Someone finally did it

In my previous post I joked about mankind and innovation
regarding the USBWine device. This post, however, is dead serious but still pretty amazing.

Some guys have created an "assistant that lets you focus on what you're doing, and not how you do it" as they define it themselves.

What is it? The guys at Humanized had a problem: "Computers are hard to use!". A lot of the task you perform at your computer every day, is in no way optimized for productivity. The goal for "Enso", as the product is called, is to remove these productivity barriers.

Many people have said this, but these guys have actually done it. Whatch the demo here: http://www.humanized.com/enso_demo.php

Unfortunately it doesn't work on Mac :-(

Mankind at the top of innovation

Well, we've finally reached the top. The max potential of the human brain. The best we can be!

What I'm talking about? Presenting: USBWine - the product that finally makes computers truly productive...

An Internet star is born

Once in a while, someone comes along and shows the world some wierd talent, skill, creativitiy, or just plain old stupidity. A lot of these 15-minutes of fame has been awarded through YouTube and American Idol, and another one has seen the light!

This time it's Renaldo Lapuz, performing "We're brothers forever" - an original composition dedicated to the Idol judge Simon Cowell.

I don't want to try and describe the performance, but I will point out, that I've never seen the judges on American Idol dance before ;-)

The replacement has been found

Okay, so the aoa.dk domain name has been sold, as I mentioned earlier, and the new domain name to take it's place has been found: www.AoA.nu

Not a very drastic change but still a change...

Be sure to check out the relics section - that's where we're putting all the classic stuff. A lot is already out there, and more will come as we dig deeper into our hard drives in search of fun stuff that previously has been a part of out aoa.dk website.

I also have some more news, but you'll have to wait for that a bit longer...

A day of mixed emotions

Today I feel a weird combination of goodness and badness..

On the bad side:
- I haven't done any work on my Java-project at all today
- I'm hungry
- I miss Composite (and most of all C# - Java is making me a bit angry)


On the good side:
- I went to a guest lecture at ITU today, with Anders Hejlsberg himself.. He spoke of C# 3.0 and the new features they are implementing, and a few times he kinda blew me away, although I've seen most of the stuff before in previous preview-bits. Anyway, it was a cool experience, and definetly woth the time.



After the lecture I went to a house-warming reception at some software company that is currently building a whole new e-commerce application. Hmm... Interesting guys there... Then I stopped by Composite HQ to check how things where, and had a long discussion with a dude there about the W3C DOM spec and how .NET and Java implement it differently. Cool!


So now I'm still hungry, and still have a lot to do, so I better get started :-)

I'd like to welcome myself

Hello Mads, and congrats on your new blogger blog... Hey - and welcome to you reading this!


So far nothing's in here, but I think I'll try and do something about that. I don't really have the time to post a lot up here right now - I'm working on a project for "school" (Copenhagen Business School) which proves to be very interesting, but also more time consuming than expected.


Anyway, the next couple of posts will probably be about the project, and will most likely be of the not-so-optimistic kind.

'Till then!