I wanted to check out Ning.com, so I decided to sign up. The signing up is simple: you type in your name, an e-mail address, a password of your choice, your date of birth, and then… type in “I’m gay”.…

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Polycranium Techne is the Wordpress Theme I made for the Interactive Institute Art & Technology department, where I work. It’s based on my own Polycranium Sleet theme, which is also the ancestor of the theme I am using for this blog:…

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A while back something happened with bridell.com, and loading a page - any page -  suddenly took ages. I couldn’t really find the strength and time to fix it (especially since loading the administration pages was just as slow…) and…

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I’ve been working on the Fringe.nu site for a while, transforming the old site into a Wordpress-driven site. Tonight we flicked the switch and put it online. Go and have a look (and tell me if you find stuff that’s…

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Yesterday I spent two hours talking to the students at a physical computing course at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). I talked about what physical computing (i.e. the art of “sensing and controlling the physical world with computers”, to…

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Tonight I finally got round to put the Wordpress-driven site online and remove all stuff from the old site.  Enjoy. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, just mail me.

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I just heard John mumbling quietly to himself: “Today is one of those days when I’m talking to myself…”

No arguing with that.

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Last week I got loads of what looks like bounces for spam being sent with a sender address something@bridell.com. (Where something includes Largent-Coxwell, mosab.matza, porkwt, Ruquiyah_Hertel and other inventive aliases).

For anybody trying to track them down: I certainly did not send…

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As you can see bridell.com is now a blog. Or at least, it’s powered by a Wordpress blog.

I have no intention of becoming a famous “blogger” - all this means is that it’s now a little easier for me to…

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