My Internet connection at the house was spotty and was used primarily to quickly check in with the office on Skype and check email. So, this post is catch up from Days 4-11.

On Day 4 we picked up a car from Eurocar. We had made arrangements for a car like a Ford Focus, but they had run out all the cars in that class. They upgraded us to an Audi A6 which was pretty nice. We got a Garmin Nuvi with the car, which proved to be a great addition to our travel experience. It took a little getting used to, but once we were familiar with the Nuvi's instructions, it became pretty intuitive. From Copenhagen we drove to the other side of the of the same island that Copenhagen lives on to a tiny town called Vig Lyn where we picked up keys to the house Viddinge Bakker which my brother Alec and his wife rented for my family and my other brother's (Sean) family.

The house was marvelous--large, with three double beds, a fold out couch, and bunk beds. It had a nicely appointed kitchen with a large kitchen table. The living room had a nice high efficiency stove. It had a great big wrap around that circled the whole house and a wild garden that was several acres in size. The garden had lots of trees that turned large portions into a kind of labyrinth. It had two firepits and a kid's club house along with a swing and a several ropes to swing from. At the bottom of the garden was a greenhouse. There was a large grill (which we ended up cooking on twice) that was big enough to cook for 17 of us.

My eldest brother had another house about 4 kilometres from the house we were in that included a hot tub and an indoor pool. My eldest brother, his wife, five kids, my parents, and one additional guest stayed there.

We were still without bags today and haven't had a change of clothes in 4 days. We've continued to clean some clothing in the sink and manage the best we can. Late in the day, we took the train to Lyngby where there are lots of shops. I managed to find a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that fit tolerably well, but all my wife came away with was a t-shirt.

Today we slept in. I mean really slept in. I got up at about 11:00 but my daughter wasn't really out of bed until well after noon. We didn't get out of the hotel until close to 2 pm. Given that most stores close at about 6:00 pm it made for a short day. We went to central Copenhagen and mostly were looking for clothes. Our luggage still hasn't arrived--24 hours after we arrived in the city.

Some time back, we asked my daughter, "Is it ok if we leave for Denmark on your birthday? If we do, it'll mean you spend it on a plane." She wasn't keen on the idea so we planned a departure date a day early counting on getting to Copenhagen on her birthday. Well, we arrived on her birthday--but not early enough to enjoy it.

The pingVision site has re-launched with a new look and a brand new version of Drupal. Laura mentioned that there has been almost a year of architecture invested in the site. Almost to the day today, I was hired by pingVision and one of the first things we were doing was working on brainstorming the architecture.

I've been seeing ping.fm showing up as a source of tweets on Twitter. I've tried lots of little desktop clients like twitterific and twhirl and like them all more or less. When I started seeing ping.fm on Twitter, I popped over to the site and saw that it was a Web based service that you needed an invitation to use the beta. I sent out a little tweet asking if anybody had a beta code. My friend Walkah quickly sent me the invitation code and I signed up rather quickly on my iPhone.

Ping.fm is cool because it aggregates all your favourite social networking sites. I immediately set up Twitter, Plurk, and Pownce. They were a snap to setup.

1) Click on "Not Setup"
2) Put in your Username and Password for the service

NOTE, I am not responsible if you use this service and something goes wrong. You are putting your username and password into a third party application.

Once you have your services set up, a single post will filter to all of the sites when you make a post.

Facebook is a bit more complicated--you'll need to use your "Application Key"--but if you follow the instructions provided by the application, you shouldn't have too much trouble setting it up as well.

One minor nit, you can post to all your social networking micro-blogging sites, but you can't see the stream of folks that you follow through the service. This means you need to follow each of your streams individually.

All in all, I think that ping.fm is pretty cool and worth taking a look at. If you regularly update a bunch of services with the same or similar posts, this will save you a lot of effort.

Let me know if you need a invitation code. I'd be happy to share.

[Packt] Publishing sent me a copy of the Drupal 6 book to review. Slowly but surely, I've consumed the book from the start to the finish. In many ways, this book is designed for the beginner. It makes no assumptions of experience with PHP or MySQL. It isn't designed as a book to teach you CSS nor does it assume you know CSS.

I've been living with an iPhone now for several months and there are things about it that I absolutely love and other things that I'm still not very happy about.

I've found that AT&T, the only official iPhone service in the United States, service is spottier than my old Sprint service. I broke away from Sprint, and a shared minutes program with my wife, because I wanted to really immerse myself in the iPhone experience.

Adding an events calendar to a Drupal instance is pretty easy thanks to Kjartan Mannes who authored the Event module and Gerhard Killesreiter who maintains it.

I was asked if I would add a Calendar to the Nonprofit Commons site--dedicated to nonprofits in Second Life--to aid in booking space across the two sims. We often have events, and sometimes they can conflict with one another.

The steps are easy. In this instance, I'm adding the module to a Drupal 5.x install.

You are busy posting to your Twitterfeed at a conference. You have colleagues doing the same with the plan of combining your collective feeds into a company blog post. As the speech you are listening to comes to the keynote climax--questions, postings, answers, insights are all being fed into Twitter--you suddenly find yourself on the whale screen. Twitter, once again has come crashing down.