Simply Jonathan

This is Simply Jonathan, online writing habitat for Jonathan Holst. In here, you may find content divided into three main categories: links, notes and essays. The links are to external content of interest; the notes are small thoughts and ponderings; the essays are longer, more thought-through entries, often debating a subject thoroughly. Read more about Jonathan and this site.

Archive for March 2008

Levels of Disagreement

29 March 2008, 4:44 PM CET +0100

That is so right. I do not have to argue, if I follow, do I?

Mims - This Is Why I’m Hot

29 March 2008, 4:42 PM CET +0100

I could sell a mill saying nothing on the track.

Kanye West - Touch the Sky

28 March 2008, 3:16 PM CET +0100

I’m trying to right my wrongs,
But it’s funny how them same rights helped me write this song.

Thomas Buttenschøn - Hjerter Dame Danish

26 March 2008, 5:39 PM CET +0100

Gør alt jeg kan for at elske det banale
Ville da gerne redde den tredje verden, men har lidt travlt med min kabale.

System of a Down - A.D.D.

25 March 2008, 9:06 PM CET +0100

We fought your wars with all our hearts,
You sent us back in body parts

People vs. Persons

22 March 2008, 4:54 PM CET +0100

From the department of language, here is a guide on when to use “persons” and when to use “people”. (Brief version: use “persons” if you want to seem formal, but “people” in most other cases.)

TV-2 - Helt Alene Danish

20 March 2008, 12:00 AM CET +0100

Han var [...] rastløs som en satellit.

Learn How to Write

19 March 2008, 11:07 PM CET +0100

No one wants to invest countless hours in a losing technology… you want to learn something that will be useful in the long run. I have just the skill for you, and it doesn’t matter what language you work with.

Learn to write well.

This is exactly why I want to study English at university, and not something like Computer Science, or other things specifically related to what I want to work with. This also points out a deeper thing about me as a software developer: I am not that much into mathematics. I appreciate it on a simple level, and I do not avoid applying mathematics to my programming, but I am just more interested in communication. This I probably one of the reasons I started working with the Web, and stuck with it. (The other of course being, that when you start out as a 12 year old doing programming, HTML is just a bit easier to grasp.) I am not one of those who want to solve the performance bits of a program, making it run n% faster by tweaking some engine using clever natural science; I am one of those who want to write software that helps people communicate.

Nick Cave - O’malley’s Bar

19 March 2008, 8:06 PM CET +0100

Don’t shoot I cried,
I’m a man and all.

Bruce Perens for OSI President

19 March 2008, 10:21 AM CET +0100

Sounds like my choice of a candidate.