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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 - 8.0
MacroMedia 8 is released.
Found on VersionTracker: Mac OS X
Dreamweaver 8 seems to be about
-way better integration of CSS
-way better integration of video/flashmovies -clearly they are taking the path of vido online-
-and way better coding features. -rather than wysiwyg-
-not to forget: a focus on RSS iintegration.
For a short intro, check here (where you can find a 30 day trial)
Posted on October 1, 2005
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Happy Rosh Hashanah
Jewish New Year is celebrated during the first 10 days of Tishri (Tish-ree), the seventh month of the Jewish calendar. This time period is often referred to as the High Holidays or High Holy Days.
The Jewish High Holy Days usually fall in September or October. In 2005, they are celebrated from sundown on Oct. 3 to sundown on Oct. 13. (The observance of all Jewish holidays begins at sundown on the first day and goes through sundown on the last day.)
The year 2005 translates to the year 5766 on the Jewish calendar.
Posted on October 1, 2005
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Hitchhiking
I was never allowed to hitchhike as a kid. All the horrible stories my grandmother told me as a warning were very effective. Each nearing car could contain a cold killer...
This image followed me until deep in my twenties.
But I did hitchhike. A friend and I went to Romania by Taxistop, and hitched all the way back.
The hilarious stories I can tell you from that trip... Unforgettable. Unbelievable. -I am not joking when I say we were given a lift by maffia in Hungary, and by Europol in Germany-
Then I bought a car, and I travelled by air planes, I drive the road now by motorcycle.
But still I'd hitch once in a while, yet rarely.
These days, I am forced to hitchhike again.
I am following evening classes, just outside of Ghent.
I can get there by bus, but in the returning, by 10PM, the last bus is already gone. I could try to find a classmate that drives to Ghent.
I rather bet on the hitching. - Tonight, it took me exactly one minute to fetch a car-
It's a fabulous way to encounter people.
Even in your own city.
Posted on October 3, 2005
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VoWLAN Phones Coming
Not coming to the US anytime soon (as we still struggle for 3G service), Nokia has announced the launch of its first VoWLAN consumer cellphone. Basically combining voice, data access and WiFi using a hybrid product (think mixing IMS and UMA), Nokia's first product is set to hit stores in early 2006.
You might be interested in this article: Nokia with wifi included.
And nothing more: just a plain good old cellphone, no cam, no fuzz, but with bluetooth and wifi... There's all one needs.
[Om Malik's Broadband Blog]
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Posted on October 3, 2005
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Hilarious pumpkin
Here (Dutch only, Windows Media Player), found on the renewed site De Standaard within their Video Archives.
I agree with most of you: the new lay out is much better.
But most of all: much faster.
Posted on October 4, 2005
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Happy Ramadan!
To my friends in the Middle East.
Posted on October 4, 2005
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Free Gilbert & George images
David Pescovitz: 
The Ginkgo Pictures series that British artists Gilbert & George created for the Venice Biennial 2005 are available for free download. Big, beautiful, high-res files. (Seen here: Fates, 2005, 426 x 760 cm)
Link
For those who like Gilbert and George
Via Boing Boing
Posted on October 4, 2005
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To read for free
If you are a blogger and you are interested in reading about it, I might refer you to Luc's post with links on blogging.
I have some more of this interesting stuff, related to blogging.
We Media (PDF) -not the one by Dan Gillmore- is a very interesting analysis on new media forms, with a focus on citizen reporting -which includes blogging- and its history + future.
KnockKnock (PDF) is a free Seth Godin's publication.
It gives you some interesting ideas how to make your site/blog better.
I also wanted to refer to the Reporters without Borders manual for bloggers (PDF) but seems Luc already did.
Posted on October 4, 2005
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For fun: turn kids in models.
Make an ad of your/your sister's/your .. kid.
Easy and fun. And very very flattering for the parents ;)
(This one is Basil, my favorite babysit.)
Posted on October 4, 2005
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Workflow digital management
I was wondering about your digital management.
On pictures in particular, but on files in general.
Me, I decided to make my workflow in this way:
Filename of a picture:
year_month_date_hoursseconds_country_keyword_ID(my initials).extension
This should result in an unique name -especially the 'hoursseconds' part makes sure I can recognize double items in my library-
My folders are set by for example:
2005 -> subfolder 2005_01 -> subfolder 2005_01_keyword
And I am about to fill in my exif data to make it searchable on keywords, country etcetc.
(I am preparing next coming weeks to do this... What an idea: updating all my old pictures..)
And you? How do you do it?
Posted on October 4, 2005
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Let's speculate
What will Apple release on Oct 12th???
Posted on October 5, 2005
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Magazines Mock Up
Posted on October 5, 2005
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Geo geo
While being in class again -remember the slow one...- I am surfin' around :)
Nice to check out: geourl, sites near you
Still found some new ones amongst them.
Posted on October 5, 2005
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Did you know?
A blogging conference, today, in Brussels...
With Loic Le Meur and regine Debatty.
Figured it out only today...
Posted on October 6, 2005
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As good as his word
"I was totally drunk last night, and anyway, it's all their fault" is a quite useful sentence in English in general and in the United Kingdom in particular. Surprisingly, though, in Bolivia they have one word that means the same as that whole sentence: umjayanipxitutuwa. On the other hand, Inuit, the language of the Eskimos (the Inuit people), has a word areodjarekout meaning "to exchange wives for a few days only." It may be less useful but is no less impressive.
...
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Posted on October 6, 2005
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Reproduction Fund
Last week I had dinner with 'Wereldreiziger', a nice bloke with a similar disease: we love travelling. We actually love it so much, we are rather abroad than in this country.
These days he is in Belgium, saving for his house in Thailand.
He's working at the Reproductiefonds.
They are busy with digitalizing all images and information on our cultural heritage. You can find high resolution pics of most famous Belgian art works.
Very known piece: 'Lam Gods'
Practically speaking, one will have a question for an image of something, and the Reproductiefonds will make/find/send it.
Soon it should be possible to find their database online.
Posted on October 6, 2005
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DAVID
Got a very very good link today (Thanks ;) )
DAVID: Digital Archiving In Practice (I lost the v somewhere...)
In Dutch only...
As for me: I have everything back-upped on 2 FireWire disks. And when this EXIF info finally gets implemented, everything will go on cd once more.
Dries pointed me out to MAM-E CDr's, they are aparently much more reliable than others.
Posted on October 6, 2005
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A kaleidescope
It turned out that Diana was appalled by how ignorant the Arab doctors were about Israel. They don't know the first thing about our lives, she said. They think that we're all running around killing Arabs, that the whole country is a war zone. They don't know that we're just living normal, middle class lives. They think that the violent extremists they see on television represent the majority.
