vevmedia.net/blog » Personal http://vevmedia.net/blog If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:01:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Climate on sale http://vevmedia.net/blog/climate-on-sale/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/climate-on-sale/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:56 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1451 Hackers hijacked the European climate exchange (a carbon trading website) and replaced it with a truth site detailing flaws in the system. It also contained this video:

The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.

To see the entire site see here: http://nassibou.atspace.org/

VIA

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/climate-on-sale/feed/ 1 Air Google… http://vevmedia.net/blog/air-google/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/air-google/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:18:45 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1447 is it a bird? is it a plain? No, it is a plane flying on Google! Well not quite, just felt like doing that one. So it is not quite there Virgin Style. But Google acquired ITA software. A site that feeds many traveling sites with live fares, as well. Google promises that they will not hamper any of ITA’s existing partners, such as Bing Travel.

Interesting at any rate that Google is pushing into yet another market, and specifically taking over a collaborator of their competition. Also, think of it like this. The travel industry is literally THE consumer industry where online buying has completely overtaken any other purchasing behavior. Being the biggest player on the web, you want to have a serious hand in one of it’s most sold produce.

more @ BBC

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/air-google/feed/ 0 Java 4-ever… http://vevmedia.net/blog/java-4-ever/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/java-4-ever/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:19:03 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1445

…and introducing Lenny Linux.

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/java-4-ever/feed/ 0 we copy, thus we are… http://vevmedia.net/blog/we-copy-thus-we-are/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/we-copy-thus-we-are/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:35:35 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1419

Where would humanity be today if there would have been someone saying “fire belongs tome, I saw it first! Put yours out right now!”
Where would a baby be if the parent would say, do not imitate my speech, it is mine.

This movie (well part 1 and 2 really) has been around for a while. I watched it again today, and it is time to share it again. I love how the introduction starts out how the printing press was being controlled for so many years by “gatekeepers”, that eventually where defeated.

THIS IS THE FUTURE AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BANK BALANCE.

Steal this film

Part 1

Part 2

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/we-copy-thus-we-are/feed/ 1 My favorite Chromium Extensions… http://vevmedia.net/blog/my-favorite-chromium-extensions/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/my-favorite-chromium-extensions/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:09:31 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1398 Chromium Project…so far anyways. Having been running Chromium for a while now, I have really grown quite fond of this browser and the speed at which the web comes so readily available to me.  One thing that they definitely got right is the library of extensions, which is rapidly catching up with the Add-On library that Firefox (that still leads by a mile though). And no matter how many of you out there want to sell me the speed of Opera (on a complete that side-note), ‘Opera just don’t got it’. That whole floating widget thing just never caught on with me. But maybe I am just a creature of habbit. And my habit has always been against Opera. Enough about them, as I am not here to write about them. My focus are the Extensions I use. Before I do though, a word of appreciation when it comes to Chromium as such. Setting aside speed and slick integration into my Ubuntu Karmic Koala OS. There is one thing that Chrome actually took from IE, I am almost surprised to say this, but the fact that the Extensions in no way are adding any toolbars to the most important part of the browser really goes to show that even MicroS with IE got at least one right. Nor are there any Menus that are impeding visually, oh let’s not forget about the ‘New Incognito Window’ function either, allowing you to surf the web cache-less. Very awesome during a website launch. On to my favorite extensions in no particular order of appreciation…

Chrome SEO by Sean Bannister

“The Google Chrome SEO Extension. Make your SEO tasks easier with Chrome SEO Tools, includes ‘all’ the stats and data you need.” These are their own words. I like using it to write down initial numbers, then showing off new ones at a later stage. In general a great tool to evaluate SEO efficiency (Or the lack there off when in a pitch).

Webpage Screenshot by Amina

I remember way back when I was at a web shop that shall remain unnamed (but not unlinked off course) there was a brilliant colleague of mine (again unnamed and this time unlinked) that had this awesome tool that would allow him to send any URL into it, and on the other end, lo and behold, a jpeg (maybe a PDF I don’t quite remember)  would come out, and not only of what was visible in the crummy browser window, no the entire page. Head to footer. Well this tool does the same, great when doing a round of QA any type of HTML and CSS.

Pendule by Christian Frey

Is there any developer can really make their way around without the Web Developer tool bar extending so many Firefox Browsers out there? I would think not. And the amount of times that I have tried convincing a colleague about the speed advantage of Chromium, but being told that the web developer tool bar is missing. Well the Pendule extension holds most of the tools I appreciated so greatly from the Web Developer Toolbar.

Firebug Lite by andrei.pervychine

Continuing down the same line, many developers can not do without Firebug either. Though I have never really needed it, as I am a CharlesProxy kind of guy. But just to stuff you on that one two, there is a Firebug for Chromium as well. As a matter of fact there are two separate developers working on an adaptation (maybe time to join forces guys)?

My Shortcuts by Thomas Hunsaker

Though I am still not convinced of the whole cloud hype (now that even Balmer swears to it, something fishy must be going on) I have been using GoogleDocs for a while now, just for it’s portability. Being able to move docs from one workplace to the other without any machine, being able to collaborate on docs etc really speaks for itself. This extensions just ads customizable dropdown of shortcuts to my favorite apps in the google cloud.

Chromed Bird by cezarsa

By far my favorite Twitter client for Chromium. Simple slick, and it does the job, enough said about that. Few words for the extension I have probably been the most faithful to.

goo.gl URL Shortener by giakomino

Why did I choose this URL shortner over the others you ask, well because it was there. And it, like the extension above, does the job. The Options I just started exploring a few days ago, so I will leave it at that.

On a closing note there is one essential extension that I am still looking for. I am looking for a proper delicious implementation. There are, obviously heaps and loads of those that claim they can please me. But so far no good. Yahoo’s own Firefox extension is still the one to measure by, but for Chromium there just isn’t one yet. If you know of any, let me know, also any other extensions you think I should use, please feel free to share…

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/my-favorite-chromium-extensions/feed/ 1 Pretty shitty city http://vevmedia.net/blog/pretty-shitty-city/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/pretty-shitty-city/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:08:08 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1386 I just stumbled across this online documentary. It seems that a lot of things can be said about Swansea. The rule-britannia documentary is well worth checking out. I am still wrestling with the idea if I should go to Swansea or not.

Swansea Love Story @ vbs.tv

I am also sharing my first introduction to Swansea:

Now go watch the documentary Swansea Love Story

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/pretty-shitty-city/feed/ 0 documentary pod’s http://vevmedia.net/blog/documentary-pods-2/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/documentary-pods-2/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:39:03 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1367

Every now and then I mention a documentary podcast that I just listened to.  Most of the times they will be something I heard on the BBC Documentary Archive Podcast by far the best podcast to subscribe to. Anyone with a player, add it to your list.

Sometimes on news, sometimes on Technology and the sometimes like one I embedded here (or like the last one released “Spanning the World”), a slice of life. Do check out the Virtual Revolution series as well.

Thank’s to the BBC for sharing…

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/documentary-pods-2/feed/ 0 a declaration of a independence : bright idea indeed http://vevmedia.net/blog/a-declarion-of-a-independence-bright-idea-indeed/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/a-declarion-of-a-independence-bright-idea-indeed/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:03:02 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1361

Googling for John Perry’s online manifesto brought up this article and interview with Jaron Lanier. Well worth reading and listening into.

As for the declaration of independence itself, here you go:

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
– John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”

where did I hear of it, you ask? Why, in a bbc documentary of course…

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/a-declarion-of-a-independence-bright-idea-indeed/feed/ 0 Students? Really, Google? http://vevmedia.net/blog/students-really-google/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/students-really-google/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:04:14 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1355
Just stumbled across this article, claiming that US officials and/or Google are closing in on the hacker(s) responsible for hacking their service. The news being that it probably was a student from a university. I just find that to be such an easy answer (like the “mentally deranged” person that attacks a public figure – there is always someone behind that person that is the instigator). Having run several large online contests, in 100 % of the cases, where people have attempted to break into my servers, the attempts came from University servers. And I am certain this is not because of impoverished students trying just about anything to get a little more material goods in their life, but rather, a proof of the inherit insecurity of these huge public networks, and students not having been thought the importance of securing their own usernames and passwords. Also, the hack happened because of a loophole in IE, and what better place to propagate a trojan horse like this then on a university campus network.
Anyways, maybe it’s just me…but I just never believe lone-gunmen stories, and in addition to that, the fact that he published bits of his own code on a traceable forum?

Come on, give us a bit of credit…

VIA

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/students-really-google/feed/ 0 The Lo-Fi Manifesto http://vevmedia.net/blog/the-lo-fi-manifesto/ http://vevmedia.net/blog/the-lo-fi-manifesto/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:25:27 +0000 vevmesteren http://vevmedia.net/blog/?p=1347

1. Software is a poor organizing principle for digital production.
2. Digital literacy should reach beyond the limitations of software.
3. Discourse should not be trapped by production technologies.
4. Accommodate and forgive the end user, not the producer.
5. If a hi-fi element is necessary, keep it dynamic and unobtrusive.
6. Insist on open standards and formats, and software that supports them.

VIA

]]> http://vevmedia.net/blog/the-lo-fi-manifesto/feed/ 0