Björn Harrtell created this great version of a new Snake game. Initially made for Android but with no Desire-phone this was another option:

http://www.wololo.org/viper/

Made entirely in javascript. HTML5  is slowly winning me over…this is fun.

/Ulf

A great piece of advice on Twitter today:

I guess this means You should leave no comments/trace in the code and definately only check in data anonymously…

/Ulf

In 2004, the EU ordered Microsoft to pay the largest fine ever handed out by the organization, $794 million. According to Wikipedia the background was:

• Novell claimed that Microsoft was blocking competitors out of the market through anti-competitive practice.
• Sun Microsystems complained about the lack of disclosure of some of the interfaces to Windows NT.
• EU ordered the company to offer both a version of Windows without Windows Media Player and the information necessary for competing networking software to interact fully with Windows desktops and servers.

Deja Vu anyone? I am thinking of Steve Jobs blocking of Flash. It certainly is, wonderfully ironic, that Steve is dancing around the same European fire as Bill. (Meaning the European Commission and not that Volcano on Iceland).

Personally I think Steve is so right in hanging on to proprietary operating systems. The word “proprietary” is not always a bad word. “Proprietary” is necessary for the development of cutting edge technology like iPhones and iPads. You just can’t sit around and wait for someone to define the standards for You. Now, Android is great, but admit it… Steve was years ahead of that.

Even if I would enjoy the choice of what to run on all my iThings, I also accept that they are proprietary due to their brilliance.

But what if the European Commission are not that forgiving to yet another Denietary system? Oh the iRony…

/Ulf

As we just finished moving the site to a new server we switched the blog-engine. We found no better solution than copying and pasting the existing blog posts. As a result the posts all had new dates.

I have now manually corrected the dates (and exact time) !

/Ulf

This great article is a must read from Douglas R. Caldwell:

http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesa/no2/a2.htm

Oh glory bbox!