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Dutch/Italian, London based web developer, geek, student, photographer and blogger.

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Posted on May 22nd, 2008

My Little Underground - The Online Shoppe of Christopher David Ryan / Atmostheory - Posters based on Apple shortcuts
Geek And Poke: Two Takes On Data Portability - Very funny comic which today focusses on DP.
How To Make a Bookmarklet For Your Web Application - A few more interesting tips on how to make a bookmarklet. Might use this one day if I ever want to make another one again.
Software Above the Level of a Single Device - O'Reilly Radar - Tim O'Reilly has written down what I've been explaining to so many people lately: phones should be lightweight clients which can be managed perfectly from heavyweight clients.
What is a logo but the brand - Nice list of logos with the wrong brand names associated to them Very interesting.

Posted on May 14th, 2008

Kid666 Blog » The Geek affinity with Green - Tom Hughes-Croucher has a nice article up on Geeks being Green. Great inspiration for my BCL4 talk.
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: abstract pointillist - Nice set of powerpoint base-artwork that I can use for future presentations
Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page - Great little piece of code for having a footer stick to the bottom of the page. Not what I used it for but mainly solved some other issues I had.
Wired's Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground - Interesting short article on the different type of geeks. Not very true or complete, but funny nevertheless.
FeedShaver - MarkNG made an interesting app during the telegraph developer weekend

Posted on May 3rd, 2008

DAA to ISO Converter for OS X - Nifty little program that converts .daa files into ISO files. Perfect for when you accidentally downloaded a .daa file
PHP function for displaying relative dates in a human readable format - Cool little function that gives you these nice web2 date formats like "2 days ago" from a random timestamp
UK geek venues - Handy little site with loads of venues that can be used for geek events.
How to correctly insert a Flash into XHTML - Sounds simple right? Well, not that much. Good thing this site has written down how to do it properly.
Simon Maddox - Simon has started blogging and he already mentioned the geek dinner site twice!

Posted on April 24th, 2008

Ooze Risotteria - Just found a very nice italian place through google by searching for "Risotto Restaurant London". They seem to have free wifi so we WILL be checking it out soon.
Twitter Twerp Scanner - A nice scanner for twitter that helps you get rid of those twerps with a million following and no followers.
Vimeo has some Terms and Conditions issues - I was reading the Forum on Vimeo when I ran into this little issue with the Vimeo Terms and Conditions
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - A couple of very common typography mistakes that I didn't know about
Free Sound Effects, Royalty Free Sound Effects, Nature Sounds - I found some royalty free sound effect files that we might be able to use for the next swedes

Posted on April 19th, 2008

Rant: Is Sweding a Corporate Plot? - Somebody thinks our torchwood swede is part of a big corporate conspiracy. Hell no!
"Editing Offline" in Final Cut Pro 4 - I am working on my FCP-fu and want to learn how to work with offline media, that way saving my macbook from a slow death every time I edit something.
We Were Centurions! - Straight from the centurion liberation front
Faceball: your face, our balls - Want to p lay faceball? Learnt he rules!
RockStarProgrammer - The Differences Between Mercurial and Git - Quite an interesting story with the difference between Mercurial and Git. Winner? I won't spoil it….