weblog/photolog by Milo Vermeulen milov.nl

I'm a 32-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, of which I post my faves here.
Mail me at milovermeulen at gmail dot com!

This site is hosted by Webkracht.
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testpost from mobile phone
2004.01.31 - 10 comments by Jimmy, huphtur, milov, Martijn and JW  

1. posted by Jimmy at 07:49 on February 01, 2004

beastly cool.

2. posted by huphtur at 09:53 on February 01, 2004

I did a "Mobile Media Mode" version (sorry, couldn't think of any better marketing hype term to use ) for one of the sites I worked on:http://mmm.esfootwear.com/
When can we read milov.nl on the mobile phone?

3. posted by milov at 17:52 on February 01, 2004

If you have an Orange Smartphone SPV you already can :)
Its Pocket Internet Explorer shows my site without stylesheets, but it's still perfectly readable.

4. posted by huphtur at 20:19 on February 01, 2004

my nokia3650 displays with stylesheets plus 81267 bytes of data is a bit too much for me.

5. posted by Martijn at 11:00 on February 02, 2004

ben benieuwd of ik ooit nog m'n SPV krijg :(

6. posted by milov at 12:45 on February 02, 2004

huph: most of that data is the posted photos. I suppose I could filter those out but then there wouldn't be much to see. Although.... I could convert them to thumbnails.

7. posted by huphtur at 17:17 on February 02, 2004

true, most of the load are the images. a version without the sidebar would work perfect.

8. posted by milov at 17:22 on February 02, 2004

Do you know if your phone supports media="handheld"?
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/media.html#media-types

9. posted by huphtur at 17:28 on February 02, 2004

it doesn't. i tried all the css tricks and hacks. it keeps loading the css no matter what.

10. posted by JW at 11:19 on February 12, 2004

My Opera (for Symbian OS) shows milov.nl perfectly (with or without CSS [option]) on my Nokia7650 and it supports media="handheld" as well.

So Huph, install Opera (if you don't use it already) on you're Nokia3650 and you're fine.

Thumbnailing the photo's for handheld would be nice, GPRS data tarifs aren't cheap at T-Mobile.
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sneeuw achter Rotterdam CS 

2004.01.29 - 4 comments by Martijn, emarquetti, Low and JW  

1. posted by Martijn at 14:43 on January 29, 2004

Wow! Great cap. I feel my numb fingers again... eh... is that possible?

2. posted by emarquetti at 15:55 on January 29, 2004

Nice scene... nice lights caption!

3. posted by Low at 18:37 on January 29, 2004

Hmmm... looks strangely familiar.
;-)

4. posted by JW at 09:00 on January 30, 2004

Same place different look. I like it better covered in snow.
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Listening to: Norah Jones - House of Blues mp3s and Fau mp3s. [both via Going My Way a while ago]
2004.01.28 - 1 comment by Jeroen  

1. posted by Jeroen at 20:25 on February 28, 2004

Nice for a while, but sounds too much like elevator jazz to me.
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2004.01.27 - 3 comments by huphtur, milov and adam  

1. posted by huphtur at 16:13 on January 27, 2004

are those dust particles?

2. posted by milov at 16:19 on January 27, 2004

Yes.

3. posted by adam at 13:02 on January 28, 2004

I just realized, this is probably the hallway of your new place! I'll come visit soon!
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Ephemera: Lone - A dog enjoys the view from Tank Hill. Impressive photo (one of many) at Derek Powazek's new photo site.
2004.01.25 - add a comment  

metal tubing bw 

heaven
2004.01.23 - 7 comments by Jan!, swanz, palla, Kample, Terry Auger and goat  

1. posted by Jan! at 22:29 on January 23, 2004

Almost looks like a painting! A very nice picture, milo!

2. posted by swanz at 01:11 on January 26, 2004

uitmuntende foto erg mooi!

3. posted by swanz at 01:12 on January 26, 2004

uitmuntende foto erg mooi!

4. posted by palla at 06:34 on January 26, 2004

nice...interesting photo.

5. posted by Kample at 22:36 on January 28, 2004

Erg mooi! w00t, zou je collega zeggen :) (gaat ie vast nog doen)

6. posted by netnet.net,tauger,Terry Auger at 05:16 on March 11, 2004

I'm interested in a 3' length of brass, Aluminum or stainless tubing 15/8ths inches ID. Thin wall would be best; .0624. Do you deal with such small orders? Thanks, Terry Auger

7. posted by goat at 15:53 on October 18, 2004

oh ever so belting aint it.........
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PRIMER trailer - it doesn't look it, but apparently this is a $7000 dollar film; I think the classy font helps. More info in the forum. [via adnan.org]
2004.01.23 - add a comment  
NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors - interesting thread on combining rgb color channels, auto leveling etc. [via curry.com]
2004.01.22 - 2 comments by huphtur and hbj  

1. posted by huphtur at 16:27 on January 22, 2004

are earthquakes on mars called marsquakes?