Uh huh, I said. Remember how mad you were with me when I suggested that perhaps most people in Gaza just want to live normal lives and don't support the Hamas terrorists?
Posted on October 7, 2005
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What if...
What if, a Ghentish communication office ,released a new series of tees for the filmfestival. Limited edition.
Check their website: they have nice free goodies.
Posted on October 7, 2005
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Updated links
I did an update of my links.
If I forgot to mention you, maybe I never noticed your wonderful writing, so please send me a comment, I'll read you you, and when I like it, I'll add you :) And that's a promise.
Update: I also managed to finally find a solution to show all the books read in my linking page.
The way to do this in TypePad (manually and not automatic) can be found here.
Posted on October 7, 2005
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Question 4
Question Nr 4:
If you were an animal, an everyday object, scenery, a language or a dish, what would they be?
Posted on October 7, 2005
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Smart for 1 euro a day
Read it here (dutch)
Can they come to Ghent asap?? Thank you...
Posted on October 7, 2005
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Pixagogo makes PhotoBlog rock
And implementing nice stuff.
Check out this sidebar ;)
Posted on October 8, 2005
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BlogDinner Brussels
I went to the blogdinner in Brussels. Quite a nice evening.
(Finally I made it to my first blogdinner :) -and also this time things were almost cancelled due a sore throat and a dripping nose -things that keep me in bed today...-)
No I didn't take any pictures at all, but I gladly refer to LVB who took his camera, and got me actually quite OK on a picture :)
-Fans, go and check it out. LOL-
A nice evening with some good lectures and some less good, and loads of nice conversations. So thanks Bart and Peter for organizing it.
We got a very interesting lecture on del.icio.us.
But to me, it is still not that appealing. I guess my mind works different... When I visit this site f.e. I tend scroll into it. This one on the other hand looks appealing. Yet, I am sure, the first site has more interesting links for me than the latter.
Eug gave me a good hint on something we, geeks, tend to forget:
people read blogs mostly online and not in RSS readers.
I do my efforts already in offering those readers a nice layout. But I did move my links outside of my main page, mostly because the list is too large to show on the first page.
Yet I am working on a way to link my friends and cool links on my main page again.
Soon more about that.
Update: check out the left sidebar to see my links. Quite useful way of putting links without taking space.
Because in the end blogging is all about interlinking.
And interlinking is what we did yesterday :)
Posted on October 8, 2005
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TypePad DropDownMenu's
For those interested in my drop down list I'll share the code.
They are TypePad Specific, but I am sure most of you will easily manage to translate them for other platforms.
For Archives DropDowns:
<MTBlogIfArchives>
<h2><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>archives.html"><$MTTrans phrase="Archives"$></a></h2>
</MTBlogIfArchives>
<br/>
<form>
<select style="width:170px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 5px; font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" onChange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;">
<option value="">Choose category</option>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Category">
<option value="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$> (<$MTArchiveCount$>)</option>
</MTArchiveList>
</select>
<select style="width:170px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 5px; font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" onChange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;">
<option value="">Choose month</option>
<MTArchiveList archive_type="Monthly">
<option value="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></option>
</MTArchiveList>
</select>
</form>
For Type Person List DropDowns:
<h2>Title of your list</h2>
<form>
<select style="width:170px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 5px; font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" onChange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;">
<option value="">Choose an item</option>
<MTList name="TypeList Name">
<option value="<$MTListItem field="htmlurl"$>"><$MTListItem field="name"$></option>
</MTList>
</select>
</form>
For Type Link List DropDowns:
<form>
<select style="width:170px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 5px; font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" onChange="document.location=options[selectedIndex].value;">
<option value="">Links</option>
<MTList name="Name_list">
<option value="<$MTListItem field="url"$>"><$MTListItem field="title"$></option>
</MTList>
</select>
</form>
Important: the MTList name is the name as stated in the configuration . For example: when your list is called Friends Around, it is exactly 'Friends Around' and not 'Friends around' or 'friends_around'
Be careful, otherwise you'll end up with errors.
For more info on the tags, I gladly refer to the TypePad TagList
Posted on October 8, 2005
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TypePad Book Lists
In the past I was a bit disappointed by the fact there was only one way to show your TypeList in your blog.
If you decided to show only 1 item, there was no way to have the same list in another page, revealing all the items of that list.
I didn't figure out how to reconfigure the TypeList so I could show only one item on one page, and all the items on the other.
(Example: in my main blog, you'll see the last book I am reading, on the left. On my linking page, you'll see all the books -at the bottom-)
But one day, the people of SixApart released all the tags of TypeLists.
Normally you'd implement this code in your sidebar:
<!--#include virtual="/lists/name_list/module.inc"-->
When you want all items to appear, without the limit set in your configuration, you can use this code:
<h2>Books read</h2>
<MTList name="Name List" lastn="100">
<a href="<$MTListItemURL$>"><$MTListItemImage$></a> <br/>
<a href="<$MTListItemURL$>"><$MTListItem field="title"$></a> <br >
</MTList>
Important: the MTList name is the name as stated in the configuration . For example: when your list is called Friends Around, it is exactly 'Friends Around' and not 'Friends around' or 'friends_around'
Be careful, otherwise you'll end up with errors.
For more info on the tags, I gladly refer to the TypePad TagList
Posted on October 8, 2005
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Just for fun.
I checked my stats.
My mastuvu.nu domain is down -it should be up again, but I guess telenet didn't refresh their ip's yet.- Interesting to see which effect this has on my numbers. People: this site can be accessed through: matuvu.nu (please bookmark that one)
Anyhow, stumbled upon searched keys.
Funfunfun...
Some people are looking for:
-umjayanipxitutuwa (yeah I did write about that!)
-how to put on makeup (hahaaaaa.)
-murmurs of earth
-moms seducing boys pics (lol)
-les stare marocian
-the l word
-lesbian-sex pictures (I am afraid I have nothing to show here...)
-puma old picture shoe (this must be the Girlfriend...)
-documentary photographersabandoned buildings
-foto's van mooie mannen (huh????)
Posted on October 8, 2005
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Hoodie sweatshirts with integrated masks
Cory Doctorow: 
Here in Britain, closed-circuit cameras are everywhere: the average Londoner is said to be photographed some 300 times a day. Equally ubiquitous are the signs that demand that you take off your hoodie's hood or your motorcycle crash-helmet so that it won't interfere with the universal surveillance.
So imagine the reaction that these awesome, masked French hoodies will evince when they land on Britain's shore. All they lack is a cluster of hidden, high-intensity infra-red LEDs that can overwhelm the charge-coupled device arrays in some digital cameras. Link (Thanks, W1nt3rmut3!)
Also very nice to rob a bank...
Via Boing Boing
Posted on October 8, 2005
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iView AppleScripting
In the series 'Maybe it can help you out somehow' I release my adapted Applescript to rename files within iView MediaPro.
