weblog/photolog by Milo Vermeulen milov.nl

I'm a 31-year-old webdeveloper living in Wateringen, working in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This is my personal weblog. Sometimes I make art with code. I like to make lots of photos in my spare time, of which I post my faves here; see my Flickr stream for the most complete and up-to-date overview. My current cameras: Pentax K20D, Ricoh GR Digital and Ricoh GX100.

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114.milov.nl - a starry mouse-driven snowflake generator of sorts, made with Processing. Simply drag your mouse over the applet and watch the patterns form. (But don't stare at it for too long or you'll see it every second you close your eyes; believe me, I know.)

I'm so used to thinking in layers (dhtml mindset) that it's always a nice surprise to be able to move thousands of pixels around in a Java environment.
2003.11.29 - 22 comments by low, Martijn, 990000, Maarten, ACJ, elout, Man, palla, emarquetti, P01, milov, nancy loveless, dotti, hahaha, scott, pajil, zero and choi  

1. posted by low at 20:52 on November 29, 2003

Wow!

2. posted by Martijn at 21:10 on November 29, 2003

Space! Very cool!

3. posted by 990000 at 08:50 on November 30, 2003

very cool

4. posted by Maarten at 14:37 on November 30, 2003

Cool! I like it!

Btw, I think I found a small bug. When you click outside the window and move you mouse in the window again, there is a fat line in the lower part of the screen.

5. posted by ACJ at 18:21 on November 30, 2003

Nice.

6. posted by elout at 18:24 on November 30, 2003

nice milov.. wondering how this would look in 3D.
And its good to see you on the p5 board as well.

7. posted by Man at 22:44 on November 30, 2003

Heel mooi!

8. posted by palla at 05:25 on December 01, 2003

!!!

9. posted by emarquetti at 11:12 on December 01, 2003

Ja nice... nice....

10. posted by P01 at 17:43 on December 01, 2003

Nice SnowFlake homage.
I'm absolutely not in Java nor Processing, but 71Kb seems HUUUUUGE for that. Is there some way so optimize the size ? AFAIK Java applets can be compresser in RAR or JAR, but the this new iambald entry is already in .JAR

I had already seen some Processing applets, and it seems powerfull and extremely easy to use.

Does anybody have some infos about size optimization/compression in Java or Processing ? The official site provides little informations about that >__<

11. posted by milov at 17:51 on December 01, 2003

It's true that 71KB is way too big. If I rewrote it in pure Java the jar-file would probably be no bigger than a few KB.

The Processing Export-to-web works by including a bunch of standard classes in the jar-file. I was surprised by the size as well; it was actually more than 100KB before I removed some obviously unnecessary classes.

12. posted by aol.com,lovekillslegacy, nancy loveless at 19:01 on December 24, 2003

youre website would be cool, lots of info and all, but tragically boring. zing it up, man!

13. posted by aol.com,lovekillslegacy, nancy loveless at 19:03 on December 24, 2003

youre website would be cool, lots of info and all, but tragically boring. zing it up, man! -nancy

14. posted by dotti at 06:02 on January 18, 2004

WOW...I LOVE DOTS MOVING AROUND...i was named after dots...

15. posted by dotti at 06:03 on January 18, 2004

they remind me of my freckles

16. posted by hahaha at 06:04 on January 18, 2004

skrew me dots

17. posted by dotti at 06:05 on January 18, 2004

and some of my pimples

18. posted by dotti at 06:05 on January 18, 2004

well actually all my pimples

19. posted by scott at 22:53 on July 26, 2004

sweat!

20. posted by pajil at 19:31 on December 29, 2004

Thank You! What a beautiful diversion, especially at this holiday season, when I really don't want to be at work in the first place.

21. posted by zero at 11:11 on May 15, 2005

Geogaddi

22. posted by choi at 02:05 on May 20, 2009

mooi hoor
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windmill 

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2003.11.28 - 6 comments by huphtur, alex, palla, P01, JW and Milo  

1. posted by huphtur at 01:43 on November 29, 2003

erf, instant homesick.
thanks milov!

2. posted by alex at 11:31 on November 29, 2003

beautiful light!

