The new thang: square CSS corners
A must-read instruction on how to make beautiful square corners.
Welcome to Gravatar 2.0!
Gravatar is finally back online. And from the looks of things it’s definitely worth the 2.0.
New York, New York
Start spreadin’ the news, I’m leaving today
I want to be a part of it: New York, New York.
About two weeks ago I decided to take a short break in March of this year. This last week I then finally managed to find some time to speak to my friend Martijn and book a flight to New York (which is where he lives – sort of).
It will be fifth or sixth time that I’m visiting New York. The first time was when I myself was still living in the States and the following visits have always been a combination of visiting Martijn, acting the typical tourist and having, what has grown to become, my annual shopping spree.
Last year I unfortunately didn’t have time to go out there – due to the fact that I was living in Spain – but the year before that we had a blast venturing out of the city and visiting some wineries in Long Island - a nice region – about an hour away from the city - with its beaches, woods and of course the Hampton’s. Anyway, since we enjoyed the Long Island wines very much, we decided to visit another area this time: the Finger Lakes in New York state. Read more
Two nice tools
Two handy tools to quickly view details about a website from the Whois-register. They both do almost exactly the same, but Who in the World also shows the ‘location’ of a website on a world map.
Ritech BioSlimDisk
I’ve been looking for a USB stick for some time now. I tend to store documents I need a lot either on my phone or on Writely, but that can sometimes be a problem, when, for example, there’s no internet connection available.
Quite some time ago I read about this stick in a computer magazine and the reviewer was quite positive about it. At least, more positive than the other USB sticks out there (they were all sticks that used biometrics to protect the data on stored on it).
The points they found to be a plus were:
- Flawless fingerprint recognition
- No drivers or extra software needed to connect to hook it up to your (or any other for that matter) computer and thus not leaving a footprint
They only mentioned two drawbacks, namely the fact that it’s quite bulky and the fact that the encryption method is not known.
Let me add another drawback, its price: a staggering €249 for a mere 512 MB.
Spiegels in pashokjes maken slanker
Volgens nu.nl zijn er sommige kledingwinkels (met name wordt gedoeld op M&S in het Verenigd Koninkrijk) die de spiegels in hun paskamers iets hol maken, waardoor potentiële klanten slanker lijken (en soms ook iets donkerder worden gemaakt, zodat men een gezonde, bruine blos lijkt te hebben).
Zelf heb ik tot op heden volgens mij nog nooit voor een dergelijke spiegel gestaan. Sterker nog, meestal zijn de spiegels en de verlichting in pashokjes dusdanig geplaatst en ingesteld dat het alles behalve flatterend is. De laatste keer dat ik de spiegel van een paskamer keek (in de Bijenkorf in Breda) zag ik er vadsig en bleek uit, dusdanig dat ik op dat moment besloot om maar eens een aantal kilo’s te verliezen en een weekje op vakantie te gaan naar de zon.