self, in oz, 2005, non-academic silly hat
I did a little genealogy research some time ago, and found a distant ancestor named Tore Tinghatt. He apparently acquired the name by turning up at an assembly (Thing) with something peculiar on his head. Challenge accepted.
Right now I am off-line at 30.000 feet, en-route to Australia again, to acquire a silly hat. It will take a while, but if all goes to plan, I will post-grad from RMIT with a few years of research on information architecture and four dimensions, some aussie wine under my vest and a silly hat on my head.
Wish me luck.
It is cold these days. Sometimes down to Professor Celcius´ blue twenties, minus four for Mr. Farenheit. I stay snugly warm inside. The rescue shelters are all full of cold animals, some with ears frozen off, tails frozen stiff. One horrific story today of a grown Tom frozen to the ground. Being homeless is not a game.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
so.. i got hacked. What irony. Fundamentally, it was a .htaccess hack, and every php file got a nasty cookie script. God, what a hassle. I am lucky to have a provider that does decent backups, and that I do not update the site much, so little was lost. But for a couple of hours, as I sifted through it all, it stress levels was uncomfortably high. 
An insane man have placed poison around Oslo, hidden in little piles of sawdust, to murder dogs.
Dear Amerikay -
If you wish to study a 
I went to a little talk today, held by Mano Mark, senior geo developer at Google, for whoever at the 
“Webdesign” is often a thankless thing; the discussions and arguments runs heated in the forums these days. Because webdesign is structure, plan, architecture, planning for flexibility and future needs, usability, accessibility, indexing, storing. And yes. Colours and boxes too. 
Back in DC. Back to the bones, the