Posted by: Søren
in Sport on May 30, 2010
The last three years I have been running Copenhagen Marathon. This year my training has not been optimal since I started out training to late - at least if you want to run a fast marathon and beat your personal record (3.10 in 2008). Anyways - the weather was nice and Copenhagen Marathon has developed a lot - the amount of participants increases year by year. This year 12.644 runners had signed up - but only 9.847 made it to the start and 9.141 completed the race. I thought it was a great run this year - new route and okay weather - and a lot more people in the streets cheering and making a nice atmosphere.
Compared to the last year I had another running strategy. I tried to run - negative split - which is a marathon where you run the last part faster than the first part. I ran the first 21.1 km. in 1.41 and the last part in 1.48 and managed to cross the finish line in 3.27. Not my best marathon - but on the other hand I was fresh and could actually walk after the run. Great!
Posted by: Søren
in This website on May 29, 2010
You can it call it superficial and lazy. You can call it spot on and cool. I talk about my newest integration on www.ornholt.dk. I call it 50 tweets and it is all about what I tweet about. I spend a lot of time on Twitter and thought it would be cool to integrate my 50 latest tweets on my website. My tweets are of course not as long as a blog post - and not as descriptive - but can be as useful as an entire blog post (stripped down minimalism). I became a fan of making small updates instead of writing "long" blog post. The digital revolution with iPhone + 3G netiworks makes it possible to "connect" to the world in few seconds - and few words. Very convenient. I like!
Tweets, off course, cannot replace blog post in terms of length and content - but they can give you a short update - and it is fast to tweet it. So here goes the point: From now on I will tweet about "small things" - and write blog post about "big things". I also integrated the same feature on my iPhone website. Check it out here.
Posted by: Søren
in CMS on May 24, 2010
Joomla! CMS has in many ways been outperformed by Wordpress and Drupal when it comes to the amount of minimal and aesthetic websites found on the internet. Joomla! CMS is mainly used for communities and website portals - where the website works as an information portal whereas you see many Wordpress based websites in categories like fashion, design and lifestyle magasins and blogs. I believe Joomla! has more functionality and outperforms Drupal if we are talking an user-friendly backend and easy learning curve, but when it comes to beautiful front end and design Joomla! seems to be the loser - because there is a not a lot of beautiful Joomla! based websites out there.
Designers and people working with aesthetic normally choose another platform than Joomla!. And I guess it is because you experience so many bad designed and "more is more" Joomla! websites out there. Keeping things simple and clean is not a first priority for many Joomla! programmers and designers - which is of course a big mistake.
Posted by: Søren
in Design on May 17, 2010
It is no secret I rather live in a hipster home than a no hipster home. But according to the very satirical blog Unhappy Hipsters - hipsters are not happy. The blog, Unhappy Hipsters underline their point taking images from the architecture and design magazine Dwell, and interpret the emotional states of the people in the photos.
The point is: Why are these hipsters so unhappy when they live in fancy modern design houses and apartments - which is supposed to make them happy? Anyways - the blog is great fun and the houses pretty cool. Visit the blog here and read more about why hipsters are unhappy in modern houses here.
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