Sometimes I feel like making a picture out of my window.

I took this picture on the third of september 2008. If you hover your mouse over this picture, it will change into a photo taken on the 23th of november, also 2008. Snow!

Note to readers via RSS or my Hyves profile. go to http://the-timing.nl/blog/2008/11/the-view-from-my-room/ to view this picture for real.

A few weeks ago I used my microphone on my mp3player to record my three minute walk from the train to my bike. During those three minutes I recorded people walking in a tunnel ( including a cello player and someone whistling ), a bus driving by, a guy closing a car door and myself walking through a bunch of leaves on the ground.

At home I put everything together in this rhythmic, industrial, drone, experimental thing:

The song is called ‘Tunnel’ and is added to my playlist on the left as well.

Today I moved my blog to WordPress. This because I needed some features and I don’t feel like coding them myself. Some pages and posts need some updates or are not available yet. This will be fixed soon I hope.

Let’s just link to Michael’s post about Todays Art 2008. He has a nice story. Don’t want to waste my time writing something worse.

I was there with him and Jeffrey.

Just wanted to tell you that Zambezi Drive’s first EP is online at Myspace and Hyves.

Also, expect it to be streamable in a few days on our website.

It’s 30 april 2007, 05:25 in the morning. Think afterparty, wine, sunrise, bright sky, and the Dom Tower of Utrecht.
Add a talented friend with a good camera to this situation and you get beautiful pictures. This is the best one of them all. At home, I have a printed copy on canvas, 80×60 cm!

The picture is taken by Lize Kraan. You should definitely check out her website!

Looks like her website is developed with Anewt. I wonder who did that .

For the last two years (rough estimation), I played the drums in First Act. This week I decided to quit. I feel very sorry towards the band, I had a great time with them, musically and socially.

It’s good to see that lead singer Jim Offerman is not giving up on the band.

He even braved one of his biggest fears!

I hope they will find a new drummer soon! If you are a drummer and you like the music of First Act, don’t hesitate to drop them a line!

For the EP of Jorge Natalin, Klaas de Jong and I had do drop some freight train beats in a recording studio in Amsterdam. Arno made a video of one of the recording sessions. Check it out on Jorge Natalin’s Myspace.

I’m the guy on the right.

Hyves made some changes regarding their chatclient (Kwekker). The client makes use of the jabber protocol.

A year ago I blogged about this already. To view the changes go to this blogpost again. The number of supported features are increased. Read it here:

Connecting to Hyves Kwekker with a jabber client.

Version 0.2.5 of the Irssi script typingspeed.pl is released!

Changelog

2007-11-11 (version 0.2.5)

• File logging! Thanks to the three lines of code from Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen (http://www.jeroen.se/blog/).

2007-11-10 (version 0.2)

• Fix: Changed from Irssi::timeout to Time::HiRes. Irssi::timeout leaks memory. Thanks to Bas Zoetekouw voor the solution. (no blog)

SETTINGS

[Log]

typingspeedlog_file

The path to the logfile. For example: /home/dude/typingspeed.log

Download typingspeed.pl. The Irssi script!

Download typinggraph.pl to parse the logfile and create a nice graph!

USAGE of typinggraph.pl

./typinggraph.pl typingspeed.log typingspeed.png