This weekend I had some time to fiddle around with my homepage at www.leapfrog.nl. I decided to create a dashboard-like page that shows my latest contributions to several sites. I’m no programmer, so RSS Digest was a great help in glueing everything together. Thanks to the continueing opening up of the web’s content through RSS, now I have one place to show what I’ve been up to recently. Joy!
Category: Articles
Odeo’s launched
Finally, Odeo’s opened it’s doors to the world. Signing up went really quick, and I was surprised to see that they have some nice integration with the latest edition of iTunes going on. I’ll maybe post a more detailed review at open.info.nl (Dutch) later this weekend.
Technorati: Odeo, podcasting
Mario’s Cement Factory
Game & Watch
Originally uploaded by Kaeru.
A colleague of mine has this great old school game & watch!
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Vendedor de lotería
Vendedor de lotería
Originally uploaded by Kaeru.
A new set at Flickr: lottery ticket salesmen. Taken while I was in Costa Rica in 2002.
Indonesia photos saved
Prambanan at dusk
Originally uploaded by Kaeru.
Today, I finally managed to rescue all our pictures taken in Indonesia last year. They were overwritten on a CD, but the excellent DiskInternals CD/DVD Recovery app recovered them all. Soon, I’ll upload some more to Flickr. For now, here’s a snap of the beautiful Prambanan at dusk.
Costa Rican Busses
I’ve uploaded an old batch of photos taken in Costa Rica when I was there in 2002. This set contains pictures of colorful public transport busses. Enjoy!
Technorati: Costa Rica, Heredia, bus
MIT Weblog Survey
Dutch ABC spotted!
At first I was quite sceptical about the existence of our (The Netherlands’) very own Alien Big Cat, but now, both photos and videos have surfaced.
Pantera, a foundation dedicated to the defence of big cats in Europe, have made it their mission to find and capture the alleged puma (which they’ve named ‘Winnie the Poohma’) roaming the ‘Hoge Veluwe’ alive. As opposed to Dutch police, who just want to shoot the animal, because it poses too great a threat to the public.
Looking at the film and pictures, to my untrained eye it does appear that the ABC is feline. However, I have my doubts about its size. The images have been taken at a considerable distance, and there is hardly anything to in the surroundings to compare the cat against.
Also, some experts have spoken out, saying that the ABC can’t be a puma, because it’s the wrong color. Love how that works: first there is no puma, because there’s no hard evidence. Now there’s evidence, but the cat’s no puma, because the color’s wrong!
Another interesting fact is that Dutch authorities are studying the video made by Pantera, to make sure they’re no fake. The same authorities that have been putting expensive personnel on the Hoge Veluwe for days, to protect the public!
Technorati: ABC, alienbigcats, forteana, cryptozoology
Geslaagd!
Mijn broertje is geslaagd. Hij studeerde grafisch ontwerpen aan de WDKA in Rotterdam. Zijn twee afstudeerprojecten zijn vet:
- Een extreem minimale huisstijl voor de Europeesche Unie, bestaande uit (bijna) blanco briefpapier, enveloppen, kaartjes etc. en een grote bos sjablonen waarmee je de dragers zelf van invulling kan voorzien. Het paspoort geeft uitleg over alle sjablonen. Mooi!
- Een samen met een studiegenoot vervaardigd magazine rond het thema “Rotterdam Waterstad”, welke vervolgens verscheurd is en in oranje plastic bakstenen in de Maas is gegooid. Van de actie hebben ze en video gemaakt, en is verslag gedaan in het Rotterdams stadsnieuwsblad.
Foto’s van de diploma-uitreiking en het werk van Ties op Flickr.
Technorati: Ties Alfrink, WDKA, Willem de Kooning Academie