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milov.nl: by date: 2003/10/

weblog/photolog by Milo Vermeulen milov.nl

I'm a 33-year-old freelance webdeveloper and photographer living near The Hague, The Netherlands. This is my personal weblog, where I often post selections of my favourite photos. Sometimes I make art with code. Mail me at milovermeulen at gmail dot com.

This site is hosted by Webkracht.
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sunny disposition 

2003.10.31 - 3 comments by jimmy, milov and P01  

1. posted by jimmy at 00:47 on November 01, 2003

You took a picture from your TV-screen and forgot to turn of your flash :-)

2. posted by milov at 00:49 on November 01, 2003

Heh, you know, I was just thinking this sort of looks like a scene from a movie, but it is a real photo, honest.

3. posted by P01 at 19:47 on November 01, 2003

milov: Indeed, that picture really looks like taken from a movie except the 4/3 ratio :p
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XHTML 1.1 

Although I'm not quite sure why yet, I changed the doctype of this template from XHTML 1.0 to XHTML 1.1 and am sending a Content-type: application/xhtml+xml header to browsers that support it, meaning Mozilla will regard each page as xml and won't show the content if there's an error in the markup.

Which meant spending a couple of hours going through the monthly archives, correcting each entry that triggered an xml parse error. Now all of the 2300+ entries are valid well-formed x(h)tml and I have learned to never ever not end my &'s in amp; or use < instead of &lt; in javascript: hrefs (damn those bookmarklet for-loops).
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2003.10.30 - 8 comments by JW, Arthur!, pinder, milov and Bob  

1. posted by JW at 17:30 on October 30, 2003

Nice piece of work. I am still wondering if I will use the application/xhtml+xml content header. One of the reasons: checking every single entry I posted sofar.

2. posted by Arthur! at 18:22 on October 30, 2003

I've changed my content-header and all my pages work. I use MT as CMS and I've used a couple of plugins that replace 'non-validating' content. It's not perfect (yet) but at least it works.

I haven't had any problems since I switched. I don't think the 'fear' of checking every page should stand in the way of changing you content-header.

3. posted by pinder at 22:56 on October 30, 2003

for some reason, in Firebird, if i try middleclicking on a link on milov.nl, i get the logitech scroll wheel instead of opening the link in a new tab. but middle clicking works fine on any other site. anyone else experiencing this? does it have anything to do with the doctype?

4. posted by milov at 23:02 on October 30, 2003

I hadn't noticed it yet (using a graphics tablet without a middle mouse button) but yes, it's apparently a Firebird bug resulting from the new doctype / application/xhtml+xml header. The same thing happens on http://simon.incutio.com/ and http://annevankesteren.nl/ .

5. posted by mkt,bob,Bob at 23:35 on October 30, 2003

I am almost done with a redesign of my site, and while the templates and stuff validate as xhtml 1.1 just fine, I _really_ am not looking forward to going through all my old crap to make sure it validates.

Dikke pluim in je reet, dat jij daar wel zin in had!

6. posted by mijnkopthee.nl,bob,Bob at 23:37 on October 30, 2003

Hey! Why doesn't your comment-thingy display my name?

7. posted by Bob at 23:38 on October 30, 2003

(sorry for spamming, just checking to see if it _does_ work if i enter an URL instead of an email address)

8. posted by milov at 00:55 on October 31, 2003

Bob: your name not being shown is a result of the document.write problem I mentioned; the spam-safe mailto: link (which is shown when people don't fill in an url but do leave their email address) doesn't appear...
Anyway, it's fixed now.
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seagull 

2003.10.29 - 4 comments by jimmy, swanz, Kid A and Jim  

1. posted by jimmy at 16:47 on October 30, 2003

Lol and brilliant :-)

2. posted by swanz at 22:44 on November 02, 2003

erg mooi heer milov!

3. posted by Kid A at 20:35 on December 27, 2003

Brilliant pic , what can i say

4. posted by Jim at 20:36 on December 27, 2003

Liked the picture
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Keith David 

A list of actors that coincidentally appear more than once in my 12-movie dvd collection:
  1. Keith David, 3 times
This concludes the list of actors that coincidentally appear more than once in my 12-movie dvd collection. Here's a screenshot of Mr. David in each of those three movies (can you guess which ones they are?):
2003.10.27 - 13 comments by Tuuur, milov, huphtur, tbit and Eduardo Marquetti  

1. posted by Tuuur at 13:09 on October 28, 2003

I never even heard of this more-than-once appearing actor in your 12-movie dvd collection, so no; I can't guess.

