Adding categories

There is one thing missing in Blogger: a tool to categorise the posts.

Todays mission was to find a way to do it anyway. A quick search led me to an O'reilly hack which suggested that one should make a blog for each category and then feed the main blog with posts in the category blogs. I tried that and the result is visible beneath this post.

I wasn't satisfied with it, because

• I don't like that one can see that the post has been emailed to the blog.
• It would be rather time consuming to add a post to more than one category using this method.
• It's a bit annoying to have to have x amount of different blogs just to be able to categorise the posts on one blog.

There were some comments to the hack and one of them suggested that one use del.icio.us tags for categorising blog posts. I already had a del.icio.us account, so it only took me a few moments to create the first categogy - photo. It's not too much extra work, I just have to add a line in the bottom of the post saying categories: whatever and then link whatever to del.icio.us/laurits/whatever.

I'll use it from now and see how it works for me.

Categories: blogging

[re: the world - Lab] Testing...

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Posted by laurits baad holdt to re: the world - Lab at 7/24/2005 07:18:00 AM

[re: the world - Lab] Testing...

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Posted by laurits baad holdt to re: the world - Lab at 7/24/2005 07:10:00 AM

Pictures uploaded

I've just uploaded six pictures I took in London in April 1992. The pictures are taken a few days after IRA had planted and detonated a bomb at St. Marys Axe in City of London.

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Categories: photo

New old pictures

I've begun scanning and uploading some of my paper pictures to my Flickr! account. Yesterday I uploaded pictures from my trip to Ukraine in 2000. More pictures from my travels are underway and I will post new pictures as well. I just remembered that I have some pictures from London when the City of London was bombed by IRA in 1992. I'll scan and post those as well.

News as is happens

Today there has been some detonations in underground trains and a bus in London - same as two weeks ago, exept this there were no explosions and it seems nobody was killed.

My sister lives in London and my parents went there today. A couple of hours ago my sister texted my and told me that something was happening in London again. She couldn't get to any news source, so it tuned into BBC5 via the BBC news website to follow the situation and briefed her via text messages.

From my bag

Show me what's in your bag and I will tell you... whatever.

I have jumped the whatsinyourbag craze and taken a photo of all the stuff (well, almost - I forgot my sunglasses and a tourist map of Copenhagen in the front pocket) I usually carry around with me in my backpack.

Sometimes a carry a lot more. But in the spirit of simple living (as mentioned yesterday) I have started cleaning out my bag a couple of times a week. An I can tell you that it's good for the soul and the back.

See the picture with notes here.

Simple living I

I while back - when I moved to my second flat i Copenhagen three years ago - I began thinking that I had too many things and that should get rid of some of them. I then did the usual going through old school papers and such and got rid of a bit of it.

Somewhat later I realised that I had things that just took up space but were never used - things such as clothing I never used, outdated reference books etc. There were also things which was being used, but still took up an inappropriate amount of space, such as cases for my then 400+ cds. I replaced them with thin plastic sleeves, that takes up less than a fifth of the space. My cds are now stored in boxes and takes less space in my tiny home. They also weigh much less which is a bonus when one, as I have been doing for some years, move once a year.

There are still too much crap in my home though. So recently I have turned my attention to my books. I have a huge old-school Lundia bookshelf, which covers one wall in my room. I have quite many book which I have bought, found and been given during the last 25 years or so. I have only ever thrown out or sold a few books, but now is the time. Some of them has to go. This decision more or less coincided with my birthday (which is now commonly known as the day when fifty-some people were killed by bombs in London). My presents included seven books - about as many as I had singled out for expulsion from my book collection. Its good books, but now I have to find more old books to get rid of.

Bombs in Copenhagen?

After the four bombs in London on july 7th, people here has started wondering if Copenhagen is also on some terrorists list of targets. The reason for that being that Denmark along with US and UK are one of the official occupiers of Iraq.

London was an obvious target and many londoners were sort of expecting something like what happened to happen sooner or later.

Its different with Copenhagen. Hardly anybody know where it is and most of the people who do probably have no idea that there are Danish troops taking part in the occupation of Iraq. But some do know of course.

Terrorism is about publicity. The question is how much publicity there is in a bomb in Copenhagen. My guess is that there would be quite a lot of publicity in it, because if Copenhagen is a target then anywhere could be a target. So my conclusion must be that there is quite a serious risk that Copenhagen will be targeted by international terrorist sooner or later.

Good reading

I just finished John Pilgers "The New Rulers of the World". Great book!

Pilgers thing is to dig up un- or under-reported stories and wave them over his head. One chapter in the book is about the bloody history of Indonesia. In it he describes how the western powers helped the former dictator Suharto to power and how western companies then split the Indonesian economy between then. Another chapter is about Australia, Pilgers own country. Here he paints a picture of Australia that is fundamentally different from the one held by most people. He describes how Australia has failed to move on from its colonial/apartheid past in its threatment of the Aboriginal population. Well, just read the book. And watch his movies as well while your are at it.

Still offline

My office is still offline, so once again I'm at the café with wifi. It's a nice place and the staff is friendly, but I still miss not having to go to a caf'e to check my mail. I really, really should get a adsl connection at home.