3. posted by palla at 05:17 on December 01, 2003

nice ambience...

4. posted by P01 at 08:53 on December 01, 2003

Really cool. Almost NPR ( Not Photo Realistic )

5. posted by JW at 15:22 on December 01, 2003

Wow. Amazing colors.

6. posted by Milo at 17:25 on November 01, 2004

Must remember to go back here on the next foggy day.
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rain 

2003.11.27 - 1 comment by emarquetti  

1. posted by emarquetti at 13:29 on November 28, 2003

frist i see sparks here.... i´m nut! need to rest! :)
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rose and cat 

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2003.11.25 - 9 comments by P01, milov, huphtur, emarquetti, adam, Kid A and mustapha  

1. posted by P01 at 21:11 on November 25, 2003

Nice angle and color focus.
I guess the 'cat' is the blurred thing beneath the concrete on the left. =^_^=

2. posted by milov at 21:17 on November 25, 2003

Yep... The same cat also appears on http://milov.nl/2338 and http://milov.nl/2152 .

3. posted by P01 at 22:00 on November 25, 2003

That cat is quite mysterious. He/she doesn't like to be photographed.

4. posted by huphtur at 23:35 on November 25, 2003

a rose in the winter?

5. posted by milov at 23:44 on November 25, 2003

I don't think we have winters anymore.

6. posted by emarquetti at 11:18 on November 26, 2003

Wow! The rose of night! Nice!

7. posted by adam at 15:56 on November 26, 2003

Very cool pic, have it as desktop background now.

8. posted by Kid A at 20:06 on December 27, 2003

I love roses , will be a nice background

9. posted by mustapha at 16:24 on January 09, 2004

salut
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For the longest time, my Firebird install had the habit of freezing for about 30 seconds before showing any Java applet. I'd sort of learned to live with it, but such a thing can become very annoying very fast when trying to take in all of the beautiful Proce55ing examples.

As it turns out, all I had to do to make the freezes go away was install the latest Sun JRE 1.4.2. Finally, no more delays!
2003.11.24 - 8 comments by alex, milov and low  

1. posted by alex at 16:01 on November 24, 2003

thanks for the tip, that really helped. now if I could just middle click to open a new tab on your site I'd be really happy. ;)

2. posted by milov at 16:29 on November 24, 2003

Actually, I think the application/xhtml+xml no-middle-click bug is fixed in newer builds. After I upgraded from Firebird 0.7 to aebrahim's P4 optimized build yesterday, I was able to use the middle-click on my site again:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=36657

3. posted by alex at 16:32 on November 24, 2003

Ah, well, that's excellent tip number two. I hope Low's site will work again as well then.

4. posted by milov at 16:44 on November 24, 2003

Oops, I linked to the wrong thread; I downloaded *this* build yesterday: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=35933
That other one could potentially cause older extensions and themes not to work anymore, apparently...

5. posted by low at 18:04 on November 24, 2003

Is there something wrong with my site?

6. posted by alex at 20:12 on November 24, 2003

In older Firebird versions, it would crash when you add a comment and a scrollbar has to appear. With Fb 0.7, the navigation menu doesn't work and the comments popup stays blank when you open it, rendering the site basically unusable. But there's nothing wrong with your site, it's just Fb misbehaving. ;)

7. posted by milov at 20:42 on November 24, 2003

Weird, I never noticed any of those problems on Low's site (in any version of Firebird).

8. posted by alex at 20:59 on November 24, 2003

I thought it was just a buggy installation, but I had exactly the same on my home and work install. I just installed the latest nightly and now the entire site it perfect, which confirms my earlier point.
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blurry glass 

2003.11.23 - 5 comments by adjam, milov, Lon and emarquetti  

1. posted by adjam at 17:11 on November 23, 2003

lol! you chose your own website as one of your favorites?

http://www.photoblogs.org/profile/milov.nl

2. posted by milov at 19:58 on November 23, 2003

Well sure, doesn't everybody (when testing an online favorites/blogs/feeds management system, to find out if it works)?

3. posted by wanadoo.nl,lon,Lon at 23:03 on November 23, 2003

is that your teeth i see in that glass?

