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Posted in New media, Tech, web 2.0, writing, tagged join, micro blogging, social network, toobydoo, twitter, web 2.0 on September 30, 2008 | No Comments »

If you look in the side bar of this site you will find a widget called “What am I doing?”. In this my twitter updates show up. But what is Twitter you might think. Well, it’s something called micro blogging, but that is really a term that makes about as much sense as the later Nietzsche… [...]

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Books for Twits

Posted in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Podcast, Tech, author, books, web 2.0, tagged europe, Tech, TWiT, archive.org, TWiL, Dvorak, Laporte, Howell, Kahle, books, google books, yahoo, scanning, microsoft, history, literature, open library, european, denmark, norway, sweden, iceland, finland, scandinavia, digitise, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »

In listening to the latest episode of This Week in Tech, I was at first horrified that I would not get my normal weekly dose of half-arsed, funny but still very informative insights into the world of tech and Web 2.0. The tone was serious! Well, I still clung on, and in many ways this [...]

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The Twilit Theatre presents: Horror Express (1973)

Posted in Horror, Legends, Monsters, Movies, New media, Streaming, web 2.0, tagged Movies, cinema, christopher lee, peter cushing, hammer horror, archive.org on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »

In a continuing theme of testing different things with wordpress, I decided to take VodPod for a spin. This is because, while I do like the blogging system that is wordpress, I find it extremely annoying that you can’t post Flash nor JavaScript. To a certain extent this is alleviated by VodPod. It’s a service [...]

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Musical tests

Posted in Legends, Streaming, apps, music, web 2.0, tagged cry of the celts, internet archive, lord of the dance, music, open source audio, Streaming, test on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »

This is just a test to see how I can incorporate music and other media links to blog posts here on the Twilight. I hope you enjoy this Open Source Audio from the Internet Archive: Cry of the Celts.
May the road rise up to meet you!
Thobias

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Linotype FontExplorer X

Posted in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Tech, apps, mac, web 2.0, writing, tagged atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »

People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement.
So [...]

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TwilightChicken - India Style

Posted in Philosophy, Religion, web 2.0, writing, tagged recipe, Indian, food, chicken, curry, raita, papadums, tasty, good, nice, kitchen witch on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »

One thing I truly love is indian food. And, wile you can get very good Indian food in Lund at New Delhi or Govindas, both those restaurants have at least two problems. 1. I don’t live close by (arguably not their fault, but there you are) and 2. it costs money to eat there. On [...]

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Where’s Thobias?

Posted in Tech, apps, author, web 2.0, writing, tagged contact, personal, web 2.0 on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »

Some people have asked where to find me on the web. Well, to just list the personal stuff, most of my locations can be found via my FriendFeed, and many of them are listed over at Pownce as well.
Happy surfing!
Thobias

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Reviews coming up soon! But a little something.

Posted in New media, Philosophy, Tech, apps, mac, web 2.0, tagged evernote, firefox 3, recommend, stable, web 2.0, web apps on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well, two nice things happened this week in the world of web. First Firefox 3 Beta 5 was released. So far I’ve only played with it, but having used most of the betas, I have to say, it looks good, it’s fast, compatible and reasonably stable on my system (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11). The [...]

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