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Yes, today I’m going to talk HTTP instead of shit.
This post will be updated throughout the day
https://twitter.com/timeline/home#search?q=%23talkhttpday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
HTTP/1.1 200
The fun thing is that this little game started on Facebook, right now I’m using a combination of Facebook and Twitter to co-create the revolution of the mellemrumssingularitet .
ps. it’s unfortunate that I have to use twitter and facebook, because Jaiku can do it all…
Yesterday the 15th of February 2009, marked the fifth year of me being a blogger. Technically I’ve had an Internet presence since 1999, but it’s the moment when I started using the service “blogger”, I count as the beginning of my “career” as a blogger.
My first real blogpost was a short “review” of the KRAFTWERK! concert in K.B. Hallen in 2004, which was fantastic:
Mass for the deities of techno
KRAFTWERK! – much better than expected – revelation that they’re such a live act – the bass made the doors flap. Bow to the funky devils aus Deutschland. Seems that I miss my techno
I think I was quite uncertain as to what to write in that entry, I knew I had no readers, and it is documented in the later entries that I had some doubts as to how wise it was to engage in publishing to the Internet.
Even though I started blogging in 2004, it wasn’t until autumn 2005 I really started blogging under the https://www.kimbach.org handle. With real blogging, I’m referring to fact that I transcended the diary format.
Looking back I’m pretty satisfied with my blog, and it’s great to have this assisted memory, it’s like a locker of fragments.
One sobering fact is that the biggest drivers of traffic to my blog remains the article about the 5002 error in iTunes and the article that contains a photo of chalk art by Julian Beever, which is heavily copied and hotlinked.
I’m most proud of some of my articles about technology where I’m blasting the monopolies, especially this one:
I’m also very satisfied with the concert reviews I’ve published, especially these:
Review: Woman power – Beyoncé gave the “Green Light†and other “coincidencesâ€
Review: Natacha Atlas Acoustic Ensemle – The “real†Madonna was in Copenhagen
My blogpost about the Ungdomshus summed up my feelings about it:
911 is another important topic, and I feel like that event really has been the inspiration behind much of the activities I’m engaged in today. My favourite article concerning 911 is this one:
Originally the topic of my blog was technology, but I can see from the tag-cloud, that the technology tag is shrinking, and the “kim bach” tag is growing, kimbach.org is increasingly about me, which is the way I want it to be.
In the colophon I’ve also summarised my personal goals:
Become:
Better at writing – so I can write a novel or maybe become a journalist
Better at reading – so I can have the patience to read Kierkegaard
Better at photography – so I dare to publish a photography book
Better at teaching – so I can help the kids in Mjølnerparken and elsewhere even more
To sum up: I work towards being able to make a living doing some, or all, of these things.
Since 2004 I’ve actually worked professionally as a teacher, and the only field I haven’t made progress in, is reading, so that will be a focus point in the future. I think some of my articles shows some journalistic merit, but I doubt that I’ll ever be able to make a living from it. I think I’ve become a better photographer, again I’m probably not going to be able to make a living from photography.
Stop googling yourself…
If you googled “kim bach” in june 2005, you had to browse to page 25, now I’m a bit easier to locate due to all the noise I’ve been making over the past five years. The result is that I’ve made lots of new friends in real life, had tremendous fun, organised events, been an activist. All in all: being active in the blog-community has changed my life, and helped me reach my personal goals so:
Thank you all, and sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not done making noise!
The image that accompanies this article is from the wonderful comic Joy of Tech, it’s copyright Nitrozac & Snaggy, I’m hoping that the use here falls under “fair use”. Please support Joy of Tech by buying merchandise from their website.
Kim Bach
07/02/09 09.46
(måske ikke i dette tilfælde)
09/02/09 21.27
congratulations
09/02/09 21.27
(hung-over? var du på Rubadub Søndag Nat?)
