I’ve posted a selection of photos from our Beijing trip in the photo gallery.

I’m in Gothenburg for two days for ScanDevConf 2010. With a long train ride yesterday, and an evening in a hotel room today, you’d think I’d finally have time to blog… but no. I spent my hours on the train reading China Miéville’s The City and the City, and this evening at a bar/pub almost-watching football (yes, football) with some fellow developers I met at the conference.

I was also expecting to blog about the conference during the day. But access to power outlets was less than generous, so I couldn’t type my notes during the sessions themselves, meaning I’ll have to process them before they’re in a bloggable state. A real blog post will be coming soon.

If you have a Gravatar, you will now see it next to your comments at this blog. If you don’t have one yet, you can get one at gravatar.com. You can see my gravatar next to my comment below.

… now available in the gallery.

I am experiencing a decline – presumably temporary – in the need to express my thoughts in writing. I don’t feel that I am doing or thinking or experiencing anything just now that is worth writing down. Hence the relative decline in posting frequency. When the writing urge returns, you will notice.

I’ve added a new link to the sidebar: My interests. It’s a rough listing of things I am interested in, things I enjoy reading about. This is going to be a permanent work in progress – I will add and update the list whenever I think of it.

If you’re reading this blog in a web browser, you may have noticed a slight change to the looks. Banner images!

I’ve been thinking for a long while (about a year, since I first migrated to WordPress) that I would like to have a banner image or something of the sort, but never managed to settle on a design idea. I couldn’t think if any kind of photo that would fit. This Blog Needs No Name, because it has no mission, no message, no plan, and for the same reasons, it matches no image. (With the exception, perhaps, of an orange.)

But last week I finally found something. I have been reorganizing and tagging my old photos, and found some from the Chihuly exhibition I saw back in 2005. They’re beautiful and orange, and imply nothing more than that. (The whole installation looked like this.)

I’ve put up some new photo series in the gallery.

NY Times writes about the “25 random things about me” meme. A sign of some sort of respectability? Or perhaps simply of ubiquity.

As memes go, it’s a relatively good one, I’d say. Unlike stuff like “The 5 best books I’ve read” and “5 reasons I blog” this actually requires some creative thinking.

The downtime this weekend was due to an unfortunate failure in communications. Even more unfortunately the problem coincided with me being away for three days, so I didn’t even notice it myself until just recently.

I’m back now, anyway.