Archives: May 2007
Think before you post
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Posted on May 1, 2007
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My tables
My tables have arrived...
In bits and pieces...
Ain't easy, but I hope to spend some free time on making them usable.
And then ladies and gents... Then...
*Looks in the air, and dreams away*
So when low on blogging, you know I am hard working for a better cause. *Takes the sand paper and starts making circles*
Posted on May 1, 2007
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links for 2007-05-01
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cool
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head out and find a story small digital video cameras are the gutenberg's printing presses of the 21st century
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nice hook
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do you have a friend that you know a secret about and feel it's time for them to come clean?
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sidepacks from sao paolo
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all your music everywhere, to implement in your blog.
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upload your hd online
Posted on May 1, 2007
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Magnetic clothing hangers
Cool
Find it here
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Posted on May 1, 2007
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Projects of a photographer
A minute ago I said goodbye to my friend, Peter, who got up at six o’clock this morning to drive me from the centre of Copenhagen to the truck stop in Koege where I am now. It’s up to me now to get from here to the Mediterranean Sea with only 14 Euros to spend. It shouldn’t be too difficult.
Technorati Tags: art, photography, http://www.simonhoegsberg.com
Posted on May 1, 2007
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Crazy questions I ask myself
-If this is May and the sun shines this hard, what will happen in July/August if the sun is supposed to be higher in the sky?
-The sea used to be until Gent very long ago, so is it so strange it will come back until Gent one day? I mean I think it means the sea level dropped years ago. So is it so strange that it'll rise again?
-Are earth is spinning around its axis, is it possible this axis would change a tiny little bit, so we would fetch a Spanish climate?
-Why do cows maouw and not bark( for example).
More questions from your side? Grin.
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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Ok, I might sound totally unpopular now, but I don't get Twitter at all.
I mean, what kind of fun is there when someone beeps 'made a mistake in my code, stupid me'
or something alike.
Who cares?
Who cares someone is going to bed or to the toilet or whatever?
Nope I don't get it.
One says I should post, but then I think I wouldn't know what to post.
'Writing a blogpost now'? You'll see on my blog I wrote a blogpost...
'Going for food now'? Who wants to know?
'Sun is shining, good morning!' Hey do I know you stranger?
I am trying to get rid of my internet addictions... Not feeding a new one ;)
So to the Twitters, enjoy it. Me, I am gonna unsubscribe from IM, as really I didn't see anything interesting pop up until now. And frankly speaking, it takes my attention from what I was busy with. (lying in the sun ;P)
Then again, maybe I wasn't to addicted after all :)
(update: I do see advantages like for BarCamp, or other stuff, but not for all the time...)
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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Traveling
Aaargh, I figured out today that I haven't been traveling this year. And we're May now.
I guess that explains my 'dip' from 2 weeks ago, that and the fact she is...
Ok we have sun, I know.
But damn, would love to sit in public transport in one of those far away countries to picture life as it is...
The past list has changed a bit.
Probably won't make into Argentina...
Bolivia, Peru and maybe a piece of Chili are on the list now.
And heck, I want to go to Morocco after all.
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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links for 2007-05-02
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beautiful globe
Posted on May 2, 2007
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Spass
Spaß dates
- Sunday 27th May (You don't have to go to work on Monday)
- Saturday 14th July (Gentse Feesten)
Perfect to celebrate my birthday...
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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Would you or not?
Question to all amongst you who once longed to be an astronaut...
With a mission to Mars planned to take place within the next 30 years, there are a few issues in NASA has yet to officially address. The issues are outlined in a NASA document on crew health obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. The issues: Sex and death. They do not have exact policies on what astronauts should do when a crew member is either ill or injured to the point where they have no chance of surviving. If they're going to die anyway, do take away their life support/oxygen to preserve resources for the living crew members?
If they'd ask you to be the first to travel to Mars but you weren't allowed to have sex during the several years of travel, would you go or not? ;)
Really?
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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Pure annoyance...
Uw wachtwoord dient minimaal 8 en maximaal 15 tekens te tellen en dient ten minste een cijfer en een letter van het alfabet te bevatten. Spaties zijn verboden en enkel de volgende tekens zijn toegestaan: a-z A-Z 0-9_
Mind you own business.