Eternal Adventuress
09/02/09 22.23
ja
Kim Bach
09/02/09 22.23
cool
09/02/09 22.24
dancehall på en søndag er vist over mine evner
Eternal Adventuress
09/02/09 22.24
jeg fik at vide at jeg dansede som en 25-årig
09/02/09 22.24
ham jeg dansede med troede først at jeg var 32 da han så mig ude i lyset
Kim Bach
09/02/09 22.25
hæ fedt nok. det er gået ned ad bakke for mig, det er 5 år siden jeg dansede som en 25 årig, nu er det vist en 55 årig
09/02/09 22.28
(hmm…journalisten siger nu at der BLEV sagt “Perle”…)
INSTRUCTIONS:
IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Friedrich Gulda, Hans Swarowsky & Vienna State Opera Orchestra
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Mellow Mood – Material
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Calabi Yau Manifold – Dopplereffekt
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE
100 bpm – Mikæl Simpson
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Sexy Dancer – Prince
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Le Printemps (For Mona) – Natacha Atlas
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Freeland – Big Wednesday
WHAT IS 2+2?
All’ Aurora – Bernhard Lewkowitch
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIENDS
Mistlur – Martinez
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Sugar Never Tasted So Good – The White Stripes
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
When The World Ends (Oakenfold Remix) – Dave Mathews Band
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Fourty Days – Sound Directions
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
The Ostrich Effect – Dorit Chrysler
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Hayati Inta – Natacha Atlas
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Zorba’s Dance – The Sirtaki Orchestra
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Circus – Kelis
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Fynboen – Dirch Passer
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Kada sva sama – Olivia
WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
The Matrix Revolutions Main Title – Don Davis
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Who’s My Baby – Natacha Atlas
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Momentos – Andrea Bocelli
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
At Least You Tried – Neo Geo
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Achilles – Antena
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
long life – E.T.
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
The Boy From West Bronx – Future 3
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
All Day – Interfarence
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Dolphin Dance – Herbie Hancock
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Bliv Ved Med At Danse – MC Einar
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow – Brian Wilson
Tagged by Laura Marie Kiralfy on facebook, originally posted to facebook as Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow
BarCamp Copenhagen 8.2 on the 22nd of November 2008 is over, THANK YOU SO MUCH for being such a great crowd.
I’d like to extend a special thank you to the sponsors (Signal Digital, Københavns Erhvervs Akademi, Nabz.dk, basementcopenhagen and Toothless Tiger), Ras Bolding and our fabulous team Henriette Weber, Thomas Kristensen, Anders Bendix, Troels Wittrup, Benjamin Wendelboe, Laura Kiralfy and Mark Wubben – you ALL rock, and you KNOW it!
BTW! We’re trying to build a community site at barcamp.dk, so check back often for updates
Pre-camp game
I’m a 3 time veteran of BarCamp Copenhagen, and this time I had multiple roles, primary Henriette challenged me to host a pre-camp game, and this article is focusing on how that unfolded.
My roles were these:
Phew! I think that’s about it, no wait, I also found time to be a participant!
“Un-conference”
For those of you not familiar with the concept, BarCamp Copenhagen is part of the world-wide phenomenon BarCamp, and can best be described as a conference with a twist, a so-called un-conference.
I’ll try to illustrate the differences between a conference and BarCamp below.
Conference
BarCamp (un-conference)
Technological treasure hunt, huh?
My major contribution to BarCamp Copenhagen 8.2 was being organiser of the pre-camp warm up.
As mentioned, the task of organising a pre-camp warm-up was given to me by Henriette Weber, she had envisioned a “technological treasure hunt”, and I immediately jumped at the chance, but what to do?
Technology and treasure hunt, we’ll that should be something with GPS, isn’t that something you can assume that people have these days?
After looking into what existed in the market, and even considering if we should try to build our own, I was sort of stuck for at while.
I suspect that Henriette was getting a bit worried, so she sent Mark Wubben to the rescue, and that was great! Mark is probably the coolest guy I’ve ever met, and it’s hard to believe that he’s only 22. Mark is destined for greatness, and I’m humbled by his presence!
I quickly started down an avenue of sending the participants out to research the history of the neighbourhood where the event was to take place, but Mark, in diplomatic terms, told me that that sounded too boring, I instantly agreed, it did sound like a school project didn’t it? I guess my short career as a school teacher had a bad influence on my creativity ;-).
Brainstorm
On October 28th I met with Mark, and he made a couple of important points.
We had a great brainstorming session, and immediately we were turning in the direction of spies, conspiricies etc. Mostly because I instantly made the connection to November 22nd and the mother of all conspiracy theories, since November 22nd is the day of the JFK assassination.
So what we came up with was the concept of a spy-game where you were supposed to find an assassin, take a picture and return with it to the headquarter.