(Of course I can tell loads of stories on other stuff, like how sick I am these days, or how I couldn't take the bus due to a strike, but they are just boring. So maybe it is your lucky day, and I do write something useful.)
Lees meer "iView AppleScripting" »
Posted on October 9, 2005
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UNICEF bombs the Smurfs
UNICEF has produced a short Smurfs movie in which the Smurf village is bombed into rubble, leaving behind dead and dying Smurfs in a scene reminiscent of an Hieronymus Bosch painting. The video is part of a public education campaign on the ravages of war.
The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.
Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs.
The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children..."
Link
Please click the link, the article is quite interesting to read.
The main reason to choose Smurfs is 'we are not touched anymore by images of children suffering' so they had to come up with a new approach for moneyraising.
The initiative is coming from the Belgian wing of Unicef.
Found via Boing Boing
Posted on October 9, 2005
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New Old mobile
Some months ago my mobile was lost/stolen -didn't figure it out-
but today I got the same one -same model that is- back. WITH bluetooth.
Quite a relief after the prehistoric model I have been carrying around the last months.
Bluetooth is an amazing invention: it synchronizes all your contacts with your computer within seconds. -so no one by one copying or typing on the little keyboard.- Now I have access again to all my contacts.
Bluetooth allows you to send SMS from your desktop through your phone. -Since then, I can appreciate SMS, before I hated it-
Bluetooth also picks up my phone when I am working on my computer.
It even allows me to initiate phone-calls through my computer.
Last, not most important but sometimes convenient: it makes my mobile a remote for my computer: easy for presentations or when watching TV on the computer.
Thank you great engineers that invented this thing.
Thank you so much!
-Way better than those engineers that invented WAP: that was a waste of time guys...-
(And now back to work: fit in wifi and give us high quality video!)
Posted on October 9, 2005
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Linking: videoblogging
I have been talking about it with some people: I think vblogs have a great potential. Their bandwidth usage is a killer these days, but in the near future that should change.
Check out the pearls on dailymotion: charlimars.
Many camera adepts seem to make funny stuff with few resources.
Posted on October 9, 2005
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Use TypePad as a presentation tool
Some weeks ago, I started mailing back and forth with Hans Mestrum. He is a screencasting guru in the Netherlands ;)
He was wondering if it was possible to make an online presentation tool.
We decided to change an existing TypePad template in such a way it was possible to use it as an online presentation.
We immediately agreed of making the adaptation open source: you too can use it.
Why would you do such a thing?
- Because your audience has immediate access to your presentation online.
-You only have to make it once.
-Easy to add info -> no need for html knowledge/css knowledge
-Your content is being picked up by search engines and spread over the internet.
-You can even allow a comment page so you get info and feed back in your mailbox.
-The manual explains how you can use the 'blog' for more than one presentation.
(Disadvantages?: You need online access.
It is an adapted blog, so sometimes it lacks some features. Yet I believe it contains all basic necessities.)
Is it easy?
I tried to make it as easy as possible.
I am sure this tool will be used by marketeers rather than geeks.
So the step-by-step tutorial should be easy enough to follow.
Hope you enjoy it.
Posted on October 10, 2005
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Apple Silence
Tomorrow is the big event, but no new rumors are coming in.
The only guess people have is the videoiPod, which Jobs always denied, a Madonna labeled iPod, and updates of the existing g5 series.
Nobody knows?
Why would Jobs released a campaign based upon a sentence like 'One More Thing' which he always uses when something big is going to be announced?
Would they set up an event ONLY for a Madonna iPod?
Can't believe: after the disappointment of the Rokr, the scratched Nano, and the Paris Expo which didn't reveal anything new, Jobs cannot announce a Madonna iPod.
It has to be something else.
Right?
Posted on October 11, 2005
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Nothing to hide
Link for Britney
-Don't ask!-
Posted on October 11, 2005
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Good music...
Beautiful.
Guess I should import some music.
Posted on October 12, 2005
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For L Word Fans
fyi, Peter ;)
THE L EVENT – LONDON / 25TH - 27th November 2005
Yep another L word event in London
Anne Ramsay (Robin) has been confirmed as appearing at Starfury: The L Event in Heathrow, London, this November. She will be joining Laurel Holloman (Tina Kennard), Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody), and Lauren Lee Smith (Lara Perkins) for this WORLD EXCLUSIVE weekend with their fans.
I guess D7tC has an excuse to go to London :)
Helena will be there, I know it is not Bette, but heck... Read this:
Diary of Rachel Shelley (Helena)
A few weeks later I am back in LA, filming on location at the infamous Chateau Marmont. My character is filthy rich, I wear vastly expensive clothes, fabulous jewellery, drive an Aston Martin (I play the lone English character) and stay in the best places. Yesterday we had the penthouse and out on the terrace we were about to shoot an "intimate" scene. I'm under my girlfriend's dress, perilously close to her gusset, when my ex-wife walks in. Needing help on this one, I asked our director, man to man, what I needed to convey when going down on a woman. "When I'm down there, I know I'm gonna be there for a while, so I like to get real comfortable," he says. "My toes may curl with the pleasure. Just imagine you're sucking on a delicious piece of juicy, delicious, gorgeous, sweet ... sushi." Sushi? Eww.
or
But playing a lesbian isn't so different from playing straight. I've played a whore, a doctor, an aristocrat lady, and believe me I'm none of those things either. I remember asking a newly lesbian friend if she missed sex with men as, once upon a time, I couldn't really see it as anything but foreplay. Turns out that's quite a controversial subject among lesbians, with those using dildos sometimes viewed with the same disdain strict vegetarians might reserve for veggies who eat meat-flavoured products.
This is what The L Word does to you - it allows you to discuss such matters publicly without turning crimson.
More news:
-Access to the official site? Click here.
Oh yeah, I am really really over the L-Word. I am!
But isn't this just fun to read?
Posted on October 12, 2005
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PodCasts
I met Eug irl last week, and as said before, he has some interesting remarks on blogging sites in general.
He got me really interested in podcasting -I kind of think it has a lot of potential, but I hate the fact that there is so much junk inbetween, a preview before one downloads would be nice.-
Yet, I discovered his website: Podcasting.be and was stunned about good quality podcast links. Check it out.
And our Flemish national radio is busy with it too, launching a series of programs in podcast as beta. Easy to use... Much easier than their online listener that still is bullshit for Mac...
Posted on October 12, 2005
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Icogs
I got an icogs invite yesterday. I remember months ago I was already interested, but somehow it got lost in too many emails.
Check it out now, and must say: splendid tool for small sites. Easy adaptable. Will try to convince a new client to use it, instead of his flash -awooo- based site.
Posted on October 12, 2005
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Welcome to Belgium
Some people wonder why one posts in (bad) English. Maybe because the poster has readers that don't know Dutch?