4. posted by milov at 00:34 on November 24, 2003

Actually, those are the buttons of my Smartphone standing upright, which I was originally trying to get the camera to focus on.

5. posted by emarquetti at 11:57 on November 24, 2003

I did the same! ;-) (Photoblogs.org)
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Witold Riedel and Eliot Shepard coincidentally make the exact same photo.
2003.11.22 - 1 comment by 990000  

1. posted by 990000 at 21:01 on November 23, 2003

the world is getting smaller and smaller
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nightshot near station delft 

2003.11.22 - 5 comments by karin, milov, Arthur!, Kid A and John  

1. posted by karin at 11:15 on November 22, 2003

Beautiful sight. Evening pics are always pretty!

2. posted by milov at 21:23 on November 22, 2003

Thanks!
This one stood out to me because of the greenish sky; most nightshots result in the same-old orange skies because of all the orange streetlights around here.

3. posted by Arthur! at 22:47 on November 22, 2003

Mijn dorp ligt tussen de A15 en de A16 en ik kan 's nachts practisch een boek lezen door het licht van de twee snelwegen!

En dan heb ik het niet eens over kassen..

4. posted by Kid A at 20:45 on December 27, 2003

Delft is a georgeous , Den Hague is better

5. posted by John at 20:46 on December 27, 2003

Nice pic
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2003.11.21 - add a comment  
Walking in Vancouver, a movie by Matt Haughey (with beautiful music by Pet Rock Star^s).

After a while you forget you're looking at a top-down view as the street becomes a sliding wall of curiously varying brick patterns and the feet become... something.
2003.11.21 - add a comment  

meerkoeten 

2003.11.20 - 6 comments by P01, milov, Arthur! and huphtur  

1. posted by P01 at 19:42 on November 20, 2003

Nice photo. Pretty colors, composition and persperctive.

2. posted by milov at 20:44 on November 20, 2003

I wonder if many people will catch on to the fact that this is practically a daylight version of my new background-image, a few pixels higher up on the screen -- took me a while to realize it myself.

3. posted by P01 at 21:29 on November 20, 2003

The fact that you said it, should help the people to realise it ^__^

4. posted by Arthur! at 00:28 on November 21, 2003

Well, I for one wouldn't have guesed!
BTW: Nice referrer :)

5. posted by milov at 00:53 on November 21, 2003

> BTW: Nice referrer :)
it won't happen again...

6. posted by huphtur at 01:50 on November 21, 2003

yeah, yur spoiling all our fun milov!
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bricks 

2003.11.18 - 6 comments by kunle, emarquetti, adam, btezra, jimmy and Kid A  

1. posted by hotmail.com,kunledarmani,kunle at 11:00 on November 18, 2003

Need someone who is good in using UNIX and Linux

2. posted by emarquetti at 15:07 on November 18, 2003

ancient street eh?!

3. posted by adam at 15:32 on November 18, 2003

looks like my old front garden

4. posted by btezra at 17:00 on November 18, 2003

~I really like the dark imagery here, fantastic capture~

5. posted by jimmy at 19:50 on November 18, 2003

I see this picture as a good interpretation of the time of year where in. Today it got dark at 5pm! and the streetlight reflecting on the streets is the only light you see.

6. posted by Kid A at 20:42 on December 27, 2003

I'm good at Unix, what do you need ?
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invasion of the blog snatchers 

Something very weird is going on. Someone is copying existing weblog designs to set up 'dummy' sites on a variety of domain names, apparently to increase the hits/PageRank of some central site (there's a hidden link at the bottom of each site). Observe:
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2003.11.17 - 15 comments by alex, milov, riffola, Calm_Pear, 990000, Tuuur, Veronica, zak / betablog, Jan!, Michael W. and dimmy penny  

1. posted by alex at 21:11 on November 17, 2003

Same here, they are all over my referrers list as well.

2. posted by alex at 21:23 on November 17, 2003

Here are some more sites that are doing the same:

www. malixya.com
www. saulem.com
www. bongohome.com
www. mikesspot.com

3. posted by milov at 21:30 on November 17, 2003

(alex: I edited your comment to make the links non-clickable, to prevent them from getting any non-deserved PageRank boost.)

