Crappiness is happiness

The Beer Exchange Stand stuff getting finished. Today: the webpage.

http://consumergadget.net/beer/

Finally online, but it is crappy. Ars Electronica starts in a few days, so everything must be ready. But, it is a start and I'm happy with that.

I'm really happy that I got ethical information about Austrian beers from Irene at VICOSD. She has done great job in trying to capture the ethical issues in beer industry, because there aren't that many major issues like in many other industries. I guess.

Don't throw your receipts away

If you look carefully at your receipts, you may find suprises! J found this on the backside of one of the receipts in his pocket.

Every project should have it's own active blog

It's been two weeks and many little things have happened.

I've decided to recode parts of the system to make Consumer Gadget multi-lingual. Now every bit of "subjective information" is written in specific language. This allows the "objective information" to be same between differnet language versions of Consumer Gadget.

The Beer Exchange Stand (Consumer Gadget at Ars Electronica 2006) is getting ready, but I'm a bit worried about the ethical beer information, wheter we have it on time or not. More info about TBES will appear on it's own pages in near future.

Two Finnish newspaper articles will be published in a few weeks, so things are happening in Finland. I'll attempt to get publicity for the international version after Ars Electronica, maybe via Digg or something like that, but Consumer Gadget needs to be more than just a proof of concept before that.

Consumer Gadget beginning to see the light

Hello world!

Every project should have its own blog.

This is a blog about Consumer Gadget, a project that will eventually make consumers buy better products and thus save the world.