Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001. On a new linode server!
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com
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Ubuntu Linux First Impressions

    13:27 on August 31, 2006 ,

I recently managed to successfully install Ubuntu Linux. Here’s a couple of impressions: Wow, the CD boots directly into the operating system! A Live CD! Cool, a link to an installer on the desktop. Feels much easier than I thought it’d be. Hmm. It needs a partition… and another one for swap memory. Do I [...]

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Atomic Swing Live at Malmöfestivalen 2006 Mini-Review

    16:20 on August 29, 2006 , , ,

Last friday, the one and only band – reunited after a 10 year hiatus – Atomic Swing played live at Malmöfestivalen in Sweden. Malmöfestivalen is an annual event where bands from Sweden (and elsewhere in the world) come to play for free. Let me say right away that this was an excellent concert. No, it [...]

Superman Returns Mini-Review

    23:31 on August 24, 2006 ,

Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.

There are several ways to watch Superman Returns. One way is dwell on the sheer triumph with which the story of a man in blue tights has been updated to 2006; everything from the great music to the tacky intro sequence to final wink to the camera. Another way is to simply enjoy a $200 [...]

Partitioning for Ubuntu

    18:22 on August 17, 2006 , , ,

A good friend of mine unknowingly convinced me to try out Ubuntu Linux. Armed with version 6.06 I tried the bootable install disc. Impressively, this disc booted directly into the OS, a live version running directly off the CD. Setup would be as simple as clicking the “install” shortcut on the desktop. Yet it’s never [...]

Wiki-Tiki-Tavi

    10:32 on August 14, 2006 , ,

Wikipedia is not the end-all, be-all wiki. Wikia specializes in hosting wikis (plural) and hosts two such star related ones; Memory Alpha: Welcome to Memory Alpha, a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek. Wookiepedia: Wookieepedia is a lavish and stunning homage to [...]

Contributing to Open Source

    21:15 on August 13, 2006 , ,

My good friend Khaled writes for all of the Shuttle team in his latest post, Contributing to Open Source. Shuttle was a redesign of the WordPress administration section. 6 team-members worked hard to make sure it was the best it could be. Unfortunately, it seems, it might never reach WordPress. See also a Flickr photoset [...]

SpamPaint!

    14:55 , , ,

I’m proud to have supplied Sebastian Schmieg with fresh spam using his modified WordPress anti-spam plugin. The results are in, and they’re pretty. While millions of “bloggers” are annoyed SpamPaint tries to win something from this problem. SpamPaint converts comment spam into interesting and refreshing graphics and thus turns the table: looking forward to spam. [...]

CCleaner Cruft Cleaner

    16:40 on August 11, 2006 , ,

CCleaner, a.k.a. CrapCleaner for Windows is a tiny application which does just that, cleans crap from your system. That means “fixing issues in the registry” , removing stray temp files and useless installers, clean cache and so on. Upon first run it cleaned 500 mb off my system, a system I thought fairly optimized. If [...]

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