt about CVS and SVN and thought it was a neat way of enabling lot’s of people to collaborate online. I used it so I could access cutting edge open source software, but never [...]

This is something I have really been waiting for! PhotoDropper is a plugin for WordPress that enables you to seemlessly search for CC licensed pictures in Flickr and other databases, and with a click insert the picture into your blog, complete with the photo credit. I have always found it a pain to have to [...]

I’ve always loved dictionaries, and especially the mouse-over ones - I did a brief screencast of Wenlin, and hacked up my own little Indonesian dictionary when learning Indonesian. Currently I am learning Hindi, so of course I had to go out and investigate the tools available. Turns out that there’s not that much. Shabdkosh is [...]

I am playing around with my old scripts for repacking Wikipedia for offline access, and ran it on the Norwegian database to see if they were still working. I realized that they had changed the way they saved filenames on the disk, which broke my program. I thought I’d post the solution (which took me [...]

I was reading a bit about different innovative text editors on Mac today. Of course, I have known about TextMate for a long time, and although it mainly changes the way programmers do work, some of the plugins are also useful for for example television script writers. Now I came across a bunch of different [...]

So since I finally have a laptop that is actually mobile, I can now try out the wonderful Google Gears, which allows me to use Google Reader in an offline mode. This is great, I can catch up with my blogs on the bus. However, there are still some problems. Pictures are not cached, that [...]

So I updated my tools, first adressing a silly bug in the redir script
(Update 23.11.2007: Fixed the code so that article names with spaces work again)
and also by changing the GET method in my bigger script (which I’ve had lying around for ever) to HEAD, so that it wouldn’t cause to much impact on Wikipedia, [...]

Danah Boyd, a researcher of emerging social networks, and teens’ behavior, wrote about the “social externalities” of innovation. The concept of externalities, negative or positive, is becoming accepted partly due to the environmental movement. The idea is that whenever a voluntary trade occurs, it is supposed to benefit both parts - I have a chair, [...]

I’m not a great programmer, but sometimes I come up with little neat tools that might be useful to others. I am going to try to post more of them on this blog, and I also made a page called Tools and hacks, where I will be collecting them.
Here is the first one:
Wikipedia language redirect
Example: [...]

My friend Peder noted that this phenomenon was preceded by a film by Woody Allen, which took this to the extremes. I will copy and paste from the Wikipedia article:
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen. He also wrote and appeared in this 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from [...]