TyskJohan’s random thoughts

Neppe.

Under overskiften Strømkrisen kunne ha vært unngått skriver VG m.fl. idag:

Olje- og energiminister Odd Roger Enoksen har visst i lang tid at strømkrisen ville komme. Likevel har han ikke grepet inn når Norge har solgt to milliarder kilowattimer til utlandet.

Enoksen innrømmer at han ikke har gjort nok for å unngå strømkrisen.
- Vi visste at strømkrisen ville komme og gjorde ikke nok, sier Enoksen til Aftenposten.

VG

Tror VG at “vi” refererer til Enoksen selv og hans familie? Neppe. Han mener regjeringen, både den nåværende og de tidligere.

I was just fiddling a bit more with my MoreSimpleTags WordPress plugin that supports several services (Technorati and Knuff, in my case). I noted in one of my previous posts that the letter ä wasn’t coming out right.

It turns out Technorati and Knuff expect non 7-bit characters encoded differently: Knuff wants them in ISO-8859-1 URI encoding like this vinbär [http://bloggar.se/om/vinb%E4r] while Technorati prefers them URI encoded UTF8, like vinbär [http://technorati.com/tag/vinb%C3%A4r].

D'oh.

Update

Seems I was a bit hasty or not paying attention. Both work with UTF-8. So the code is now urlencode(utf8_encode(html_entity_decode(trim($tag)))).

Update #2

Ok, I snug a utf8_decode in there for good measure too. Turns out part of the problem is that Knuff won’t eat accented characters (which is a bit weird because they are quite common in last names in Sweden).

Die Zeit berichtet über ein neues Informationssystem an der Uni Hamburg, Stine, über das man sich zum Beispiel Rückmelden und Immatrikulieren kann. Nach den langen Schlangen, die ich an manchen Unis in Deutschland gesehen habe, kann ich da nur sagen: endlich (oder vielleicht Äntligen!).

Aber nur ein paar Zeilen weiter muß ich mich schon wieder tierisch ärgern:

Ein System, das vorschreiben will, welchen Kurs man belegen soll, klingt nach Einschränkung der Wahlfreiheit. Schließlich konnte man bisher fast immer mit dem Prof reden, wenn man im Grundstudium bereits ein Hauptseminar besuchen wollte. Oder wenn man sich für ein Seminar nicht angemeldet hatte und in der dritten Semesterwoche doch dafür entschied. Das neue System lässt nicht so leicht mit sich verhandeln. Das aber liegt am System der neuen Studiengänge Bachelor und Master und nicht am Computersystem selbst.

“Stine kann nichts für Flexibilitätsbeschneidungen - die Software setzt lediglich die Bologna-Anforderungen um”, so Thorsten Hönisch vom Hamburger Asta.
(ZEIT Campus)

Wo in den Bologna-Dokumenten steht bitte, das man unflexibel zu sein hat? Sowohl der AStA-Mensch als auch die Journalistin nehmen das jedenfalls ohne Nachfrage hin.

Vielleicht ist es doch an der Zeit, meine Info-Seite zum Bologna-Prozess irgendwie in die Gänge zu bringen.

Idag har jeg laget ripssaft. Godt!

Photo by Christer Almqvist taken from Regnéville.net

Susanne challenged me and I shall reply, even if there’s been a slight delay.

4 jobs I’ve had in my life:

• lavender salesman
• progammer
• student unionist
• emergency call operator

4 movies I don’t mind watching over and over again:

• Heat
• Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
• The Longest Day
• Night On Earth

4 places I’ve lived in:

• Hamburg
• Brussels
• Lund
• Oslo

4 tv series I watch

• The West Wing
• Commander in Chief
• Vanished
• Veronica MarsThe Gilmore Girls

4 places I’d like to visit:

• St. Petersburg
• The north of Norway
• India
• Southern Spain

4 web pages I visit on a daily basis:

• Dagens Nyheter
• Engadget
• Der Spiegel
• Heise Newsticker

4 favourite dishes:

• Bife de chorizo mariposa
• Fårikål
• Wiener Saftgulasch
• French saucisse à l’oignon

4 public places I enjoy being in

• Sitting outside any parisian café, traffic right in front of me and café crème in hand
• On Hovedøya, an island outside Oslo
• La Cale, where the world’s best mussels are served
• I guess I’m not that fond of public places…

4 friends who just might not answer this blog pop quiz:

• Frédérique
• Olga
• Tommi
• Bertolt

Nu verkar det som om jag kommer att få tillsänt en valsedel för min valkrets (se längre ned om detta) — det finns tydligen ingen valsedel för hela landet.

