Posts from year 2012

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Oslo remembers

Oslo remembers

Before arriving in Oslo, I wondered if I would notice any changes due to the attack last summer and the ongoing trial. I noticed banners saying “The city remembers” already at the central station, and the site where the attack took place felt like a silent beacon.

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Empowered creativity through the social web

Empowered creativity through the social web

The web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee uploaded the first HTML page in 1991. After decades of static pages filled with one-way content, we’re finally starting to see the benefits and possibilities of a distributed social web.

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Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City

Review: Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in 2006. He has lived in Istanbul for almost his entire life and this book is the tale of him growing up there, as well as an attempt to describe the mentality of the citizens in the ever-changing city.

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Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul

Roaming the cobblestones of Istanbul

I am currently sitting in a room in Sultanahmet, the old part of Istanbul. The Bosporus strait is within sight and the air is filled with the competing sounds of hungry seagulls and shouting minarets.

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Movie locations around the world

Movie locations around the world

This is the first part of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Lost in Translation, Lord of the Rings, Highlander, Talented Mr Ripley, Mission Impossible, French Connection, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Interview with the Vampire, The Beach, Rendition, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, La Dolce Vita, Moulin Rouge.

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Music on the street

Music on the street

I see people with headphones everywhere and I often wonder what they listen to. On the street, in the office, at the tram… I had an idea to make something out of this, but as usual someone else had already done it. So here you are.

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On vendor prefixes

On vendor prefixes

There has been a lot of discussions lately in regard to vendor prefixes. It all began when some non-webkit browser representatives were considering support of the webkit prefix during a CSS Working Group meeting earlier this week.

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The adaptation of responsive design

The adaptation of responsive design

Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed topic of last year. The term was coined by Ethan Marcotte in his article from May 2010.

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Review: Long Way Round

Review: Long Way Round

In 2004 the actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a four-month trip from London to New York. But to make things interesting they decided to go eastward on motorbikes.

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