Or maybe this ignorance is just the right prerequisite for guessing! Let's see:
1. Reservoir dogs?
2. Streets of Philadelphia?
3. Lord of the rings?

(I didn't see any of these...)

2. posted by milov at 13:20 on October 28, 2003

You could have at least limited your guesses to movies that actually appear on the IMDb page I linked :)

3. posted by huphtur at 15:27 on October 28, 2003

i liked pitch black. people hate on it, cuz it has vin diesel in it, but i think its a pretty cool movie. i read somewhere they are doing a sequel.

4. posted by Tuuur at 15:37 on October 28, 2003

@milov> yeah, but that would be much less guessing then... :-)

5. posted by milov at 22:38 on October 28, 2003

huphtur: I read about the sequel too, on http://www.pitcherblacker.com/ .

One or two of Vin Diesel's lines in Pitch Black might have been rather cringe-worthy, but on the whole I liked the concept and story and cast a lot.

The dvd is cool in that it has not one but two commentary tracks (one with the director and Vin Diesel and Cole Hauser, and the other with director, producer and special effects guy).

Sidenote, a little bit of trivia: Cole Hauser has acted with both Keith David and David Keith (in High Incident).

6. posted by tbit at 04:51 on October 29, 2003

well i have no idea what the first movie is but the second is They Live and while I recognize the third, I cannot place it even after looking in the IMDB list.

Keith David, ever asking, "Or is it David Keith ?" is one of those actors who gives great voice and is recognizable in dozens of things but never to be seen.

7. posted by milov at 12:46 on October 29, 2003

Maybe it helps if I mention that the movies are listed chronologically... And that two of them are by the same director.

8. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 14:04 on October 29, 2003

photoblogs.org updated.
Your are one of my favorites, don´t forget me and add me as one of yours favs. ;-)

9. posted by huphtur at 21:09 on December 20, 2003

milov: trailer is up!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thechroniclesofriddick/

10. posted by milov at 21:36 on December 20, 2003

Yeah I dl'ed the The Chronicles of Riddick trailer off of http://suprnova.org/ yesterday. I'm not sure what to make of it, seems like a completely different kind of film than Pitch Black was. Lots of nonsense mythology etc.

(I liked how Pitch Black drew you into the situation without providing any convoluted backstory. Like some of the better Outer Limits sci-fi episodes.)

11. posted by huphtur at 00:11 on December 21, 2003

Nope, I'm not feelin this preview either. It looks like another 'here comes the hero to save the day' blockbuster.

We must also not forget that Vin Diesel has a complete different audience now and his 'fans' expect nothing less from him.

It's also not written by the Wheat brothers anymore. But by Twohy the original PB director. He also "wrote" Waterworld. Now THAT was one amazing movie hehe.

Oof, should we still go check out the movie when it comes out?

The Wheat brother havent done anything after PB. I wonder what happened.

12. posted by milov at 01:25 on December 21, 2003

On the other hand, I see Twohy also wrote The Arrival, which I liked a lot (partly for its obvious parallels with Half-Life). Another movie that doesn't try to explain too much, only letting the audience know as much as the main character does.

13. posted by huphtur at 07:14 on December 21, 2003

ive never seen the arrival. i will rent it and let ya know what i thought.
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New bookmarklet:
!grid (drag to Links-bar)

Click once to overlay the current page with a div containing a 50x50 grid pattern. Click again to hide. Should be handy for testing alignment, quick dimension estimates, etc. Tested in IE6 and Firebird 0.7.

(Suggestions for better grid patterns are welcome; grid9.gif looks OK here but looks a bit iffy on lighter backgrounds.)

Update: here's a new version using a different grid pattern, having alternating bright and dark pixels per P01's suggestion, and without the inner 10x10 lines:
!grid2
2003.10.26 - 7 comments by Fidel, rj, JQN, P01, palla and YUDHI PRSETYO  

1. posted by Fidel at 23:51 on October 26, 2003

Thats tight.

2. posted by rj at 10:47 on October 27, 2003

I think I feel an article...

3. posted by JQN at 20:43 on October 27, 2003

This is great for measuring stuff! Up untill now I had a hand made paper tape measurer with 50px units... truly low tech, but handy nonetheless.

