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Windows machines automatically open up the Poken website upon attaching a Poken to your computer because it is a USB device and has an autorun.inf file. On Mac OS X machines however, this does not happen of course, since autorun.inf is Windows specific. It ocurred to me however, that it is easy to emulate on the Mac using the Do Something When software. It is a System Preferences panel that allows you to specify actions to take when inserting removable media. So how can you instruct Do Something When to open up the Poken website automatically when you attach your Poken? It's actually pretty simple:
For reference, the rule settings in Do Something When should be as follows:

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From ValleyWag:
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 12
20of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. (...) The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support.
20 sounds like an awful lot. Best wishes to those that are involved.
(Hat tip: crschmidt)
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I've already posted my top 50 albums for 2008, and my top 10 songs, but I should write something about the top 10 albums of the year (as that's where the songs come from after all).
10. Coldplay - Viva La Vida The fourth studio album of Coldplay, that was said to be more lyrically deep. It delivers, while still remaining unrecognizable Coldplay. Much for my love of this album is in the way that arrangements are great, and sometimes the supporting melody is even more beautiful than the main melody (which is exactly why Viva La Vida is on the top 10 songs).
9. Emiliana Torrini Emiliana's third internationally released album is a much lighter album than her previous one. And that is a good sign. I love the diversity of this album, ranging from the typical folky songs such as Fireheads, and the slightly more upbeat songs such as Me and Armini to the chilly Dead Duck. This is all exeplified in the song Birds, which starts off as a quiet folks song, then lingers a bit, and suddenly turns more intense and reminiscent to an Air song.
8. Sia - Some People Have REAL problems Sia's third album delivers nice sounding songs in general. Compared to the second album, the songs are more "gounded", so to speak, as it comes of less dreamy. The best song on this album is Academia, a collaboration with Beck (who made a good album as well this year).
7. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories ... Hello Saferide is a norwegian band, fronted by Annika Norland. As with much of my music discoveries, I found out about Hello Saferide through last.fm. The main characteristic of the songs on this album is that they simply have great lyrics, and end in a smewhat srprising fashion (either musically or lyrically).
6. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing The Ting Tings debut album delivers primarily because of the awesome singles, which are incredibly catchy and will not get out of your head. Just fun music to listen to.
5. Lykke Li - Youth Novel Highly interesting, this Swedish singer. The album contains great songs, with often one or more odd sound effects in them ;), and pleasuring arrangements. Lykke's dreamy voice also adds to the greatness of the album.
4. Morcheeba - Dive Deep Morcheeba kicked out their lead singer, before working on this album. Normally, this is not a good sign. Anyone remeber Sneaker Pimps? They were no fun anymore when they threw out Kelli Ali. But somehow, Morcheeba came out for the better on this one. Several artists lend their vocals for the songs on the album, and they picks are great. I'm starting to think that this is their best release since Big Calm, which came ot in 1998.
3. Charlotte Sometimes - Waves And The Both of Us Charlotte Sometimes is an american singer, who is just 20 years old. The album features songs where she comes off strong and with confidence. And if you think that maybe she's getting a little bit too cocky, then there's the more fragile Build the Moon and Pilot.
2. The Killers - Day and Age The Killers' third one is a major hit -- I think it is by far their best album. The best about this album is however, that they are balancing on the thin line of being either completely serious or completely absurd. And that's difficult to pull off. Anyway, the intrumentation, which lends heavily from the 80's is irresistible.
1. Adele - 19 The most impressive album of this year, however, is Adele's debut. She has an awesome voice, and is pleasently modest about her achievements. The songs on this album are all greatly executed. High points (for me) are Tired, with the awesome intrumentation, and the more than excellent cover of Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love.
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My year in cities, as per Kottke and Mark
One or more nights were spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.
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I've finally managed to narrow down the list of 50 albums down to 10, and I've taken one song from each album to form a top 10 of songs of 2008 (In no particular order). You can download it from here (MP3, 63.5MB). Have fun listening!
The songs:
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Killers - This Is Your Life
Sia - I Go To Sleep
Hello Saferide - I Wonder Who Is Like This One
Lykke Li - Hanging High
The Ting Tings - Be The One
Morcheeba - Riverbed
Charlotte Sometimes - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Adele - Tired
Emiliana Torrini - Birds
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I've finally managed to put a selection of vacation photos online that covers the two and a half weeks that I spent in Calfornia a few months ago. It's not unlikely that I'll add some more photos in the coming weeks though.
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It's the first of December today, which means that it's slowly getting time for some reflection on the past year. So also this year, I will be working towards a list of the music albums that were released this year, and which I consider to be the best. So here's the first step towards such a list. Listed in alphabetical order, and look out for the top 10 at the end of the month.
1. Adele - 19
2. Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
3. Alphabeat - This is Alphabeat
4. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
5. Amy Studt - My Paper Made Men
6. Anna Ternheim - Leaving On a Mayday
7. Beck - Modern Guilt
8. Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood Me
9. Charlotte Sometimes - Waves and the Both of Us
10. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
11. CSS - Donkey
12. Dido - Safe Trip Home
13. Duffy - Rockferry
14. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
15. Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned
16. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
17. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
18. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
19. Heather Nova - Jasmine Flower
20. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories
21. Jason Mraz - We Sing We Dance We Steal Things
22. Jem - Down To Earth
23. Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
24. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
25. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
26. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
27. Lady Ga Ga? - The Fame
28. Laura Marling - Alas I Can Not Swim
29. Lykke Li - Time Flies
30. Mandi Perkins - Alice in No Man’s Land
31. Maria Mena - Cause and Effect
32. Marit Larsen - The Change
33. Mirah - The Old Days Feeling
34. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
35. Morcheeba - Dive Deep
36. Novastar - Almost Bangor
37. Pink - Funhouse
38. Portishead - Third
39. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants
40. Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
41. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin’
42. She & Him - Volume One
43. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
44. Simone White - I Am The Man
45. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
46. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
47. The Long Blondes - Couples
48. The Killers - Day & Age
49. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
50. The Verve - Forth
What do you think?

I had a lot of fun this weekend participating in a volleyball tournament. Unfortunately we only won one volleyball match, but we compensated that with winning the competition for best outfit! As you can see, we spent some time thinking about it, so I think we fully deserved to win.