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Strike against SOPA
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Loading ...Just like many other website’s Narnio will go black on the 18th to protest against SOPA. For those that don’t now about it SOPA is Amerika’s way to oppress the free Internet as well as completely legal websites. Here are some of the reasons why SOPA sucks:
- SOPA Gives the Power to Censor the Internet to the Entertainment Industry
- SOPA Curbs Internet Freedom And Online Freedom of Speech
- SOPA Kills Jobs, Thwarts Entrepreneurial Growth
- SOPA Doesn’t Curb Piracy, It Merely Makes Pirated Content Less Accessible
- SOPA Is A Threat To Open Source Too
A lot of big Internet sites are opposing SOPA, including:
- Bungie
- Wikipedia
- Mozilla Foundation
- Tucows
- NVIDIA
Below is a quote from the SOPA Strike.
On January 18th, 2012 the internet is going on strike to stop the web censorship bills in Congress! Now is our moment— we need you to do everything you can, whether you have a website or not.
New MP3 players with huge storage capacity
I never thought I would see the day that I could buy a MP3 player with more storage available then 16GB. But what they are offering at the MyCom at the moment is unbelievable. The claim to have MP3 players with 8192 GB of storage. Where can I sign up for one of those????
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Cold visitors on LinkedIn
I just happened to look over my LinkedIn visitor stats today and noticed something very, very strange. I had a visit from the most unlikely of places. One of the coldest places, being the North Pole.
I guess someone at the LinkedIn offices was having a wonderfull day off and generating some nice stats 
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My first steps into Android development
After owning an Android phone for over an year, and using it on daily base, I thought it might be time to look into how easy it would be to start developing for the Android OS. As any good developer I first started reading a bit on how to develop for it, and what requirement’s I would have to meet.
Now I’m not going to be boring you with all kinds of tutorials on how to develop on Android, or give you any other clues on this subject. I just don’t know anything about Android development, well not yet anyhow. But some good reading material to get you on the right path might be:
- The Android development guide, all you ever will need to know about Android development (bit technical though)
- Writing your first Android app, good tutorial to get started in Android
The only thing I have learned so far is that I don’t really like the way of designing a UI for the Android. It’s just way to basic with XML files describing how the UI should look like. Feels like going back to 1990 when designing a UI was done in code rather then with a UI design tool.
Update on the new UI for this blog
About a month ago I wrote something on creating a new UI for this blog. One that would be lightweight and a lot quicker then the current one. It might seem that I’ve given up on this new UI, but the opposite is true.
It’s been a rather busy couple of weeks since my last update, but work is slowly progressing. So far I designed most of the UI elements, but I ended up in some trouble with the browser compatibility. As any web developer will know it’s a hell to make a website compatible with older browsers, especially the older Internet Explorer versions. And as this is supposed to be a lightweight theme it means I’ll have to rely on as much of CSS3 as possible. Which also means making separate sylesheets for the older browsers to display the content the same way.
So far I’ve built the following features in the new WordPress Theme:
- Support of the social networks
- Browser detection to better enable CSS2 / CSS3 features or mobile version
- Various hooks into the WordPress system to change behaviour of WordPress
- Design of the various elements of WordPress, being posts / pages and categories
Now I still have a long way to go before the new theme is ready for deployment, but I’m slowly continuing the work on the new theme. Just to give you some insight on how the final version of the theme will look I’ve included some screen-shots of the latest development release.
Screenshot of new layout
Even when all the design stuff is done I’ll still have to do some integration of analytics software and the capabilities to show ads. As well as hooking back in all the various plug-ins I’ve been using for WordPress for the past couple of years.
