Musings

I may be the last person to enjoy a conference with a hi-tech factor. And that is probably because the last conference I’ve been to was back when having a modem line in the hotel room was considered high-tech. Here at reboot, 50% of the people lug and operate a laptop. I guess a lot of them use it to check on news feeds and mail, but there is spontaneous collaboration happening all over. ...

Sitting in the breakfast lounge at reboot, I made two interesting observations: The ration between PC and MAC’s is roughly 1:1 (and I was thinking that the ration would be like 1:2) The Apple power adapter takes a normal 2-prong small 220V power cable (and no, danish 2 hole wall-outlets don’t like the swiss 3-prong power-plug) Continuous images through flickr’s reboot7 tag People met at yesterdays meet-up include. Sig Rinde Hugh McLeod ...

I’ll be leaving for reboot7 tomorrow morning. I’m looking forward both to return to the city where I lived for 4 years as a kid, to visit my grandmother (who is very sick unfortunately) and to see/talk/listen/discuss with the luminaries that are going to be there. Of course, I will try to get one of the things of my 43things off the list too. This one will take care of itself ;-)

Spotlight continues to be useful: With the RubyImporter Plugin it understands Ruby Code… Neat Technorati Tags: mac

The list of the 10 most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th century disturbs me no end. Sure, it’s easy to dismiss it by looking at the organization that created that list, but I wonder how influential that institution really is. Of course “Mein Kampf” is in there, “The communist manifesto”, “Das Kapital”. But books like “The Kinsey report”? Nietzsche? John Maynard Keys? And of course in the runners up section there is Darwin and Freud, Skinner and Margaret Mead, Club of Rome, Simone de Beauvoir ...

Lately, I have been the target of telemarketers. Wine, interesting and money-saving business ideas, investment ideas, what not. Today another phone call with a suppressed number: “Fischer” I answer (that being my name). “Good morning, this is so and so, from the company this and this, do I speak with ” “Do I sound like her?” I ask Telemarketer fast forwards in her script _“I’m sorry for taking up your time…. yada yada yada - goodbye” _and hangs up ...