2005 news archive
A couple of questions for Faruk Ate?
To celebrate the launch of his improved website, I had a little chat with Faruk, whilst drinking copious amounts of tea.
On pagerank
My father is a Statistician, and encountered a nice article on Google Pagerank in one of the occupational magazines.
Politics!
An easy question: How to sell webstandards to political parties, or let them make an issue out of it?
Yourself and Your Site Meme
Zach threw out a meme. He then proceeded to scare me into accepting Faruk's, but he didn't offer it. Apparently not satisfied with my "get lost you freak", he was now threatening to bore me to death if I didn't fill one out.
I reject your buzzword, and substitute my own!
The webdesign world has been more occupied with inventing buzzwords lately then writing quality content.
Car Reviews: Opel Agila
For three weeks I had the pleasure of driving a car to a client. The good bit was, the car was provided by the employer. Not wanting to let this beautiful experience go to waste, I wrote up a little review.
Marketing misery
Experiences with press bulletins as seen from a local media perspective. For my work at the community radio station used to be chief editor for the TV channel, and therefore see a lot of press bulletins.
Message from the Rebel Alliance
An interesting email hit my inbox this morning. Though not from the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Sith Lords.
Much ado about clogs
For the two years or so, a group of Dutch bloggers from the web standards scene have been getting together at meet ups, chatting and e-mailing together, organising things together.
Webstandards back in perspective
Sometimes you get the feeling all web standards discussion is getting a bit esoteric. XHTML versus HTML or Atom versus RSS discussions, for example are all great in the name of science, but let's hop back to the real world for a second.
Atomizing
Now that the Atom 1.0 specification is pretty much final and waiting for approval, I have updated my feeds to the new standard.
Google Earth Launches
Google has taken the wraps off of Google Earth, a standalone application that combines its Keyhole 3D satellite imagery with the best features of Google Local and Maps.
Going medieval on a camera
Last week I received a free digital camera with my order of printing paper. Since I wasn't really impressed by it's looks, I decided to disembowel the camera.
How to vote YES in a referendum
Voting has begun in the latest popular test of the European Union's constitution, in the Dutch referendum. A new poll shows 60 percent of voters here oppose the charter, five percent more than the number who rejected it in France.
Literary stick
That crazed Englishman threw a stick at me. They are violent people on that rainy island.
Webstandards adoption policies
It's getting harder and harder to ignore web standards in Europe. Did you know the European Union has all kinds of web standards in their on-line publishing guidelines?
On the European Constitution
The European Constitution is an important step in the construction of Europe. It is designed to meet the challenges of an enlarged Europe: a Europe of 25 Member States and 450 million inhabitants (and even more later on); a democratic, transparent, efficient Europe working to serve all Europeans. The European Constitution replaces the main existing Treaties with a single text.
Downunder 3: Heading north
The third and final part of the sage, in which the fellowship visits the smouldering ruins of the north island.
The musical baton flies around
I've been passed the baton thrown the stick by Pete Lambert, so I guess ill have to provide some meta data, before trying to hit an unsuspecting passer-by.
Downunder 2: The land of Misty Mountains
Part two of the Saga of the Travels to the South of the Globe, in which our hero crosses the Tasman and arrives in New Zealand.
Downunder 1: The fellowship heads south
Tristan kept bugging me about writing something up about my travels to the wrong side of the globe. So here is part one of three.
The scourge of referrer spam
If you keep track of referrers to your website, no doubt you have come across this problem.
No I am not
Often I get questions about my last name. Am I Jewish? Does my family come from the Israel area? Am I religious at all? The answers are no, no and no. But they lead me to research my past for a bit, and here are the results.
Globa-licious
No, no, no, nothing about Google Maps. Instead, another global development I'd like to share.
Meeting -again- on Saturday, January 29th
On Saturday, January 29 there will be a meeting for web enthousiasts in Leiden.
Mozilla Firefox SVG Issues
I got my father to use Firefox a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately he had some serious problems with its SVG support. This is his complaint.
Shift-Refresh
I've been tinkering with the design for a bit. You'll notice you no longer have to hug your screen to read anything. Not that there's anything wrong with hugging your screen, It's now optional.
Van Cha'SaD vagh!
Another arbitrary increment on the chronometer. History begins at the point where we begin counting the time. That is the system that made us and to that psychology tells us to be in touch with the full of that history. Repression has to pay the price of repeating history. Not repressing means that we are confronted with the truth of why and what we didn't respect but actually have to.