Lars Pind

Jeff Davis now has a blog (running my code). Great to see, Jeff.

The new version of FogBUGZ includes a number of features that the OpenACS bug-tracker already has, a few that’s planned, and some that weren’t, but they generally look good.

News.com: Finance firms push messaging standards.

Sigh. Gray, wet, dark. Welcome back to fall in Copenhagen!

Compare this to this, and you know what I’m talking about.

BYTE: 3D State of the Art, Part 2: Software and Mobile Workstations.

Linux is very common in professional 3D production houses. It’s stable, and some of the best 3D applications such as Alias/Wavefront’s Maya, Avid/Softimage’s XSI, and Side Effects’ Houdini run on it. The major graphics board vendors are finally putting serious effort into writing good Linux drivers. If all I did with my life was produce 3D animations, I’d be tempted to opt for Linux.

ISOC uses PostgreSQL to run .org.

Tom Davenport in CIO magazine: Known Evils: Common pitfalls of Knowledge Management. This is a classic, but I just re-read it, and it’s still pretty accurate.

CNN: Britney’s sister makes bid for stardom.

Alexander introduced me briefly to the Six Thinking Caps, and it looks like a cute, good, effective idea.

Edward de Bono is also the guy behind lateral thinking, which is similar, and also really interesting.

More on the thinking caps here and an excerpt from the book here.

And they’ll open again in … January 2002? Does that mean they’ve dot-bombed? “Making the dot come true…” Yeah :-P.

We’re going to go to the conference in Copenhagen on October 30th, as published here, but I’m even more thrilled to have a friend in the panel, right up there with the CEO of Microsoft in Denmark.

The Economist: Free Mickey Mouse.

We (Collaboraid) are looking for a temporary office space for 3 people in Copenhagen per November 1st for 2-3 months until our new office arrangement is in place.

So if you, or somebody you know, have an empty room, 15 m2 and up, with power and internet, and would enjoy having us hanging around, and make a small buck, too, please let me know.

Look at this person flame an innocent contributor. Wow! Glad this person was kicked off the list.

Economist: What does the Internet look like?. Interesting. Turns out the internet is what they call scale-free, that there tends to develop super-nodes that are highly connected, while most nodes have relatively few connections.

Until 1999, the standard way of modelling the Internet was to use randomly generated graphs, in which routers were represented by points and the links between them by lines. But it turns out that such random graphs are a poor approximation because they miss two important features. The first is that links in the net are “preferentially attached”: a router that has many links to it is likely to attract still more links; one that does not, will not. The second is that the Internet has more clusters of connected points than random graphs do. These two properties give the Internet a topology that is scale-free—in other words, small bits of it, when suitably magnified, resemble the whole.

Bugger. I’ve been annoyed with how slow my front page was for so long, but I never took the time to do something about it. Well, I did just now. Turns out it was one stupid query which took almost 8 seconds to process. All I had to do was create an index. So now it’s back up to tolerable speed. Hooray! :)