August 2007 Archives
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gvenk pleads for Dutch APIs.
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"Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety."
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"I'm just assuming one day when I'm done with being creative, I'm going to be the happiest person in the world!"
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Not very LOLcorgan.
Am away till September 4, but I might send some pictures to my Flickr account and will probably Twitter too.
Or maybe you'll spot me on one of the Nice webcams.
While I'm gone, here's something to keep you occupied: on the 28th (that's Tuesday) you should be able to download a lovely mp3 of the classic 'Singing in the Rain' (as interpreted by GF) from Lemonland.net. I'll link to the news item, but you may have to go to the site's front page to find it.
I'm not sure if it's a one day only download or whether they're going to keep it up there, so I'm going to try to download it later today if I find a good internet place in Nice. If that doesn't work I'm going to have to rely on one of you to do the honours for me.
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Bjork, or her PR person, uses Twitter. Must ask R.
What do you do when the sun's behind the stage you're pointing your lens at? Work with what you have. This is Moke's Phil Tilli, on the UPC stage at this year's 'Uitmarkt'. The band was soundchecking for their MTV appearance later that day.
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So blue. Unreal.
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Huh. Japanese interpretation of Le Guin's Earthsea stories. Must. See.
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Hubba hubba.
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This is why I hired Elmo at U2log.com.
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Compared to Stephen Colbert
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"twitter API experiment "
Apologies to those of you browsing this site with MSIE. I've finally fixed the glaring javascript error that must have plagued you for the longest time. I had some time to waste here on my last day at NPO.
We wrapped things up quite nicely last night with drinks and dinner, enjoying some rare sunshine this summer at the restaurant's outdoor seating. Boss W. made a lovely speech, reminiscing about the old days. My teamleader bought me a cute nerdy present and we had a really good time. Even if the dimsum starter was a little funny.
So now it's time for me to relax and try not to stress out too much before joining my new employers on September 10.
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Hommage to Dutch actor, entertainer, comedian and pastor Jos Brink who died this week. Consumate professional. Perhaps not my sort of thing, but watching the old clips... he was omnipresent all through my television childhood
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Dennis Weaver and a big fuck off truck. Scared me a lot when I saw it in the 70's.
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Food blog
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The ultimate Web standards compliant CSS layout creator from Eric Meyer and WebAssist. Awesome.
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X should Y
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"Come back August 28 to hear and download this track, recorded just for Lemon!"
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Windows Live for Symbian. I wish there was a WMP player for Sybian, ffs.
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Jenny Diski has a blog. I read two of her books, Nothing Natural (fantastic) and another one... I don't remember.
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Download tracks to benefit displaced NOLA musicians
Yeah, it's from Popbitch. Lazy post.
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Dutch artist and tv-maker's work will be released on DVD
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How to put bits of Omroep.nl on your own site
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A little too sterile/IKEA for me, but some great shots.
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The one of the dog and baby is fantastic. I CAN HAZ BABBIE HEDZ?
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TopPop (the Dutch equivalent of TOTP) is putting their old stuff online. Awesome. Hope they'll put their classic Iggy Pop recording on there.
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Good thing they weren't patrolling Leeds when we were there
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A free video player, encoder and renderer
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What's he building in there?
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"We track the hottest news in the blogosphere!"
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Who is Who 2.0
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"A monthly magazine delivering the most original coverage in global affairs, business, culture and design."
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"Wikipedia and Freebase both appeal to people who love to use and organize information. The difference lies in the way they store information."
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"Epiphany came in the shape of a lemon. A mere quarter of a lemon, actually, squeezed in a lentil soup in the town of Cizre, in south-eastern Turkey."
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Tom is not for sale. Read his lovely rant. "It really pisses me off that press people consider me an outlet to push their marketing messages. "
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Joss Whedon's Comic-con appearance in full
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Oh dear, oh dear, that IS quite an upgrade from the 30D. Sucker.
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Meeting about Consumer generated video content
For reasons known only to myself (I'm baffled), for my holidays next week I've decided to fly into Nice and then travel back via Marseille, Paris and Brussels. I fly in on Tuesday 28th, will stay in Nice for a few days, move on to Marseille on the 31st, stay a few more days and then from there take a train down to Paris, where - after a three hour break - it's off to Brussels, arriving in the early evening. I'm travelling first class, so it should be fairly comfortable.
From there I have two options. Go straight on to Amsterdam, which is another three hour trip, or stay over in Brussels, and the next day go photo hunting and have lunch at Scheltema before catching the train back home.