2. posted by hbj at 19:09 on November 22, 2004

ghjged6yyyfhhj
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2004.01.21 - 6 comments by Fidel, Micah, Kethinov, milov and Low  

1. posted by Fidel at 16:17 on January 21, 2004

Stuff like this is key.

2. posted by Micah at 09:08 on January 26, 2004

Ah, finally a place to rant about this article--or at least, to express some misgiving. Try disabling stylesheets for that page; you'll find that the text doesn't flow, because the "tooltips" are not part of the normal text, they are extra definitions and notes added after the flow was established. Thus, a user with a CSS-disabled browser (or a screen-reader) would be confused by the lack of continuity in the text. That's why this (pretty trivial) use of CSS was never put forward before, in my mind. Tooltips should either be left to the browser, as Mozilla does with the contents of the TITLE attribute, or with Javascript, importing text that does not disrupt the flow of the text.

3. posted by Kethinov at 02:30 on January 27, 2004

Why on earth would someone disable stylesheets? I'm not going to cater to the twisted minority that actually does with the pages that I design. I think that's a fantatsic article. One of the best I've seen linked from here in a very long time.

4. posted by milov at 10:22 on January 27, 2004

To be fair, it's not just about users purposely disabling their stylesheets; sometimes it's the browser.
For example, I'm posting this from my phone using the stylesheet-less Pocket IE, and the added spans do make the text look kinda funky.

5. posted by Low at 10:27 on January 27, 2004

I have to agree with Micah on this one. Sure, the span hover thingies are neat, but why re-invent the wheel? The same goes for those ugly-ass tooltips that were implemented at MeFi a while back. *shudder*

6. posted by milov at 11:09 on January 27, 2004

**now switching back to pro-custom-hovers-mode ^_^**
One big advantage of (some of) these custom tooltip solutions is that they appear instantly on mouseover of a link; with regular tooltips there's a delay before they appear, which means I often don't even notice them (especially when using a graphics tablet).
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two passing trams 

2004.01.18 - 2 comments by palla and P01  

1. posted by palla at 16:30 on January 18, 2004

wow! nice. like a graffiti.

2. posted by P01 at 03:56 on January 19, 2004

really nice shot. It's been a long time since the last ghost train pictures.
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The Russian Record: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - pre-WW I composite color images. Seems to have more/different photos than The Empire That Was Russia which I've linked before. [via Metafilter]

Update:
122 color images listed here [via the older Metafilter thread]

Update 2:
And then there's this site. [via another Metafilter thread]
2004.01.16 - add a comment  

the contents 

firefly dvds
Shiny.
2004.01.14 - 4 comments by Low, ellen and milov  

1. posted by Low at 21:58 on January 14, 2004

Ooh! I'm so jealous!

2. posted by ellen at 00:26 on January 17, 2004

I have them too! First watched all the episodes the downloaded version. Watching them as they should be, lots of details came up. Love them to bits. Hope someday, somehow, i see more of it. Fingers crossed.

3. posted by milov at 00:36 on January 17, 2004

Yeah, I was really surprised at how good the show *looks*, being mostly used to TV-to-VHS-to-VCD downloaded versions. Just now I was freeze-framing through the pilot to look at all the pretty details.

4. posted by Low at 17:33 on January 20, 2004

Okay, not jealous anymore. :-)
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the box 

amazon.com cardboard box
2004.01.14 - 8 comments by Martijn, P01, Morg, milov and Sander  

1. posted by Martijn at 18:21 on January 14, 2004

Oe! More cd's? Or dvd(s)?

2. posted by P01 at 21:27 on January 14, 2004

:)

3. posted by Morg at 09:02 on January 15, 2004

Amazon... en geen douane heffing hoeven te betalen? Da's mazzel, want meestal worden die doosjes eruit gepikt. Maar nu hebben ze het misschien te druk met sloffen import sigaretten? :D

4. posted by milov at 10:57 on January 15, 2004

Douane heffing? Goh daar heb ik nou nog nooit op gelet. Zit dat niet automatisch verwerkt in de bezorgkosten?

5. posted by Morg at 09:33 on January 16, 2004

http://www.belastingdienst.nl/9229237/t/interneti.htm
Douaneheffing is misschien een verkeerd woord, ik bedoelde de douanerechten (vroeger invoerrechten). Zodra je boven de € 22,- uit het buitenland besteld kan de douane je in een steekproef eruit pikken en mag je de BTW en douanerechten betalen.

