Lars Pind

Getting the Reboot startup of the year award and getting married within 24 hours.

Jason Fried of 37signals is telling us about user interface design at reboot. I really like his thoughts.

Michael Yoon finally bowed to the pressure and wrote his ArsDigita story. I’m looking forward to reading it one of these days, but right now I’m too focused on my wedding, which is in … COUNTDOWN … 4 days :)

I’ve been asked to present my company, Collaboraid at the ‘startups’ track of this year’s reboot event in Copenhagen, featuring a long list of heavy-weigths, including Tim O’Reilly, Dan Gilmour, and Cory Doctorow.

I was totally looking forward to it even before being asked to speak. Now I’m even more excited.

Alas, my marriage is the day after the conference. In FIVE days now :)

After having waited 72 days (2 months and 11 days) for the dual bureaucracies of Danish Radio (former national monopoly broadcaster) and TDC (former national monopoly telco), we finally got our home DSL connection yesterday.

It’s good to see that some things never change ;)

Getting married in 10 days … :)

Joel Aufrect has produced an American Apology Shirt: “I’m sorry my president’s an idiot. I didn’t vote for him.”

Europcar has a nice big splash screen, which forces you to pick which browser you’re using before being let into their page. Never mind that the latest version of Netscape they mention is Netscape 4.03 (when was that, anyway?). They also offer helpful downloads of IE and Netscape. Bleh.

Twingle: A rich client user interface for content management systems based on Mozilla. I like rich clients, you can do much better user interfaces with rich clients. It’ll be very interesting to see what comes out of it, and whether we can use that as a UI for OpenACS’ CMS system.

Finally out now is Mozilla Firebird.

I’ve been using Mozilla then Phoenix as my default browser for a while, but now with Firebird being based on Mozilla 1.3 aka Netscape 7, which addresses a number of my complaints, I have nothing more to ask for. It’s small, it’s fast, it isn’t ugly. It’s got tabbed browsing, and type-ahead-search in the page.

Except that it’s going to be interesting to see how much uptake it’s going to get. MSIE has a monopoly in browsers, and even though Mozilla Firebird has a zero price, it’s hard to compete with Microsoft’s distribution channel.