Since the late 1980s I have been among those predicting the end of the Personal Computer, and that end is now in sight. The PC is going the way of the typewriter, but not overnight. It took the PC about 15 years to completely […]
Author: jaxroam
City Weekends
I came across the yearly survey over Norwegian vacation habits. The City Weekend is becoming a fixture, every other Norwegian do two and a half such trips on average. This is a direct consequence of low-fare airlines making direct travel cheap and convenient, and […]
The scientific value of being wrong
This post is also a part of a forum discussion. Fred Hoyle commented that it makes more sense to be unorthodox than orthodox in science. I fully agree with that. If a thousand people are looking in one direction and you are looking in […]
Newsspam: The Yahoo and Opera stories
Early in December a Yahoo story spread quickly across the web, MAN DATES GAL ON INTERNET FOR SIX MONTHS — AND IT TURNS OUT SHE’S HIS MOTHER!. Yesterday, almost three weeks later, the story was published unchecked by Dagbladet, Norway’s third largest newspaper where […]
Power plug and play
A weekend in Glasgow. Scotland is neighbouring Norway and a direct flight from Oslo (though this being Ryan Air the bus ride to their airport takes longer than the plane trip itself). The physical and cultural closeness makes it easy to forget that they […]
Watch this spacer
It was natural to start off a series on web elements with a vilified element that never made it into any web standard and never will, the spacer. Often elements are made for minute details that nobody, man or machine, are interested in. Should […]
Wannabe spotting in 21 easy points
Henry Sivonen has summarised a HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate. (Parroted from Anne’s Weblog)
Milky way
It was an accident that may cause some damage to the wildlife, but a white river looks nice. While I would prefer the river au naturel most of the time, a white river/black lights event once in a great while wouldn’t be too bad.
Free as in competition
Now that Opera is feeling free, inevitably the question of open source comes up. There is nothing wrong with open source, even if I sometimes wonder about some of its evangelists, but still we have opted for having the Opera source code closed. Could […]
Circle-squaring standards
Shortly before Opera Software was founded, Håkon Lie wrote what was to become the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) specification. I read this paper a few months later when working for the government and was thrilled. A decade later, with CSS finally mainstream, the promise […]