I do, I have quite some friends abroad. I know I make mistakes in English, but I guess my friends/readers never bothered.
Actually I was requested to write in English by friends in Israel, because they hated the fact they couldn't read my adventures about my trip in the Middle East. I argued 'My English isn't that good.' They didn't care, they wanted to read spicy stories about countries they will never be able to visit.
This country they can visit:
Coming to Belgium and need some info: check out this site
Click in the left on the iPod -download it to your iPod/computer- and enjoy it on your flight to Brussels, it might reveal some things of our little country and its main city.
Posted on October 12, 2005
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Kilo Meter: Your art in Israel?
p/s
just in case you dont understand the hebrew;
on the 3rd of november i'm opening a one night trans
gallery. i'm collecting 1000 images from different
artists. the first thousand that i get i will print
them as postcards and give it away on the streets of
tel aviv. the image will be used only for this purpose
and will not be for merchandise. the name of tyhe
gallery 'alef alef/alef alef/alef alef"- stand for -
index thousand / artists love / art (on) bycicle
the image has to be sent by mail as jpg 300 dpi 10x15
cmyk
thanks for your cooporation
karin
fyi: Karin is a friend of mine in Israel. We studied together at Bezalel Academy of Art&Design.
She does performances, and for the opening of the gallery/opening also of the new gallery year, she'll perform. (Check the image to see the email address clearly)
I already sent my images.
And you?
First 1000 images only, so hurry up.
Posted on October 12, 2005
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Linksys CIT200, cool new Skype phone
Cool new SkypePhone. Now make us a driver for Mac...
Posted on October 12, 2005
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Thank you Apple
Apple Announces iTunes 6 With 2,000 Music Videos, Pixar Short Films & Hit TV Shows
I don't care about the Apple Video Pod... I really don't, but this...:
SAN JOSE, California—October 12, 2005—Apple® today announced iTunes® 6, the next generation of the world’s most popular music jukebox and online music store. iTunes 6 lets fans purchase and download over 2,000 music videos and six short films from Academy-Award winning Pixar Animation Studios for just $1.99 each. Also, in a landmark deal with Disney, iTunes is now offering current and past episodes from two of the most popular shows on television, “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost,” as well as the new drama series “Night Stalker” and the two most popular shows from Disney Channel, “That’s So Raven” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” for just $1.99 per episode. Customers can now purchase and download their favorite television shows from iTunes the day after they air on TV, watch them on their Mac® or PC, and Auto-Sync them onto the new iPod® for viewing anywhere.
“We’re doing for video what we’ve done for music—we’re making it easy and affordable to purchase and download, play on your computer, and take with you on your iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Right out of the gate we’re offering 2,000 music videos, Pixar’s short films and hit primetime TV shows like ‘Desperate Housewives’ and ‘Lost’.”
This hits.
Peter, I forecasted it. I really did.
The video store is there, they needed to take the market before someone else did it.
Official downloads of Lost... I gladly pay the 2 dollars.
Yesterday I was talking about it with Britt.
She said: they can't offer something cheaper than 75 euro.
Well dear, they do: 2 dollar/episode of Lost! (what, 12 episodes = 24 green papers?) I am certainly buying official now.
Not only do they sell TV shows, no, they released the wonderful remote, read: Front Row, the Media Center of Apple.... only included in iMac- and thus limited to 20 inch-
I want....
(I am sure D7tC will watch her L Word episodes on her iPod. I won't.
So I'll stick to my nice little machine.
-Though while watching... It's appealing...Damn, why can't they disappoint so you are not teased to buy...- I can imagine: go babysitting and taking your movie collection along..-
Watch the keynote of Steve Jobs now. Enjoy it like I did.
-I experience an overload on the Mac site now...-
Posted on October 13, 2005
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Fax through bluetooth
Today I needed to fax a document, and I wrongly presumed that the place I was had a fax.
No ordinary phone line, no fax, nothing... But then it popped into my mind that I have a mobile, which is the same as a landline (technically).
How could I connect my mobile to my computer? Bluetooth!
That easy? Of course not...
You do need a GPRS phone -which I have- and a fax enabled account -which I don't have..., and won't take. It adds another 30 euro a month to my bill.-
Other solutions? Yes: fax through internet: EFax has a month free account.
Perfect if you are in a hurry to send a fax. -Don't forget to disable before the month ended, otherwise you'll have to pay... You get a number you like, and it will cost you 11 euro/month-
Here's the trick how to send faxes (for Apple Mac Os X) if you have a phoneline or mobile WITH enabled account.
Posted on October 13, 2005
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Don't be in Israel in search for news, rather visit Syria...
Shalom: Dead Syrian minister must not take blame for Assad:
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday he hopes Ghazi Kenaan, the Syrian interior minister and former top man in Lebanon who committed suicide Wednesday, does not take the blame for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad just days before a UN report is due on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Posted on October 13, 2005
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Apple posts video podcast tutorial
Apple posts video podcast tutorial:
Much like the podcast tutorial we saw a couple of months ago, Apple has posted a "Creating Video Podcasts on Mac OS X" tutorial to its website. They suggest you use an iSight camera (of course) and Quicktime Pro 7.0.3 to create your video. Once you've finished recording, select the new "Movie to iPod (320x240)" option from the "Export" menu to ensure iPod compatibility.
The tutorial results in an .m4v file containing H.264 video and AAC audio. The webpage goes on to explain that the iPod can play the following file formats specifically:
- H.264 video - File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio - MPEG-4 video - File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
Told you: videocasting is going to rock now...
Posted on October 14, 2005
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To remember for december
Syriana: watch the trailer
Posted on October 14, 2005
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Fill your iPod for free
PodSafeMusic music allows you to download free music, and heck they have pearls, like this Rob Costlow.
Posted on October 14, 2005
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Podcast Maker - 1.1.1
Potion Factory seems to release a very easy tool to configure your podcast the way iTunes likes it...
Some of its features:
* Drag and drop podcasting.
* RSS feed generator.
* Make enhanced podcasts. (Again, drag and drop)
* Publish to a .Mac account.
* Publish to an FTP or SFTP server.
* Publish to a folder on your Mac.
* Preview your enhanced podcast.
* Preview what your podcast looks like on the iTunes Music Store.
* Automatically embeds metadata into MP3 and M4A files.
* Publish vidcasts, m4v files for video iPods, and PDF files.
* Import existing podcasts.
Posted on October 15, 2005
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Tarek Aziz free?
Tarek Aziz will testify against Saddam, and thus regain his freedom. -this is what the media appears to say-
Why am I not surprised? Tarek Aziz was kept aside from the very first beginning of his capture, and we never heard anything of him.
Sure he released some info. In fact, he went to the American Army to surrender himself. I guess, back then some deals were made already.