How am supposed to remember a password when you ask me to make it so damn difficult I have to write it down to remember it.
How safe is that??
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Posted on May 2, 2007
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Martin Parr interview
And we are all photographers now.
(A nice add-on for Nokia nSights on photography)
Via Wendy
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Posted on May 3, 2007
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links for 2007-05-03
Posted on May 3, 2007
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Workspaces
Simple way to separate your work space.
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Posted on May 3, 2007
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35 days without rain
Today it is the 35th day without rain in Belgium.
In Belgium of all places!
Update: For those abroad: there were raindrops today. For your relief, it ain't all sunshine over here :)
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Posted on May 4, 2007
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links for 2007-05-04
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weird...
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It hasn't all been doom and gloom though, a number of vendors have maintained or improved their support for CSS, especially in the web-based email environment.
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Email Design Guidelines for 2006
Posted on May 4, 2007
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Interviews
We are doing a series of interviews for a client.
And it is so interesting.
I so love my job.
(But I am dead tired today...)
©Ine Dehandschutter
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Farmers
Although I am very much busy with web design, these days I have the luxury to be more in photography.
Luxury, coz the sun is shining outside and I have been taking pictures in the fields for several days now.
Translated: I jump on my motorcycle, cross the country to picture some people/fields/animals.
Photography is a rather intense job. I always underestimate it: when away for one day, at the end I am really tired of 'seeing'.
But I really love it. And what's better: I am getting paid for it :)
(All images ©Ine Dehandschutter)
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Sustainable Suzuki
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention opened yesterday to a standing ovation following world renowned ecologist David Suzuki (CC, OBC, BA, Ph.D). His opening speech touched on his research of the 'ecological imperative of sustainability from a life sciences perspective.'
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Rotfl
And also, Twitter is stupid.
It really is. I mean, c’mon. You don’t have to get your bowels in an uproar to know that. Twitter is like an RSS feed to every boring aspect of your friend’s lives. And your friends are boring. How could they not be? Hourly updates on your best bud’s activities get dull pretty fast even if your best bud is Jack Bauer:
“woke up feeling all angsty…left arm tingly”
“oh noes…shot curtis today :-(”
“thinkin i gotta torture this guy. oh well”
“can’t remember last time i peed”
Yawn.
Why do we think we’re so important that we believe other people want to know about what we’re having for lunch, how bored we are at work or the state of inebriation we happen to be at this very moment in time? How did society get to the point that we are constantly improving technology so that this non-news can reach others even faster than a cell phone, a text message, a blog, our Facebook profiles?
There’s no blaming Generation Y for that. Blame their parents, those touchy-feely post boomers who piled on the praise and positive reinforcement, lest they bruise little Dylan or Madison’s budding self esteem. It’s Mom and Dad who awarded gold stars and iMacs every time their precious progeny engaged in the most mundane of child development. Why should they or the rest of us gape in horror at the next generation posting itself naked on the Internet (both literally and metaphorically). Twitter is just the latest development in the biggest generation gap since rock n’ roll invented teenagers.
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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Photography in a changing world...
I was in an interview yesterday with Paul D'Hoore, who at a certain point was talking about the changes in economy due to the globalization.
His point to take notice of was 'It is true certain jobs are disappearing in our region, because of the simple fact they move towards countries that have much cheaper labor. But does it mean, there are no jobs left? No, there are other jobs, economy is shifting.
I think we see a similar shift in different things. For example music. The music shop disappears. But these people find themselves other ways.
A similar thing is happening with photography.
Due to digital era, and the fact that we, in the West, became more resourceful, and the digital era allows us to spread our images, more 'amateur' photographers are born. Good ones!
Photography will never dissapear, especially because more than ever we became a 'visual world' and large companies, now more than ever, want their actvities to be captured in pictures.
See it as the computer/printer: before it commercialized, all was written, some stuff was printed. Upon arrival of the computer everybody said paper was dead. 30 years later the rain forrest is still dissapearing due to paper production.
Now they say true news-photography is dying and professional photographers will loose their jobs.
The truth is: all is only shifting: news photography is going to be made by the public (the amateur becomes the reporter), while we will look for good filters (because of an overdosis of images) and prof. photographers get different (rather well paid) jobs.
It only just started, guys...
Frankly speaking, I am not worried at all.