Vaak letten die gasten vooral op de Amazon verpakking, meestal haal ik mijn dvd's dus bij andere (vaak goedkopere) e-stores.

6. posted by milov at 10:03 on January 16, 2004

Weer wat geleerd :)
Dit was ook pas de derde keer dat ik wat van Amazon.com ontvangen heb, de meeste dvds bestel ik via play.com.

7. posted by Morg at 15:38 on January 16, 2004

Hehe, ja ik ook... of DVDSoon / CDWOW / EZYDVD. Die hebben (al dan niet met gratis kortingvouchers) vaak ook erg goede prijzen.

8. posted by Sander at 10:18 on January 21, 2004

Play.com is erg goed inderdaad! Maar Play zit in de UK, dus binnen de EU, en dus heb je dan geen invoerrechten (tenzijn je weer via playusa.com besteld ;-))
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A checklist of i.am/bald numbers I really should update since they don't work or no longer work in Mozilla Firebird (my default browser for over a year now):

10, 14, 20, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 62, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 79, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 108, 109, 112, 113.
2004.01.13 - 1 comment by adam  

1. posted by adam at 09:25 on January 14, 2004

You got heaps of work to do, mate.
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2004.01.11 - 2 comments by Thom and P01  

1. posted by Thom at 05:23 on January 12, 2004

Very impressive PC Art! I like it a lot - especially the snow flake generator is soooo cool! Since we don't have any real snow yet, this'll have to do for the time being... ;-)

2. posted by P01 at 07:09 on January 12, 2004

It makes me think to http://113.milov.nl/
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unrandom 

quick grabs from local photo folders 2003-06 - 2004-01; thumbnails only.
2004.01.09 - 3 comments by Thiemo, Kethinov and milov  

1. posted by Thiemo at 14:53 on January 10, 2004

Beautyful randomness. I especially like "gritty2".

2. posted by Kethinov at 18:52 on January 12, 2004

I like 7. Nice shoes. ;)

3. posted by milov at 17:34 on February 26, 2004

here's a closer look:
http://www.ethicalwares.com/weal.htm
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nightshot Rijswijk, Beatrixlaan 

2004.01.09 - 5 comments by Jimmy, milov and Frank  

1. posted by Jimmy at 21:22 on January 09, 2004

How did you do this? Do you just set your camera on "Auto", or what F-stop did you use? Just curious. Great photo.

2. posted by milov at 21:24 on January 09, 2004

I just set my camera to the built-in "Nightshot" mode, which in this case resulted in F/2.8, 1.6 sec, ISO-80.

3. posted by Jimmy at 22:42 on January 10, 2004

aha! quite a good turnout, I might say.

4. posted by Frank at 13:53 on January 11, 2004

Beatrixlaan ?

5. posted by milov at 22:00 on January 23, 2004

Yep, vanaf de fietsbrug.
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2004.01.07 - 9 comments by Maarten, milov, Retal, Tuuur, drunkmen, Thiemo and t-jo  

1. posted by Maarten at 13:58 on January 08, 2004

How did you do this?

2. posted by milov at 14:04 on January 08, 2004

By viewing the page in fullscreen and taking a couple of screenshots, pasting it together in Photoshop.

3. posted by Retal at 16:05 on January 08, 2004

Easy as pie! (..)

4. posted by Tuuur at 17:48 on January 08, 2004

More interesting: why did you do this? :-)

5. posted by drunkmen at 20:30 on January 08, 2004

You could use something like this:
http://drunkmen.xs4all.nl/url2png.php
(unstable, online while it lasts)

6. posted by milov at 10:11 on January 09, 2004

Cool stuff, drunkmen.

For a quick/ugly snapshot, one can also paste this in the IE address bar:
javascript:void(document.body.style.zoom=.25)

7. posted by Thiemo at 15:26 on January 10, 2004

I'm damn short in comparison. ;-) Also see http://www.hebig.com/blogshots/

8. posted by t-jo at 21:12 on January 10, 2004

cool! now u can't see any difference between my cheap drunkmenworkhere.org log and a real movable type site.)

http://zutman.be/img/suckysucky.png

9. posted by drunkmen at 09:37 on January 15, 2004

Research on webdesign, based on the requested snapshots: http://drunkmenworkhere.org/203
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integrating javascript into stylesheets 

