Thursday, April 28, 2005
Another strange apparition in Zuerich train station. I'm sure this hasn't been around long, but I could be wrong.
Since it has "eBay exchange point" written on it, I assume it is a "real world" place where people can exchange things they've bought and sold on eBay. If so, given the pain in the neck - not to mention the cost - that is sending things by post, it's not a bad idea.
So what's next ? A PayPal cash dispenser ?
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Posted in category
"General" on Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 05:33 PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Hey! Finally somebody else who isn't scared to speak his mind even if it might rub up some gurus (or more important, their followers) the wrong way. ln
this a this ancient (in Internet years ) but still relevant article Matthias Gutfeldt has the nerve to question icons such as
Stopdesign and
Jeffrey Zeldman (both of whom I have great respect for, I should emphasise). He does it with style, humour, and impeccable reasoning and references, providing a worthwhile reminder to question everything. Nothing changes like fashion
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Friday, April 22, 2005
Surprising things pop up in Zuerich main station. Today as I wandered through, in a total daze, I noticed this strange structure:
Inside are a lot of things presented by ETH boffins and boffinettes (technical University of Zuerich) which if I was cool I would probably describe as cool. But I'm too old for that, not to mention semi comatose, so I'll settle for "interesting". For example wearable computers....
....and numerous slightly inscrutable interactive experiments hosted mostly on a gleaming array of very new, very expensive Macs. Clearly ETH are not lacking budget...
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Posted in category
"Technology" on Friday, April 22, 2005 at 04:55 PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
I've just registered myself at
technorati. This has provided me with the nugget of information that my estimate that this blog was number 46,786,342,113 might have been a bit out. Seems that as far as tecnorati are concerned, The Evenings Out Here is ranked at 1,108,851. By a really strange coincidence, it's close relative,
Photoblogography, is ALSO ranked at 1,108,851. Strange doings indeed.
Technorati claims to be watching 8,994,847 weblogs. So either (wait a minute, let's fire up Calculator, I can't do this stuff in my head anymore) there are 7,885,996 which they're watching but are not registered...who are these guys ? the CIA ? the
Rosicrucians ?
Andrew Orlowski ? ... or I'm more popular (twice more in fact) than over 7 million other weblogs!!!
I think I'll settle for the latter. Now I feel good.
Posted in category
"Irreverence" on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 06:45 PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
well I seem to have solved my IE on Windows problem... how ? By adding:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
at the top of each page.
I never realised it was so important
Posted in category
"Design & Usability" on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 08:26 PM