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.

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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!

To anyone having my cellphone number; my phone is broken and is now turned off pretty much all the time. It had a hole in the display for a few weeks, now the keys 2, 5, 8, and 0 don’t work anymore.

Update: I’ve been to the Vodafone store, where they could tell me that on August 9, my contract will enter its 3 last months and I can choose between a new phone or a SIM-only discount. So I’ll just wait for that and see what they’ll have on offer by then. The keys magically started working again, by the way.

Hmm, found this in my mailbox today:

Og einn dag . .inginu er menn gengu fj.lmennir til L.gbergs og er .ar var lykt a. m.la l.gskilum .. kvaddi Gunnlaugur s.r hlj..s og m.lti: “Er Hrafn h.r .nundarson?”

Accompanied by the picture of a certain female I’ve never met, a text of a sexual nature and a web address.

But that last part wasn’t even the most interesting, it was the text. It obviously is no English; but by a coincidence I could clearly recognize it as being written in the language of the Icelanders.

A little searching revealed that we’re dealing here with an extract from chapter 11 of Gunnlaugs saga:

Og einn dag á þinginu er menn gengu fjölmennir til Lögbergs og er þar var lykt að mæla lögskilum þá kvaddi Gunnlaugur sér hljóðs og mælti: “Er Hrafn hér Önundarson?”

And on one day of the thing (an assembly) many people gathered to the Lögberg (the hill on Þingvellir where law was spoken) and there was a smell of talk about the definition of a law when Gunnlaugur took the floor and spoke “Is Hrafn here Önundur’s son?”

Jæja… Well, I haven’t read the saga yet, but now I might, thanks to some spam on a rainy day :)

Detail for the Lord of the Rings fans; Gunnlaugs nickname is Ormstunga; Worm-Tongue or Snake-Tongue. Guess where J.R.R. got Gríma’s name!

Wim de Bie had het er al over, synchroniciteit, het verschijnsel dat twee ongerelateerde gebeurtenissen onafhankelijk niet eens zo heel opmerkelijk zijn, maar wanneer ze tegelijk optreden wél. Toevallig net gisteren nog trouwens, synchroniciteit aan het werk, want precies vandaag produceerde Nu.nl een knap staaltje!

Neem nou deze twee koppen:

• Kans op referendum Europees Verdrag niet groot
• Grote brand bij Nedap Eibergen

Wat gebeurde er, ontstond eerst de brand waarna de Eerste Kamer besloot waarschijnlijk tegen een referendum te stemmen omdat de stemmachines op zich zouden laten wachten en nog meer uitstel ongewenst zou zijn? Of lekte het nieuws uit dat de Eerste Kamer het wetsvoorstel zou verwerpen en heeft daarom de directeur van Nedap de vlam erin gezet om zo toch nog iets van de verzekering te vangen van die onverkoopbare stemmachines?