I met the guy in Iraq, in an interview -you can see a picture in the header of this blog, if you refresh enough- and was stunned about his knowledge. He's not stupid at all. -and he cannot be compared to the other minister of information everybody remembers from the war.-
He seemed to be a very intelligent man, but he was ruling in a state of terror and atrocity. Somehow he must have been involved in the most cruel actions in Iraq.
Is it fair to release such a man?
The article, in Dutch.
Info on Aziz with letters released out of jail to his family
Posted on October 16, 2005
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Voting in Iraq.
A new constitution if prepared for Iraq, and people voted for it.
The fact is the former Iraqi constitution was one of the most liberal in the world. But it was not very effective under a dictator...
Yet, it granted very expanded rights to women, and foresaw free education and a social system.
Iraqi students were allowed to study abroad, and according to pictures of the seventies I saw, it was a very secular state.
-This to the anger of the surrounding countries. One of the main reasons Saddam ruled a policy of Islamization in the nineties, was to get support from these countries in case of a new war with the US.-
In the new constitution some strange things appear:
Article 2 defines Islam as "the official religion of the state" and "a basic source of legislation". It is unclear how this article will be applied in light of another article further down in the document, which proclaims that all Iraqis, men and women, are equal before the law, and no one is to face legal discrimination based on gender or ethnicity.
In my humble opinion, the change of this constitution is dramatic, and means the consolidation of a new large islamic state in the Middle East.
I guess it is inevitable due to the circumstances.
But this means that the rights of the Iraqi women -who were entitled to work, and study (and many of them were high educated as doctors etc.)- are endangered.
It also means that islamic law will be taught to children. -we have to admit: we are not fully aware of what they learned until now... I went into schools in Iraq and surely they learned how to hate the West over there. But the situation now is not going to be better if not supervised strictly.-
I don't understand why US agrees to this solution to set up an islamic state in the Middle East, if that might mean an even bigger danger for them -because in the end, an islamic constitution in a political unstable country surely opens up possibilities for fundamentalists.-
Al Quaeda already integrated in Iraq and we might see that instability in this region serves Al Quaeda even better.
Money out of some rich oil countries will build mosques and schools, just like happened in Gaza with Hamas. The lessons taught there might be frightening.
Am I too pessimistic? I think it is rather realistic.
Let's hope the Iraqi people are smart enough to see the danger and fight against it. The only problem is: today they are to busy with finding water and electricity...
Posted on October 16, 2005
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Play arcade on a building
Play an arcade game on a french building...
Posted on October 16, 2005
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Leave the doubt.
Find stickers here, and stick it into scientific books
Posted on October 16, 2005
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Televangelist says DeGeneres’ homosexuality will cause earthquake, not hurricane
Posted on October 16, 2005
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Request: Skype for Mac
An Skype API for Mac was released a month ago. Funny enough nothing has been done since then.
Am I mistaken, or are only few doing something with it?
I would love to have a Skype solution for Mac that gets rid of the huge window and gets Skype in my menubar, like Plazes does.
That way, I can see who's online anytime, and initiate/close calls in the without the hassle of finding my window back.
Anybody???
Posted on October 17, 2005
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iPod for Podcasting?
Does the iPod finally support CD-quality audio recording?
Indeed it does. In the past, the iPod’s operating system limited audio recording to 8KHz, 16-bit mono via an external device such as Griffin’s iTalk. According to Apple’s published specifications, the new iPod supports two audio recording modes: a “low-quality” mono mode at 22.05KHz, and a CD-quality 44.1 KHz stereo mode.
What’s as yet unclear is if you can simply attach a microphone to the iPod and begin voice recording or if you’ll need a yet-to-be-released third-party audio-input accessory.
Read the whole article
Posted on October 17, 2005
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Portrait of a webmaster
Apologies for those who do not understand french but how could i resist to this video from the cult Belgo-French TV show Strip-Tease.
Via aeiou.
Posted on October 17, 2005
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Against the occupation in Israel?
Posted on October 17, 2005
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RSS adoption
What is RSS? To most bloggers, this question is answered before asked. But it appears that to many people, the question is quite relevant.
While writing a project proposal for a podcasting idea, I hammered on the fact the podcasting itself should be accessible through the web. It just has to, since most people will not know what podcasting stands for.
They'll push the button, listen, but they'll never know unless they read the accompanying information.
Each site that has podcasting should put an extra page on what podcasting is, in my humble opinion.
Apple did a great deal in integrating it in its iTunes store, but to non-itunes-users it isn't that obvious.
Which brings me back to what Eug said: most people visit blogs online, not in an rss-reader.
My statistics prove that right.
People who have the opposite are probably writing on a very specific topic, aiming at internet-geeks :)...
Interesting:
Only 12% of the internet population has heard the term RSS
Only 4% of the population has heard of AND uses RSS
27% of the internet population uses RSS but doesn't know that its called RSS.
More: Yahoo's publishers guide to RSS. Check this excellent interview with Dave Winer, the 'father' of RSS.
Posted on October 18, 2005
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Fear.
One of my friends in Gaza (who's name I won't disclose here) had the opportunity to study in Israel and he had some friends over there. He was very active in some projects, because believes in peace and cooperation with Israel.
Today I read this article:
Gaza gunmen abduct two men accused of collaborating with Israel
By Reuters
Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip seized two men they accused of collaborating with Israel on Tuesday in another sign of lawlessness in the territory evacuated by Israeli forces last month.
Suddenly, I fear for him.
He is not a collaborator, and doesn't agree with everything Israelis do.
But surely he is in danger and will be regarded as a collaborator for those who see every contact with Israel as collaboration.
It is a strange idea that Palestinians start to abduct Palestinians, and that now the danger is coming from within.
It also explains why back then, people were not eager to start projects with Israel, if now the same people are being charged without a trial.
Keep the faith, my friend.
Posted on October 18, 2005
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What about Flock?
Some weeks ago it was buzzing on the internet: Flock flock flock.
Now there is silence...
But not for long! Countdown has begun.
I am eager to see! The screenshots for Mac look great!
Posted on October 18, 2005
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Sucky-Sucky Fucky-fucky
Since I moved in, it has become increasingly apparent to me that giggly one has little intention of ever moving to Washington. Indeed the suspicion has grown that giggly one and giggly two are, in fact, embroiled in a lesbian relationship, and are using me merely to excuse the fact that giggly one lives permanently in giggly two's bed. This does not bother me in the slightest. I find it soothing that we all harbor little secrets from one another, for they are completely unaware that I am a dancer in a Manhattan strip club, and think that I just have an exotic social life. We exist in a hiatus of calm, although I fear discovery and consequent homelessness every day. Increasingly my calm has been punctuated by another slight problem.
