1. 30 March 2006

    980 days ago

    tagged

    Thanks to the tru_tags plugin I now have pages by tag. Head over to my tag page to browse through by tag.

    Kjell Olsen980 days ago

  2. 06 February 2006

    About

    1032 days ago

    My about section sucks, so I’m cutting it back to nothing and putting what I had here for posterity’s sake.

    So, who are you?

    Kjell Olsen, in case you were wondering. Get in touch. Read on if you care to do so.

    I like computers, the internet, listening to music, taking pictures, doing things and going places. I love playing sports, especially soccer, skiing, and biking. I think everyone should have a sharp mind and fit body, along with complete control over both.

    I’m a bit of a computer nerd. When I was just a wee fifth grader, I got selected to do a project with the walker art center on interactive media, which is how I convinced my parents to get this crazy thing called the Internet. That was about 1997, on the linked page it says I was 11. It was fun, and I got to go see their new media lab, where there were some artist/hackers doing cool stuff that piqued my interests. I got the internet, then broadband a few years later. After borderline obsessive gaming for a few years, around ninth grade I walked away from medievia and never went back. For awhile I managed to have quite the social life, before getting bored and spending all too much time on the computer again, this time reading lots and playing around.

    I taught myself basic web design, played around with it for awhile, and eventually decided I’d move on to programming. Learning ruby was one of my new years resolutions for 2004, I chose it because it looked cool. I’d done a bit with php before that, but never liked it. Ruby proved to be a great choice, it’s really gaining popularity, probably the most talked about programming language around right now. I wish I was better at it. I managed to catch the ruby on rails train before it picked up too much steam, and have lately been enjoying that. If I could, I’d probably marry any of the 37signals.

    I’ve been an apple fanboy since my family upgraded the Commodore 64 to a performa sometime before I started kindergarten. I decided to start flamewars in fifth grade (although I didn’t know they weren’t called as such) along with a friend against anyone dumb enough to contend that PC’s were indeed better then Mac. I got a powerbook this summer, and it completely rocks. I quit a job mostly because I had to use a PC.

    my headshot

    And hey, for reading this far, I think you deserve a photo. I really hate having my picture taken, you can tell I was a little bit surprised at the camera going off in my face. This was my 18th birthday, 1/11/2005.

    I sincerely hope putting all this shit up on the internet doesn’t earn me any stalkers. But I’m really all too boring, and don’t worry about it too much. I also have this crazy philosophy that I shouldn’t do anything that I’d be ashamed of telling the world about, and having a website holds me to that a little bit.

    Why have a website?

    I got lucky and bought into textdrive, a web hosting company, as a member of the VC 200. I decided that $200 for the life of the company was a gamble I was willing to take. Textdrive got going and kicks ass. But that’s the real reason for this site – lots of storage and bandwidth and really nothing to do with it but play.

    Site Composition

    I made this site up by hand, with a little help from textpattern, a terrific little blog/cms written in php.

  3. 28 September 2005

    Thousand

    1163 days ago

    Posts.

  4. 16 August 2005

    Updated

    1206 days ago

    So I did the whole css reboot thing, signed up and all, before even looking at a calendar and remembering that november is a good long way off. I didn’t want to wait, and figured that as good a time as any to launch the new design I have was along with the announcement of (and my upgrade to) Textpattern stable 4.0.

  5. 09 May 2005

    1305 days ago

    Matt Webb's Interconnected (Outrageous, alarming, courageous, charming.)

    Sweet website, I’ve had in in my feed since I read Mind Hacks but what a cool design, I love the no images/sweet styling combination.

    via Kjell Olsen1305 days ago

  6. 11 March 2005

    1365 days ago

    Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) - The new Signal vs. Noise

    I’m no designer, I think these guys have me on that issue – but this is definitely how to keep your site fresh:

    We have a lot of ideas for the new SvN, and over the next few months you’ll be able to watch us think out loud. The site may be different tomorrow. And different again the next day. The design will be ever changing until we settle on what we’re really happy with. But instead of doing it all behind the scenes, we’ll be doing it in the open.

    Why keep all the changes you want to make to your site in a to do list somewhere when all they really take would be 5 minutes of fiddling with templates or css? Just do ‘em, make your site better, and get out of that ‘redesign’ state of mind.

    via Kjell Olsen1365 days ago

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