... can't seem to make up my mind.
Did you see what I did there? Embedded a Google Map.
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Nice sparse WP theme. Not that I use WP.
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Interviews and sessions, among which Rufus Wainwright and Sinead O'Connor
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"14 bit processing, highlight preservation, multiple custom functions, faster, half the noise level of the 30D, more weatherproofing."
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Songbird? is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up.
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A search tool for Twitter
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A Nokia N95 blog
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Tutorial. I want to know all this, but I get more excited about photo stuff.
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Site's gone live, more to come soon
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Make a video clip with your pictures
I'm off to the South of France next week and was researching my trip online. Found this on Wikitravel, among recommended drinking places for the city of Nice:
Ma Nolan's [6] - Right in the heart of the 'Old Town' and next to the opera, Ma Nolan's has everything you would expect from an Irish pub and more. Live music every night, major sporting events on 4 screens, really good food and very friendly staff. This place is a must.
Why anyone would want to go to an Irish pub outside of Ireland in the first place I find less and less easy to understand as I grow older, but really... four screens of sporting events?
Thanks, I think I'll pass.
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My picture of Steve in this article. Without permission, but I gave the picture to his management. Hmm.
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Beta software for Symbian 60
Sorry, but I haven't got over LOLcats yet.
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Watch and Twitter: Lowlands Festival live August 17, 18, 19, 2007
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I don't even know what a 'classic mind mapping tool' is.
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Michael Stipe's new website, featuring his photographs. Why the fuck is there no rss feed.
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"Refeed builds reblogging into Movable Type: configure a list of RSS and Atom feeds that you want to pull in to your blog, and new posts in the feeds will be spliced into your main blog automatically."
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I scored 8 out of 10.
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"Irish actors Jason O'Mara and Colm Meaney have been lined up to play the lead roles in the US version of hit BBC drama Life on Mars."
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO's music portal 3VOOR12 is reporting from the three-day Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, using a very cool mashup site www.vpro.nl/lowlandsmashup.
The page, a collaboration between 3VOOR12 and Today's Art combines a live broadcast from the festival, photos from the Flickr Lowlands pool, video reports at Kyte.tv, weather forecasts and a Twitter and Jaiku feed. Viewers at home and audience members as well as professional reporters on site use the Twitter feed to cover the festival.
To post to the Twitter stream, follow Twitter user 3VOOR12, then post your tweets as usual, but start your sentence with #LL07. Alternatively, log in straight from the mashup (bottom menu, click 'Twitter/Jaiku' Direct').
Lowlands 2007 takes place August 17, 18, 19. The festival is sold out.
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Dutch users Twitter differently?
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"Wat er zoal in Nederland gebeurt met toepassingen zoals Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual World, etc."
Youth pastor's slip of the tongue.
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"Slate V, the new video magazine from Slate"
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Balkan-rock
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Must remember to contribute
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Some more software tips. Gotta get that SpotOn. Also: good battery life tips.
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"Too old to be getting so excited and desperate to prove she can be "amusing", she is like some embarrassing auntie trying to bond with her teenage niece." Aw, she's just trying to be Ray Cokes.
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"Looks like there?s an easily embeddable Google Maps feature that will be launching in about a week."
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A design concept for diabetes management devices
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Five different cams
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'Pick a few widgets and download them to your mobile'
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Yay!
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Got this for my monopod
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I'm not. Bored this year.
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Groovy looking laptops
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Was Gibson a prophet? 'Not a very good one,' he says. 'There are no cellphones in Neuromancer.'
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"But the thing about it is, I think I've kind of stopped being able to have the capacity for new music. Because a lot of it seems to be based on music that I grew up with. And so I don't know what they're saying, I don't know where they're going with it."
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"Jesus Loves You Too". Some anti-Bono stuff in the form of art.
I recently switched from KPN to Vodafone to get a good deal on the Nokia N95. I'm terribly brand-loyal, but KPN aren't the most happening provider around and they couldn't offer me anything better than 370 euro. I picked up the phone for 129 € from the Vodafone shop yesterday and so far I am very happy with it and with Vodafone service. I haven't actually used the phone to speak to anyone yet, but then I'm probably an a-typical mobile user.
Rarely do I use my mobile phones to ring someone. I own one so people can phone me, which also rarely happens. So I mostly use my phone for texting (SMS), checking mail and for entertainment. By entertainment I mean reading/posting to websites and blogs, feeds, etc. I do some light moblogging too. I don't really play games at all, though if I could find a good Bejeweled clone for Symbian, I'd be tempted.
