Following my first blog post, two interesting things have happened. Lars Ulrich responds, and its almost as painful to read, as the production of the record is. Just listen to this: Of course, I've heard that there are a few people complaining. But I've been listening to it the last couple of days in my car, and it sounds fuckin' smokin'. 2) BBC has picked up on the problem, and is putting it into the spotlight. They talk to a mastering engineer and several people who have bought the album. BBC part 1 ...

Some details for the next Nokia device was announced. It looks like it will have a 3x faster processor, be opengl es enabled (and will use clutter for it’s interface), will include tracker and have 3G. So it looks like Nokia wants to compete more directly with the Iphone. In the talks it was also revealed that 2/3 of the tablet owners are developers. That is a higher number than I had expected, so either the tablets are not selling as well as one could have hoped or there is just a large number of developers owning them :) ...

Earlier this month Metallica released their new album, Death Magnatic, to great reviews and so far it has sold more than 500.000 in the United States alone. So what is wrong with this rose red story? Sadly the new album has become the one of the latest victims of the loudness war. At first, people just thought it was the quality of bad 128kbit rips that made it sound so bad, but as the cd started arriving in the hands of people, the sharp reality that this was indeed the final mix hit people smack in the face. And is not pretty a pretty sight (death magnetic at the bottom if you were in doubt :)): ...

The other day I was reading about this new project from mozilla labs called ubiquity. A command driven interface for the browser. The ability to mark something and just type: map this, define this, or imdb this is really powerful and saves a lot of mouse wanking. What is really interesting from a technical point of view is the fact that new commands are written in javascript. They have a guide for writing these and a rocking realtime editor (requires ubiquity). ...

I’ve just booked tickets and will be attending the Maemo Summit. I’ll be there for mostly for the Desktop Search Hackfest representing Nemo.

Had some nice crasher fixes in svn for a while so I thought I would do a release of Nemo. The release is very minor, but the changes should be rather welcome for everyone :)

I was looking at my del.icio.us account the other day and noticed that I have more tags than I have bookmarks there. Not a whole lot more, but still. 197 against 185. Not really what I was expecting. Many of the tags are only used on a single bookmark, so one can’t really easily navigate using the tags, but instead it makes the search that much more functional when it matches a tag. Anyone else got some numbers to compare?

flickr uses openstreetmap, how very cool!

We just got a lot of pictures from a currently running exhibition of YayArt at Rambøll here in Aalborg.

This is perhaps one of the most interesting talks I have heard in a long time. The talk is about a modern implementation of lisp for the jvm which is designed for concurrency.