The assassin would be meeting with a contact at an undisclosed location, I thought of Nørrebroparken because it has a “grassy knoll” ;-).
The participitants would be divided into teams, and then sent around in the area looking for codes that, when found, should be relayed to HQ, resulting in another hint about the whereabouts of the assassin.
Planning
On the 8th of November Mark Wubben and I met to investigate the area, and we found several places that would be suitable for waypoints, we decided that Nørrebroparken would be too far away, since we only had two hours for the game, and wanted 5 hints/waypoints.
I didn’t really work too much on the detalis of the game, after the 8th, but when the 22nd of November approached, I suddenly decided that we needed a website to support the game, and what you can whip together in two shakes of a rats tail using Drupal is just amazing, I had a full community site with full geolocation support up and running in a few hours.
Calls for participation
Approx. one week prior to the event, we issued an e-mail with a call for participation, and people were asked to sign-up for the pre-camp event, this was before I had configured the website, so I received a possitive answer from a few people.
Teaser
On the eve of the event, I then sent out this e-mail to the people that had responded to the call for participation:
Dear Agent,
You’ve been selected as a prospect to lead a team at BarCamp Copenhagen.
You will be given a mission that requires that you operate as a field agent from 10am to 11:59am.
Any technology you bring can potentially help you, but you’ll need, at least a camera and a cellphone.
There will be a briefing at 10am on November 22nd @Lygten 16.
Until then you can get updates at the barcamp.dk site, so check back frequently. http://barcamp.dk/content/barcamp-copenhagen-intelligence-agency
If you choose to accept the mission I’ll need your cell-phone number.
Kind regards
Kim Bach aka. K.ox
BCCIA Director
I received commitment from 4 people, I picked them as team-leaders, so that we would have four teams, and now I started building the website, having specific locations geocoded on the website helped me produce nice maps, so all I needed was to finalise the plot.
In the week leading to the event I had enlisted two of my friends to act as agents, and one of them is an experienced role-player so she helped me debug the game, she suggested that I should get rid of the good/bad distinction, and focus on making it much more confusing what was good and bad.
We met the night before BarCamp and decided that the mission should be for the teams to located the whereabouts of an agent, deliver documents, that they should document the handover of the documents, and return to base. What they weren’t aware of was that there was a second agent operating, and that he should steal the documents and disappear.
Hackable game
As mentioned, Mark Wubben tought me the importance of the game being “hackable”, this means that you should be able to bend the rules, so what I came up with was this:
The plot
I ended up with a plot where the participants were sent out to locate field agent Szeba, they would be guided by hints that were given to them once they had gone to a waypoint and located the access code and sent it by SMS to HQ
The mission was to hand over some documents to the agent, and return with proof that the documents were delivered to the agent, and return to HQ.
The twist
What the participants didn’t know, was that I had also enlisted another agent, Petrus. The idea was that the agent would steal the documents once they were delivered to agent Szeba.
Game-on
On the eve of the evening I met with agents Szeba and Petrus (aka. Signe and Kim, thank you for helping me, you guys rock).
We went over the plan.
Szeba would be at Nørrebro Station at 11:30 waiting for the documents, Petrus would be lurking, wait for the next train, steal the documents and jump on the train just before it left.
We were ready for the game – mu-ha-ha-ha – it will be GREAT!
Stay tuned for the part two of this where you’ll be told how the game actually unfolded.
The picture that accompanies this article was taken by Karin Høgh, it’s copyright Karin Høgh and she has allowed me to use it here. The picture shows one of my bags!
It’s time for the yearly Copenhagen event “Kulturnatten”, or “Night of Culture”, and I’m basically done planning for it.
At the bottom of this post, you’ll find a list of events I’ve saved to my profile on kulturnatten.dk, unfortunately they don’t have a RSS feed or a URL that I can share, so I had to copy/paste/edit the list :-(.
I’m planning to attend the events below, but I usually stray, and end up in strange places, my recommendation is to just go with the flow, and stay in places longer than you originally planned for, if you feel “good vibes”.
Last year the high point for me, was a visit to the old shipyard crane on Holmen, which is back this year, and Ars Nova in Marmorkirken, which isn’t :-(.
