Kim Bach . Org » Kim Blog (English)

My weapon – XTC

Kim — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:32:58 +0000

I dunno wot she got
I dunno wot she got
I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me
No telling where she learn the things she do to me
And I don’t know what she done wrong but I want to hurt her

(wanna) take it out on her
Take it out on her
Take it out on her
With my weapon

She’s so exacting that she tells me when I go wrong
She doesn’t value the attention she receives
She says I’m taking all the time but I’m not returning
(that’s right)

‘Do this’ but she won’t do that
Lying beside me like a parcel of fat
Hot love – cold sweat – feel her beneath me wanna crush her to death
She tries to justify the people who despise me
She puts her finger on things she knows will hurt
And I can’t defend myself till we turn the lights off then

I dunno wot she got – my weapon
My secret weapon

What are the odds? #eDen

Kim — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:11:33 +0000

…maybe I should get a lotto-ticket, today’s jackpot is at a KEWL DKK 100 million… nah people that don’t play the lotto are boring people with no dreams…like…me

A real conversation

Kim — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:56:33 +0000

“So do you know why you counted the wrong amount” she asked, adding “it’s because you’re stressed! Get a cup of coffee or the like”. “I’ll use the simple solution…” I responded, after opening a random page, “what I need is ‘a real conversation’. This one, one I had earlier today and I’m expecting to have with my good friend Benjamin in a short while…have a nice day”

I am an AMATEUR

Kim — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:31:55 +0000

Inspired by LauraJul.dk – I am not an expert

The first time

Kim — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:47:22 +0000

Kim Bach . Org: Kim Bach . Org Colophon

Kim Bach . Org >> Blog Archive >> Danish Survival Guide

flickr.com: kimbach

EnAnden

da.wikipedia.org: Bruger:Kim Bach

Karnak – Wikipedia, den frie encyklopædi

commons.wikimedia.org: User:Kim Bach

Picture of a statue of the Egyptian goddess Hathor from the Luxor Museeum, Luxor, Egypt. The statue is from the period of the XVIIIth Dynasty and was found at the Luxor temple. The statue is about human size. The picture was taken by Kim Bach, Copenhagen, Denmark on the 17th of October 2004

en.wikipedia.org: User:Kim Bach

Pyramid du Louvre – Wikipedia, the free encyklopedia

Jaiku: @kimbach

kimbach posted to #reboot: finally arrived…

twitter: @kim_bach

Still looking for my first tweet – I’m sure it’s out there somewhere, but twitter doesn’t really give you access to your full history

Google+: kim.bach

Jeg er ikke alene, der er folk der følger mig//Har det helt på det René//Jeg har det ligesom mig

Take the “Pepsi-challenge” Google+

Kim — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:24:18 +0000

With all the talk about g00g+ (Google+), and the comparision with facebook, I came to think about a regular usecase on facebook, can I do that on g00g+ – today?

Create a page for an organisation
Create an event for that organisation
Invite people to the event
Update the people of the organisation
Update the attendees of the event
Create a campaign to promote the event and/or the organisation

All of the above, is possible to with facebook in approx. 15 minutes.

So take the Pepsi-challenge g00g+

Crossposted to | g00g+ | twitter | facebook | Illustration from the brilliant comic XKCD – Fanø you Mr. Randall Munroe for luring me to Google+, guess I made a splash though

ps.

I’ve included a link to a discussion about the challenges businesses are facing with g00g+ from Advice Digital (in Danish) advice digital: Google+ udfordrer virksomheders digitale position by René Clausen Nielsen and Birgitte Raben. They have answered my questions: “you can’t do this – yet”. I really doubt g00g can top facebook on this – but we should all embrace, and welcome, the competion, and g00g are good at “stealing” ideas.

Update: July 19th 2011

I’ve included a link to a discussion from “digitale tanker: Thoughts on Google+ and links to great reviews” – someday I might “get” “circles” – I’ve focused on a business oriented use-case here.

Update: July 25th 2011

I’ve included a link to an article by Henriette Weber “The social network on steroids – my first thoughts on Google +” – she’s also talking about “circles” – which I still don’t get. BTW, the only reason I noticed this article was because she shared it on…Google+

Mythology Club People telling stories, the old fashioned way

Kim — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:53:35 +0000

Twitter is great, because people share so much stuff, this morning I saw a tweet from Jyri Engeström, of Jaiku fame, and his tweets always gets my attention.

This morning even more so, this is what @Jyri tweeted:

For all you interested in the Mythology Club, @kio_pio who started it has created a page explaining how it works: http://bit.ly/cvK7Cu

That resonated with me, so I checked out the site’s about page http://mythologyclubnyc.wordpress.com/about/, the basic idea is outlined the abstract:

What Is Mythology Club?
Mythology Club is a sporadic gathering of people who like to tell and listen to stories. It’s myths as they were meant to be, it’s a sociable way to get some literary and historical awesomeness in your life.

Here’s how it works. We get together for an evening of mythological storytelling and lots of booze. So far it’s been a group of 15-20 people, with between 4-6 people as storytellers each evening.

If you’re a teller, you pick your favorite myth/classical tale (from any culture), and you tell your rendition of it to the assembled throng. The definition of myth is loose. It could be from a classical tradition like Greek, Egyptian, Norse. It could also be the Ballad of Stagger Lee, or your own whopping fish story if it’s personal classic. The main thing is that it has a ritual quality that comes from repeated telling, and you make it yours. You don’t have to be an expert storyteller. We’re a friendly lot.

Doesn’t that sound like great idea? I mean I know of similar concepts, like BestTellers, but they tend to be less inviting, and the storytellers tend to be professional

Mythology Club has a BarCampy feel to it, and it might, eventually, turn us into pros.

