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The first days were pretty okay. Today is the first day where I dropped out of discipline/workflow. What is the best approach to this, I believe, is to sit down. And just write. What helps me with that is a very wide understanding of how my story is going to develop itself. I thought my story line would be too thin, but to describe wht I want, I actually need far more words than I initially thought. Maybe I have to many introspective - but hey, editing is for december. so for now I am going to stick with what I write in the flow. And in a few weeks I will see if it makes sense.

A very good tip is to use Write or Die, an online editor which nags you if you don't keep up with a certain writing speed. Its really hard to loose yourself in your own thought and your fears of probably getting to easy-writing or cheesy, if the consequence will be awful sounds. It also exists as an Adobe Air-based desktop app.

Right now I am really looking forward to killing my main character. And a few bureaucrats in the tax office, and maybe also some cry-baby drunk sexists. Yay, writing rocks. But the real fun will begin when I get to the SciFi parts of my story.

I vår avsluttet jeg en test av ulike serverbaserte publiseringsverktøy til bibliotek, og skrev en rapport. Jeg testet, med hjelp av andre bibliotekarer, tre forskjellige fri programvare CMS: Drupal, Joomla og WordPress.

Siden den gangen har min og andres erfaring bekreftet resultatene. Jeg vil gjerne publisere den, for å muligens få tilbakemelding på den. Kan hende jeg har oversett noe, eller andre kan bruke min fremgangsmåte eller noe av resultatene i sin arbeid.

Her er rapporten til nedlasting i PDF-format:evaluering av ulike publiseringsverktøy

Last years NaNoWriMo did not really work out for me, since I was moving to another country and starting a new job. My living situtation in november 2008 was kind of improvised, and everything was overwhelming and - a lot.

This year, despite having a lot of work and other projects, I am giving it another shot. I even plan the plot ahead and draft some characters. I might cheat and start writing beforehand, but hey - drafting is allowed. I am really looking forward to it. I know that it takes time to write and plot and put in words all the thoughts, feelings and sensations for a text to become a good novel. But I think writing together with tens of thousands of eager writers in the whole world, them experiencing the same situation as I am, is very motivating. And if my novel is no good, well. There is always editing. And learning from the experience...

I think I will update my progress on the NaNoWriMo site, but I don't know if I will follow up on my blog as well. Probably, but I don't want to put the pressure up too much.

NaNoWriMo spells out "National Novel Writing Month", a yearly event that has engaged writers in the U.S. a t first, but soon led to many people in all the world participating and writing. The goal is to write 50.000 words in 30 days. No matter how. The goal is to reach this number, and editing - as they say - is for december.

r4gni: Morgenstimmung.

Siden vi i Hordaland fylkesbibliotek får for tiden mye nyttig fra Drupal-samfunnet, vil vi selvfølgelig gjerne gi tilbake hva vi kan. Noe som ofte er undervurdert av utviklersamfunn selv i veldig oppegående åpen kildekode-prosjekter er brukerdokumentasjon, ikke minst til end-brukeren.

Jeg er invitert til Fjell folkeboksamling i morgen for å gi opplæring i bruk av Drupal til bibliotekarene, som blir da redaktører på sin egen nettside. Jeg har derfor laget en redaktørhåndbok for å støtte denne prosessen og for bibliotekarene å ha den aller viktigste informasjonen lett tilgjengelig i deres travel hverdag.

Eventuelt er det interessant til andre Drupal-prosjekt å bruke og forandre teksten på håndboka. Den skal få en GPLv2-lisens, så gjerne forandre alt mulig, så lenge du pusher tilbake til Drupal-samfunnet. Og ta bort mitt navn og organisasjon, bare gi oss kreditt hvis du synes det er nødvendig. Last ned filene (zip, ca. 850k med bilder): Kilde til redaktørhåndboken

r4gni: Subsistenz ist nicht der Kommunismus, aber NOM.

A team member from Siruna presented his companies solutions to a bog problem: Making useful, light and flexible mobile websites in Drupal.

The problem is that there are so many different cell phone models out there, with different screen sizes, colour capabilities, browsers. The networks differ from being very slow to very fast. Which leads to 35% less likeliness of completing a task with mobile browsing than otherwise.

• So it is important to deliver relevant content adapted to these situations automatically. Mobile tools need to be able to:
• Detect the device
• Switch to the adaption for this model
• Aggregate functionality and content to this situation, and
• theme it accordingly

Then the presentation went on to demo open.siruna.org and OSMOBI (which is in alpha) and to show how it is possible to make mobile websites automatically using Siruna's service, supporting the Garland theme and colour picking module.