(I only hope the amateur photographer does try to learn the language rather than just point and shoot.)
(Tx Pascal for the link)
Reference: a talk with Carl De Keyzer on the subject
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Posted on May 5, 2007
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links for 2007-05-06
Posted on May 6, 2007
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Barcamp
We can tell you a lot of blablabla on Barcamp.
But it has all been said before (check sites like Blogologie and Forret.com.)
So the only thing we can do is show the pics of afterwards :P
Photos courtesy of Pascal Van Hecke.
And yes, that's me in a dream Cabrio :)
My pics after the break :)
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Posted on May 6, 2007
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Google your name
Ha.
Guess what happens when you google Ine... (Tx BVLG to point it out)
To show the irrelevance of the above: guess what happens when you google Ine or when you google Ine
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Posted on May 6, 2007
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I almost converted..
I still don't have a clue what it was all about, but admit, she's looking convinced...
Bart, Clo and Corneel, you almost got me converted ;)
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Posted on May 7, 2007
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Twitter and the lack of groups
I discussed with Corneel about the Twitter thing. He says it rocks. But then he also says he's annoyed by the overload of boring messages.
Meaning: the concept of Twitter is rock solid, the people spreading the messages are not always.
Or at least the relevance of the content of their messages in relation to the receiver. (Mmmm, would love to think on this one with C...)
I guess that the exact point of my problem with Twitter:
to me it isn't that relevant that Bart Netlash is going to play with his kid (no offense Bart :) ), but I guess some of his followers love to read that kind of information.
And then it comes to the friends part.
During the whole web2.0 upvival, the friends/network aspect became veryveryvery important.
You want friends, you need friends, you want to have the largest network of friends. (Check Myspace, or LinkedIn, or many others for that)
While in Twitter, friends are what they supposed to be: the closest network around. Those people who tell you they go to the toilet, and it makes you smile.
So there is this kind of interference: on the one hand you are gathering friends/network, on the other hand you think 'hey, I don't want to hear you peeing'
So do you delete these people from your list?
I think the thing I would love most and which would make me use Twitter is groups.
I don't want to post the fact that I am going to pee (ok, example can be changed now ;) ) to the whole world. But I guess joking it to a little group would make sense in a way, in a certain context they understand, knowing me, as a irl friend (and not a network-connection)
A kind of group-msn which is open all the time, different from IM/irc, irrelevant to direct contact.
In my group I'd post relevant messages.
While other stuff could be fun to post in the open.
Groups aren't available in Twitter, does this mean I have to start to delete my friends-list?
Posted on May 7, 2007
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Professional something
Pietel is writing on photography, and professionalism.
And how amateurs become professionals.
I believe not so much has changed between before and now.
In photography it is worth to check how many professional photographers actually did the studies of photography.
Not too many.
And of those who did photography, I wonder how many learned their knowledge in school.
Photography never was a job that needed a diploma.
Not one newspaper would ask for it on solicitation. You needed to show pictures, and if they ware good, they might buy them. If not, well, go home and learn a little more, try harder.
Today it is still the same story. Amateurs will look how become a professional photographer if they feel it. If it runs in their blood.
They'll make a living from it. Ask for a VAT number and be able to invoice their jobs.
Others will just stay what they are: good amateurs.
Basically in photography, there has always been this filtering of different fields of interest:
professional photographers still make a whole lot of money on weddings, while other people just want their best friend/good amateur to picture the wedding, because they don't want to spend the money.
Nothing has changed on that matter today. Not the arrival of digital photography.
Because in the end it is still the photographer who pictures, not the camera.
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Posted on May 7, 2007
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Greendeavor: Incentive to Shop Green
A fresh and free-to-use social shopping website, Greendeavor is moving us in the right (eco-friendly) direction with regard to our consumer behavior. This site is a hybrid of a social network and a shopping rewards program you can connect through others to aid your understanding of sustainable shopping, help others with their assimilation, and create powerful community centric networks to build broad-based awareness. As you shop within the site and earn rewards points, you'll be simultaneously offsetting your carbon emissions and can monitor your friends progress as well. The site offers additional resources in their 'Learn, Live, and Act' sections in the form of helpful educational, sustainable living, and advocacy resources for members.
