Nokia announces the acquisition of Plazes. I’m obviously a fan of both.

Sadly, George Carlin has died at 71. It was only Friday that I was thinking that I needed to dig up A Place for My Stuff — I was headed over to Malmö with a backup with a subset of my stuff (“now what stuff do I bring?!”).

Of course the routine that Carlin was known most for was “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.” Apparently you still can’t say these words on TV; witness this cowardly segment on CNN:

“A word for excretion.” What brave journalism.

The audacious monkey known as Curious George in Canada is known as Peter Pedal here in Denmark:

The Man with the Yellow Hat, however, retains his identity as Manden Med Den Gule Hat.

I’m not one for the scripty type, but the letters on this house sign are just beautiful:

About a month ago Oliver and I had a few hours to kill on a Saturday afternoon. So I fired up the GarageBand, patched the audio gear in, brought in a bed track, and let Oliver have at it. I added some background vocals, did some light remixing, and this is the result. Perhaps only because I’m his father and love him dearly (and am very far away as I write), but listening to this brings a smile to my face every time.

Speaking of Olle: he mentioned to me last week that he has taken on the responsibility for the cooking from Monday to Thursday, a level of family commitment that I aspire to from (very) afar. He decided, to streamline the planning process, he would assign eat night a different theme: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are Swedish, Soup, Ethnic, and Fish respectively.

I decided that, if nothing else, he should be supported in his efforts. Which begat the procrastincation that is now olledinner.info.

So now you too can know what Olle and Luisa are eating for dinner.

Olle made a casual mention of the Linux command tree. New to me. Try it: it’s dreamy.

Apparently if you come to reboot enough times, eventually you organically become a speaker. And so it seems Thomas has moved my Working for Free proposal onto the things that will happen at reboot list. Comments, here or there, are welcome.

Nicole Simon recorded episode of her preboot interviews with me on the topic this evening where I start to explore the issue a little.

I’ve updated the Plazes to Nokia Maps Bookmarklet I created back in April. It now supports both Plazes.com and Plazes.net, and is smart enough to recognize a Plaze IDs in URLs in both common forms:

• 31704_teglbr_ndervej_6
• 31704

As before, just drag this link onto your browser toolbar:

Next, visit the page of a Plaze. Here’s the one for my office, for example, and here’s the same Plaze on Plazes.net. Now click the “Make Landmark” bookmark on your toolbar: after a brief pause you’ll be prompted to save a file.

Save this file and copy it to your Nokia Maps-enabled mobile, and open it. You’ll now be able to save the location and details of the Plaze as a landmark, which you can then use just like any other landmark in Nokia Maps.