I awoke early on Saturday morning, to little giggly cries of orgasmic pleasure.
Every time I see them, these cries, accompanied by unwelcome images of complicated sexual acrobatics, flash through my mind, and I too start giggling insanely. I live in a sublet apartment of nervous mirth, and I fear the necessary repudiations from suppressed secrets, suppressed sex.
Plus I'm not getting any and it's driving me crazy.
Posted on October 19, 2005
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North Korea celebrates
Beautiful series, good choreographer
Posted on October 19, 2005
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Salling Clicker for Windows
Rarely Windows Users have to wait for software to be converted to their platform -I admit, most of the time, we Mac users have to wait-
But this time, things are opposite.
I guess of me of my friends will be happy to hear Salling Clicker has a Windows version now.
Salling Clicker is software that turns your bluetooth mobile into a remote for your bluetooth enabled computer.
Present slideshows with the click of your mobile, change the volume of your iTunes music with one click. And many more things are featured.
Now even with wifi-connectivity (so, your wifi enabled palm turns into a remote for only 30 dollars.)
Handy? Sure: no more extra remote lying around somewhere...
Posted on October 19, 2005
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Gaza awaits first harvest from former settlements
Gaza awaits first harvest from former settlements:
Palestinians worry about exporting produce left behind by Gaza settlers
Basil Jaber, chairman of the Palestine Economic Development Company (PEDC), told a news conference that 1,500 of the 2,000 greenhouses left intact had now been replanted. PEDC plans to invest e33 million in developing them all.
Good news out of Gaza, that is.
Posted on October 20, 2005
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Busy lately
Cannot reveal anything, but it is amazing fun!
I love this adrenaline...
Posted on October 21, 2005
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So here's Flock...
Developers version that is, I am not one, but I downloaded it anyway ;)
Update: For those who don't know it:
Flock is a social browser, meaning: a firefox copy but with extra functionalities for 'sharing bookmarks', 'blogging', flickr integration and such more.
Flock has full web 2.0 integration (for those who don't understand web 2.0, like me some days ago, check this. Thanks Britt)
The possibilities are endless, but so are the dangers:
'The most visited stays the most visited' theory:
Flickr becomes the standard and doesn't leave room for others.
Minor players like Buzznet and PhotoBlog/Pixagogo will have to catch up and integrate a good API that works with Flock.
(If they are smart, they immediately contact the developers...)
Integration of 'Blog this' and 'Feeds' will certainly teach people the use of RSS and blogs, but also endangers the tools like Ecto and NetNewsWire -or rather the online services like feedster- if well integrated and useful.
Advanced users will probably stick to their advanced tools.
Over all my most favorite thing is 'shared tagged bookmarks online'
No longer the problem of taking my bookmarks along and switching browsers. I love that idea very much. It is full integration with del.icio.us -not leaving room for alternatives...- but heck, now I have a reason to work with it.
The design looks very much like Firefox, but I guess Jon Hicks' involvement explains a lot ;)
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Posted on October 21, 2005
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PodCasting beyond junk
Podcasting has certainly passed its first diseases and is growing into a healthy kid.
Studio Brussel released Studio Podcast: one hour of the best music.
I wonder what this means for the artists included in the podcast.
Is it podcast free music?
In the Netherlands they are working on a podcast licence. (tx Eug)
but in Belgium things seem more complex.
Is StuBru breaking the law or not?
This article (in Dutch) is interesting to see what is possible in Belgium and what not.
But seeing the recent developments, I guess Marcel is biting dust.
(Belgian users: fill in this interesting questionnaire)
Posted on October 21, 2005
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Only when night falls
18 architects and designers worked together on Hotel Puerta America in Madrid.
On the twelfth floor, Jean Nouvel decorated twelve suites with images that evoke the human body or nature. They are reproduced on vertical panels that slide on guides to permit guests to reorganize the various zones of the suites, the bathroom or the living area, according to their own requirements of space and taste.
The pictures of photographers Nobuyoshi Araki and Alain Fleischer come alive only as night falls. The prints are on the reverse side of the canvas, and so invisible by day. But in the evening, they are backlit by LEDs and become visible.
More images: europaconcorsi and El Mundo. Don't miss the underground parking by Teresa Sapey.
Also at Puerta America: Memory wall.
Posted on October 22, 2005
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Pierre Marcolini Chocolatier
Wondering what to get us for the holidays? Our birthdays? Any days? We're obsessed with the chocolate craft of Pierre Marcolini, an artisian chocolatier in Brussels (with shops in Tokyo, London, Paris and New York).
What makes Pierre Marcolini chocolate so good? Like Blanxart they make their own chocolate from scratch, an increasingly rare art. They primarily use Criollo cacao beans grown in Venezuela, considered to be the world’s best. Butter comes from France. Vanilla from Madagascar. Almonds from Portugal.
The cocoa beans are processed and large blocks of chocolate are made. The origin of the beans and the percentage of the chocolate is stamped on the blocks, which are then used to make pralines, bars, and palets fins (thin, filled chocolate squares).
It's all amazing, but we tend to go for the luxe square bars in their black and white packaging. They make many different bars, most from specific locations or of different cacao varieties.
Available at Pierre Marcolini shops.
Posted on October 22, 2005
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Prime Suspect.
Again a wonderful episode of Prime Suspect, where cops make mistakes and sensible subjects are touched. And the gorgeous Helen Mirren.
This episode was pointing to the massacres that happened during the Bosnia War.
The setting and atmosphere reminded me of my trip to Kosovo.
It was one of the strange trips which made me feel very uncomfortable. I guess it is kind of weird to say that living in a country as Israel never scared me (except for few incidents, like visiting a Hebron settlement), but I can assure the atmosphere in Kosovo scared me more than any threat of bombs.
BBC is soooo damn good in making credible series. Soooo much better than Flikken ;)
Posted on October 22, 2005
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Interesting link for webmasters
Webguide.fgov.be (Dutch) Webguide.fgov.be (French)
Check it all, it has amazing good links.
Posted on October 22, 2005
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GPS + PDA + MP3 = Walking Tour?
One for Bart: GPS + PDA + MP3 = Walking Tour?:
Over at Geeky Traveller, Fumio writes with this question:
I would like to know the practicality of PDA-GPS combo for walking tour, not for driving. For example, walking around Venice or Buenos Aires (European cities and South America). Where can I get such info?
That's a darned fine question. I've blogged about a few MP3 walking tours (and I recently saw some on Audible), but nothing that combines GPS data. Good idea. Somebody get on that, eh?
People are brainstorming all over the world, dreaming of possibilities.
Eventually someone will make it.
Posted on October 23, 2005
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Meanwhile in Syria
©Ine Dehandschutter
While in Belgium news is all about the EuroSong50th fever, striking and bird flu, the Middle East is about to get another crisis.
