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25 February 2006
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:14:00 GMT Homesteading the Noospherevia Kjell Olsen2279 days agoIndeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed
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24 January 2006
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:11:00 GMT Richard Stallman | Freedom FighterKjell Olsen2311 days agoProfile on FSF crusader, RMS.
Says Perens, “He’s entirely consistent and uncompromising, and I think the world needs someone like that.”
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16 November 2005
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:52:42 GMT my facebookKjell Olsen2381 days agoEveryone in college uses facebook. I’m slowly starting to like it.
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22 October 2005
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:35:47 GMTiPhoto needs to be able to reduce photo size in place
I can’t tell you how much I want iPhoto to be able to scale a set of my pictures so that they are all under 5MB so I can upload them to flickr. I imported, titled, and tagged them, and I don’t want to have to export them and cut their dimensions in half to get them under flickr’s limit. Plus, how hard can it be to just tell iPhoto to make this photo under 5MB? There’s a lot of guesswork in just whittling away pixels.
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09 August 2005
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:24:00 GMT So you want to be a consultant...?via Kjell Olsen2480 days agoGreat tips on how to relate well to your customers. Mostly – make them feel great.
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08 July 2005
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:24:44 GMT Gimp-Savvy.com - Learn the GIMP - Tutorials and Resourcesvia Kjell Olsen2511 days agoInstead of pirating photoshop on the new laptop, I decided to go with the gimp, and it kicks ass. Here’s a nice tutorial.
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26 June 2005
Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:40:55 GMT Call Me Fishmeal.: Student Talk from WWDC 2005.via Kjell Olsen2523 days agoNice talk on writing (mac) software for a living, from former OmniGroup employee and current CEO of Delicious Monster. I want audio.
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13 March 2005
Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:16:00 GMT cityofsound: Shortsighted Shuffle?via Kjell Olsen2628 days agoAs products get smarter in terms of being aware of their behaviour – in some senses, becoming reflexive – and as their raison d’être gets increasingly close to personal, social functionality – in some senses, becoming involved in presentation of self and the behaviour of the users – there is huge potential to build devices which become increasingly, personally meaningful, which can adapt to personal context and preference like never before.
I know I love having everything I play on my iPod put into audioscrobbler – apparently you can’t do this with a shuffle. But this sort of technology is fascinating – with sites like audioscrobbler and del.icio.us and flickr being able to show you where you fit amidst a group of people with similar interests.
It strikes me that the basic condition for these products is to be essentially self-aware – in this specific case, that the iPod Shuffle should be able to keep a track of what tracks the user has played on it, and communicate that information such that that metadata can then be transferred and combined with the overall iTunes Music Library. This ecosystem of music experience software and hardware can therefore keep a track of what tracks have been played (track, album, artist etc), when, on what device, and by whom. Upon this basic usage data, we can build a panoply of useful, interesting services. Look no further than Audioscrobbler for some inspiration.
I really like how community sites are tying people together in their interests – a site like 43things showing you people who have similar goals to you, who live in your city, and eventually both together. When the application fades away and the data that is collected by the application is brought together and made sense of, I think that applications will be able to become entirely more useful.
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14 February 2005
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:10:21 GMT How I Feed My Cats with Linux | Linux Journalvia Kjell Olsen2655 days agoNeat electronics/software hacking – and to accomplish such a worthy goal. I want to make a software driven computer interfaced model rocket launcher before this summer for a class I’m teaching some kids, and want to figure out what it takes.
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