I celebrated new years eve in Rome this year. To view some photos go to “My Photomap of Rome!”:/Projects/Photomap/?location=rome
Here some nice previews:
The Tiber river by night:
!/Projects/Photomap/tiber-by-night-rome.jpg!
On top of Saint Peter’s Basilica:
!/Projects/Photomap/saint-peter-basilica1.jpg!
Ho ho ho, “I’m an Elf!”:http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=8c99dcfb1fa156e1d7651aeG06121804
The site might be down. Please try again later!
Yesterday (or another day, dunno) Hyves launched a chat application called Kwekker. Because I use either Linux or MacOSX I was not able to connect to the server. At least I thought I was!
netstat showed me I was connected to 85.17.63.106 on port 5222. That looked like Jabber to me 
. I just connected with the following settings:
Use one of these servers:
* chatslave1.hyves.org
* chatslave2.hyves.org
* chatslave14.hyves.org
* chatslave15.hyves.org
Port: 5222
Username: tijmenenski@hyves.nl (my hyves account is tijmenenski.hyves.nl )
Resource: desktopClient
Password: I’m NOT going to tell you!
Login and enjoy!
*Features*
* Fetching buddy list.
* Receiving and sending typing notifications.
* Receiving and sending messages.
* new! Sending buzzers. Send a message containing this string to the other side: __buzz__. The other party’s window will shake now.
* new! Receiving krabbel notifications.
There is a photo competition for the category ‘winter’ at “zoom.nl,”:http://zoom.nl Therefore I added two images to my “gallery.”:http://gallery.zoom.nl/user/20944/timing/myimages/
The photos where shot in “Reykjavik, Iceland:”:/Projects/Photomap/?location=reykjavik
!http://the-timing.nl/Files/2006/12/frozen-grass-closeup.jpg!:http://gallery.zoom.nl/image/359982/bevroren-gras—closeup.html
!http://the-timing.nl/Files/2006/12/frozen-grass.jpg!:http://gallery.zoom.nl/image/359974/bevroren-gras.html
When typing a message and having this script loaded, you’ll see the number of chars per minute shown in a statusbar-item:
!/Files/2006/11/typingspeed.jpg!
Installation:
* Download “TypingSpeed.pl.”:/Projects/Irssi-BitlBee/typingspeed.pl
* Add the item ‘typing_speed’ somewhere to your statusbar.
* Load the script.
* Type a message.
* Enjoy the day.
I’ve been in Reykjavik from the 16th till the 19th of November 2006. I took some pictures which can be viewed in “My Photomap.”:http://the-timing.nl/Projects/Photomap/?location=reykjavik
Here is a nice photo taken from the Hallgrimskirkja. this photo is taken on the south-west side of the church:
!/Files/2006/11/reykjavik-from-hallgrimskirkja.jpg!
There is a complete redesign online of my “Sticky Notes”:http://youstickit.com guestbook application:
* The URL’s of the boards are changed to “http://sticky-notes.fokdat.nl/board/Demo.”:http://sticky-notes.fokdat.nl/board/Demo
* Stickies are posted using the XmlHttpRequest object now.
* It’s not ugly anymore.
* Improved spam protection.
!http://youstickit.com/board-example.jpg!
All the “Irssi-scripts for BitlBee”:/stuff/irssi-bitlbee have been updated.
From now on there is no need to run the /cycle command after loading the script!
*Edit:* (2006-11-01) There is another update! The &bitlbee channel detection is improved again.
Yesterday I was making a trip with the “Sneltram from IJsselstein to Utrecht.”:http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneltram_Utrecht Then, 4 girls came in. First they where pointing at parts in the Tram. Suddenly they started to make a loud bubbling beat. One of the ladies even started to sing! It sounded very well. All the other travellers where enjoying the music by moving there heads on the beat. Then I realised I had my drumsticks in my bag. I grabbed them and started to make some rhythms on one of the vertical green/yellow bars:
!/Files/2006/10/tram.jpg!
The girls where cheering!
After a while I decided to record the jamsession with my Mp3Player. Today I did some mastering and it sounds like a real illegal bootleg!
Download “The 4 Tram-Ladies – The Tram Jam “:/Files/2006/10/The%204%20Ladies%20-%20The%20Tram%20Jam.mp3 now!
Note: The total recording is 3 minutes and 50 seconds. If you want to have the full unmastered version, you can “contact me”:/about/.
Note2: The girls know they have been recorded.
The son of my grandma’s daughter came to me today and whispered in my ear:
??Hey, can you keep a secret? I just heard Google may be buying Digg.com. This info is 42% accurate!??
This message is posted to see if I can be on the Digg frontpage just like this lame story.
At least seven Diggers think this fake post is a good idea.
And on another note, if Google actually buys Digg.com somewhere in the future, it’s just a coincidence!