The events hit by elitism
I’ve been a huge fan of Kulturnatten for several years, but this year the organisers has decided to limit the official program, and has weeded out some events that had been running, successfully for several years, for instance the event by IT Politisk Forening.
I’ve been noticing that Kulturnatten over the years has become more and more like a carnival, and that was somewhat annoying, but I think that the strict selection of “relevant” events is an example of elitism.
This being said, the Kulturnat is an impressive show of strength, and I’ll keep on attending, even though I strongly disagree with the new policy of the organisers.
List of events I’m planning to attend:
Kultmusik og magiske videoinstallationer
Kultfænomenet Snöleoparden fylder gården med sin særlige equilibristiske nordiske version af østens musik, alt imens den verdensberømte kunstner Yang Fudongs magiske videoinstallationer tegner billed…
Time: 18:00 – 00:00
Place: GL STRAND, Gammel Strand 48
Lasershow illuminerer facaden på Charlottenborg
Facaden på Charlottenborg er hele kulturnatten illumineret med klassisk italiensk billedkunst. Lasershow arrangeret af den romerske kunstner Livia Canella.
Time: 18:00 – 00:00
Place: Danmarks Kunstbibliotek, Kongens Nytorv 1, Postboks 1053
Konspirationsteorier fra Tempelriddere til 11. sep
Konspirationsteorier er som en virus, der angriber, når immunforsvaret er svækket. Med benhård historisk kildekritik afmonterer Dan H. Andersen nogle af nutidens mest populære myter og konspirationst…
Time: 20:30 – 21:30
Place: Frederiksberg Bibliotek, Falkoner Plads 3
Polkageist Power Party
Nyd energifyldt koncert inspireret af salsa, calypso, funk, rock og balkanmusik sammen med “cool” øko-snacks.
Generel info: handicapfaciliteter, bespisning
Time: 21:00 – 22:30
Place: Det Europæiske Miljøagentur, Kongens Nytorv 6
Social networking /foredrag
Kim Sneppen, Models of Life, NBI
Time: 22:00 – 22:30
Place: Niels Bohr Institutet, Blegdamsvej 17
Herredømmet – Lykke, Thordal, Trier & Zahle
Carsten Lykke, Kenneth Thordal, Tobias Trier & Oliver Zahle pisker stemningen helt i vejret med en vittig, varm og swingende koncert om den moderne mands genvordigheder. Sangenes tema “Mænd forstår a…
Time: 22:00 – 00:00
Place: Frederiksberg Bibliotek, Falkoner Plads 3
Salsa Loca – Kulturnattens hedeste danseaften
Traditionen tro spiller Salsa Loca op til dans. Kulturnatten afsluttes på denne måde med et brag af en fest med livesalsamusik af bedste kvalitet og dans til den lyse morgen.
Time: 22:00 – 03:00
Place: Krudttønden, Serridslevvej 2
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For 10-years the Danish housing market has enjoyed inflatory growth rates, backed by changing administrations in an unholy alliance with the credit-unions, and a seemingly never-ending, and historically cheap, credit, the average to upper middle-class financed their escalating consumerism by “eating bricks” (i.e. taking out mortgages).
Everybody knew it would end at some point, but what is the solution suggested by our politicians? Bail-out packages of historic proportions.
We can’t afford that people loose faith in “our” financial institutions.
Suddenly they’re ours? What has happened the last 10 years is that credit-giving has been based on the premisses that housing-prices will keep going up at super-inflatory rates, and when credit was running thin, we’ll just boost it by allowing people to take out mortgages where you only pay the interest.
This has led to the following:
Our financial institutions
The Danish financial market has undergone the biggest changes in more than 100 years over the last 10-20 years.
The Danish credit-unions was based on solidarity and they were owned by the mortgage-holders not the big banks, if you look at your mortgage payments, you’ll notice that you pay something called “bidrag”, these days it’s simply a fee, but it used to be called “reservefondsbidrag” (“reserve-fee”), and it was paid back to mortgage holders if the credit-union did have to dig into the reserves, read was running a healthy business.
Why the focus on stock prices?
Personally I don’t understand the huge focus on stock prices. The stock-market is highly volatile, and what is reported in the news is the stock index, which is an average based on a selected few of the major companies, the Danish stock-exchage index is called OMX-20, the 20 refers to the fact that only 20 of the listed companies are counted in the index.