Då kommer genast nästa fråga upp: vem skall man kryssa? För min del handlar det mest om att inte kryssa kryptofascister, stalinister, EU-motståndare, 40talister och pensionister samt Øresundsintegrationssinkare. Bland många andra.

Men sök och häpna: socialdemokraterna har ingen presentation av sina riksdagskandidater på nätet! Google kan förvisso berätta i vilka kommunala nämnder i Trelleborg en viss person har suttit, men inget om vad dessa personer står för och tycker. Kanske dags att välja en mer tydlig kandidat från ett parti jag egentligen sympatiserar mindre med?

Improve iCal and its .Mac features

I would like to assign one event to several calendars. Maybe “tagging” is the right word. And I can’t understand why I can’t see my calendar on my .Mac page — what’s the point of the calendar on .Mac anyhow?

Yojimbo! is what the Web Receipts Folder should have been

Yojimbo! is a little appblication to keep track of various snippets of data, such as passwords and flight reservations. The Mac OS has a “Print to Web Receipts Folder”, but that’s flawed because a new document with the same name will silently overwrite the old file (and several of the eCommerce sites I use have the same document name for all their receipts).

Apple Mail improvements

I want support for the Mail-Followup-To: header or some other way to handle mailing lists more graciously. Also, the AppleScript support in Mail has bugs.

An RSS aggregator

Reading feeds in Safari doesn’t cut it. I want an RSS reader that combines the best parts of NetNewsWire and NewsFire.

Real FTP support

The FTP support (and SFTP?) needs a lot of work. I use CyberDuck, and it’s really nice, but this should be integrated into the Finder so that remote disks can be integrated and also accessed from Save and Open dialogs in all applications.

Tabbed browsing

The thing that annoys me most in Safari is that the Cmd-< or Cmd-Tab equivalent for changing tabs is Cmd-{ and Cmd-{, which on a swedish keyboard means pressing three modifier keys in addition to 8 or 9. This will be even worse when more applications get tabs. I just discovered that there is a secret shortcut to switch tabs: Cmd-Shift-[Left|Right]-Arrow.

Keyboard shortcut for main window

In iTunes, Cmd-1 brings up the main window. Why don’t iCal and Address Book have the same to bring up their “main window”?

Sync’ing addresses

Just started using Plaxo to sync with my (work) Windows machines. Noticed a problem with mobile phone sync: You can only choose to sync all addresses, or addresses in one category. I want to select several categories, and maybe even smart categories.

Better handling of the Cmd key with menus in the bookmark bar

I want to be able to open a bookmark that’s in a menu in the bookmarks bar in a new tab. This is not possible because Cmd-click means open all bookmarks in tabs, and click-Cmd doesn’t work either.

To be continued…

Better use of more than one hard disk

I have an extensive music collection in iTunes and quite some pictures in iPhoto. On my iBook G4, that means my hard disk is almost full. Therefore I’m really annoyed that the iLife applications can’t work with directories anywhere but on my internal hard disk, in my home directory.

I pulled myself together and fixed up another plugin I have been working on: a Plugin to Clean Up Scandinavian Umlauts. It’s based on the o42 plugin that comes with the German WordPress distribution.

I have updated and modified the SimpleTags WordPress plugin to support several tagging styles. I will post the updated plugin in a few seconds.

This is also a sample post to check whether Technorati and Bloggar.se tags work.

The plugin can be downloaded here: More Simple Tags