I found some more too:
www. a-b-l-o-g.com
www. kwlablog.com

4. posted by removeriffola.com,riffola,riffola at 21:46 on November 17, 2003

More info here: http://www.idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_behind_blogs.php
Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs

5. posted by Calm_Pear at 23:17 on November 17, 2003

yep... getting the same referes here... that kind of sucks...

6. posted by 990000 at 08:55 on November 18, 2003

great sleuthing. I was baffled by those same referrers on my site.

7. posted by Tuuur at 10:39 on November 18, 2003

Found another one.

original: bigblog.com
fake: teoras.com

8. posted by Tuuur at 10:40 on November 18, 2003

btw, ip address from teoras.com is 141.85.3.107.

9. posted by Tuuur at 10:53 on November 18, 2003

Doing a simple reverse lookup reveals both 217.73.164.106 and the 141.85.3.* addresses are originating from Rumania:

217.73.164.106:
RoEduNet
Bucharest branch
Romanian Education Network

141.85.3.*:
RoEduNet
"Politehnica" University of Bucharest
Communication Center

10. posted by Tuuur at 23:30 on November 18, 2003

And there is a very elaborate discussion on the matter over here: http://www.idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_behind_blogs.php

11. posted by Veronica at 01:17 on November 19, 2003

I found your website because I noticed that you're on the same IP block as the spammers. (I was going to each number in the spammers IP Block )Thanks for the information. I was wondering why I was getting strange referers from what seemed like legitimate weblogs.

12. posted by zak / betablog at 07:55 on November 19, 2003

wrote a bit about it here: http://www.betablog.com/archives/000237.html

13. posted by Jan! at 11:18 on November 19, 2003

> I found your website because I
> noticed that you're on the same IP
> block as the spammers. (I was going
> to each number in the spammers IP
> Block )
Ow? How's that? milov.nl resolves to 81.18.161.172

14. posted by Michael W. at 22:57 on November 19, 2003

My referral log is full of the same. If I was those people that had my site spoofed I would be pissed. No so much if they spoof the layout but some of the text is word for word.

15. posted by dimmy penny at 00:50 on December 14, 2003

http://www.pirated-sites.com/

hope this helps
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2003.11.17 - 4 comments by nowak, Kid A and klolim  

1. posted by nowak at 04:30 on November 18, 2003

Don't forget mine:
http://the-inbetween.com/dump/galleries/2003-10-25/index.php

2. posted by Kid A at 20:44 on December 27, 2003

Funny

3. posted by hotmail.co.il,shawn1,klolim at 12:45 on July 18, 2004

i want to be on this championship

4. posted by hotmail.co.il,shawn1,klolim at 12:47 on July 18, 2004

lol no i dont i thought it icq RPS lol who the fools who play this this for dunbass ppl.btw this game its luck only no ability what so ever noobs
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Pixel Snow at db-db.com - a real-time video tracking program coded on the Processing environment to create a simulation of snowing. [via Low]
2003.11.16 - add a comment  
Let them sing it for you - Flash app that converts your typed words to a song by selecting audio fragments from a database of sung words. [via Jeroen]
2003.11.15 - 4 comments by 990000, Ruben, chickenwing and mayo  

1. posted by 990000 at 06:20 on November 16, 2003

great find.
I tried making it sing"love will care us apart again." unfortunately, they didn't have the word "tear" -- but they did hit the nail on the head with "apart."

2. posted by Ruben at 22:19 on November 16, 2003

The idea is lovely. The execution of the idea is somewhat shaky however.

3. posted by chickenwing at 05:01 on November 29, 2003

I love you all and thanx for being my friends!

4. posted by fsmail.com,marz16,mayo at 13:30 on December 01, 2003

mint sauce r u out there?????
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2003.11.13 - add a comment  
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2003.11.10 - 7 comments by jimmy, sil, 990000, Kethinov, milov and Adam  

1. posted by jimmy at 22:26 on November 10, 2003

There so litle contrast in the picture so I tried switching to B/W. The moustache becomes more visible then, expecially because you get more texture in the background. Anyway, very nice experimenting, Milo :-)

2. posted by sil at 22:46 on November 10, 2003

I like this one :)

3. posted by 990000 at 06:57 on November 11, 2003

hah. nice.

