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Webdesign To celebrate the launch of his improved website, I had a little chat with Faruk, whilst drinking copious amounts of tea.
Webdesign My father is a Statistician, and encountered a nice article on Google Pagerank in one of the occupational magazines.
Webdesign An easy question: How to sell web standards to political parties, or let them make an issue out of it?
Website After more then 7 years of blue limbo, the site suddenly changed its colour. Amazing. Why?
Webdesign The webdesign world has been more occupied with inventing buzzwords lately then writing quality content.
Journal 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.
Journal 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.
Webdesign 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.
Webdesign I got my hands on the Internet Explorer 7 Beta. Here some first impressions.
Webdesign 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.
Website Now that the Atom 1.0 specification is pretty much final and waiting for approval, I have updated my feeds to the new standard.
Journal 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.
Gear 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.
Journal 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.
Webdesign 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?
Journal 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.
Travel The third and final part of the sage, in which the fellowship visits the smoldering ruins of the north island.
Travel 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.
Travel 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.
Website If you keep track of referrers to your website, no doubt you have come across this problem.
Journal 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.
Website 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.
Journal 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.
