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Thursday, 23. June 2005, 20:31:03
About blog, disclaimer
I work for Opera, but the opinions here are my own, not Opera's. Although from time to time we agree. This blog is written with the (fairly easy-going) terms of
Opera's employee blogging policy in mind, of course...
Monday, 1. September 2008, 00:16:19
jóm, swimming, people
I went swimming today, for the first time in a couple of years...
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Saturday, 30. August 2008, 08:53:22
soap box rant, travel, books, life
I am back... I spent ten days Marañando (just like a vaacation except for 40 hours spent to attend a meeting in the middle), and ten days in South Africa on a University tour.
(Which means I have been to more than one country in Africa. At last. See my updated
visited countries map ... there is a bit of space to fill in still).
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Thursday, 7. August 2008, 04:06:18
mobile, travel, blogging, people
I was at
Bar Camp Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan over the weekend. It was a great event, and now I am trying to catch up on email, sleep (I don't sleep well in a plane, and Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow is a pretty bad place to spend a day), other work, and life in general. But a few pointers and thank-yous...
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Saturday, 2. August 2008, 12:51:28
langues, neat technology, travel, SVG
We released a new
experimental build recently. So I got to write the release notes for the first time
It does some advanced standards stuff, and showcases some stuff we think is pretty useful and hope will become standardised.
And now I am in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I didn't manage to learn enough Russian to speak it on this trip (I did manage about 2/3 of what I hoped to do, which is about three times as much as I expected). But I did demonstrate the new toys in my talk (to go online as soon as I clean up the bits that link to wierd parts of my filesystem), and they all ran nicely
Also, I have never been to Kyrgyzstan. First new country this year... with the second coming up in a couple of weeks.
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Friday, 11. July 2008, 10:27:04
travel, food
I spend a lot of my time travelling, and people often say "that must be nice", or ask "don't you get sick of it?" The answer is a bit of both. To illustrate...
(I wrote the post before I travelled to Luxembourg. There's a whole post coming about that trip...)
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Friday, 11. July 2008, 01:06:44
waffle, travel, people
I lived in the US for a year (1999), and I visit it several times each year since, often spending quite a while here. But yesterday was the first time I had spent the fourth day of July inside the United States...
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Sunday, 29. June 2008, 15:59:20
standards, neat technology, opera, environment
...
I got one of the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptops. I have been playing around with it a bit, but it might suddenly become my work machine...
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Friday, 27. June 2008, 10:22:21
langues, books, travel, service
...
I'm in Madrid and it's in the high 30's (about 100º in the old money - or for Americans and Englishmen), so I am glad I have a fan. I am trying to teach myself Russian, because I am going to Kyrgyzstan for ...
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Monday, 23. June 2008, 21:11:23
books, history
It has been a while since I wrote, and a while since I wrote about books. I recently read a few that I enjoyed...
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Thursday, 22. May 2008, 11:02:50
neat technology, w3c, travel, opera
A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in Ireland, and what did I do? Staying in Parnell Square, I managed to see very little of the town. I wandered a bit around the trendy bit in the centre I went to a lot of meetings, I sat and worked a lot.
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Thursday, 22. May 2008, 10:47:49
travel
I got to Nice recently. It wasn't the easiest way to get there, nor the most expected...
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Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 16:21:32
langues, w3c, travel, china
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I spent a few days in Beijing recently. Interesting place...
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Monday, 7. April 2008, 07:59:17
identity, travel, service
I changed one of the most important documents I have...
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Thursday, 3. April 2008, 15:20:57
accessibility, standards, winter, travel
Well, around the top half of the world, followed by a break over easter...
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Friday, 28. March 2008, 15:10:26
standards, neat technology, opera, SVG
...
When I was a kid, this meant sweets that were usually lemon flavoured. Then I discovered that before I was a kid this could also mean taking a particular drug. But now I am a geek most of the time, so it means dealing with very complicated tests.
This week's tempest in geekland was about the
Acid3 test - we were first to announce we had got to 98/98, and just afterward
first to score 100/100 on the test (with Webkit in each case hot on our heels). Now you can get a
special preview testing build (for Windows or Linux) that gets the right rendering and 100/100 on the test.
But what does that really mean...?
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Monday, 17. March 2008, 20:32:29
people, web, travel
SxSW (South by SouthWest) is a huge festival of music, film, interactive stuff, in Austion Texas. There are those who have suggested it is just an excuse to spend a week drinking at someone else's expense - and for some people that is true - but there are intersting things there too.
This year I went for a repeat of a panel I was on last year - so here are some impressions.
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Friday, 14. March 2008, 18:07:03
accessibility, music, lang:es
Rafael Romero was a great champion of accessibility, doing practical stuff that made things better. Like smiling, and bringing up the mood of those around him. And calling it like he saw it, not like he would like things to be.
The first time I saw a real movie on the Web with captions, he had done it (and translated it into spanish for good measure). He was one of the people who taught me to speak Spanish, and to love Spain.
He turned up one day at a conference with his guitar and sang us a
song he had written, to a tune of his, that I recorded on my phone. He later recorded it in a studio. For me, it is the song of accessibility. It may not be the best song he ever wrote, but as a memorial it's not a bad one.
Te echaré de menos, Rafa. Ahora tengo lagrimas en lugar de las palabras.
Tuesday, 26. February 2008, 19:37:54
standards, soap box rant, neat technology
I am not a lawyer, I don't hold a patent on anything although I might one day, and I am not a big fan of the patent system. Here are some thoughts about why, and how we might improve the world a little...
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Sunday, 24. February 2008, 14:33:06
lang:es, food
Hice un pan de frutas ayer. De vez en cuando hago pan pero este era lo mejor de que me acuerdo.
Mas o menos es como se llama - un pan hecho con frutas. La "receta" (no estoy muy de recetas) salió asi:
Harina integral, (1/4 kilo ?)
Un poquito de sal.
algunas (7?) cucharitas de azucar y miel
levadura
agua y leche 50%/50%
La mitad de una manzana, un puñado de orejones de alboricoque y uno de pasas de uva - todos cortado en trozos pequenos (tamaño un garbanzo pequeño o por alli)
Ops! Olvidé - agregué un puñado de almendras cortado bastante fino.
Lo dejé a levantar (se dice asi?) 8 horas (porque salí, no de proposito) en una sola vez, y puse en el horno medio hasta parecia hecho. Pues lo comí 15 horas mas tarde, tal cual y tostado con mantequilla.
y MMMMMMMMMMM
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