What would we have done?
Waiting for a good friend to show up. We’d arranged to meet at a Starbucks, but through some misunderstanding, we both ended up at the wrong place. The situation was easily remedied through use of a mobile phone. By the time he showed up I’d finished my first cup of coffee (picture with cup and arriving friend in the distance).
I wondered: what would we have done 20 years ago? I suppose I’d have waited for about half an hour, tried to find a public telephone and – provided I had coins- tried to call him at home. And would then have moved on. Times have changed indeed.
Copenhagen
I’m on the train in Copenhagen (s-tog) enjoying free internet. It’s great , provided you have some handy device like an iPhone or sometime soon a tablet. On the other hand, it keeps you from looking outside, and it’s not like a break from being online is a bad thing. On the other hand, I can write about how odd it is to be close to where I gathered nice childhood memories. On with it.
Wordpress for iPhone
Just downloaded thw Wordpress App and testing!
iPad, Wired, Journalism and more
Since everyone has got an opinion about the iPad, I’ll pitch in with mine. Following the above App video by Wired, which – at least the US version – happens to be my favourite mag, I am absolutely convinced that it is a game changer. As for the reasoning, I’ll follow Stephen Fry’s thoughts – it’s not really for advanced social medialites, whoever they are, but rather for everyone. Everyone is where the money is. It’s easy to use, and to judge by the above video, it’s amazing. I am more than willing to pay for a subscription.
Also, I think this will work for any kind of publication, whether daily, weekly or monthly (or less), if understood and well done. It’s about the experience and value. I’d be glad to see the saved distribution costs re-routed to the production of interactive, social and what more content, in other words an allround excellent experience. Perhaps we will at last see a major paradigm shift in the next few years.
Ideally, it’d be platform independent, whether Apple or any other, but somehow i have my doubts about this. We’ll see what happens, but it sure looks promising. And that’s regardless of how much of a flash-free mockup this video is.
Retrieving songs from an iPod
Starting a new job in October comes with a few changes, including giving up my MacBook Pro. Victoria now uses it, as I’ll be getting a Windows company laptop. Honestly, I don’t really care or mind, there are more important issues in life. “Home base” will be the iMac, which so far has primarly been used as a video editing machine.
The move includes all my music, so it’s iTunes library to hard disk to iMac, and I seem to have lost one fifth of all music. which seems to have been stored in various places prior to deletion. Here’s where senuti (iTunes backwards) comes in handy. It’s not straightforward, but does install flawlessly (osx 10.5) and does retrieve those missing songs from the iPod, which is pretty handy.
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Welcome to Irakli West's personal pages on the Web. I am Danish, live close to Munich in Germany, and run FWnetz, an online magazine and training resource for firefighters. In real life, I am Regional Manager Northern Europe for Paratech and currently training to become a specialist in Urban Search and Rescue as well as Heavy Rescue (it's fun, challenging and serves a good purpose)
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