4. posted by P01 at 23:06 on October 27, 2003

Everyone should have a look at the Ruler favelet @ centricle ( http://centricle.com/tools/favelets/ )


milov: To enhance the visibily, you could alternate bright and dark pixels on the lines of the grid pattern.

JQN: wow, using a paper tape is so roots. I put some stickytape on the side the monitor of my Atari to see how much cpu time I had to remove to fill a full Vertical BLank. ^__^

5. posted by JQN at 23:40 on October 27, 2003

The Ruler's nice! I had no idea this could be done... I'm such a n00b.

6. posted by palla at 10:12 on October 28, 2003

cool...

7. posted by YUDHI PRSETYO at 07:11 on November 18, 2003

ITS JUST NOTES WHAT THERE'S A ANOUCEMENT TO INTRODUCE OF hOW WHEN i GET THE COSTEMER HAD INTERSTED
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The Javascript Raytracer has been expanded quite a bit since we last saw it... now you can even use it to build your own custom scenes (see the extensive Help-section).
2003.10.26 - 1 comment by Kid A  

1. posted by Kid A at 19:44 on December 27, 2003

Hello , Are you there ?
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blue streak 

2003.10.25 - 6 comments by jimmy, milov, Eduardo Marquetti, Kid A and Agatka::)  

1. posted by jimmy at 19:15 on October 25, 2003

Wauw! Absolutely love this one.

2. posted by milov at 21:10 on October 25, 2003

Thanks!
I only accidentally spotted this composition while browsing this month's photos, it's a small crop of a larger image. Thanks be to this building http://milov.nl/2106 for the great chance reflection.

3. posted by jimmy at 19:08 on October 26, 2003

I didn`t even notice it was light reflected by a building but now I looked again and I see a straight lign on the left of the picture :-)

4. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 11:16 on October 28, 2003

Exelent!
They are swiming in a golden lake!

5. posted by Kid A at 19:59 on December 27, 2003

WOW, loved your pic , nice

6. posted by Agatka::) at 09:09 on October 29, 2005

super zdjecie::)
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113.milov.nl
something to stare at
2003.10.25 - 3 comments by Arthur!, Jack and Kid A  

1. posted by Arthur! at 18:25 on October 27, 2003

Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen?

Ben je niet wat vroeg met sinterklaas? ;)

2. posted by Jack at 19:26 on December 27, 2003

Nice Pic :)

3. posted by Kid A at 19:55 on December 27, 2003

Nice PIc :(
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2003.10.23 - 8 comments by [unknown], huphtur, P01, 23JUL, elout, milov, Kid A and Martijn  

1. posted by [unknown] at 13:29 on October 23, 2003

booo






bye

2. posted by huphtur at 15:59 on October 23, 2003

dr00x?

3. posted by P01 at 20:38 on October 23, 2003

What kind of plant is that ?

4. posted by 23JUL at 02:36 on October 24, 2003

a powerplant ;P

5. posted by elout at 17:51 on October 25, 2003

in dutch I guess it`s called;
brandnetel, when you touch it you get 'burned'

btw. recently I started doing some flowerstuff as well;
http://www.xs4all.nl/~elout/proce55ing/flower06/index.html

6. posted by milov at 18:14 on October 25, 2003

Nice work, elout. Yay for randomly generated symmetrical organic structures; I actually added my http://milov.nl/code/256b/snowflake.html generator to my Windows taskbar so I see hundreds of unique patterns each day.

7. posted by Kid A at 19:58 on December 27, 2003

Nice Flower

8. posted by Martijn at 20:46 on July 11, 2004

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
well he is alive this ppp
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3685 message(s), 666 unread
2003.10.21 - 3 comments by P01 and Morg  

1. posted by P01 at 09:17 on October 22, 2003

^__^ I beg the most recent message says something like:

"if you don't forward this message to 1.000.000 people in the next 2hours, you'll lose your wife, cat, domain name, penis enlargement, viagra pills and all the things that count in your life within 7 days"

2. posted by Morg at 09:08 on October 23, 2003

Yup, spam is even alright, proven now once and for all...

3. posted by Morg at 09:09 on October 23, 2003

Oops!!!
even = evil
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Flash + unsteady camera turns a forest scene into a weirdish 2D-looking collage.
2003.10.21 - 5 comments by Eduardo Marquetti, adam, jimmy, milov and adjam  

1. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 14:19 on October 21, 2003

Was you walking here?
The colors, I like it. Well I know you love green! :)
Ah, Milo, now I can read,, no more little fonts to my browser (Msie 6), did you make something about?