4. posted by Kethinov at 19:40 on November 12, 2003

Wow! How did you get so close to the cat to snap the shot without it running away?
Can we see a high res version?

5. posted by milov at 20:17 on November 12, 2003

I wasn't all that close to the cat... this is a very small crop of the entire image :)
If you're curious, here's the source photo:
http://milov.nl/view/0311/cat640

6. posted by Adam at 10:41 on November 13, 2003

Haha, I knew that. You cheat! No, that's what you get when you have 5.1 megapixels.

7. posted by Kethinov at 22:47 on November 13, 2003

:(
I was really hoping for a 1280x1024 sized version of the parent image.
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New background image: 'Small City Lights' (reload if you still see the old one), featuring the building of 2335 and the bridge of 1639.

Don't know how long it will last; it sort of forces me to add some colour to the rest of the design (which is looking awfully grayscale at the moment) to balance it out.
2003.11.08 - 8 comments by adjam, marov, Kethinov, milov and Thiemo  

1. posted by adjam at 15:26 on November 08, 2003

this image is definatly nicer =)

2. posted by marov at 23:58 on November 08, 2003

Very nice indeed, blends perfectly with the rest :)

3. posted by Kethinov at 23:39 on November 09, 2003

Silly Europeans, it's spelled color! Without a "u"! ;)

4. posted by milov at 01:14 on November 10, 2003

Well, I suppose I'm allowed to choose from either spelling considering I don't live in an English-speaking country; and writing 'kleur' wouldn't make much sense to non-Dutch visitors. So I picked England because it's closest.

5. posted by Kethinov at 17:11 on November 10, 2003

I like the spelling that involves less letters. Less to think about ;)

But what does one do when trying to decide whether to spell it "Civilization" or "Civilisation"?

Hard choice there!

6. posted by milov at 17:27 on November 10, 2003

That's obvious: use the official Microprose spelling: http://www.mobygames.com/game/covers/gameCoverId,801/gameId,585/
(I learned most of my English while playing early 90s PC games.)

7. posted by Thiemo at 20:50 on November 10, 2003

For what's the html>body{background:none}? Opera 6/7 displays a black background due to this.

8. posted by milov at 21:03 on November 10, 2003

Hmm, you're right, have to look into that. The html>body thing was an attempt to fix the background/margins in Mozilla after my switch to application/xhtml+xml, based on a tip at http://www.annevankesteren.nl/archives/2003/08/13/html-id#c000062
The browser is supposed to show the background-image assigned to the html-element.
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2003.11.07 - 9 comments by huphtur, milov, jimmy, adjam, Fidel, sil and John  

1. posted by huphtur at 17:47 on November 07, 2003

bit much to drink last nite milo?

2. posted by milov at 20:21 on November 07, 2003

I'm unsure how to respond to that, considering
1. I made this photo Tuesday morning;
2. I don't drink.

3. posted by huphtur at 07:12 on November 08, 2003

i was trying to be clever since the wobbly image could relate to a visual experience often induced by abundant consumption of alcoholic substances.

4. posted by milov at 11:11 on November 08, 2003

I was trying to be clever too :)
But how would one capture such an image... It's like taking a photograph in one's dream and expecting it to manifest in the real-world camera when waking up, which I've tried on several occasions, convincing myself 'this time it's gonna work' - but it never does.

5. posted by jimmy at 11:59 on November 08, 2003

But yet Milov. This one is a close call allthough it`s personal ofcourse because I can`t look into your dreamworld :-)

6. posted by adjam at 15:24 on November 08, 2003

hey you dont drink?
me neither!

7. posted by Fidel at 07:02 on November 09, 2003

I love these last two pictures. As always great work.

8. posted by sil at 22:49 on November 10, 2003

Nice shot. Ciao.

