Meeting Mlle A.

Last Saturday I met the elusive and mysterious Mlle A. at a coffee place* in Hannover. Once or twice during the conversation there was a cross-reference to something I or Mlle. A. had written or linked to. And for me that’s one of the powerful side-effects of blogging: there’s a regular reader’s familiarity built over… Continue reading Meeting Mlle A.

Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?

At work we use cvs and subversion for version control, light years better than Visual SourceSafe. I’m trying to extend my active command line knowledge of cvs and svn… Remember I’m a low and humble marketer / content developer / writer. Regular commands I use: cvs update cvs commit -m “message” filename cvs tag -F… Continue reading Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?

Helen Levitt at Sprengel Museum

“Die Ästhetik ist bereits in der Wirklichkeit vorhanden.” Saw the Helen Levitt show at the Sprengel Museum today. I liked it very much and can recommend it. More on Helen Levitt NPR interview

The easy way

Stumbled across this blog post: It’s really easy to insist that people read the friggin manual. It’s really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it or for not caring enough to pay attention. Sometimes (often) that might even be a valid complaint. But it’s not helpful.

Leopard, Gimp, and GimpShop

After upgrading to Leopard, I could no longer launch Gimp or GimpShop. There’s a quick fix for Gimp, for help see this screencast. But GimpShop is a different matter it seems.

Upgrade News

Upgraded my MacBook to Leopard overnight. Looks like everything went well.

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Evaluating Fitness Centers

A friend and I went for a Probetraining (free trial session) at one of the fitness centers close to work. This is just a quick note to say that we’ve launched the evaluation process.

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Blogs vs. Email

useful comparison (for future reference): Blogs vs. Email

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Lift 08: Fragments of Captured Attention

Here are some of my Lift 08 notes, pêle-mêle: This year I tried to provide a running commentary on Twitter. Unfortunately the wifi was patchy and a number of valuable text snippets were lost… 😉 I got one Tweet response – all the way from Malawi – that appreciated my effort. I tuned in to… Continue reading Lift 08: Fragments of Captured Attention

For my reading list

Nassim Taleb, “The Black Swan” via http://www.liftconference.com/black-swan

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Yet Another Community System

At the Lift 08 fondue I sat next to the developer of an open-source community tool called YACS: YACS, le CMS Open Source 2.0 – Yet Another Community System It uses PHP, MySQL and Apache. And from what I understood it is being used in a large international organization to build up a knowledge management… Continue reading Yet Another Community System

Lift08 videos

The first videos are available at: http://www.nouvo.ch/liftvideo

Lift08

I attended these workshops: Forgetful interfaces Ubiquitous computing I’m uploading a couple of snaps in my Flickr stream. A fave: