Bake the Bake
Sweden is most definitely a baking country.
Word of the day
Today’s word is smet, [sme:t], which is (kladdig) blandning som ska gräddas (or, as the dictionary puts it, generally a “sticky mass”). The proper English translation would possibly be mixture or batter, and I bet daughter is interested.
It can be obviously used in compounds, as in kaksmet, cake batter.
Off to the kitchen, you dough-eaters.
Bad places, good places
Are there bad places on the Web?
And I do not mean one of those web sites that look like they are straight out of 1992, nor places which offend a coder's sense of beauty or the browsers' by using malformed XHTML or whatnot. I mean the bad places for real, those places you might get uneasy, upset, or scared visiting.
My gut answer is yes, there are plenty. As much as we have come to terms with the idea that a phone call can be as threatening as bumping into the wrong guys on the street, I think it is entirely plausible that we have such things. But then, what exactly makes a bad place bad in information space? Is it even entirely possible to think of bad places on the Web as places? And if it is, how?
OMG, Jaunty ate my Hauwei
Since I didn't have that much time to build everything from scratch anymore, I ditched Gentoo on my laptop some two years ago and I've been a Ubuntu user ever since. A satisfied Ubuntu user. I actually first installed the thing when Funky Flounder was around (or whatever the F name was at the time), and just upgraded to Gutsy, Hasty, and Irky (or whatever those names were) virtually hassle-free.
Big rock, small rock, and chorizo sausage
As it seems to be a common pattern with me in recent times, this post has been long in the making and even longer in the thinking. And I'm not done yet, really, but since the 10th IA Summit in Memphis, Tennessee, seems to have expanded our horizons in novelty ways, I have a feeling the times are ripe for a first attempt at my tuppence on the subject. What subject? IA, IxD, UX, and where we stand, of course. And thanks to JJG.
How tall are you, pumpkin
If you have children, you have been to zoos and theme parks. If you have, especially when you are abroad, the Internet is your friend: getting an eagle-view of what's on store on location, knowing about bars, restaurants, picnic areas, and toilets in advance is invaluable. Not to mention the evenings of fun and anticipation that printing out a map where x marks the spot can offer, thanks to the magic of PDFs.