9. posted by John at 20:46 on December 27, 2003

Nice Pic
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2003.11.05 - 13 comments by marov, huphtur, jimmy, milov, P01, low, mados, emarquetti, palla, swanz, Kid A and DARIUSH  

1. posted by marov at 02:38 on November 06, 2003

Nice reflection and flare, beautifull Wateringen I presume?

2. posted by huphtur at 06:58 on November 06, 2003

nice jpg compression.

3. posted by jimmy at 08:45 on November 06, 2003

Nice effect on the water.

4. posted by milov at 10:39 on November 06, 2003

Nice comments :)
marov: it was 'beautiful' Wateringse Veld actually, which is technically a part of The Hague. But the contrast and desaturation were applied in Wateringen.

5. posted by marov at 11:18 on November 06, 2003

Wateringse Veld, gotcha, I'll try and remember this time

6. posted by P01 at 14:56 on November 06, 2003

Nice B&W enhancement.

7. posted by low at 23:02 on November 06, 2003

Nice photo.

8. posted by mados at 14:01 on November 07, 2003

Is it me, or is the building really leaning?

9. posted by emarquetti at 14:17 on November 07, 2003

Perfect in B&W!

10. posted by palla at 16:29 on November 07, 2003

I guess your country have a lot of good architecture in nature.

11. posted by swanz at 19:54 on November 11, 2003

Helen Helmink woonde ook in zo'n soort flat;-)

12. posted by Kid A at 19:47 on December 27, 2003

Great Pic , Which country is it ?

13. posted by YAHOO.COM,D2004_ASIA,DARIUSH at 15:20 on May 21, 2004

PHOTO BUILDING
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I altered the 'latest comments' listing to only show unique entries, in an effort to prevent older entries from being pushed off the list when one particular new entry generates a disproportionate amount of response.

...not that I mind getting lots of comments, ya know :)
2003.11.04 - 4 comments by Ruben, emarquetti, Jack and andrea  

1. posted by Ruben at 21:37 on November 04, 2003

You don't? Hmmmm, curious.

2. posted by emarquetti at 11:09 on November 05, 2003

Testing .... 1,2,3... :)

3. posted by Jack at 19:36 on December 27, 2003

Great content ,
P.S. what are you testing ?

4. posted by andrea at 09:12 on December 07, 2006

%
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bookmarklets voor webdesigners 

Naar Voren - bookmarklets voor webdesigners - my second Naar Voren article has been published! (the first one being de kunst van minimaal coderen, which coincided with the 5K contest last year.) Those of you that can't read Dutch might want to scroll down a couple of pages, where you'll find a big list of handy bookmarklets.

I quickly thought up a new bookmarklet to use as an example in the article; as it turns out, it's pretty handy:
count used tags (drag to Links-bar)

The other article in the current edition is Breng detail aan in je markup by Anne van Kesteren. Coincidentally we both refer to Simon Willison in our articles... :)
2003.11.03 - 8 comments by Morg, low, P01, Ruben, milov, JW and Jim  

1. posted by Morg at 16:39 on November 03, 2003

Very Nice!

2. posted by low at 18:42 on November 03, 2003

Well done!

3. posted by P01 at 06:42 on November 04, 2003

I like your 'count used tags' favelet. I can't figure how it can be usefull unless it showed the number of opening & closing tags, but it's funny.

4. posted by Ruben at 08:05 on November 04, 2003

Mijn complimenten, Milo. Ik heb er ook een aantal collega's blij mee kunnen maken :-)

5. posted by milov at 10:45 on November 04, 2003

P01: I like using it for testing tag-soupiness of a page. And some numbers can be pretty surprising ('277 a-tags? wow!')

6. posted by JW at 10:52 on November 05, 2003

Added a few new bookmarklets to my bookmarklet bar, the others, I already had.

Good article though.

7. posted by Jim at 20:40 on December 27, 2003

nice article

8. posted by Jim at 20:41 on December 27, 2003

nice article
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cat, leaves 

2003.11.02 - 3 comments by palla, 990000 and sil  

1. posted by palla at 19:05 on November 02, 2003

nice...

2. posted by 990000 at 08:07 on November 05, 2003

bravo.

3. posted by sil at 22:50 on November 10, 2003

Very very nice shot.
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