2. posted by adam at 14:36 on October 21, 2003

Second one looks great

3. posted by jimmy at 15:03 on October 21, 2003

Love the first one.

4. posted by milov at 15:43 on October 21, 2003

Oh, I forgot to mention: these are all crops from one photo (hence the similar 'effect' in each image).

5. posted by adjam at 14:59 on October 22, 2003

hey adam, nice name!
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2003.10.20 - add a comment  

the house that css built 

3D Border Demo 2 - LEGOish drawing of a house, built entirely using css borders. Impressive! Made by Design Detector. [via DeWalick.com]
2003.10.17 - 4 comments by Kethinov, huphtur, bas and Saint Jude  

1. posted by Kethinov at 05:52 on October 18, 2003

Wow! Looks like something that should be on i.am/bald

2. posted by huphtur at 17:55 on October 18, 2003

yeah, whatsup milov, we slackin?
just kidding. dont hit me!

3. posted by bas at 00:22 on October 26, 2003

OMG that's fast...
If this is possible...
why is the internet so slow...

4. posted by yahoo.com,saintjulian,Saint Jude at 04:47 on December 12, 2003

That really is most inspirational.
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2003.10.17 - add a comment  
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Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is out! Coolest new feature so far: a 'Load this bookmark in the sidebar' option so I can load my feeds in the sidebar. [via MozillaZine]

Another positive development:
- it's finally possible to press Ctrl-W to close those '(Untitled)' tabs (ie. the ones you get when accidentally ctrl-clicking a bunch of javascript: links).
2003.10.15 - 4 comments by Ruben, P01, Tuuur and nowak  

1. posted by Ruben at 19:57 on October 15, 2003

As far as I can see there's no reason for me to upgrade from 0.6.1. I'll wait until 0.8, 0.9 or maybe, maybe even 1.0.

2. posted by P01 at 20:51 on October 15, 2003

It's sad that the 'this bookmark in the sidebar' option is hidden in the properties panel of the bookmark and not in the contextual menu >__<

3. posted by Tuuur at 11:45 on October 16, 2003

I like Firebird, it's pretty fast.

4. posted by nowak at 23:57 on October 18, 2003

Other nice little feature: Firebird finally has a stylesheet switcher. If a page has multiple stylesheets, a little icon will appear on the bottom left of the status bar, and you can switch styles. hooray.
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referrers per entry 

I've been logging all specific referring urls for each weblog entry for a while now, but never really made them visible. Until now, that is. Try a couple of random entries and you're bound to see it in action somewhere...

To prevent the entry pages from turning into some sort of Google trap, search engine bots don't get to see the referrer lists at all (via a User-Agent check of common bot names).
2003.10.14 - 1 comment by Arthur!  

1. posted by Arthur! at 11:38 on October 15, 2003

Funny you should publish this now, cause I'm working on a script to show per-entry referrers for my MT-installation :)

I always thought this was a nice feature.
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Speaking of stylish <ul> listings, check out IF THEN ELSE (who also caught the redesign bug this week)'s take on it; scroll down a bit and hover over the leftside menus. By already showing a tiny border in the default link state, and increasing the border size on hover, it looks like LEDs lighting up. Pretty colours!

Update: check out his newly added HOW-TO.
2003.10.14 - 7 comments by Ruben and milov  

1. posted by Ruben at 17:09 on October 14, 2003

Caught, milo, caught.

2. posted by milov at 17:26 on October 14, 2003

Hey I don't mind if he copied my idea, he made it look much better anyway :)

3. posted by Ruben at 17:39 on October 14, 2003

Not exactly what I meant. I was talking about your typo :-)

4. posted by milov at 17:48 on October 14, 2003

Argh. That's what I get for quickly trying to write a post (and post a comment) while at work.

5. posted by Ruben at 11:34 on October 15, 2003

Some people get fired for blogging at work.

6. posted by milov at 11:43 on October 15, 2003

You're not speaking from experience, I hope? Maybe webdesign companies are less strict about it than insurance companies.