Opinion divided in J'lem on whether Syrian regime change good for Israel:
Opinions are divided in Jerusalem as to whether the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would be good for Israel.
The US tends to agree:
Analysis: U.S. in no rush to replace Syria's Assad:
It will soon become clear whether talks held on the Syrian question by U.S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with her French and Russian counterparts were successful or not. If successful, then the United Nations Security Council could act decisively against Syria. If the talks fall short of a decision, then the discussion will be dragged over months, as is the UN's way, and the momentum will disappear.
Moving Assad might be not such a wise decision, in my belief.
Many of the Iraqi insurgents are in fact believed to come from Syria.
Removing Assad, might mean a huge instability in the region.
Thus again: a danger to become a blooming place for Al Quaeda...
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Posted on October 23, 2005
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Mixed messages
Great work Peter.
Posted on October 23, 2005
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Remember the T-shirts idea for Karama
Do you remember a while ago I asked graphic designers to post some designs for T-shirts?
We received quite some nice things and I am happy to say, Karama will try to produce the T-shirts very soon -read january 2006, fast has several meanings... ;)-
I wanted to present one of my favorites:
Quite cool to walk the streets I think.
Posted on October 24, 2005
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I need a recording device urgently...
I do have an iPod with recording devices and a nice sony microphone, but the quality sucks for what I need now.
Now, it has to be CD quality.
But damn, the iPod Video currently hasn't got the compatible microphone to work with it.
This is also the first iPod to include the ability to record high-quality voice memos. When you plug in a compatible microphone the iPod offers you the choice to record in mono at 22kHz or in stereo at 44.1kHz (the “CD quality” standard). This could be a huge boon for field recording and for interviewers who currently carry minidisc recorders.
Unfortunately, no such microphone currently exists (compatible mics and adapters will plug into the iPod’s dock connector port) so currently there’s no way to test this feature. When a microphone or mic adapter becomes available,
Playlist will be all over it.
It would be a perfect fit for what I need NOW.
Damndamndamn.
Someone is ready to lend/rent me a Hard Disc recording device for 7 days?
I might opt for
Update: Anyone has experience with this one: PMP-100? Seems pretty damn interesting.
Update 2: I am testing tx Strash!!!:
Fabulous recording: the iRiver 120. True revelation -records wav, but MP3 is as good and cristal clear.-
One minor detail: when recording throguh the internal mic, you hear the hard disc. Very annoying.
Highest score for unefficient menu: iRiver 120.
Highest score for worst recording: iPod Photo
Highest score for easy menu: iPod Photo.
Pretty well, but should test again: recording through the computer.
Problem caused: noise of the hd of the computer.
Problem caused: need amplifier for the mic. -read need iMic-
I also found out about the new Sony MD, which now records on 1gb MD's. The recorder costs about 250 euro, the discs of 1 gb cost 6 euro. You can download the discs through usb 2.0 to your HD and convert to mp3 easily.
And the quality is said to be stunning.
So stunning they are out of stock everywhere...
A pity.
After this research it seems obvious to wait for the iPod Video and a suitable microphone... I guess quality will be comparable to the iRiver. Only I really need one now.
But as I am a lucky bastard, I guess a solution will come my way. If not, I'll opt for the iRiver PMP100. Should check those specs again, but recording in mp3 sounds pretty damn well.
Posted on October 25, 2005
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Apple remembers Rosa Parks
Never forget to think different.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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TV Experiment
Technical events produce the illusion of being natural and realistic. They produce the feeling of being non-produced (a good cut is one you don't notice, as the editors say). In the same way, we are unaware that the practice of watching TV is a practice because we have never experienced it as a phenomenon in its own right. Doing the Technical Events Test forces us to notice that watching TV is a practice, an active, ongoing achievement that we accomplish "for another first time through" each time. We see what the texture of the experience of watching TV consists of. We are shocked into seeing what it is we've been doing all these years.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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Fun time.
It lacks a RSS feed and thus isn't a real podcast/vodcast. But it is surely as interestinng as Humo Liegt.be:
De Raad van de Redder. In Dutch only.
With Wouter Deprez and Zabine (one of my funniest friends)
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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Videopodcasting on Typepad=VideoEgg
Posted on October 26, 2005
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Videos on Social Computing
Very interesting video's on the blog of Charlene Li (Forrester) about social computing:
Charlene Li: "Social Computing -- Bubble or Big Deal?" (29 min. 38 sec.)
Chris Charron: "Innovating In A Consumer Driven World" (8 min. 43 sec.)
Christine Overby: "The Essentials Of Consumer-Driven Innovation" (20 min. 11 sec.)
Tx Hans Mestrum
They all come from Forrester's Consumer Forum. You can also find some video's with Q+A's there.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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The war is not over...
Five people killed in Hadera suicide bombing
By Haaretz Service and Agencies
A suicide bomber exploded in the open air market in the coastal city of Hadera a little before 4 P.M. Wednesday afternoon, killing five people and wounding 30 others.
More here.
Posted on October 26, 2005
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My mobile home?
Designed by students at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Durmibus is a coach fitted with individual sleeping rooms, showers and toilets. It could be used in case of emergency to house the victims of a natural disaster, or to temporary host drunk drivers, etc.
It could find commercial applications as well: it would welcome travellers who have to wait during long hours in an airport or any person who arrives by night in a city and doesn't know where they can find accomodation. The Durmibus can easily go from one place to another, can be rented by public or private organizations for public parties or other purposes.
It could be used to give a kind of home to people who have no place to go but still want to maintain some kind of nomadic life-style.
Wow, I could like this idea, I really could.
Link by We make money not art
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Photo prints
Flickr did it again: they announce a series of useful applications, one of them printing!
When launching PhotoBlog in the past, printing was one of the things we always wanted, but, just like Flickr did, kept for the last thing to be added -and actually until now never added-
Printing of pictures is a real business model -offering unlimited stock of your pictures for 25$ a year isn't at all, that's just saying: 'big company buy me'-
So if I would be an user of Flickr, I would be damn happy Yahoo bought it, because it means the service will start to offer some -paying but useful- extra's.
Afraid the app will become more expensive: grow up, the sun doesn't shine for free. Flickr could never be able to continue offering their service for free, seeing their bandwidth usage. The user will pay, on one way or another. So hopefully it is trough useful applications like printing, instead of a higher account-price.
PhotoBlog + Pixagogo = (or could mean) printing in the future, since Pixagogo has a coop with a very important printer in the field.
Cross your fingers.
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Illustrator
I am following classes of Illustrator: booooooooring...
But when sitting in class, I skip the usual excercices -to great despair of my teacher- and surf to online tutorials.
That way class is pretty useful for me: I know that those 3 hours I am busy with learning something, and not spinning off to another site, or opening the TV...