There are already some great brands and retailers on board with the site like The Discovery Channel, Nau, Nalgene, Puma and REI.
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Posted on May 7, 2007
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Quote
Heard yesterday while on interview:
The gap between bio and normal products is getting smaller, because these days normal products are being developed on more environment friendly ways.
The bio label will have to diversify to keep itself attractive.
Interesting development...
Also very interesting was to hear that indeed, after the dioxin crisis, and whatever which flue, Belgian food is safe to very safe food.
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Posted on May 8, 2007
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links for 2007-05-08
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I believe that a suicide martyr is the most noble resistance
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"I think it's going to happen," said Phil Flynn, a senior market analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago. "Unless things change dramatically, I think we're going to see $4 a gallon
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U kan hier een vergelijking maken tussen de verschillende leveranciers van elektriciteit en/of aardgas. Zo kan u bij benadering uitrekenen hoeveel u de volgende 12 maanden zou betalen indien u nu een contract zou afsluiten met een leverancier.
Posted on May 8, 2007
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Interesting to think about.
link to the presentation
via TheseDays
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Posted on May 8, 2007
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Did you reach your maximum networking saturation?
I’ve haven't reached maximum social networking saturation yet. (But I did reach my personal saturation of available time.)
I am a blogger,
I have Linked In,
a Flickr account,
a You Tube account,
a LastFm,
I am connected on 43 places, to 43people, I do couchsurfing, and you can find me on Plazes.
I'm on Technorati.
And I collect links on Delicious.
I have
a passive Virb,
a once used Vox,
a wordpress.com account for the spam count,
a Twitter,
a MySpace (somewhere),
an Orkut I never open,
a Biztribe,
darn I even have a Notsoso subscription, and a Scrapblog thing.
I have a dead Photoblog, and a dead Dailymotion.
And probably a dozen things I once subscribed to.
And a day job. Hey I still have a day job.
And an IRL...
Do I still have an IRL? Hello?
*I am too damn lazy to add the links. Google it when interested ;) *
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Posted on May 8, 2007
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Quote
Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?
Swartz
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Posted on May 9, 2007
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Eurovision Song Festival
So, it is May, and Eurovision is nearing...
Last weekend a friend told me about the Belgian participants. KMG. Again chosen by Wallonia.
(Admit, Flanders is really not good in chosing good participants, with Barbara Dex, Liliane St Pierre, ... in their past)
No great selection shows, no big boom on the matter: a handful of people decided, and KMG is going.
Who are they? We don't know.
Are they good?
They are definitely funky! A bit 70's.
I guess they won't beat Ukraine in their looks, but dunno, I feel like doing a Eurovision Marathon for the laugh. Someone wants to join?
Semifinals on May 10th.
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Posted on May 9, 2007
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On Belgium
Belgians, like most Europeans, also drive much faster than North Americans. For example, Everberg looks like a quaint, quiet little town. It is rural and charming and very, very quiet until quitting time rolls around. During rush hour I feel like our house is a metre away from the finish line at the Indy 500. Those Belgians who do not live in their cars, protest the speeds at which people race through their towns. They have thus come up with all manner of creative ways of slowing down traffic, generally involving putting something in the middle of the road: a giant speed bump that requires a 4X4 to get over, cement barriers that only allow one car to pass at a time, planting trees in the street (that's right I said in the street) and painting parking spaces in one lane.
LOL!
More on Belgium seen through the eyes of an expat over here.
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Posted on May 9, 2007
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links for 2007-05-09
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Here, we’ll cover a new scenario where no tab is highlighted, combine Sliding Doors with a single-image rollover, provide a fix for the clickable region in IE/Win, and suggest an alternate method of targeting tabs.
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Door het gebruik van biobrandstoffen kan uitstoot v broeikasgassen drastisch verminderd worden, maar toename in de vraag naar maïs, en suikerriet om de brandstof uit te winnen zal zwaar drukken op wereldreserves v water en vruchtbare landbouwgrond
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MTAmazon 3.0 Template
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Media Manager provides a simple queue to serve as a central location for you to manage all of media assets for your blog. From here you can edit, delete and add new items to your queue.
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Forget HTML and reading documentation - Media Manager comes equipped with a Media Manager Widget Wizard that guides you through the process of creating widgets for your weblog.
