A new year has arrived — what better time is there to look back at the year that passed? The decline of blog readers The number of visitors to mentalized.net keeps declining. This is hardly surprising; I don’t write as…
“So you want to link to our free, advertisting supported website? Sure, that’ll be 4500 DKK + VAT (around 979 USD)” This might sound absurd to you, but it’s the reality this blogger (in danish) faced when he linked to…
It’s a new year, and of course, this calls for looking back at the year that passed. The short version: 2006 has been a great year for me on several levels. Professionally Career wise 2006 has been coloured primarily by…
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Art. Lebedev Studio should now have been taking pre-orders for their Optimus-103 keyboard, which is based on what used to be the probably coolest keyboard ever; the Optimus concept keyboard. However, somewhere along the process from concept to production the…
It’s been pretty quiet around these parts lately - if you ignore the posts about Copenhagen.rb meetings at least. That’s primarily because I am having tons of fun at work, which for some reason doesn’t leave me much time for…
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Railsconf Europe 2006 opened today and is now well underway. Unfortunately, I did not get to go there, however Jesper and other members of Copenhagen.rb are there, and Jesper is liveblogging the event on copenhagenrb.dk. Good job, Jesper!…
I’ve been eyeballing MacZOT! before. Basically they offer you handpicked Mac software for greatly reduced prices, and I learned about them when they offered a “MysteryZOT” - you buy a package of software, but you don’t know what you get….
I’ve been getting into podcasts recently, for various reasons. The concept of podcasts is great. Listening to smart and funny people is always interesting, and someones voice has a way of getting to you that letters on a screen rarely…
In a previous post I took a few easy and cheap shots at some danish web development agencies. I did this since their websites irked a pet peeve of mine. Unfortunatly, in my eagerness to rant I ended up writing…
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This post is inspired by the announcement of the Danish Internet Award 2006, sporting a 1999-style website complete with Flash intro and invalid markup (They do have a weblog, though). I looked at the list of people from the grand…
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Google announced a new way for you to make a bit of cash from your website; Earn money by making other people sign up for AdSense. This makes a whole lot of sense for Google. AdSense is obviously their cash…
For some reason I’ve been invited to contribute to a newly launched Danish Mac user blog, cupertino.dk. Due to my Mac-noobness I’ve been watching from the safety of far away as bundles of energetic and enthusiastic people got stuff up…
My geography must be somewhat rusty. Last I checked, both the United Kingdoms and Ireland were part of Europe, and Canada and Latin America was placed on the American continent. The Annual Weblog Awards seems to think otherwise though, with…
It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, owing largely due to a project I am currently working on. Actually, that should probably read “playing with”, since I am finding web development fun again, thanks to Davids excellent Ruby on Rails…
Google has taken steps against the comment spammers, making it possible to have GoogleBot (and others) pretty much ignore specific links by adding rel=”nofollow” to the link tag. And this isn’t “just” Google doing it; a multitude of blogging/CMS vendors/providers…
If you’re seeing this, something must’ve gone right. I’ve moved Mentalized.net to a new host and upgraded my Movable Type installation from v2.661 to the newest v3.14. I am now away from IIS and crummy ASP/VBScript and onto FreeBSD, Apache…
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This should probably have gone into a quicklink, but I figured I’d quote this points in it’s full: 1. Write Posts That People Will Want To Read This should be common sense, but many marketers tend to forget that their…
Due to some server shuffling Mentalized will be gone for some hours or days starting later today. I hope both of my readers will cope. Shuffling done, and everything seems to have worked out pretty much perfectly, let me know…
Yup, it had to happen sooner or later. I’ve sold out. Soon the vastly popular Mentalized.net will consist of nothing but graphical and noisy ads popping up and over and under, you’ll be spammed, offered to install spywayre and you’ll…
This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space…
Heh, my post, “Death of the referrer tracker”, has received a huge amount of referrer spam from some porn site. If that isn’t ironic……
Your wish is my command, Mike ;)…
Some days ago the Page 23 concept was infecting the blogosphere on end, including this very journal. In short people all over the world were posting a set of instructions and a quote from a nearby book. Inspired by a…
Sigh, yet another jerk decided to spam every single goddamn entry on this website pretending to be referred from a certain URL (which gives an error 404, good job!) hammering the final nail in the referrer trackers coffin. I will…
I’ve been looking at some of the phrases that people have used to find mentalized on search engines and much to my surprise I seem to be the #1 hit on Google for a few select things. Velious Custom Helmets…
Since my favorite news aggregator, FeedDemon, is out of the beta phase and has started costing money, I’ve decided to take a look around at the alternatives before I invest the $30. In general, I have a few criterias for…
Gah, my previous post (now gone) should have been saved with draft-status, not actually published. Nice thing that I subscribe to my own feed so I caught it there….
Jason from izzy|wizzy has extended my Movable Type Edit Comment hack so the notification mail now contains a Ban This Spam Comment IP link. Great job. In related news, Jay Allen has released his MT-Blacklist plugin - the plugin to…
A small Movable Type hack to add a link to the edit comments page in the the email MT sends when a new comment is posted.
I think I finally found the RSS aggregator of my life. Going through Lockergnome’s RSS resources, basically trying every single (free) aggregator for Windows, I finally ended up sticking with FeedDemon . Previously its low beta version numbers had kept…
Creating website designs is fun. So I did it again. Welcome to yet another look of Mentalized. This time the change of look also features some changes under the hood, so except things to break until I get everything worked…
Using Movable Type as the backbone for my entire website is something I had been pondering for a while, I just never really got around to doing it. But Matt Haughneys and Brad Choates posts about doing just that lured…
I am not sure creating a quicklinks sidebar was such a great idea for me after all. These days, whenever I see something on the Web that I find interesting and worth a comment, I mindlessly add it to my…
I wonder if it is the hot weather and even hotter girls making me a bit frisky, or that my previous Matrix-theme was pretty hideous, that has incited me to (once again) redo the design of the site. 3 things…
Stuff I couldn’t be bothered to write more about, but still found vaguely interesting (still pondering if I actually need a linkroll): I may be addicted… …but at least it isn’t hurting my productivity (yeah, right) Button madness - I…
My recent endavours into the world of RSS aggregators and feeds pointed out to me, that an RSS2.0 feed was AGoodThing. So be it. My RSS0.91 feed is still around and will be updated in case anyone needs it to…
They are all doing it; advocating RSS and/or providing RSS feeds. Heck, I myself am providing an RSS feed for those who care, although I have never been one of those who cared for reading blogs via RSS. I have…
Hm, somebody from 134.84.144.* have started requesting my index-page using “slashdot.org” as referrer. Needless to say that referrer is a straight lie as I have never been linked on the frontpage of slashdot, neither does the page http://www.mentalized.net/slashdot.org exist (which…
Dave asks: Is there a test site that fully supports trackback? I get confused reading the spec. Why do none of the sites support the RDF snippet that they’re supposed to? I do! And I have no clue how trackback…
Phil Ringnalda concludes that his weblog is worthless at $18.94. I beg to differ, Phil, if you want to claim worthlessness, you must have a $0.00 valuation - like me ;)…
Davids recent post about Blogging from Espresso had me wondering what kind of tools like that are available for the Windows platform. Movable Types page with external resources had links to a few win32 clients (and some for OSX and…
The hunt for the perfect blogger has started. Initially I used blogging-software made in ASP/VBScript (I have forgotten name and URL and I am too lazy to look it up, sorry) as I am running this site off a Windows-server…