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I used Spotify to generate a playlist of my favourite U2 songs.

Boy
The Electric Co
11 o’clock tick tock
An Cat Dubh

October
Tomorrow

War
Seconds
Surrender
New Year’s Day

The Unforgettable Fire
The Unforgettable Fire
Indian Summer Sky
Wire
Exit
A Sort of Homecoming
Bad

The Joshua Tree
Exit
Red Hill Mining Town
Bullet the Blue Sky
b-sides:
Lumimous Times
Silver and Gold
Spanish Eyes
Deep in the heart
Walk to the water

Rattle and Hum
God Part II
Hawkmoon 269
b-side
A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel

Achtung Baby
Zoo Station
Love is blindness
b-side:
Salome

Zooropa
Zooropa
Stay
The First Time
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car

Pop
Mofo
Miami
Please
If You Wear That Velvet Dress

Passengers – Original Soundtracks 1
Your Blue Room

All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Stuck in a moment you can’t get out of
Kite

Best of 1990–2000
Electrical Storm

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
A Man and a Woman

U218
Window in the skies

Not yet on Spotify, but will be there soon:
No Line on the Horizon
Moment of Surrender
Cedars of Lebanon
No Line on the Horizon
Magnificent
Fez-Being Born

Dopplr.com, ‘an online service for smarter travel’, has given its members their own personal travel report for 2008, in the form of a nicely designed pdf-file.

I like Dopplr because it looks pretty and it keeps track of my trips for me, but it’s double book keeping really as I can do the same in my calendar (Google). Without the pretty graphics. It would be nice if I could synch the two.

Excellent! Flickr slideshows are now very easily embedded using a ‘Share’ link in the top right corner. Read more about it on the Flickr blog. I like how the slideshow also plays the video’s you might have in your set.

I’ve finally redesigned my oldest website, gavinfriday.com. It’s kind of an in between thing, as the look of it will probably change somewhat once the next album is out, but I’m happy to have ditched the ten year old, dreamweaver-created and Blogger-powered mess that was there before I threw MT4 at it. There were moments I wish I hadn’t, I find MT4 almost impossible to get my head around, but I managed to sort of make it do what I want in the end. I don’t really build websites anymore. I’ve done content editing for the longest time and now tell real developers what to build, so you could say I was a little rusty.

The redesign is based on a rejected ‘heart’ design for a poster promoting the ‘Ich Liebe Dich’ shows in Dublin a few years back. It’s a really cool graphic, but the cross of the heart sticks out quite a bit which makes it heart to design around. I’m still not happy with the design, it is a bit of a compromise, taking into account feedback from friends, the client and my coding limitations. I am not keen on the font used for the ‘gavin friday’ header, or of its placement on the page. I think it would look better with a less ostentatious one. I also think there’s too little connection between the homepage and the rest of the site.

And there’s still much to do. Mr client was happy and I thought we were ready enough to launch, but I still got years of archived stuff to add to the database (Blogger export wouldn’t work and it needs careful filtering and rewriting anyway.) and lots of other things to add and improve.

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Entertainment Weekly has compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Websites. Our very own Whedonesque.com is on it, in the ‘POP-POURRI: EVERYTHING ELSE THAT DIDN’T FIT BUT IS STILL AWESOME’ section, alongside YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, The Onion, and NPR and MySpace. Check it out.

They’d listed us among the 25 essential fansites not too long ago.

Thank you, I can retire now.

Dutch Twitterati are using Twitter to support the One Laptop Per Child project, brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. All tweets that mention the words OLPC are counted by the Twitter stats application Twitstat:

With each tweet with ‘olpc’ in it you semi-voluntarily raise 1 euro for the One Laptop Per Child
project. Each laptop is 140 euro. Please make sure @twitstat follows you
before tweeting ‘olpc’. And twitstat doesn’t count you if you have
locked your account.

The fundraiser was started by Dutch journalist Francisco van Jole ( @2525) who sponsored the first few laptops before other people started chipping in as well.

The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one
connected laptop to every school-age child.

(watch the New York Times review of OLPC’s laptop)

The charity drive runs till midnight on Christmas Eve.

Final tally: A total of 2883,50 euro was raised, enough to buy 21 laptops. Full story (in Dutch). Happy Christmas!

Did Orkut delete old accounts at some point?

I had an old Orkut account and I know I tried to merge it with my Google account some time ago, but it didn’t work out. I now have a ‘new’ account, without any of my previous contacts, and I can’t find my old one.

Do any of you still have Orkut accounts and am I still listed in your friends list?

I joined Dopplr today. It’s a place to share your trips and travels with friends…

… just having started a new job, I’m not going to be doing a lot of travelling any time soon. So I’ll be gnashing my teeth watching other people’s journeys.

Lemme know if you want in.

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.