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The serial entrepreneur is dead, and thank god, because he bored me. The new archetypal business creator is not that interested in business at all.
Posted on May 9, 2007
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Blair congratulates..
While Blair congratulates the new French president through YouTube,
our Prime Minister has his own videochannel to congratulate him...
I wonder what this will give for the coming campaigns in Belgian election battles :)
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Posted on May 9, 2007
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links for 2007-05-10
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Knack ging praten met de coauteurs van de Belasting- en Beleggingsgids, en kwam terug met tips die u ettelijke euro's (en een zenuwinzinking) kunnen besparen.
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If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu that I designed. It is using Jquery Javascript library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock styles - top and bottom.
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Vanaf 9 juni kunnen zelfstandigen hun privéwoning beschermen tegen een inbeslagname door schuldeisers. Dat schrijft De Tijd donderdag
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De langstlevende samenwonende krijgt het vruchtgebruik van de woning die het koppel bewoonde, en ook de huisraad. Een gehuwde heeft nog altijd meer erfrechten.
Posted on May 10, 2007
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Nice one
Can count as advertisement. :)
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Posted on May 11, 2007
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links for 2007-05-11
Posted on May 11, 2007
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Design @ TheseDays
I went to the opening of the new offices of These Days.
And was surprised of part of the design, which is quite funky.
I wouldn't mind working in such an environment (compared to the Belgacom, Dexia and so fort offices in tis world)
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Posted on May 11, 2007
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The change of media and use in politics
The consequences of 'we the media' are becoming very obvious today, with elections nearing.
In the States huge sites are set up, using blog, myspaces, videoblogs and sofort to promote, in UK Blair is having a YouTube channel to pass his own messages, in Belgium OpenVLD launched their own OpenTube video channel.
Everywhere politicians get the message and appear on YouTube, purposely or not.
Where before the traditional media had to be approached, today politicians just make their own video channel, passing their own message without the interference of a journalist.
This is a huge shift in campaigning.
Moreover, what we see is how these politicians not only use the tools of the journalist, they also use the 'style' of journalism.
There is a distinct difference between the little movie of Lien Braeckeveldt for example, and the movie of the Prime Minister congratulating Sarkozy.
The first is definitely an 'ad' in the style we can see them on television between movie breaks, while the latter has a distinct journalistic style, as if it could have been in the news.
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Posted on May 11, 2007
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links for 2007-05-12
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Salling Clicker is our award-winning remote control software. It lets you control popular applications from a mobile phone or handheld computer through a user interface similar to a portable media player. Updated!!! perfect for iremote!
Posted on May 12, 2007
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What information consumes is rather obvious:
it consumes the attention of its recipients.
Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention
and a need to allocate that attention efficiently
among the overabundance of information sources
that might consume it.
Herbert Simon, Recipient of nobel Memorial Prize in economics1
and the A.M. turing Award, the “nobel Prize of Computer Science”
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Posted on May 12, 2007
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Tips for life
Before we get into specific guidelines, the two fundamental principles of selective ignorance are
worth mentioning:
1. If you don’t define your goals clearly, everything seems important and requires action.
If you define your goals clearly, especially your single most critical goal, almost all things are of
little or no importance and few things require action.
2. trying to make everyone happy—besides being impossible—is the surest way to make yourself
miserable
Taken out of The low information diet: how to eliminate email overload
Via Unizo
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Posted on May 12, 2007
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links for 2007-05-13
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It’s Monday morning and your To-Do list for the day is lengthy. You turn on your computer, log into your inbox, and…spend the next six hours starting, stopping and backtracking, your To-Do list untouched.
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Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed
Posted on May 13, 2007
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Rubber sex ducks
Since I was in the 'Erotische Verbeelding' with Clo, and was amazed by the huge amount of bath ducks, I am a bit confused.
I always thought little bath ducks were for kids. And adults having a duck was this kind of melancholy for the past.
*Wrong*
Now each morning when the little pink duck of my roommate stares at me while taking a shower I can't but wonder... Is it just decoration, or part of a larger hidden life???
Actually, as I speak, I suddenly remember the amount of ducks at (former) lovers...
