juni 2006

Er zijn 23 berichten gepubliceerd in juni 2006.

Germany vs Argentina

We are in Hamburg to see the game Italy vs Ukraine. But for the German friends Lyssa and Franz the game between Germany and Argentina was all that mattered. And they are already playing. Here is the video I made that day.

Spoiler: Germany won through penalties.

The feel of Berlin

A photo impression of my early morning walk (starting at 4 ending at 10) through Berlin and it’s central park.

Der Siegerssäule
Brandenburger Tor
The memorial
Candy for the old and the young

In the Netherlands almost all our buildings and public spaces are designed and somewhat polished. Here it is functional. I like it.

Unter den Linden

I’m roaming the streets of Berlin. Going to videoblog about the worldcup football in Germany. I’m posting the videos online on a blog created by Coca Cola and I’m staying in a apartment with other vloggers invited by Coca Cola. All united under the tag #weallspeakfootball.

Gedächtniskirche

When I took my early morning walk on the second day in Berlin (video in the making) the streets were empty except quite a few homeless people.

Living in Amsterdam myself I meet the same ones (small city) over and over again and we share the public space in harmony (mostly). For me these persons are part of my daily life, I will never get used to it. Keeping up with society isn’t that easy.

Location: Die Gedächtniskirche, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin.

Cemetery / Playground

The day of arrival. Franz took GabeMac, me and “Der Mann aus dem Plattenladen” out to former East Berlin to see the match Australia vs Italy (see the video here).

Just 50 meters in the same street there was a cemetery that was used as a playground for kids. When we went by it was packed. The graves were not that old (50 years). I asked one of them if the bones were still there, she thought so. Would the dead mind having the new life enjoying running and playing above them?

From Amsterdam to Berlin

My first flying experience, on a somewhat big plane making my way to Berlin and the weallspeakfootball apartment. I jumped out of a small one a long time ago on a tandem parachute (with a man strapped on your back). Loved the 30 second free fall so much I didn’t want to pull the cord.

See if I can cope with this kind of abnormal behaviour called flying. The video is about the 16 expired hours of my life and the strange transition from being in Amsterdam and ending up in Berlin listening tot the birds at the rooftop of the apartment and meeting this creative melting pot of people.

Shadow Garden

This spontaneous beauty is in the front of my house on the Tweede Atjehstraat 26hs in Amsterdam. It just grew in this 5cm small space that isn’t covered by concrete tiles. It’s the shadow side of the house, with some luck it gets sun at the end of the day. Beauty is everywhere.

This is my first photo with my new phone. The Nokia 6230i. Reminds me of my polaroid (although those I can scan and blow up to enormous proportions).

Limitations = quality. It’s how you use it that matters, this time I was a little to close to the subject.

Looking forward to using it’s video, would it remind me of super 8?

My website as a graph

Just to beautiful

What do the colors mean?

  • blue: for links (the A tag)
  • red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
  • green: for the DIV tag
  • violet: for images (the IMG tag)
  • yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
  • orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
  • black: the HTML tag, the root node
  • gray: all other tags

Made by Sala. Find more on Flickr.

Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser’s job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the “View source” tab somewhere in your browser’s menu.

HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I’ve written a little app that visualizes such a graph.

Sala

Helping out (a little bit)

On the 27th of May 2006 there was an earthquake on Java due to the eruption of the volcano Merapi. 80% of the houses collapsed and 5651 people in Klaten alone died.

Tino who lives in Indonesia has family in Klaten and took the initiative to find ways to collect money to personally help his family and the village they live in. Together with Carina I offered to make this website to keep the people who donate informed and at the same time make a personal document of Tino’s effort and the rebuilding of lives.

Our power to act is really something beautiful and makes a difference.

Netvibes is getting there…

I used NetNewsWire Lite for more than a year now and I tried to migrate to netvibes before. Technicaly it’s easy, no pain there. But I just didn’t get in that “flow” I was used to and it lacked overview. That’s changing.. And I guess I’m going to see if I can kick an old habit. Now netvibes should make an OPML of my content available so I can easily get it out when I want to change back again and again and again.