Adam's Wonderful Blog

Cool animations for kids:Saari

Adam — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:40:51 +0000

This morning i saw an episode of Stor Fisk’s children’s animation “Saari”.

Real cool stuff! My son was completely mesmerized.

Have a look at Vimeo.

Voddler browser plugin

Adam — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:02:05 +0000

Install this Voddler search engine in your Mozilla Firefox to search movies quickly:

Voddler Search Engine Plugin

(Or make your own plugin)

Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

Adam — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:48:29 +0000

Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. The extension tells the browser to always use the encrypted https protocol if it is available.

This is a small but important step towards protecting your privacy. It will be effective against the EU’s Data Retention Directive that is drawing closer every day, and that will force all Internet service providers to save all the Internet traffic from your computer. (The extension will naturally not protect agains Google’s or Facebook’s snooping).

Install the HTTPS Everywhere extension now!

Wise words from a wise man

Adam — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:01:02 +0000

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Trains

Adam — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:27:11 +0000

My kid has become very fascinated in trains. Here are a few vids that both of us enjoy:

Necronomicon?

Adam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:44:34 +0000

Necronomicon by Adam Boman is licensed under a Creative Commons Erkännande-Ickekommersiell-Inga bearbetningar 2.5 Sverige License.

Found art: Robotron

Adam — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:15:46 +0000

Das Erzeugnisprogramm Dezentrale Datentechnik

Re: The Mad Hatter

Adam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:22:08 +0000

Trying to use www in WordPress MU

Adam — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:46:17 +0000

For some strange and irritating reason, the developers of WordPress MU have decided that users of said product are not allowed to access their own web server using a web address beginning with www.

Fortunaltely, the system is open source so this amazingly stupid setting can be deactivated (comment out a few lines in wpmu-settings.php). It’s just that you have to remeber this change when you update the software.

Read more if this is of any interest to you:

http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/forcing-mu-to-use-www/

(And I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use URLs without www, it’s just that it’s not up to the developers of WPMU…)

Thoughts on the iPad

Adam — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:02 +0000

Last week, Apple announced the long awaited iPad. I guess I was a bit disappointed that it turned out to be a big iPod instead of a small computer.

I had naïvely been hoping for the iPad to be an open platform, but just like on the iPod/iPhone all applications have to go through the app store and be approved by Apple.

Photo: Michal Zacharzewski