Posted on May 13, 2007
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Eurosong 2007
I missed Eurosong due to a fabulous party in Brussels (featuring Lady Jane and Lori Glory, and I am still recuperating from leaving the dance floor when the light peeped in.) I didn't mind missing Eurosong, coz I think it was boring (like it always has been since Sandra Kim forward.) I won't nag about this festival becoming a political music thing as it always have been (The Netherlands always voted for Belgium and Belgium always for The Netherlands...)
What surprised me this year was the attendance of several 'queer' and not so obvious choices. Serbia presented the 23 year old lesbian Marija Serifovic, who has roots as a Roma. She won. I hope this winning also helps Serbia forward in their fight to get decent gay rights.
(A similar story with Ukrainian drag queen 'Verka Serdyuchka'. The whole act was definitely a laugh, but they did put a drag queen on stage...)
So if this means the whole festival is becoming a East European one, I can only say: why not...
Posted on May 13, 2007
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Things to do when in Bejing
Link
Hat tip Zabine
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Posted on May 14, 2007
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Day Night Day Night
When in Palestine, I always wondered how someone could become a suicide bomber.
The answer to that will probably never be black or white, or to be grasped in an definition.
Day Night Day Night seems to be a stunning movie how suicide bombers learn what they'll 'destined' to do..
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
Hat tip Zabine
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Posted on May 14, 2007
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Elections
It is interesting to see how these parties are definitely close to each other.
All of this is of course defined by the relation to x and y.
(Meaning they could make a total different axis, showing me closer to other parties.)
But I am pretty convinced that it is interesting to see how in Belgium different parties are telling the same stuff over and over.
And how they copy paste each other.
As it seems to me, there are some gaps to fill... I cannot imagine I am being the only one in that part of the scheme.
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Posted on May 14, 2007
in Living in Belgium
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links for 2007-05-14
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green chocolate :)
Posted on May 14, 2007
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Youtube and influence
The message got an echo...
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Posted on May 14, 2007
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links for 2007-05-15
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fun
Posted on May 15, 2007
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Motorcycle to the other side of Belgium
Yesterday I got a phone call, if I wanted to do an urgent job.
No problem, no problem at all (reschedule some stuff) and jump on the motorcycle.
Wait a minute, the weather forecast presents rain.
So renting a car?
A huge dilemma:
renting a car and being stuck in traffic at the morning, or going by bike, and sitting in the rain.
I choose the latter.
And when driving into Brussels this morning I was thrilled I took the motor. Man, I just passed all the cars.
But then...
While continuing to Landen, I drove into a falling cloud.
A motorcycle is fun, and fast when it comes into passing traffic jams.
But it isn't ideal when raining...
I hope the weather forecast is right, and later today the sky keeps dry.
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Posted on May 16, 2007
in Living in Belgium
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links for 2007-05-16
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flashgame, speel 4op rij tegen elkaar
Posted on May 16, 2007
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links for 2007-05-17
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interesting
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cheap copy paste design.
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pay with your mobile
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A site on reusing/recycling stuff. Nice ideas to grasp
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sustainable building
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be brave not beige, new marketing campaign
Posted on May 17, 2007
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The tables are ready
Ha!
Finally after months and months and a bunch of promises, the tables are ready.
The initial plan was dad would make them but due to certain circumstances and loads of work, I had to make them myself.
I designed them, and together with dad cut the wood.
And then the difficult part: assembling them.
Now in general assembling is easy (certainly with ikea furniture), but due to my stubbornness I don't want visible screws, nor simple corners.
Which turns assembling in a stressful and careful event.
But I am certainly proud to say I did it.
And OK, there are minor details I (and probably c.) notice, but all in all I am pretty proud about myself.
It is really awful to say that all the work took only 3 days, and I delayed it with 6 months, afraid I wouldn't be capable of doing it myself (and now, because I had to do it, I noticed that I ain't such a bad carpenter after all :) )
So, if I hurry up, paint them, we're almost ready for that poker night :)))
Pictures you ask??
Here they are.
(There are 2 tables, the computer table has a built in structure to hide cables. The diner table doesn't.)
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Posted on May 17, 2007
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Quinze & Milan
Are you a talented architect looking for a challenging job?
Check www.quinzeandmilan.be.
If today I'd want to work for a company, it would be this one.
(Though I am pretty sure it is atime consuming and pretty intensive place to work...)
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Posted on May 17, 2007
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