Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

This is a lumiere video. The video contains no audio. Feel free to leave your own music running.

Dinner last night at The OtherSide Café where tattooed girls and boys in girl's jeans meet to exchange revolutionary ideas. The food is good, hearty and reasonably priced.

This is a lumiere video. The video contains no audio. Feel free to leave your own music running.

I have taken over as maintainer of the pingback module for Drupal. Long-time readers will know that back in 2004 I wrote extensively about using pingbacks as a basis for distributed commenting. Hopefully, I can now pick up that old torch again. Using Drupal as the framework does make many things much much easier.

The pingback module was originally developed by Leontius Adhika Pradhana but he does not have time to maintain the project. I took over last week and I have just now released a Drupal 6 version of the module.

I have some non-sweeping plans for the module. The interface text can be improved and setup can be made more simple and it is important for me to implement a hook and a trigger so other modules can act when pingbacks are received. The last parts are needed to make it possible to create for example a video commenting module that catches video files from pages that link to your pages.

The pingback module has of course been installed here on solitude.dk so ping away!

We have surpassed 600 lumiere videos and to celebrate I have collected a list of all lumiere videos that are focused on water, how it moves, how it reflects light and how it contains fish. Especially in the beginning of the project there were many water lumieres. I know because I created most of them myself. Almost 20% of my lumieres are about water.

Assembling this list made me wish I had added tagging to the lumiere project page to allow each individual video to be tagged. It would have made it much easier to sort through the massive collection.

Here they all are in a more or less random order. Some of these links point directly to quicktime movies—proceed with caution.

• http://www.beachwalks.tv/2008/01/11/beach-walk-567-first-lumiere-for-rupert/
• http://bshoot.blogspot.com/2007/07/lumiere-rain-warp.html
• http://bshoot.blogspot.com/2007/12/swamp-lumiere.html
• http://www.brittanyshoot.com/archives/38
• http://efectofoehn.blogspot.com/2007/07/fuerza-3-lumiere.html
• http://joannappok.blogspot.com/2007/07/lumiere-its-always-raining.html
• http://lumiere.videozine.ca/2007/11/25/water-on-the-rocks/
• http://mmmmmoon.blogspot.com/2007/07/lumiere-video-drip.html
• http://mmmmmoon.blogspot.com/2007/07/lumiere-weekend-reflection.html
• http://mmmmmoon.blogspot.com/2007/09/lumiere-pool-drain-1.html
• http://mmmmmoon.blogspot.com/2007/10/lumiere-rain-view-from-cabana.html
• http://mmmmmoon.blogspot.com/2007/10/lumiere-puddle.html
• http://mikemoon.net/vlog/2008/02/18/lumiere-snow-puddle/
• http://missbhavens.com/2007/11/05/navlopomo-a-gogo-five-lumiere/
• http://missbhavens.com/2007/07/15/lumiere-one-sprinkler-wave/
• http://outonthestoop.blogspot.com/2007/07/fireplug-in-los-angeles-lumiere-video.html
• http://pouringdownpictures.com/frog.mov
• http://putativemoment.blogspot.com/2007/08/lumiere-8-river-wake.html
• http://putativemoment.blogspot.com/2007/08/lumiere-11-river-boat.html
• http://putativemoment.blogspot.com/2007/08/lumiere-14-sunset.html
• http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2008/02/19#post210
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070522-2220/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070523-0837/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070621-2318/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070707-2012/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070707-2048/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070708-1320/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070713-1740/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070730-1135/
• http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070908-1850/
• http://sporkworld.tumblr.com/post/24268307
• http://nokiatestcenter.blogspot.com/2007/07/lumiere-nantucket.html
• http://vogmae.net.au/vlog/?p=1078

Yesterday I saw a cop walk into a Dunkin' Donuts and the lady next to me on the train was reading about cloth diapers. Today she wore purple nail polish and read Lolita.

Sumatriptan is a migraine fighting drug sold under brand names like Imitrex and Imigran. It also happens to be the perscription drug that can battle B's headaches. Even with health insurance these pills are expensive and without it's tragic ($270 for 9 tablets).

The reason? GlaxoSmithKline has been able to extend their US patent considerably through patent litigation whereas in Europe the patent expired in 2006. As a result sumatriptan is an over-the-counter drug in the UK and while it's perscription only in Denmark you can get generic versions for as low as $15 for 12 tablets and that's before the discounts offered as a part of the national health care.

By my calculations that makes the US tablets 2400% more expensive than the Danish ones. All because of patent litigation. GlaxoSmithKline, you are extorting Americans specifically because of the way the legal system is set up there. That makes you bad people, so fuck you.

...At the coffee shop. This is a lumiere video. The video contains no audio. Feel free to leave your own music running.

And a bonus video whle I was waiting for the others to finish up at the clothing store. These are lumiere videos. They contain no audio. Feel free to leave your own music running.

I have just updated the Embed QuickTime plugin that allows you to post QuickTime easily to webpages. The biggest change is that the plugin now comes with 'share' code giving your visitors Copy & Paste code for posting your videos to their own sites. Yes, like YouTube without the ugly Flash. Additionally the Metadata plugin is now included in the download and you no longer have to download it separately to start using the advanced settings.

The Drupal 6 module and the Wordpress plugin have been updated in the same go.

To celebrate I give you a birdie you can share:

Scene: It's Tuesday and I'm visiting a med-clinic because I had been throwing up all day and my head felt like it was about to explode.

Nurse

You have a virus infection. Stay in bed, drink fluids and take Mucinex.

Me

Sounds like fun.

Nurse

I am not going to charge you for this visit.

Me

You've seen my health insurance card so you know I'm European. It is absolute hell to get reimbursed for these visits.

Nurse

We must be nice to our neighbours.

There is hope for the American healthcare system yet!