So who’s first to syndicate this? I think Mythology Club Copenhagen has a nice ring to it, and YES I’ve already picked my first myth, for hints look here: Kong Skjold

iRLike [ir-like] – taking the facebook iLike metaphor IRL

Kim — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:49:46 +0000

I’m a big fan of facebook’s iLike metaphor, it’s so great that you can only give positive feedback.
I think that the positive-sharing culture that facebook, and most other social networks, are facilitating, is exactly what we need to combat the crisis that I feel that has been rampant since 9-11.

So recently I’ve taken the positive-sharing metaphor to real life (IRL), and it has worked quite well I’d say. I’m calling this to IRLike or iRLinking.

I get the best feedback when I iRLike tattoos, everyone seems very flattered, I guess that has something to do with the fact that getting a tattoo sends a signal that you’re confident crossing barriers.

iRLiking jewelery, usually works quite well too, but I don’t think I’ll iRLike teenagegirl’s jewlery again, it is sending mixed signals.

The idea here is to reengineer reality in the spirit of positive sharing, much like facebook has done, and then log-off and have some fun, people!

HAPPY iRLiking!

The Girl From Ipanema

Kim — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:19:01 +0000

I love this song, below are the lyrics, in English, and the chords – yes now that I have a guitar, again, I might give it a shot

Jobim Antonio Carlos : “Girl from ipanema” Guitar chords

Writer:Vinícius de Moraes and Norman Gimbel (English lyrics)
Composer:Antônio Carlos Jobim

Tall and tan and young and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes – ah
When she walks, she’s like a samba that swings so cool and sways so gently
That when she passes, each one she passes goes – aah

Ooh But I watch her so sadly,
How can I tell her who loves her,
Yes it would give his heart gladly
,
Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, he smiles – but she doesn’t see
(Ooh) But I watch her so sadly, how can tell her I love her
Yes I would give my heart gladly,
But each day, when she walks to the sea

She looks straight ahead, not at me

Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely, the girl from Ipanema goes walking

And when she passes, I smile – but she doesn’t see (She just doesn’t see, she doesn’t see)

Solution to Visual Studio 2008 Error: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8007007E)

Kim — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:30:21 +0000

This blog-post documents the process involved in solving a strange problem in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

Before I go on to describe the process, I’ll I give you the solution that worked for me, a system DLL called MSVCR71.DLL was missing from the computer that had the problem, copying MSVCR71.DLL from a computer that didn’t have the problem, solved it.

When I say “worked for me”, it means that it might not work for you, but the problem is likely to be caused by another missing DLL.

Frustration
For days I was struggling with an error that meant that I couldn’t debug web-applications from Visual Studio 2008, if I tried to debug a web-application, it would simple show a stack-dump that stated:

The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8007007E)

What made it even more strange, was that we had a completely identical computer, in terms of hardware and operating system (Windows 7 64-bit), that didn’t show this behaviour.

The most wonderful thing about the error was that it stated that a specified module could not be loaded, but it didn’t tell me which? Great!

Google to the rescue? Not really! Since this is a very generic error, and a lot of people seem to be experiencing it, and I couldn’t see any pattern in the answers people came up with.

First I tried to reinstall Visual Studio 2008, and, as I expected, that changed nothing.

From Google the evidence was piling up, some file(s) was missing, but why was it working on the other computer.

I clearly needed the help from some tool A tool called “Dependency Walker” (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) was suggested, and it told me that I was missing the files GPSVC.dll and IEShims.dll, but both files were present on the system. GPSVC.dll in a 64-bit version though, IEShims.dll was present in both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version.

After strugling with this problem, looking for 32-bit version of the DLLs, I came to the conclusion that “Dependency Walker” was showing false positives, the two files seems to be hidden, at least when using the method of inspection that “Dependency Walker” uses. “Dependency Walker” might be useful to locate missing dependencies of other files, so I’ll keep it in my arsenal of tools, for this particular problem, it sent me looking in the wrong direction though.

Process Monitor
My next idea centered around the fact that a file was missing (DOH ). I knew of a utility that can monitor file-system access, I just couldn’t remember the name, and Google wasn’t immediately helpful, eventually I found a mention of “Process Monitor” (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx), and that seemed to be what I was looking for.

“Process Monitor” shows that there’s a lot going on, so I started experimenting with the filters, the easiest way to configure a filter is to right click on a message that looks irelevant, and then select “Exclude”, the right click is context sensitive to the column you’re clicking on.

I quickly focused on the events with the Result: “PATH NOT FOUND” and since I was looking for file-system access, I excluded all events where the Operation was begining with “Reg”, meaning a Registry access.

I suggest that you look for attempts to load a file by traversing the “PATH” environment.

Solution found: MSCVR71.DLL was missing
There was a lot of activity going on, but ended up focusing on a particular file: MSCVR71.DLL, and it was indeed missing

This screen-shot from Process Monitor highlights the problem when the MSVCR71.DLL file is missing:

After I copied the MSVCR71.DLL file to a location where it could be found by Visual Studio, the problem disappeared.

So why didn’t we see the error on other computers, with a seemingly similar configuration? It’s because the MSVCR71.DLL is distributed with several other software packages, and on the computer where Visual Studio 2008 worked, MSVCR71.DLL was installed with two packages: “Java Runtime Environment JRE6″ and “DropBox”, and the installers had added these to the PATH environment variable. Since these packages might be found on many developer-machines, this could explain why this problem is not showing up more often.

BTW: Now that I know the solution, it is, of course, very easy to find a post that gives the solution DOTNET Spider: .NET Error: the specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8007007E). Number one hit when Googling for “The specified module could not be found” msvcr71.dll.

External links