Posts from year 2008
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The year in cities
There are few things that get under my skin quite like a big city. Give me buildings piled against buildings, streets disappearing into questionable neighborhoods, broken neon, exhaust fumes, food I can’t identify and several million people apparently late for something.
Best concerts of 2008
Live music is one of the few things left in modern life that refuses to be compressed into a convenient little file. Albums are souvenirs. Concerts are where songs earn their scars.
Immersive movie experiences
I read an article today about a swimming hall that had screened Jaws on a big screen while the audience floated around in the water. Because apparently simply watching a film about a gigantic man-eating shark wasn’t sufficiently unsettling.
Relocated VPP folders in EPiServer R2
One of the new features in EPiServer R2 version is the relocation of the system folders. In previous versions they lived alongside the rest of the site files, where you could find them, understand them and occasionally swear at them. With the new Installation Manager, they’ve been moved into Program Files.
Azure revealed at PDC08 in Los Angeles
PDC08 kicked off today in Los Angeles with the expected keynote by Ray Ozzie. He presented Azure, a web service platform hosted in data centers all over the world. It will host web applications in “the cloud”, supposedly the best thing since sliced bread if we are to believe Ozzie.
From Gothenburg to Tokyo by train
There’s something ridiculous about stepping onto a train in Gothenburg with nothing but a backpack and the vague ambition to end up in Tokyo. Nine time zones. Seven countries. Endless buckets of hot coffee.
Being Godzilla in Tokyo
I walk alone through the streets of Tokyo, like a benign Godzilla without the sharp teeth. Everywhere I go, people stop in their tracks to stare at the six-foot-five gaijin. I do a “smile and wave” like the penguins in Madagascar movie, and start humming on the song “Big in Japan” by Alphaville.
Alone in Kyoto
Kyoto isn’t Tokyo. It whispers softly and lures you in with the rustle of bamboo and the silence between footsteps. It doesn’t fight to get your attention. You will listen anyway.
The gate of Hiroshima
The name of Hiroshima will forever be connected to the horrible event in 1945. On August 6, the first nuclear bomb to be used against mankind detonated 580 meters above the city, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
A day of war in Seoul
Seoul is a city of contradictions. Modern and ancient. Bubble tea and barbed wire. It’s a city that rebuilt itself from ash and artillery, where the past isn’t a distant echo but a constant hum.