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Nieuwe muziek

De afgelopen weken heb ik veel thuis gewerkt, en dan heb ik altijd muziek aanstaan. 's Ochtends heb ik vaak nog geen inspiratie wat voor muziek ik wil luisteren, dus dan zet ik maar de radio aan. Sinds het vertrek van Arrow Jazz/Classic Rock uit de ether is dat meestal 3FM, ik ben Radio 538 een beetje "ontgroeid" tegenwoordig. Tot 10 uur is Giel Beelen te horen en zijn er regelmatig bands live in de studio. Zo hoor je nog eens nieuwe muziek! Een greep van wat ik de laatste tijd heb gehoord:

Katzenjammer - Demon Kitty Rag

(Mocht dit je bevallen, luister dan ook eens naar Squirrel Nut Zippers: 1 [youtube=k4eMrqYvSYA]2[/youtub...

Minor adjustments

I've made some adjustments to the blog today:

First of all, there now is a possibility to only show English posts, or only Dutch posts, similar to the categories and the archives.

Second, at the overview of blog posts, the titles now link to the full post. I don't know why I didn't add this sooner, because it makes so much sense.

And finally, again because it just makes sense, when you're viewing a single category or month or language, there now is a link back to the full list, similar to the Back link when watching a single post.


I've got some more things planned, as well as an actual "real" blog post for the first time since August

Gerlish?

Veel mensen die actief zijn op het internet zullen ofwel de term Engrish kennen, of (in mindere mate) Dunglish. Engrish zijn Chinese teksten die enorm slecht naar het Engels vertaald zijn, zoals op dit plaatje:


Dunglish komt over het algemeen voor bij Nederlands bedrijven die interessant proberen te doen (of toeristen proberen te helpen), en dus hun teksten ook in het Engels op een bordje zetten:


Vandaag kwam ik een voorbeeld tegen van wat je "Gerlish" zou kunnen noemen: een oorspronkelijk Duitse (German) tekst s...

IMDb Top 250

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has a list of the 250 best films, as rated by users of IMDb.
I've been a member of IMDb for years, and have seen and rated over 1800 films. (Of those 1800, only a few are tv-shows, video games and dvd/tv specials. I do not rate individual tv episodes, except for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance)

This list is not just any list made up by some magazine editor or something. As said, it's a list that consist of votes by IMDb users. A film needs at least 1300 votes before it appears on the list which means that if it appears on the list, at least 1300 people think it's a good movi...

De auto's van BadFellas [REPOST]

Onderstaand bericht is een repost van de blog van 1 september 2008 op Spinal's Hyvespagina

BadFellas begon in december 2005 met 11 auto's, veel daarvan met een speciale reden waarom ze gekozen zijn. De auto's waren:
Citroën 2CV, gekozen als typisch oud wrak.
Peugeot 106 GTI, gekozen omdat Donnie er een heeft.
VW Golf R32, omdat de Golf een van de prachtigste auto's ooit gemaakt is.
Alfa Romeo 166
Mitsubishi Pajero, omdat mijn zusje dit destijds de mooiste auto ooit vond.
BMW Z3, omdat dit een prachtige cabrio is.
Mercedes CLK AMG
Porsche Carrera GT, omdat de 911-serie dé typische sportauto is. De Carrera GT was het huidige model.
Aston Martin V12 Vanquish
Lamborghini...

Atom feed

Just a very short update: this blog now has an Atom (RSS) feed! Click the icon or the link above the categories to see or subscribe to the feed. Have fun!
Some more small updates are coming soon, so if you subscribe to the feed you will know as soon as possible

I have removed the "coming soon" "Keep track". I was planning on making something so you would receive an e-mail whenever there is a new blog. Since there now is an RSS feed, there is no use anymore.
If you do not have an RSS reader, I suggest Opera but there are a bunch of other programs as well. For those using Windows Vista, Windows Live Mail is able to read feeds.

last.fm

On April 17, it's been 5 years since I registered on last.fm (or AudioScrobbler as it was known back then). For those who don't know what it is: last.fm keeps track of all the music you listen to, either using the last.fm player or using a plugin for whatever music player you use (Winamp in my case)
In those five years, I have listened to over 41000 songs. That's 22 songs per day on average.
A few days ago I noticed that my sister, who registered 4 months after me, listened to almost 46000 songs. This got me thinking: did she really play more music than me?
Well, in terms of songs: obviously yes. On the computer that is. I own an mp3 player as well (an awesome Zen Vision:M) that I u...

Offline time

Well, that was fucked up. Last weekend my server went down and the only thing my host could do was re-installing everything. Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL: everything.
They made a backup before doing this and said they restored it after reinstalling. Yeah, that was true for one database (People2People) but not for all the others. Luckily I had a backup for BadFellas which was 2 days old but I couldn't care at that point. I had to get everything online again.
For my brother's website I only had a backup that was months old, for It's a Dutch World I didn't have a backup at all (wh...

Getting a Nintendo DS?

For many, many years, I've been a Nintendo fanboy. It's become a quite negative term the past few years, but I'm just a fan of Nintendo. There, I said it.
It all started at primary school, about 15 years ago. I got an 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and loved it. My first game, Low G Man, was awesome. I also got Star Wars which was great fun but pretty damn hard at certain points. I never actually finished it on the NES (but I did a few years ago on an emulator). Of course I also had the three Mario games, all of which were great then and are still great.

After a few years I got the opportunity to buy a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and when I got it I sold my NES. Looking back now, I shouldn't have done...

The End of an Era

On April 25, 2000 I started a new website about a game that my friend Zef Hemel introduced to me a while earlier: Liero. It started out small but became larger and larger and at its peak it was one of the most active Liero websites. Its forum was visited by many players.
With the introduction of the first Service Pack for Windows XP in 2002 playing Liero became less fun because you could only play it without sound. In part because of that, less and less people played Liero. Projects like LOSP (Liero OpenSource Project) and Gusanos brought some new life to the community, but it didn't last till eternity. LOSP was abandoned by its author who joined Gusanos. ...

No spam after two months?

I started this blog almost two months ago. And where the People2People blogs had some problems with spam, mine stayed spam-free. In fact, it stayed completely comment-free.
Yesterday a friend of mine told me why: posting a comment didn't work man, do I feel stupid now!
This blog uses mod_rewrite which, in short, means that /archive/2008-12 or /full/3 aren't really existing folders but are fake folders to give nicer URL's. I don't have much experience with them, and as a result I made a small but rather large mistake. Replying to a blog post is done in reply.php, but when viewing a blog the system "thinks" reply.php is located in the non-existing folder /full. As such, replying didn't work and nobody was able to post any comments.
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