These days, I tend to go to Veerle's Illustrator/Indesign/PhotoShop tutorials. They are quite interesting and useful. And beautiful design. Just what I was looking for.
Tx, Veerle.
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Palestine attack the work of Ba'athists, Jihadis
Palestine attack the work of Ba'athists, Jihadis:
I stayed in the Palestine Hotel, back in '02. It was a huge hotel with view on one of Saddam's palaces (but I guess every huge building had somewhere a view on one of his palaces...).
We had much fun with all the journalists there, sitting in the evening in a wonderful garden, some guys finding beer in a muslim country, and later on drinking it late at night, in one joint meeting room, away from other people.
Palestine is still the place for journalists, and it was hit by jihadi's...
BAGHDAD Monday's attack on the Palestine Hotel was not targeting journalists, I've learned, but a security company in the hotel, according to my sources in the insurgency. (You can read the full article I did for TIME.com here.)
According to sources, who remain anonymous, al Qaeda in Iraq and Jaysh al-Muhammad, one of the largest Ba'athist groups, staged the joint operation in order to attack and kill members of one of the security firms stationed in the Palestine. Journalists were not specifically targeted, but because the plan was to get the huge cement truck bomb under the Palestine and bring down much of the building, I'm told, it seems impossible that journalists would have escaped injury.
While it seems counter-intuitive that secular Ba'athists would work with jihadis of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's stripe, they sometimes combine forces for large operations against their common enemy: foreigners and infidels. They also often share information and techniques.
Why am I writing this? Because clearly, I want to point out the cooperation between Al Quaeda and other jihadi's.
Some people don't believe it is a real existing network -like my little sissy- and think every jihadi claims to be linked to Al Quaeda these days.
I don't agree. Many of them are trained and exchanged.
Experts, announcing many years ago, that something will erupt in the Middle East, were right in my eyes.
You can feel it when being there.
(I am still convinced it was the Western world that put the fire to the fireworks, but I guess that's a very personal opinion.)
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Fear and loathing in the Middle East
This below happened to me too.
One needs to read and think about it. Those things are rarely in our newspapers, but o-so revealing.
-Keep on writing On the face!-
The first time I went to Gaza City last summer, the time I went with Gal to interview some PA officials, I was accompanied by a local translator and guide whom I'll call Khaled. He was in his late twenties and spoke fluent idiomatic American English - which he said he'd learned while working as a barman in a southern European resort city. Khaled wore his sunglasses perched on his close-cropped hair, and he liked to quote the lyrics of American rap singers like 50 Cent. He also looked a lot older than his age, and he knew it. It's because of the shitty life here, he explained.
According to his story, Khaled was born and raised in Gaza but went to Europe in his late teens to work and study. He returned to Gaza in 2000, he said, because he believed in the promise of the Oslo Accords - the promise of peace and normalcy, and an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He missed his home and his family, and he didn't want to lose his right of residency in Gaza as a result of a prolonged absence.
And now, he said bitterly, I'm locked in. Then he said - longingly, but not angrily - I can't believe that, 10 minutes' drive from here, there are ordinary people sitting in cafes and living a normal life. And I'm stuck in this... (and here he just waved his hands expressively at the donkey carts and badly paved roads).
Khaled told me and Gal the following story about fear:
Shortly after he returned to live in Gaza, a few months before the second intifada broke out in October 2000, Khaled went to East Jerusalem to meet a friend who lived in the West Bank. He had never been to Jerusalem before, and he had never - he said - met a Jew who was dressed in civilian clothes.
After Khaled and his friend went out for drinks at a bar in East Jerusalem, they got in their car in order to return to Ramallah. But they took a wrong turn and found themselves in an Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood in West Jerusalem.
"I started to sweat real hard," said Khaled.
Gal and I didn't understand. "Why were you nervous?" we asked.
"Because," answered Khaled, "What if one of those religious Jews saw me and my friend, recognized us as Arabs, dragged us out of our car and beat us up or killed us?"
Gal and I were astonished. I think we even laughed.
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Posted on October 27, 2005
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Weather
Nothing to complain here these days... We are having 20degrees C in the end of October. Heaven.
But this doesn't sound bad either...
Hong Kong, China
CURRENT CONDITIONS
27°C
Mostly Cloudy
Rel. Humidity: 69%
Wind: E at 16 km/h (10 mph)
Sunrise: 6:26 AM
Sunset: 5:49 PM
Barometric Pressure: 30.04"Hg (F)
Posted on October 27, 2005
in Living in Belgium
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Useful podcasts to download
Learn Japanese.
Learn Chinese.
(I know some people who's iPods will be filled with this veryvery soon.)
Other useful and nice podcasts are welcome! -Music is also welcome-
So please send in your tips in the comments.
Posted on October 27, 2005
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NetNewsWire to del.icio.us
Ted Leung: Here are two scripts for getting stuff from NetNewsWire to del.icio.us.
Posted on October 28, 2005
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Envy me.
Al this has to do with what happens to me next week.
For now you can envy me.
-Yep those are 2 brand new nano's, and 3 pbook you are counting.
And they are mine for the next 2 weeks... The lousy isight that took the shots too.-
Posted on October 28, 2005
in Living in Belgium, Projects
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The good things bout strikes
They finally play good music on the radio.
Posted on October 29, 2005
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Choosing between 12 inch or 15
It is a funny remark for today, but yesterday I had to work on a 15inch pBook, and I just hated it...
I turned back to my little cosy 12inch, with a way too small screen, but a nice keybord.
(I am writing this for the day I need to buy a new one, to remind me to take a 12inch with an external screen and not be tempted by a larger format..)
Posted on October 29, 2005
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Boinx Software
Turn your webcam into a video cam, or make little animated movies with it.
With great features.
Check it out.
Posted on October 29, 2005
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TiVo to iPod-friendly video while you sleep
TiVo to iPod-friendly video while you sleep:
The new version of Autopilot software just released by TVHarmony.com promises to convert TiVo recorded shows to iPod video-compatible format. The software automatically transfers, converts, and stores shows recorded by TiVo. The best part is that you can program the entire process to happen while you're sleeping, so your favorite programs are ready for your iPod bright and early the next morning.
Does this really mean people will watch video on their video pod?
Posted on October 29, 2005
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A movie to show your kids
so you can explain them why you don't take them to the circus.
Posted on October 29, 2005
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A quiet place to write...
What a wonderful idea: people rent together a place and can come there to write.
A huge loft. In New York.
And a membership for 100 dollars/months, with wireless internet.
Simple, yet perfect.
Do the same thing with some freelancers, and you get a much more productive environment I guess.
I would subscribe immediately...
Posted on October 30, 2005
in Design
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Google It.
Thank you...
Posted on October 30, 2005
in Living in Belgium
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Walking Ghent
Posted on October 30, 2005
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