Wow. So awesome! I want one at home!
Archive for February, 2010
Liquid Galaxy
Saturday, February 13th, 2010The buzz that wasn’t
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Maybe you’ve heard about Google Buzz? It was introduced the other day.
Google’s aim with Buzz is to solve the problem with too much information and too low signal to noise ratio in the current social platforms like facebook and twitter. I was quite late to join twitter and so far I’m only following 76 other people but already I feel that it’s too much information coming in. Breakfast here, coffee there, someone going in a train somewhere, someone else at an airport. So much information it takes forever to keep track of it all.
However, I can’t ignore it because in between all the non-interesting things there are useful stuff like links, news updates, technology hints, opinions about something from someone I value. Small pieces of valuable information that I can use, that might be valuable at work, or just entertaining. It is these gems hidden in the information flow that makes it worth using facebook and twitter. It’s these gems that Google using their massive experience in search and finding relevant answers to queries try to make more accessible through their Google Buzz service.
Imagine a world where you just have to read the real interesting pieces of information and the boring social trivia stuff is automatically hidden away.
What a bliss!
Unfortunately Google is only rolling out Buzz to GMail users. The rest of us, like me, who have figured out that Google Apps is the perfect way to handle email for your personal domain are left out in the cold. According to this thread in the Google Help forum Buzz will be available to Google Apps users “…some time soon, and we appreciate your patience in the meantime.”
Which makes all us Google Apps users feel like second class citizens.
The Solution
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Daniel Woods Loves the Solution from La Sportiva on Vimeo.
I don’t climb nearly as hard as Daniel Woods but I still love the Solution shoe. It’s just too bad they are so bloody expensive here in Sweden.
Street View on Google Maps goes Whistler Mountain
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010“In time for the Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we’re thrilled to be bringing this view to the world through Street View on Google Maps. How were we able to gather imagery at 7,000 feet (2,000 meters)? The Street View team’s constant experimenting yielded a snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on Whistler Blackcomb Mountains.”
Official Google Blog: Vancouver forecast: light winds, unlimited visibility
Awesome!
Monday afternoon champagne
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Monday afternoons we usually drink Champagne at work. No big deal.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
Sunday, February 7th, 2010- Great Monday morning! Found water on the bathroom floor. Probably the roof that can't handle all the snow. Sweet! #
- But I've got my morning coffee now so all is well! #
- Benefit of working from home. I have a better coffee machine at home so I can make amazingly good espresso all day long! #
- Microlax dags för kissen. Stackarn! #
- Sov länge. Vaknade trött. Ingen bra början på helgen. #
- Was supposed to be at the gym at 10. It's now almost 13 and haven't left the house. #fail #
- Tired in sofa after day spent skating and shoveling snow from the roof. Now californication marathon! #
Stanford’s robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver
Saturday, February 6th, 2010“A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming it into a vehicle that drives itself. The car will attempt Pikes Peak without a driver at race speeds, something that’s never been done.”
Stanford’s robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver
Coolness! Knight Rider!
HotCocoa!
Thursday, February 4th, 2010The latest MacRuby with HotCocoa is amazing! Finally a way to write OS X applications without having to learn Objective-C.
require 'rubygems'
require 'hotcocoa'
include HotCocoa
application do |app|
win = window :size => [100,50]
b = button :title => 'Hello'
b.on_action { puts 'World!' }
win << b
end
Progress
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010They redid the routes at the local climbing wall end of last week, and when we were there on Sunday I focused on lead onsighting lots of blue labeled routes (roughly F6a to F6b+) which naturally went quite fine. The positive thing was that I didn’t feel anything in my finger!
Yesterday we were back at the wall and I continued lead onsighting some blue routes but when I finally figured I had to try my finger on something harder. So I tried to “toprope-onsight” a red labeled route (F6c-F7a+) and I fell on the next to last move due to exhaustion and stupidity. But never mind that, the important thing is that my finger felt fine!
Hopefully I can now gradually go back to climbing harder routes again.
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