7. posted by Ruben at 17:19 on October 15, 2003

Oh, I don't blog at work. I only comment at work :-)
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2003.10.13 - 1 comment by arash  

1. posted by arash at 13:40 on June 24, 2004

lolilol
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redesign 

Doing a little redesigning... Usually my redesigns start with a new background photo, but since I couldn't decide on a good one I did the layout first this time (along with a reworking of the php and html code).

A big change is that I'm now showing inline entry titles for some entries (until now the titles were only visible in the <title>-tag), so you know what you're reading or looking at.

The html for this 'ere weblog column is still rather tag-soupy at the moment getting better, but the menus on the left have been converted into lean <ul> machines with a hover effect inspired by Listamatic.
2003.10.12 - 11 comments by P01, Eduardo Marquetti, milov, Kethinov, Woudloper and Kid A  

1. posted by P01 at 23:27 on October 13, 2003

Nice changes, I especially like the hover effect and the brighter shade of gray on the form element having the focus. Having the title and the date on the main page is also a good point.

The H2 are a little too big to my taste, and the IL > A may be 100% wide.

Whatever, it's good to see more and more people moving to XHTML + CSS.

2. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 16:01 on October 14, 2003

Ja! Nice.
But I don´t know the font here is so smal... Hmmm, I think I must install more fonts here.

3. posted by milov at 20:56 on October 14, 2003

P01: I actually did specify display: block for the LI > A's at first, but found that a little too distracting when moving the mouse around the page - very easy to 'accidentally' light up the links by moving over the rightmost edge of the link.

Eduardo: I just checked my site out in IE6 and noticed some weird font size stuff as well; is your Text Size set to something smaller than Medium?

Perhaps I'll just replace the em's with pixel-sizes. Users that want to be able to increase/decrease font size should then just use another browser than IE.

4. posted by Kethinov at 23:33 on October 14, 2003

Looks good. Like the dots. Like the brightening of current forms. I also like how if you don't include a "subject" on a news entry, or on a box widget, or whatever we want to call them, it doesn't look out of place.

5. posted by P01 at 01:54 on October 15, 2003

I've looked the site with IE6.0 and Fb0.6.1 and the only a difference of font size I've noticed is on the H3 tags that are slightly bigger in IE.

No box model hack have been used so there's some minor differences between the browsers.

milov: Regarding the LI > A, I had in mind something in the vein of IFTHENELSE but you're right when you say it may have been too distracting.

6. posted by Kethinov at 07:55 on October 15, 2003

All looks good in Linux using Konqueror, Mozilla, and Galeon.

7. posted by Woudloper at 09:25 on October 20, 2003

Milov, concerning your point about using pixel font sizes in stead of em/pt font sizes I can only encourage you to do so. My textsize is always on 'smallest', as I am working with a 120 DPI screen (21") and many pages have a very large font when I start load them, therefore I put it on the 'smallest' option. When visiting your site I always need to enlarge the fontsize because here it is even smaller.

Concerning your choice I can only say that you can read the following article at 'A List Apart':

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/

Here you can read about the choice for pixels of pt/em. Furthermore when you would like to introduce Pixel Font Sizes I think you also need to use the 'StyleSwitcher' so you give the visitors the opportunity to set the (pixel) font size themeselve, also see the 'A List Apart' website. Zeldman mentioned last year that using pixel fonts is better thant pt/em font size, with the remark that you can work with a styleswitcher..

8. posted by milov at 11:28 on October 20, 2003

Alright, pixel sizes are go! You might have to reload to get the updated stylesheet.
Thanks for the input, Woudloper.

9. posted by P01 at 20:49 on October 24, 2003

The links to the previous and next entry are also a great plus.

Since you try to keep track of the spam comments, and don't delete them, would it be possible to attribute them a class="spamComment" with a more subtle shade of gray, or any color that warn everyone ( including the spammer ) of the stench of those comments ?

10. posted by milov at 12:42 on October 25, 2003

I've just adjusted the latest comments query so that comments I've marked as being spam are no longer shown.

