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Archive for June, 2009

Twitter stats and more

While skimming through a blog entry by Nicolas Patten (http://twitter.com/nicholaspatten), I noticed the small twitter follower counter he has on his Posterous account. When I clicked to check it out, I eventually tried to see what the stats were about my own twitter account. As you may or may not know, some 3 months ago [...]

Twitter stats and more

While skimming through a blog entry by Nicolas Patten (http://twitter.com/nicholaspatten), I noticed the small twitter follower counter he has on his Posterous account. When I clicked to check it out, I eventually tried to see what the stats were about my own twitter account. As you may or may not know, some 3 months ago [...]

LESS is more

What about this awesome tool that allows you to write much more simple and powerful CSS for your websites? It’s called LESS and it basically introduces things (that in my opinion have been missing in CSS for ages) like variables, nested declarations, and operations on values. Worth checking out: http://lesscss.org/index.html

LESS is more

What about this awesome tool that allows you to write much more simple and powerful CSS for your websites? It’s called LESS and it basically introduces things (that in my opinion have been missing in CSS for ages) like variables, nested declarations, and operations on values. Worth checking out: http://lesscss.org/index.html Posted via web from nocivus’ [...]

Google unveils City Tours from their labs

It seems to be a service that gives you suggestions on what to visit when you go to a particular location. It creates the planning about what to visit for a couple of days. Looks interesting, check it out for Amsterdam: http://citytours.googlelabs.com/search?q=amsterdam

I’m still shocked how Spain was defeated by the USA

Are we on the verge of a potential rise of the US as a great power in football? Or was that just luck? I think there are a lot of kids in the US, these days, playing football and with the financial capacity they have, I would not be surprised that eventually they would become [...]

Google unveils City Tours from their labs

It seems to be a service that gives you suggestions on what to visit when you go to a particular location. It creates the planning about what to visit for a couple of days. Looks interesting, check it out for Amsterdam: http://citytours.googlelabs.com/search?q=amsterdam Posted via web from nocivus’ ramblings

I’m still shocked how Spain was defeated by the USA

Are we on the verge of a potential rise of the US as a great power in football? Or was that just luck? I think there are a lot of kids in the US, these days, playing football and with the financial capacity they have, I would not be surprised that eventually they would become [...]

The first test, hopefully successful :)

This is the first post that I write at http://diffract.me:8080/blog and that gets automagically pushed from a django view logic code into posterous, using their API. So now I can write once, and have it everywhere. World domination is at hand, muhahahahaha Posted via web from nocivus’ ramblings

Video editing is hard

I know, I know. Everyone who has ever done it before is probably thinking “Welcome to my world!”, but it’s like everything in life: You will not truly know it until you have experienced it. And I have. I have been editing the first episode of a new video podcast me and Luis have started [...]

Bungee jumped in Scheveningen last Saturday…

…and it was awesome!! The feeling is (almost) the same as getting out of the airplane when you skydive. But you feel it twice, since there’s that point in midair when you are just weightless and start falling again. Seriously advisable to everyone