Yes! Finally I got around it and actually finished the work I started more than two years ago (uh, correction, almost two and a half years ago)!

The course is taught online, with a hyperdocument as course material. You first read your way through the hundred-something pages and a few small quizzes.

In the end you get the HTML’ized version of a (online) paper written in 1993 by Vijay Balasubramanian titled “State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues And Applications” and the assignment to convert it into a hypertext document.

In 1994 it was converted to HTML by Denys Duchier and now in 2007, for the I don’t know how many’th time it is converted into an actual hypertext document. So here’s my take at it.

Jæ, so I’m now only one course short of my Bachelor degree, which is that other course I “started” two years ago; History of Computing. I also am only one course and a Master project short of my Master degree, so it’s actually looking like it’s coming to an end now! More about the Master project in a few weeks.

Voor m’n hyves-vriendjes, er zijn er nog meer!

Daar sta je dan bij Scholtens (al raar zat dat ze niet Van Piere of Gianotten heten eigenlijk :-)) een cadeautje uit te zoeken en je oog valt op een wel heel bekende boekomslag… Is dat… Nee, dat kan toch niet? In Nederland? Hee, die titel is zelfs in ‘t Nederlands… Raarrr!

“Die Stad der träumenden Bücher” is vertaald naar het Nederlands en heet hier “De Stad van de Dromende Boeken”!

Als de peetvader van de jonge dichter Hildegunst von Mythenmetz sterft, laat hij zijn beschermeling niet veel meer na dan een manuscript. Mythenmetz, een lintworm, ziet zich gedwongen het geheim van zijn afkomst na te gaan. Het spoor leidt naar Buchheim in Zamonië, de Stad van de Dromende Boeken. Als de held de stad betreedt is het alsof hij de deur van een gigantische boekhandel opentrekt. Hij ruikt iets zuurs dat hem aan de geur van citroenbomen doet denken, het opwindende aroma van oud leer en het scherpe en intelligente parfum van drukinkt. Eens in de klauwen van deze op boeken verzotte stad raakt Mythenmetz steeds dieper verstrikt in de labyrintische wereld, waarin lezen een reëel gevaar is, meedogenloze boekenjagers op bibliofiele schatten azen, ‘boekelingen’ streken uithalen en de mysterieuze Schaduwkoning heerst.

Walter Moers ontvoert de lezer naar het betoverde rijk van de literatuur, waar lezen een avontuur is, waar boeken hun lezers niet alleen op een spannende manier vermaken en aan het lachen brengen, maar ook tot waanzin drijven of zelfs ombrengen. De stad van de dromende boeken is een avonturenroman met de vaart van een thriller, een horrorverhaal vol romantisch uitvergrote creaturen en een bijzonder leuke parodie op de wereldliteratuur. Tenminste als je met grappen over Goethe en Shakespeare kunt lachen. Of net niet.

Bron: Bol.com

Dus, geen excuus meer om weer eens een gezellig Walter Moers boek te lezen, ook al is je Duits niet zo goed ;-)

After the upgrade to PHP5 on Orion, the [podcast feed of Ehrensenf]/web-stuff/2007/02/20/ehrensenf-2.html) stopped working, but I didn’t have the time to fix it properly. I did yesterday and it thus works again.

The DOM XML API in PHP changed in version 5 to better adhere to the DOM API standard; which means the underscore notation is dropped in favour of camel casing.

Great concert! Thanks!

For those who missed it, you’ll get a new chance tonight in Paradiso, Amsterdam via Fabchannel.

Der Schrecksenmeister – Ein kulinarisches Märchen aus Zamonien von Gofid Letterkerl. Neu erzählt von Hildegunst von Mythenmetz ( yes, it is a culinary fairy tale by a great poet, retold by a lizard-like novelist, translated out of the Zamonian language into German) is out! The newest book from Walter Moers has finally arrived!

It didn’t get as much attention as Harry Potter number 7 and the lines in front of the book stores weren’t as big, but I’m sure there are many fans of Zamonian literature (me included) who are happy that the wait has come to an end. Or almost, since Amazon.de isn’t too fast sending books to the Netherlands.

I never thought I’d manage it to get the site display roughly (in the sense that it looks like it should look that way) the same on every single browser but tadaaa, here it is. Look!

Okay, so clearly now it’s time to start thinking about a new design again :D

Alright, got my new phone today, a shiny black Sony Ericsson S500i which I chose for the looks, the fact that it’s a Sony Ericsson, that it has Bluetooth and as such could sync with my laptop using iSync.

iSync however didn’t recognize it, because there’s no “plugin” for it yet. Luckily there’s a few companies who sell iSync “plugins” to anyone who needs them at rediculous prices.

Because, if you delve a bit through the iSync package (the /Applications/iSync.app/ directory), you’ll find plugins for quite some other phones that have been on the market earlier. Since basically the protocols to exchange items don’t change (it’s been standardized by SyncML), the only thing that sets a plugin for one phone apart from that for another phone is the name and a pretty picture.

So here you have it, an iSync plugin for the SonyEricsson S500i. Create a directory in Library called PhonePlugins if it doesn’t already exist and move the contents of the ZIP file there. Relaunch iSync and you should be able to add the device.

Please leave a message if you found this page useful! Thank you!

I’m back from my little Germany Interrail trip to Dresden, stopped over at Düsseldorf to visit family for a few days.

Dresden turns out to be a great city with lots of stuff to see and to do! Certainly worth another visit, I think. Thank you, Admar for some nice days.
Semperoper
* Panorama of the Zwinger palace *
* The beautifully restored (picture of 1991) Frauenkirche *
* Statue for the Trümmerfrauen in Dresden *
* Altstadt panorama from the Carolabrücke *
* Altstadt panorama from the Marienbrücke *
View over the Elbtal (on the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger)
* Blaues Wunder panorama to the north *
* Blaues Wunder panorama to the south *
* Ampelmädchen *

More photos at P.hot.os!

… I was here.

Has it been one year already.

From BBC News Web Site:

A study by doctors in Hong Kong has concluded that epilepsy can be induced by the Chinese tile game of mahjong.

Nota that this is not about the solitaire game, but the one you play with four players.

Demanding

The game, which is intensely social and sometimes played in crowded mahjong parlours, involves the rapid movement of tiles in marathon sessions.

The doctors conclude that the syndrome affects far more men than women; that their average age is 54; and that it can hit sufferers anywhere between one to 11 hours into a mahjong game.

Got my Interrail ticket today, on Thursday I’m leaving for Dresden to visit Admar – who really should post something new to his journal, by the way!

So I’m leaving on Thursday morning, 7:02 with the Intercity 1917 to Venlo, wait 20 minutes, then with the RegionalExpress 9011 to Düsseldorf Hbf, wait some 40 minutes and then with the InterCityExpress 1759 straight to Dresden-Neustadt, where I will arrive 10 hours later, save one minute, at 17:01.

I’m looking forward to it!