I got an invite for google wave to use it for a PlaneShift project. This gave me a chance to test this hyped new google feature. At first i was sceptic, did not get any good overview of the whole thing, but after seeing it in use i also see the potential it has for working on projects.
A wave is like a document that any of the participants of that wave can edit and comment, and all in real time. If someone else on the project is working on one section of the document, you’ll see the edits as they are typed. A wave can contain text, images, video or sound. My guess it that there will be lots of add-ons
When the waves are piling up you will always have google search and you can sort the waves in folders. If a wave is updated it automatically appears in your inbox, wich makes it easy to keep track of them.
What i like the least is the standard size of the text box where you edit and read the waves. It is way to small, specially if you are working on large documents. Any way it would be smart to split up very large projects in to several waves, that link to each other. But this can quickly get messy and it will be hard to keep an overview unless you are very good at putting referral links everywhere. And if linkin to other waves was as easy as linking to another article in mediawiki, that would help a great deal!
All in all google wave is absolutely something i would like to use for my projects. Best of all would be if it replaced email, facebook and all those other web sites and web apps you have to keep track of.
Since google wave is still in a preview version you have to get invited to try it out. Some features are not ready yet, and yes there are bugs creeping around.
Anyway.. the first one who comments to this post will get an invite!
Or you could sign up for one here
For ten years the Hausmania has been a place for aspiring artists in Oslo. Offering cheap rooms for any kinds of art, ranging from music to painting and scupture. The place has been run by volunteers since the building was occupied ten years ago. Now the city council of oslo have decided to throw them out on the street. This is not the first time that the devil of city planning Bård Folke Fredriksen is trying to make life hard for poor artist in the capital of Norway. In year 2000 he tried to sell off all the buildings where alternative artist had their workplaces. He said that these buildings did not generate enough income. but we fought a hard and long political battle and saved atleast some of the buildings. When will this capitalist monster ever leave us poor artist alone?
I remember back then, Bård Folke Fredriksen lost when the city council were voting on the petition to throw out all the artist and sell the buildings. We were there at the meting, he saw us. The next day my band Ehwaz was hired to open the 1000 years celebration festival, and guess who was there, giving a speach on how the multitude of culture in Oslo made it possible to make a festival like this..? Yes, it was the devils council member him self. This man is a danger to culture and art in Oslo!
When it comes to Hausmania, they have been struggling for their survival since the beginning. They have made deals with the city council and have got permission to stay. But now the beast of right wing politics wants to build Student apartments.. Well, a good idea to build those, but can you not find an other place for those apartments? or is it something else behind all this. My theory is that Bård Folke Fredriksen hates art and artist. To him they are filthy and non productive and by that shall be condemned to do their art on the streets. May be he got denied a place in art school, like an other famous monster? and then he entered politicts to get his revenge?
Oslo already spend next to nothing to help young and aspiring artist, there are no places for us to do our arts. Every time someone tries to set up a place, Bård “Trillebård” Folke Fredriksen comes to tear the place down. It seems that artists in Oslo have to struggle so much to keep their places, that they do not have time do do any art. What to do?
I added all my old photo galleries, got my old buttons for the pages working and more information here and there.
Enjoy.
Latly i hav been dug in deep into a quite different project. PlaneShift is a MMORPG with emphasis on the RPG part. It is free and all of it is created by volunteers like most open source material. I started playing this game a bit more than a year ago, and yes i know i have said that i never would involve my self with an MMORPG.. Beacuse it it just a huge time consumer.. But i could not resist. Now I am a part of the PlaneShift team as a Game Master. That means I am moderating the game, writing and organizing events for the players. And to be perfectly honest, I find that more fun than just being a player. No surprise there.. I have had the same feeling when it comes to ordinary RPG and LARP too. I guess it is in my nature to always be on the organizer part of projects.
To join this team has been great fun for me, and the best thing is that I can use my experience from RPG, LARP and of course all I have learned from being a story teller. Well it all comes back to that fact that telling stories is perhaps what I do best and enjoy the most, no matter the medium and techniques used. Since I joined the PS team i have written over 40 events and I am quite sure there will be more..
The miner complains about his boss, in the tavern Kada-Els.
Here is a screenshot from an event I organized yesterday. This was a fairly simple event, based on a conflict between a miner and his boss. I won’t tell more about the event it self, as it might be done again in the future. But I can assure you we had all lots of fun. The players discussed the conflict with eagerness and solved it all with the oldest trick in the book: Bribery.
I guess you’ll all hear more from the world of Yliakum in later posts.. And if you really want to learn more about this strange and wonderful world, it is free to download and register!
I’m looking through all the stuff on my old pages, and all the stuff from other pages i have made. and by that triggers lots of memories. I will now take you down my musical memory lane with a few songs of mine.
First off is a song from Ehwaz. Originally this piece of music was composed for a L.A.R.P. with the same name. Since then i have this tune has been trough a long process and i have made many versions of it. But the very bes of them all is the one we covered with the band Ehwaz. This is a live recording from a concert in Tønsberg, year 2000. This surely brings back memories..
Ehwaz – Prosessen
Now to something completely different.. Origami Disharmonika is my own solo project, where i make the music i want to listen to my self. Disharmonika is a slow moving vessel, where all songs go through many changes through many years. This one is from the free web release “underworld”, year 2001. All the recordings for this release was done on an old 4 track kasette recorder and then Kjell Øyvind Braaten mixed it in his home studio.
Origami Dishamonika – Shadow Mirror
Did i mention something different? Well here comes a song from “cicatricula and the smoking snakes”. This is a project i am so happy to have been a part of, and so sad that it never took off. Thomas Kvilhaug composed loads of nice songs, i produced them and Maria Franz joined in as musician. It sounds a bit like an electronic version of Ehwaz. But still has its very own qualities.
Cicatricula and the smoking snakes – Home
more to come in another post..
the final catch: cod and umm.. don't knwo what 'hvitting' translates to...
I just posted a blog post in our lovely fishing blog.. fiskfiskfisk.no. The blog is in norwegian. so for you english speakers out there here is a short summary:
We were supposed to fish for shark in Oslofjorden (not far from where i live). But since one of our team members got struck by the catfish flu we changed our plans and went fishing at the very place fiskfiskfisk was born on nesodden. Me and Jan Ole bunkered up with lots of bait, whiskey and food. It was dark, wet and cold but we still had a lovely time, even though Jan Ole broke one of his rods, because he caught a cod the size of a shark, and we both threw away some equipment in to the sea. Nothing is like spending a saturday night like that…
I have now changed from using a stupid static page system to Wordpress. Hopefully that will get me going when it comes to updating my webpages. First off i’ll have to move all my content over here, that will probably take some time. When that is done i’ll make sure to post some new stuff.
The old pages can still be accessed: http://www.ghozm.org/ghozm
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