11. posted by Kid A at 19:42 on December 27, 2003

What is SPAM? No one knows
You are all potential spammers
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coot bw 

coot bw
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2003.10.12 - 1 comment by jimmy  

1. posted by jimmy at 20:27 on October 12, 2003

This picture could have been taken in Twin Peaks.
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trees 

2003.10.12 - add a comment  

keyboard 

keyboard
2003.10.10 - 1 comment by P01  

1. posted by P01 at 13:26 on October 11, 2003

Santa Claus came earlier this year ?
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Download videos by Koji Morimoto, maker of the Animatrix short 'Beyond'. And lots more interesting things at Catsuka.com. [via Aeon Flux msgboard]
2003.10.09 - 1 comment by Mariana Magalhães  

1. posted by Mariana Magalhães at 22:14 on April 01, 2004

I work at Anima Mundi, the International Animation Festival of Brazil, takes place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo since 1993 and has become one of the most important animation festivals in the world and a reference to the animation community in the country and internationally.

We are currently updating our database. Would you kindly help us to confirm if the information below about KOJI MORIMOTO is still correct? It is really important to us, because we´d like to invite him to come to Brazil to participate in our festival.
Address:
Tel: 81 334992460
Fax: 81 334992460
email:moyo@trilogy.co.jp

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Mariana Magalhães
Directors' assistant
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2003.10.08 - add a comment  

apparition 

2003.10.07 - 6 comments by Yenshi, me, tito and Syvannah  

1. posted by Yenshi at 00:24 on July 26, 2004

it looks like light

2. posted by me at 19:48 on August 02, 2004

try ghoststudy.com for a brilliant selection of ghost galleries

3. posted by me at 19:49 on August 02, 2004

its prbably the sun

4. posted by me at 19:50 on August 02, 2004

why dont you add something else to your website as it is a bit well er.......

5. posted by tito at 21:42 on October 06, 2004

lensflare, cigarette smoke, doble exposure, etc. common dont you have some REAL?

6. posted by Syvannah at 01:59 on November 13, 2005

wow. Your work is amazing. I chose thi one to comment on simply because...it's awesome. *nods* Yes. Simply awesome.
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stokje 

Heb weer eens een stokje (zie 607) aangereikt gekregen, van Niels ditmaal. I'm supposed to talk about the most recent dvd I watched. Which is, not surprisingly, one of the Cowboy Bebop dvds, specifically episode #9 on disc 2, 'Jamming With Edward'.
2003.10.07 - 2 comments by Ruben and N!  

1. posted by Ruben at 19:30 on October 07, 2003

Grappig. Is-ie nu hier aanbeland! Op 30 september mocht ik 'm aanpakken en doorgeven.

2. posted by N! at 10:32 on October 08, 2003

Ik dacht dat het een kinderserie was, Cowboy Bebop... klinkt als een serie voor kleuters hahaha. Maar nu vind ik de naam eigenlijk best cool.
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Some things I saw today:
2003.10.05 - 8 comments by jimmy, milov, huphtur, Kethinov, Eduardo Marquetti and jeroen  

1. posted by jimmy at 22:26 on October 05, 2003

I saw the rainbow first. At 17:57 to be exact. :-)

2. posted by milov at 22:52 on October 05, 2003

Yeah, but that's 17:57 Belgian time. ^_^

3. posted by huphtur at 07:52 on October 06, 2003

i waited all day to see if i got the see the rainbow here in LA, but unfortunately, no luck.

4. posted by Kethinov at 07:57 on October 06, 2003

You live in such a beautiful country. Nothing here in the midwestern US is worth snapping photos of. I stay in doors 99% of my week.

5. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 15:19 on October 06, 2003

Now I see all you see too! :) (almost!)

6. posted by jeroen at 23:08 on October 06, 2003

Kethinov: we Dutch people probably say exactly the same as you do :-) It's that you are common with the type of surrounding...Looking at things as a photographer might change that :-)

7. posted by Kethinov at 06:47 on October 07, 2003

I don't know. I lived in New York most of my life. When I moved west, everything seemed so much more baren and dead. The college I'm attending is a beautiful modern building but it's planted on a tired, dead land.

8. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 14:41 on October 07, 2003

It will be interesting Kethinov. Not just nice things are 'nice' to photograph. Try!
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My guestbook has been getting quite a bit of comment spam lately. Someone from *.wanadoo.fr (who isn't POI) is posting comments under a variety of names and urls, all pointing to crappy casino/pharmacy/ringtone sites. I've been letting it slide until now because I sort of admire his/her effort of thinking up new "compliments" about my site, as if they were genuine guestbook entries.

Then there's the repeated buup114 spammer, who, according to my logs, opens entry 1516, posts the same exact comment and leaves again. Never mind that the text is completely indecipherable...

