April 28th, 2008
I have too much stuff online, so I am trimming down my website.
My homepage and all the old pages will be removed, and I will no longer maintain the rather big wiki website I used to host. Several other areas that have not been maintained for ages and that have no visitors will also go away. I will also no longer post on http://blog.g-b.dk, so if you are subscribed to a feed from there, make sure you update your feed reader to http://torben.g-b.dk/ instead.
What remains is just this new site, containing a blog and a gallery. The blog might contain everyday stories and thoughts, as well as pointers to new additions to the photo gallery. Hopefully this approach will be more useful to people who care about me and my life.
Posted in Torben, leisure, technology | No Comments »
April 8th, 2008
Just outside of Vienna, to the north-east, lies a small town named Korneuburg. It’s a peaceful neighborhood — and this summer, it will be our neighborhood! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, family | No Comments »
February 11th, 2008
I love the guys over at Improv Everywhere. Their latest scene, Frozen Grand Central, is impressive in its incongruous simplicity.
The tricks they use are so simple that, literally, anyone can be part of their scenes. So why don’t we see more of this? Where are the ‘branch offices’ in other cities?
Posted in Jan, leisure | No Comments »
January 14th, 2008
Last week, my PDA gave up in the middle of a sentence. It just froze. The LED stopped blinking and remained ON. The touch screen didn’t react, the keyboard didn’t either. Not even a hard reset could revive it. It can now be used as a door stop, if only it were bigger and heavier. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, technology | 6 Comments »
November 24th, 2007
No, this is not Hollywood, or even Halloween. Today I felt like surfing a little on YouTube and came across this video of a man proposing a solution to whether to treat global warming like a serious threat or not. His reasoning seems fair, and he presents his case very well. He asks only to be listened to. See if you can find a mistake in his reasoning; I can’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben | No Comments »
October 16th, 2007
I’m a fairly new scholar in the art of GTD. Of course I have my problems — with getting started, with sticking to it, and with managing my lists (i.e. my tools). For this post, I’m going to focus on my take on projects. Or, I should say, project (singular).
Many GTDers are commenting on the problems with deciding the proper width and breadth of their projects; some people try to measure and compare the number of projects they have on their desk and then try to decide what that number means in terms of their GTD-fu. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: fractal, GTD, outline, project
Posted in Jan, gtd | 2 Comments »
August 21st, 2007
Seems I’m not the only one not liking the new Microsoft stuff, Vista and Office 2007. Joel Spolsky notes that it already starts with opening the wrapping, and gets worse from there: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, technology | No Comments »
August 14th, 2007
On reflecting on my previous post, I will have to confess that I am a fan of most stuff that Google offers. I use many of their services, and I also install some of the nifty local applications distributed in the Google Pack, though notably not the entire suite. Here’s what I like and use: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, technology | No Comments »
August 14th, 2007
I just swapped my old pc for a new one. With all the proper backups in place, it’s easy to load all the old data and software back onto the now pc and get on with it.
But should I? I asked myself if I ever really need any of this. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, leisure, technology | 1 Comment »
July 16th, 2007
I flew a model helicopter this weekend! Markus, a friend from work, is very much into this hobby (which is rather expensive if you make mistakes) and he meets regularly with fellow model pilots. In the past few weeks we’ve met a few times and trained on the simulator: model software running on a computer, with a USB interface that plugs into the R/C controller. He immediately recognized my natural talent (his words, not mine!) as I started on the simulator, and after less than 2 hours sim training I was ready for real air. That was this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Torben, leisure | No Comments »