So yes, the Nokia n95. 'What computers have become', isn't that the advertising pitch? Well, I'm not selling off my desk- and laptops yet, but it certainly is an action-packed gadget.
What I like:
- The size. It's just right for me.
- Integrated Vox and Flickr. Connect using WiFi. Rocks!
- The radio auto-installs stations. Probably nothing new, but I like it.
- The ext speakers are good enough to listen to music to.
- The screen. Makes every crappy picture shine.
- The colour ('plum'). So stylish.
- The software, PC suite, is solid.
- Maps. Have yet to get the hang of it, but could be fun.
What I don't like:
- The camera. Thank you, I'll use a real one.
- Sometimes the screen is slow refreshing.
- The double slide feels a little rickety.
- The chrome nav keys are ugly. Why can't the front of the phone be as pretty as the back?
- Battery life. Using the phone for anything other than a phone will drain it like a hungry baby on a mother's tit.
Applications
Here are some lovely third party applications that I've installed on the phone:
- Opera Mini
- Gmail mobile (Superb client made by Google.)
- Best MessageStorer (Shareware app to backup SMS in a text or csv file. Isn't it bizarre they haven't got this built into PC Suite yet?)
- Putty (The well known telnet/ssh client.)
- VOX (Slick client, made by 6A)
- EQO Mobile (IM client, among other things - not sure about this one yet)
- Google Maps
- jTwitter (This looks better than TinyTwitter which I ran on my SonyEricsson.)
- Y-Browser (A fully enabled file browser, better than the native app)
- Yamigo (The server I'm using in the native IM app)
Wishlist
- It would be great if these phones had more storage capacity so you could use them to store the pictures you take with your real camera.
To protect the phone from scratching, I got a Crumpler P.P. 55 sleeve instead of Nokia's own expensive leather case.
Did I mention that I love this phone? I was able to do most of what I do with it with my previous phones (the ancient Nokia 3650 more so than the SE k750i - there seems to be more software for the Symbian OS.), but this is the first one where everything feels stable and reliable, even with the notoriously crappy Bluetooth connection on my PC.
I'm glad I can put the k750i to rest. I'm never switching phone brands again.
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Prisoners in a Filipino prison re-enact the entire Thriller video. You gotta see it to believe it.
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"The Rolleiflex MiniDigi Proudly Continues The Rollei Twin Lens Reflex Tradition"
Sabra and Neil from 'So you think you can dance' perform a really cool jazz routine to the Eurythmics 'Sweet dreams'. I'm not keen on Neil as a dancer, (it's his posture, the shoulders) but he does know how to drama it up. Sabra's just so elegant, and amazing since she only recently picked up dance.
SYTYCD is one of my guilty pleasures though this year isn't as compelling as last year and I have no clear favourites. It's an American show, but presented by - British - Cat Deeley, which certainly helps things along nicely.
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"And I was like, ohmyGOD, whatever, I?m SO BERSHON.? (via Zeldman)
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Dutch news site NU.nl starts reader pics site.
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Ah DAMMIT, they've exposed our secret haunt, The Library Bar
Having blogged 'privately' at VOX for a year I am now starting to feel a little claustrophobic in the safe little world we've created there. I think I'm ready to blog openly again. I never thought I'd miss comments from random readers, but I guess I do.
The upcoming release of MT4 is another incentive, I'd like to get to know it intimately, before I apply it to my other sites.
So I'll keep using VOX for what's really 'private' and do everything else here at eachman.com. I don't know if I can bring my readership back up to its former size... unique visitors have dwindled to 48 per day, returning to 13. Regular updates should help.
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With all these LOLcats around, I'd almost forget about Oliver
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"Legendary Brit actor Sir Michael Caine has announced his intention to release a chillout album, and has already come up with the perfect title: Cained."
Destination and Myrrh Live from Brisbane 2006
Destination and Myrrh, The Church, Live in Brisbane. Old bands are the best bands.
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Incredibly cute puppy
Canal Parade, Amsterdam Gay Pride 2007. View the whole set.
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Amsterdam Gay Pride, Canal Parade 2007 (live)
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Recipe for lemonade
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'Print out the M-velope'
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Jewish cookery podcast
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Countering Andrew Bloody Keen.
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Omroep.nl Digg-clone
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Cold War drama, history of the CIA. Directed by Ridley Scott. Premieres August 5.