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Anna is 1 year old today!. I find it hard to believe a whole year has already passed by!

We are not going to celebrate Anna's birthday with «outsiders» until this Saturday, but Anna's grand parents could somehow not resist popping by this afternoon.

I have posted a video after the jump. (more…)

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Anna's regular family daycare is vacationing and thus closed this week. Anna was supposed to go into "guest" daycare at another daycare center, but the municipal daycare office called us Monday morning to let us know that the "care person" (!?) at this other daycare had called in sick. We were offered yet another daycare center to ship Anna off to, but for various reasons we declined that offer.

Instead I got to spend the day at home with Anna. It has been a while since my leave ended so it was great fun. In the morning I took Anna for a long walk in her stroller - we went to the animal folds of nearby Dalum Monastery, to take a look at their highland cattle and deer. As you (almost¹) can see in the pictures below, I tried to capture some of the deer using my LG KG320S.

1. If you look up the pictures on flickr, I have added comments to help locate the deer.
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Yesterday, the Danish armed forces launched their very own net-based television channel, www.forsvarskanalen.dk.

The press release reveals that forsvarskanalen.dk expects to air two daily broadcasts. The first show at 09:30 covers main events from the military world, while a later show at 13:30 will provide in depth and background stories. The channel also plans to release historic and thematic broadcasts as supplements to the daily newscasts.

Unfortunately, forsvarskanalen.dk does not work in Firefox.

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I recently came across this piece by Don Norman in which he explains why he thinks the command line is the *new* PC user interface. Norman believes search engines are turning into answer engines by way of command line "scripting" (think Google's "define:term" command). Also, newer operating systems incorporate powerful search because the desktop folder metaphor is breaking down, partly because of the number and size of files, e.g.:

"I have one half a Gigabyte of data in my mail files, 700 folders and 6000 files in my documents folder, and 4,500 photographs." Norman

While reading Norman's command line piece, I was reminded of two other and most enjoyable texts. There is really no reason for me to write about this - it is entirely on a rant or association. The Norman piece just reminded me of these other texts and I thought I would link to them.

The first text is very much in tune with Norman - Clay Shirky explains why schemes of categorization are intrinsically challenged and why a complex and ever-changing world benefits from links, tags and not least Google's approach to search.

The second piece is by Neal Stephenson - in "In the beginning was the command line" Stephenson unravels the shortcomings of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and how the command line lurks just beneath the mediated GUI experience, popping out when exceptions and thus metaphor breakdowns occur. In his text, Stephenson touches on subjects such as how the command line is similar to a MGB sports car; why Disney would totally own Microsoft, if they were to move into the OS business; and how Linux is like an Egyptian taxi.

Enjoy!

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I just picked up the external DVD-/CD-RW drive for my new laptop and damn, it's tiny - just look at the picture below!

The drive is a Plextor PX-608CU

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Our neighbor has been rearranging his garden all weekend using some sort of tractor. I asked him if he would mind remove the concrete fence posts in our front yard (there are similar fence posts in his garden and I saw how easily he removed those using the tractor). He did not mind at all and earlier today he pulled free all four of them. Alongside one of the fence posts, one end of a thorn cable came out of the ground and the cable unfortunately turned out to be our telephone cable (including the DSL broadband connection).

  

So, I am now posting this using my N80 IE as dialup modem via bluetooth.

I have contected TDC and I think a technician will be able to come and rescue us on Tuesday.

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