Idag blev det (äntligen) lite mer officiellt att jag börjar hos Iconvert. “Om”-sidan kanske blev lite krystad, men så skrevs det i all hast också. Och ja, ny sajt för Iconvert är på gång.
It’s been a while since Wordpress 2.8 aka. “Baker” was released. Even though I think “Coltrane” was a more fundamental change to the usability and backend of Wordpress, Baker proved to be the perfect excuse to complete some other improvements that have been on my to-do list for ages.
To start things up I’ve implemented disqus for handling comments. It’s an excellent framework that allows users to login using e.g. their Twitter or Facebook identities. As you might recall, I did some ‘ugly hacks’ to enable a Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect earlier. Disqus also has a neat feature called social media reactions which monitors conversions around your posts, so no need to use the backtype plugin or similar to bring the conversation back. I’d also like to reserve some extra kudos to the DISQUS-team, especially Giannii – they’re absolutely fantastic at getting back to you if you have a problem and seem to monitor conversations regarding disqus in every space.
I’ve also finally got around to writing somewhat decent about me and follow me pages as well as mashed up my social presence to a lifestream page by using the excellent wp-lifestream plugin. Following a tip from Andreas Karman (Swedish post), I cleaned up the archives a bit using smart archives reloaded.
And as a bonus to all iPhone users, you now have an iPhone optimized site if you visit this blog in Safari on your iPhone, compliments to wptouch. Rumours also has it that the feed wasn’t working earlier, that’s now solved.
Puh. Maybe it’s finally time to create some content? It’s just that Wordpress is to fun to mess around with.
I hope that there are still a couple of readers and friends that followed me to the new URL. It’s never easy changing server, and probably not something you’d want to do every day. The change of URL is always messy even though you should be able to keep feeds and other important factors intact.
I’ve migrated the feed into my Google-account, so the old one should hopefully re-direct to the new one: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/OscarAndFriends (seems to be working fine at the moment).
Akismet stats will be lost in the fire, it seems to be the only thing I can’t save. As I’d like to keep track of it for future reference, I can safely say that Akismet has done a fantastic job so far:
Akismet has protected your site from 8,490 spam comments already, but there’s nothing in your spam queue at the moment.
Keep on trying.
Geek warning deluxe. By chance I came across Genetic Programming – The evolution of Mona Lisa by Roger Alsing today while browsing around randomly. He has done genetic programming in what seem to be a way that has never been done before (but then again, how much do I know about this?). According to Wikipedia, what I’m talking about refers to this:
“In artificial intelligence, genetic programming (GP) is an evolutionary algorithm-based methodology inspired by biological evolution to find computer programs that perform a user-defined task. It is a specialization of genetic algorithms where each individual is a computer program. Therefore it is a machine learning technique used to optimize a population of computer programs according to a fitness landscape determined by a program’s ability to perform a given computational task.”
So Roger set out to answer this question: “Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons?”. The answer is of course; yes. Even though I’m completely uneducated in this field, I found following comments and threads quite interesting to be honest.
I found it so interesting that I had to download the creation and do a little genetic programming (well, thanks to Roger you run a software and waiting for a picture to render) myself, the results is of course what you see in this post. Check out some other creations here. You can download the source etc from Google Code, as he released everything to the public.
Evo-Lisa. Cool stuff. Evo-Oscar, not so cool. It should also be mentioned that the cool thing with this is the actual rendering part, or the actual ‘programming’, not the final result :-)
According to DomainTools, oscarkarlsten.com came under mansion ownership on the 3rd of October. I just forgot to mention it. Worth a mention is; when Keith registered it, he put up a splash saying nothing but ‘boobs’, very concise and straight forward if you ask me.
I’ll leave the ‘boobs’ up there for awhile, but redirect the domain here. After all, ‘boobs’ is part of my life now.