Ben Nolan's non-link element hovering trick for Internet Explorer (that normally only allows :hover styles on links) is pretty handy, but what really impressed me about it is his way of integrating arbitrary Javascript functions into the stylesheet itself:
body {
  background: url("
    javascript:
      document.body.onload = function(){
        ...custom js here...
      }
  ");
}
By specifying a rule like this in the browser's user stylesheet, it might even be possible to run a custom set of Javascript commands on opening of any visited website. (Although my brief attempt at making this work proved unsuccessful.) [via webgraphics]
2004.01.05 - 6 comments by Ruben, Richard Soderberg, Richard Soderberg, bob, A to Z of World and Derek  

1. posted by Ruben at 13:26 on January 07, 2004

It is really interesting indead. I already read the discussion thread in the forum of Tweakers.net, see:

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/831654/last

The interesting part is that it is somehow specified in the W3 specs of CSS2, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#content
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html

2. posted by Richard Soderberg at 01:01 on January 13, 2004

The spec also specifies that "Generated content does not alter the document tree. In particular, it is not fed back to the document language processor (e.g., for reparsing)".

It seems IE is ignoring this directive, which I think is right.

3. posted by Richard Soderberg at 01:13 on January 13, 2004

IE is right, that is. Not the directive. I think the directive is shor-sighted and limiting -- but in the face of embedding active content in CSS, well, maybe I can see their point of view.

4. posted by bob at 17:51 on May 27, 2006

cool

5. posted by A to Z of World at 10:32 on January 15, 2007

I did try it and indeed is handy. But as expected I'm not finding a situation to put it in real time usage as I rarely need something which works only with IE :)

6. posted by hotmail.com,ddrmax4ever,Derek at 17:48 on January 18, 2008

i cant seem to make it work for the way i thought of. I was trying to embed onmouseover and onmouseout functions to work. Anyone is willing to give me insight?Just send me an email, thank you
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I'm still writing 2003 on my changelogs.

Google: "i'm still writing * on my *"
Google Groups: "i'm still writing * on my *"
2004.01.05 - add a comment  

lights on the steps in front of this building.
2004.01.04 - 1 comment by Jan!  

1. posted by Jan! at 00:58 on January 05, 2004

Mooi! Dat patroon lijkt wel oneindig door te gaan --- een beetje zoals Churchill zelf. ;-)
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2004.01.02 - 11 comments by jimmy, Maarten, milov, Martijn, Kethinov, Hens, Shorty and me once again  

1. posted by jimmy at 22:57 on January 02, 2004

Buitenaards mooi!

2. posted by Maarten at 17:09 on January 03, 2004

Did you use a filter?

3. posted by milov at 18:11 on January 03, 2004

No filter, this is exactly how it turned out. Almost straight down view from a bridge.

4. posted by Maarten at 01:21 on January 04, 2004

The contrast is really great!

5. posted by anywhen.nl,martijn,Martijn at 02:57 on January 04, 2004

The sunlight on the swan probably causes your camera to choose 1/1000, resulting in 'black' water...

6. posted by Kethinov at 13:21 on January 04, 2004

Another good one for a desktop image ;)

7. posted by milov at 13:44 on January 04, 2004

Nah, the proportions are off... maybe if I'd catched it in the center of the photo.

8. posted by Hens at 00:09 on January 08, 2004

You'ld try to sell this one to e.g. easyjet.com! THE SWAN as a sitting duck: i love it!

9. posted by Shorty at 14:02 on February 05, 2004

Thatīs so easy

10. posted by Shorty at 14:03 on February 05, 2004

soooo easy

11. posted by me once again at 04:42 on July 03, 2004

centered it would be great, it is still nice though
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Google 2003 Year-End Zeitgeist - scroll to bottom for the The Netherlands popular queries, with a surprising nr. 1. Apparently I'm not the only one here that likes SpongeBob SquarePants! [via Boing Boing]
2004.01.02 - 1 comment by P01  

1. posted by P01 at 13:59 on January 02, 2004

SpongeBob kicked Christina Aguilera ^__^
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Orbit1 - Winter Prelude - impressive photo series on the time between late autumn and the edge of winter. [via dady.org]
2004.01.02 - 2 comments by jimmy and Martijn  

1. posted by jimmy at 18:04 on January 02, 2004

Indeed impressive.

Thnx for the link.

2. posted by anywhen.nl,martijn,Martijn at 02:59 on January 04, 2004

wow... amazing!

http://www.orbit1.com/static/galleries/winterprelude/images/photos/5.jpg
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photoshopped fireworks 

2004.01.01 - 3 comments by Maarten, Shorty and Luciana from Brasil  

1. posted by Maarten at 20:33 on January 01, 2004

Nice!

2. posted by Shorty at 14:04 on February 05, 2004

Thatīs not so different ...

3. posted by prodigo.com.br,lbranco,Luciana from Brasil at 13:38 on December 09, 2004

accidentaly landed on your blog....have to say i liked this picture.....well done
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