I like how I've maintained an almost zero percent moderation rate with regard to comments (I don't even remove double-posted comments), but I think I will be removing at least the urls from these ones, to discourage further attempts at enhancing ones Pagerank like this.

More discussion on comment spam at Simon Willison, Jeremy Zawodny, JayAllen and dive into mark.
2003.10.04 - 15 comments by Calm_Pear, huphtur, jimmy, Kethinov, Lon, P01, Caroline, milov, Mr. Anonymous, Maarten, Kid A and FreeChat  

1. posted by Calm_Pear at 19:50 on October 04, 2003

I haven't yet encountered this on my weblog, luckily... I think we should think of something simple to prevent this from happening, something cunning... I don't know yet... I'm still workin' on it. (no, not something like www.fark.com where you have to register first... it must be more clever than that)

2. posted by huphtur at 03:26 on October 05, 2003

what about banning the ip?

3. posted by jimmy at 09:40 on October 05, 2003

Two weeks ago somebody pasted about 50 urls, about penis-enlargments!, in an entry from 5 months back. Probably he didn`t know I get an email when somebody posts a comment. Otherwise I would never have found it.
And then I banned the IP Huphtur :-)

4. posted by Kethinov at 11:42 on October 05, 2003

This is the biggest reason why I don't include comment features on my weblog. But I've started working on a new open source php/mysql weblog based on the source code for mine and I'm thinking of including commenting abilities. But depending on what kind of weblog you maintain, how popular it is, and what kind of person you are you may get varying degrees of crapfloods.

I'm no stranger to being crapflooded myself with my history of using the net, so I'm reluctant to incorporate the feature at all.

5. posted by wanadoo.nl,lon,Lon at 14:16 on October 05, 2003

these comment-spammers obviously use some sort of automated script to do this...

what would happen if your comment-form would hold some javascript that would set some hidden fields. If the hidden fields aren't there the comment won't be accepted. My guess is the automated spam-script wouldn't be able to run the javascript and just post...

No action required from end users. Your browser just needs to proof it's a browser and not some spam-script.

feedback, ideas?

6. posted by P01 at 15:08 on October 05, 2003

Alas, few ISP offers static IPs so IP banning may kick some real users.

For instance, Wanadoo ( a popular frensh RTC, ISDN & ADSL ISP ) have 2-3 big IP ranges. The users get a new IP every time they reconnect, and to avoid home made web hosting, Wanaddo deconnect its users every 24H.

Whatever if the comment system is flooded by the same IP or URL ( the ones given by the user and the ones in the comment itself ) they should be temporary banned and noticed to the weblog author who can eventually blacklist them.

Unfortunately the weblog author have to keep an eye on the comments logs.

Feeding some hidden fields with hash values is a good idea, but server side code should be involved 'cause client side can easily be reverse engineered.

The best idea I've heard is to add a text field and ask the user to enter the letters of a random string generated ( with some noise ) via GD. That idea have some accessibility problems :( but it would make spam-bots unefficient.

Finally, IMHO user comments adds a great value to weblogs.

7. posted by Caroline at 21:53 on October 05, 2003

See also today's entry at plasticbag.org
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/10/a_victorian_responds_to_comment_spam.shtml

8. posted by wanadoo.nl,lon,Lon at 22:46 on October 05, 2003

OK, how about this:

(I'm assuming JavaScript ASP here, but it's really simple so any server side language would be ok)

in your form place this hidden field:
<%@ language="JavaScript" %>
...
<input type="hidden" name="t1" value="<%=(new Date()).getTime()%>"/>

on the server the comment-processor should have this:
<%@ language="JavaScript" %>

<%
// Get form-creation time stamp
var t1 = parseInt(Request("t1"));

// Get current time
var t2 = (new Date()).getTime();

// Check whether timing ok (>3 seconds, < 1 hour)
if ((t2 - t1 < 3000) || (t2 - t1 > 3600000))
{
// Stop
Response.end();
}
else
{
// Handle comment submission
// ...
}
%>

Result: only comments that took more than 3 seconds since the page was created are submitted.
Human submitters can never open, read, write and submit a comment within 3 seconds. Automatic script will do it a lot faster. They will get filtered out.

So? Is this an idea worth while testing?

9. posted by milov at 22:59 on October 05, 2003

Are people really getting automated comment spam? Seems to me that most of it is just manually entered, requires relatively little effort anyway for instant result (a link to your site).

