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11.04.10Best WLAN name everToday I decided to do a quick experiment. I'm on board the business class on a train bound for Göteborg. And as usual I have my trusted Huawei MiFi to give me internet access. With the recent fuzz around Firesheep I decided to do a quick test. I renamed the SSID on my MiFi to "Free WiFi" and turned off the encryption. Launched Firesheep and waited. After less than fifteen minutes I had a Facebook account that I could log on to. On the status page from the MiFi I could see that I had three computers connected. After a while I ...
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10.05.09Moo cards arrivedSo I finally decided to fire away an order and get myself some nice business cards from Moo.com. And even if you don't want to order anything you should try their service simply to learn something about usability and customer communication. Fantastic company. The cards are high quality prints of some of my Flickr-images.
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09.12.08The amazing collaborative force of the internetVolapük is one of the many attempts of making a universal, easy to learn language. It was created by Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879-1880. And abandoned in the early 1900's. According to Wikipedia there are now an estimated 20-30 Volapük speakers in the world. If that's correct, this is pretty amazing: The Volapük Edition of Wikipedia has more than 100 000 articles. Now that's some productive 20-30 persons!
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09.22.06The Long Tail in your living roomOyvind answers my quick link to Fortune Magazine with a very good post on how the net will change your media habits. I decided to comment on it with a separate article here: Moving the internet into the living room has been done before. But the big problem with the WEB-TV products of the late ninties was the fact that the companies making those products didn't understand the living room situation at all and thought that web pages as we know them today would be a good idea on the big screen. They soon realized ...
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03.31.06ROFL! The n00b got a BSOD on his HTPCOr in plain english: Rolling on the floor lauging! The inexperienced user got a serious error on his home theatre personal computer. People keeps asking. And a while ago I realised that my mother is reading this blog. She wasn't the one requesting this little roundup of strange computer geek language but I have a feeling that she will be one of the persons learning a couple of new abbreviations from this article. There is no point for me to give something of a complete guide to internet language. I'll explain a couple of the abbreviations I have used here on eirikso.com and ...
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