Life of Åsmund
A student life
MORNING HUMOUR
Feb 22nd
I just came across this one on the interweb, through a good friend of mine, Claire. It originates from xkcd.com. I find it a little funny, being an electrical engineer and all:
COMMERCIAL PARODIES
Dec 5th
I would simply like to share with you some funny Youtube parodies I came across yesterday. They worked as a medicine for my bad project day yesterday, when all of my samples got ruined due to a gold thinfilm that wouldn’t lift-off as it should. Anyways, here’s a few videos, I hope you like them too!
The first, a friend of mine, Tarjei, posted on Facebook. Andreas found the second after I showed him the first.
iPublish goes Wordpress MU
Oct 24th
I started out with this blog using iPublish’s own blogging platform and I’ve been using it for over a year now. During this year iPublish has grown very fast, and they’ve had serious issues handling their popularity, something that has resulted in unstable servers and sometimes lack of service.
About one and a half month ago iPublish changed their blogging platform from their homemade platform to the more stable and reliable Wordpress MU, something they definitely needed.
Loosing my head!
Unfortunately, the switch was premature. Somehow iPublish has managed to skip the header images of each post. When asking Support about the matter I was told, that this error unfortunately had happened in some cases (the entirety of my 100 cases) and the best they could do was for me to log into the old control panel and download the images manually and paste them into the posts again.
Well, tough luck I though, I’ll have to do the transfer manually. When trying to access the old control panel I realized it is no longer available!
This domain (login.ipublish.no) is no longer registered with a customer. What!?
Reading between the lines?
The second thing that has caused problems to the transfer to Wordpress MU goes all the way back to spring 2009 when iPublish had a control panel upgrade and removed their Introduction field in the “Add post” section. Two fields, the excerpt and the main text window were reduced to a single one.
This change had no significant change to the blogs as seen from the outside world, but what annoyed me then (and even more now) is that iPublish didn’t merge the text in the two fields (in their database), making text written in the Introduction field unavailable to the author.
At the time I pointed out the weakness, but no action was taken from iPublish’ side. The issue got a lot bigger when I realized that iPublish didn’t transfer the Introduction field when transferring to Wordpress MU.
Now I have several posts with a title, but no text!
I cannot express how insanely idiotic this is, specially since iPublish never gave the user the possibility to backup their posts!
I have contacted iPublish Support about these issues, but have yet to receive an answer solving the problem …
Google Wave tryout
Oct 20th
The past two days I’ve been trying out Google Wave, Google’s new collaborative, real-time communation platform.
According to Google, “Google Wave is what email would be if it was invented today.”
SO, WHAT IS GOOGLE WAVE?
Instead of the email system where all users receive an individual copy of a mail all users share the same messages, or Waves as it is called – hosted on a central server. Everyone can reply to or even edit the original Wave. Additionally one can add interactive elements as gadgets (ie. maps, polls etc.).
These features – and the fact that everyone can see what the others are doing in real-time makes Google Wave a very powerful collaboration tool. Contacts can literally be dragged into the conversation/Wave as it evolves.
Google has even implemented a Playback functionality, making it possible to see how the Wave has evolved from start to finish. This is very useful if a large number of users edit the same Wave.
Google Wave is still not completed and have several flaws. Google Wave is currently in a Preview stage, and an invitation is necessary to try it out.
I am convinced that it will become a very popular tool for planning projects, chatting and information sharing when it is made available to everyone.
Hopefully it (or a similar service) will take over for today’s outdated emailing system.
If you want to see more, I suggest you take a look at Mashable’s Complete guide to Google Wave and Google’s own 10 minute Google Wave Overview.