10. posted by Mr. Anonymous at 23:19 on October 05, 2003

Milov:: concerning the comments there are many discussions going on. According to the Dutch blog of Adam Curry they also discussed the comments on the Bloggercon. Maybe you can wait en see what he will write about it in his report about it. He promised to do so...

11. posted by P01 at 23:24 on October 05, 2003

I was thinking of spam-bot as a mean to increase the pagerank of a naughty site. Those sites have the ressource to do that. They already spam mail boxes with poor results. At least spamming some weblogs have a noticeable effect and may increase their ad. incomes since they get better places on search engines.

A set of "human like" comments can be used to make believe they come from a lonely soul that have nothing better to do.

12. posted by Maarten at 11:02 on October 07, 2003

Using JavaScript to prevent spam is a very bad idea. A lot of people disable JavaScript by default, because it is a security risk.

13. posted by Lon at 22:10 on October 07, 2003

who's using javascript to prevent spam? if you were referring to my proposal: it's javascript, but purely server-side.

and i don't think JS in the browser is a security risk.
and i do think you can't surf the web in a decent way having js disabled. i guess you would be used to having non-functional pages.

14. posted by Kid A at 19:39 on December 27, 2003

You are all spamers , you don't even understand that

15. posted by FreeChat at 11:43 on February 09, 2004

Thanks! Enjoed the time on your site! Sincerly yours, <a href="http://bilder.llil.deSPAM">Bilder </a>
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static
2003.10.04 - 2 comments by 990000 and jimmy  

1. posted by 990000 at 21:36 on October 04, 2003

nice.

2. posted by jimmy at 22:37 on October 04, 2003

Once I had to learn how television and the electronics in it works but whe never had such cool pictures like these of the lines being written on te screen in our course :-)
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Legal Abandonware - collection of classic PC games for download. Best game of the lot might be Beneath a Steel Sky; I actually bought the diskette version of this adventure game in 1994, now I can try the speech-enhanced CD version.
2003.10.03 - 1 comment by jeroen  

1. posted by jeroen at 23:06 on October 06, 2003

I had the CD32 version back then :-) (speech version, Amiga console)
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Been spending a lot of time in Hellendoorn lately...
2003.10.02 - 12 comments by Eduardo Marquetti, ikkuh, Milo, Low, roel, Basman, StellerD, -=[t] inusH =-, tanas, DARK-DEVIL, -=DaRk-D3ViL=- and KOTRT James  

1. posted by Eduardo Marquetti at 19:36 on October 09, 2003

Hmmm... downloading! :)

2. posted by ikkuh at 22:06 on September 29, 2004

IK WOON IN HELLENDOORN!!!!!!!!!!

3. posted by Milo at 22:15 on September 29, 2004

Goed man!

4. posted by Low at 11:36 on September 30, 2004

lol!

5. posted by hotmail.com,roeltje,roel at 19:16 on October 23, 2004

HELLENDOORN!!!!!!!!!!

6. posted by hotmail.com,bastiaanvdhorst,Basman at 19:52 on February 28, 2005

hellendoorn tha shizzle man

7. posted by StellerD at 23:43 on November 05, 2006

amazing demo, but it needs more servers for online play

8. posted by -=[t] inusH =- at 20:28 on December 19, 2006

ejz pikkiess alles lekker! ik woon in de buurt hellendoorn nigga nee, geintje.. speel er fucking vaak inn mann Maar ik moet gaan LatersZz xD

9. posted by hotmail.com,tanas_1994,tanas at 12:47 on November 20, 2008

Hellendrom é bueda fixe esse jogo

10. posted by DARK-DEVIL at 23:15 on July 13, 2009

COOL GAME BUT NEED MORE SERVERS AND MODS LIKE ANOTHER VICHELS WEATHER ETC FOR THE ONLINE DEMO!!!!!!
ITS ALREADY COOOL MY NAME IN BF 1942 SW OF WWII DEMO IS DARK-DEVIL

11. posted by HOTMAIL.COM,DARK-DEVIL1995,-=DaRk-D3ViL=- at 16:29 on September 30, 2009

I PLAY THIS GAME TILL NOW ONLY 5 SERVERS!!! but still many players!!!!!

12. posted by KOTRT James at 21:30 on October 26, 2009

Wow dark. You really are obsessed arent you. I just looked up hellendoorn to see if it was a real town.
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