The market cap of these 20 companies does indeed represent a huge percentage of the total market, but they’re also carefully selected based on the performance of the stock, and if one or a few of the 20 companies sneezes the market catches a cold.
The focus on stock-prices will only hit you if you sell, if the companies are healthy they will make a profit, and you’ll receive dividends
Mortgage 101: Why I sleep tight at night
My own mortgage is made up of 60% variable rate, and it’s refinanced every year. Right now it looks like I’ll have to pay .5% higher interest next year, but I think this might change and probably to the better. Why do I think so? The variable rate mortgages are financed by selling of bonds, and since we have a financial crisis that hits the stock market, bonds are in higher demand which means higher prices and thus lower interest rates.
The financial crisis also means that short-term bonds should be in higher demand, making the variable rate mortgages more attractive. But since the short-term bonds are less attractive for the credit-unions, they’re trying to convince the mortgage-owners to refinance or take out insurance, which will make them more money.
I’m keeping my variable-rate, short-term, mortgage.
Take back your financial institutions
I suggest that we go back and look at how the credit-unions originally were organised, owned by the mortgage-holders, based on solidarity and healthy loan giving.
The idea of people being able to finance their house is instrumental in improving the quality of life, a lot of people haven’t been able to afford this due to the inflatory prices and rampant mortgage-giving using creative and unhealty offers.
It’s time to take back our financial institutions and our lives, but also to stop the rampant consumerism and the irresponsible behaviour, that is helping destroy the planet.
The financial crisis: a control mechanism?
Personally I feelthink that the financial crisis is a “control mechanism” on the scale of “The Matrix”. It’s meant to scare us into fearing the future, and since we’ve taken out loans we can’t really afford to pay, driven by irresponsible lending politics, we’re forced to work even harder, and even remain active in the workforce for a longer period.
Hmm, this sounds exactly like what the OECD and The Danish Economic Council, and thus the Government, has prescribed.
Sources:
The image that is used above is taken from WikiMedia Commons and it shows the “TED spread”.
The “TED Spread†is a measure of credit risk for inter-bank lending. It is the difference between: 1) the risk-free three-month U.S. treasury bill rate; and 2) the three-month London Interbank Borrowing Rate (LIBOR), which represents the rate at which banks typically lend to each other. A higher spread indicates banks perceive each other as riskier counterparties. The t-bill is considered “risk-free” because the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is behind it; theoretically, the government could just print money so you will get your principal back at maturity.
Opdateret den 10-oktober-2008.
Vi har nu fundet stedet vi skal være. Det bliver på Københavns Teknisk Skole på Lygten 16, 2400 København NV. At vi har fundet sådan et fantastisk sted, betyder at vi udvider antallet af deltagere fra 50 til 100.
Så skal vi til det igen, for tredie gang i alt, og for anden gang i år, bliver der afholdt BarCamp Copenhagen (applause).
Det eneste der er helt klart på nuværende tidspunkt er at dDet kommer til at foregå i på Københavns Tekniske Skole, Lygten 16, 2400 København NV (doh!), og at det bliver lørdag den 22-november-2008 fra kl. 10:00 til ??.
Hvis du ser videoen nedenfor så lover vi i øvrigt at “blyanterne vil vende tilbage”, hvis vi ikke finder nogle sponsorer. Vi vil gerne holde BarCamp gratis, men også på et vist niveau, så hvis vi ikke finder sponsorer, så må vi skrue ned for ambitionsniveauet, og i januar var vores prop altså nogle blyanter – fine, jo vist – men vi vil så gerne give jer noget endnu bedre.
Reglerne kender i vist efterhånden, ellers kan i læse dem her.
BarCamp handler om deltagelse, så det der gør BarCamp interessant, er DIG. Vær parat til at dele!
Til de første to BarCamp Copenhagen handlede det mest om præsentationer, men i år håber vi at kunne få mere gang i nogle diskussioner, og måske vil vi forsøge os med et mere workshop eller open space lignende format, smid evt. en kommentar hvis du har nogle ideer!
Vi regner med at have plads til 50 100 mennesker deltagere, og vi har allerede nu 31 tilmeldinger.
Så skynd dig at melde dig til ved at redigere wiki-siden på BarCamp.org, eller ved at bruge vores Facebook gruppe.
Ses vi? Det tror jeg nok vi gør!
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