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Robert had some concerns about how Macromedia will respond to the AMF-PHP project. So its nice to see John write about AMF PHP legalities. Or not write about, depending on how you look at it ;-) Anyway, if you’ve read this far, yes, I don’t know anything about the legalities of all this. ;-) If you need something ironclad then I’d recommend contacting the lawyers directly. I haven’t seen any red flags in this area, for whatever that’s worth. He has, however, some nice comments on AMF-PHP and to me […]

And it seems to be especially ill in the US. Lately a lot of crazy patents has surfaced as the companies that succeeded acquiring them have tried to enforce them. The latest evidence of the illness and cluelessness of the patent system as it is today, is the news story about SBC Communications (american telco and ISP), a company that claims they have a patent on “A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined

Something to think about? Technical Difficulties

Sorry about that. I haven’t been sleeping (really) but I have been very busy starting a new business in a completely new field. I guess I should have informed you all about what has been going on, but it just hasn’t been the time or opportunity to do it. Flashguru is writing about the slow-down in the Flash blogs (or rather, the total silence from some of the blogs, including mine). I have been keeping updated on the other blogs and seen some interesting things happening – and miss seeing

I worked in radio for about 10 years here in Norway, and I could write a long rant about how the radio business has changed in Norway, how it used to be a lot more personal and interesting (I think the operative word is Fresh) than it is today. And I might just do that one day, but for now you will have to stick with reading about how radio got boring in the USA, in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Mourning DJs

Interesting article about Norway in the Independent today. Interesting because it paints , a for me, strange picture of how life is in Norway. Yes, it is expensive here. I just came back from dinner for two with my wife and it set us back about $120 (everything included at what is probably the best chinese restaurant in Europe – but I know.. still utterly expensive). The english journalist has obviously spent some time in Norway – and he went directly to the most expensive place to go in Oslo

Kylie in her own lingerie (ad for her own brand).

Behind the typeface: Cooper Black is a cool presentation based on VH1’s Behind The Music concept. Its made by Cheshire Dave and was a made as a “birthday present” for his site Mastication is normal. I think its a well made and funny presentation, and hope that Chesh will follow up with other presentations of other typefaces. [Via Chris MacGregor]

Remember that its System Administrator Appreciation Day today. Maybe you should give your SysAdmin some extra attention today? Geek cartoon UserFriendly has a strip about this special day.

I am trying to have some kind of a weblog vacation here – starting up a new company, trying to get some way overdue stuff done, and at the same time trying to at least sense that its summer, and then there are so many cool projects going on that I can’t ignore them. Not fair at all. But you have been warned, I will probably – most likely – hopefully, not post so much in the week(s) to come. But trust me to not keep quiet when I see