• Unicode mess

    Hurray!

    You might not agree (along with me by the way), but í (decomposition, Apple uses this in OS X) and í (UTF-8), í (UTF-16 and UTF-32) and í (HTML Entity) should result in displaying the same characters. I am actually talking about the Unicode character called ‘LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE’

    We can be glad that there are many different ways to enter the same character and that there is no single way to actually enter the original character and then conclude that we actually want to see the resource under the same name but written in a different way. Who cares whether it is one character or a combined character‽

    Thank you Unicode! AARGH!

    P.S. If you’re wondering what I’m ranting about, these three URLs should go to the same page, two of them don’t:

    The nice thing that Safari manages to show the correct name in the status bar, so with resolved names for links One and Two – the latter one shifted up one pixel, very elegant (?) -, but not for Three, where I just see %ED in the URL. Ironically, this is the only character which actually shows the i acute correctly in the paragraph above. This is way above my head, many different systems at work at the same time, all trying their best to do something.

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  • Boten Anna

    Nee, het gaat niet om een Zweeds liedje wat te vaak is gecoverd, maar om de website van IKEA (ook Zweeds). Je kan Anna namelijk allerlei vragen stellen over IKEA. Heel leuk, maar nu vraag ik me wel af, wie heeft nu wie geïspireerd en kan ze je ook zo hard verbannen (“och hon kann banna, banna dig så hård”)?

    Zo, de eerste post hier sinds ik weer terugben, met meer in het vooruitzicht.

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  • Icelandic in-joke

    Photograph Icelandic in-joke by Christian Luijten on 500px [Icelandic in-joke by Christian Luijten on 500px](https://500px.com/photo/1990236/icelandic-in-joke-by-christian-luijten) </div>

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  • Vík

    Photograph Vík by Christian Luijten on 500px [Vík by Christian Luijten on 500px](https://500px.com/photo/1989950/v%C3%ADk-by-christian-luijten) </div>

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  • Flying over Gullfoss

    Photograph Flying over Gullfoss by Christian Luijten on 500px [Flying over Gullfoss by Christian Luijten on 500px](https://500px.com/photo/1977385/flying-over-gullfoss-by-christian-luijten) </div>

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  • Uurtje IJsland #04: Christian gooit vanalles bij elkaar

    Er staat Uurtje IJsland, maar dat is het niet. Ik kan het eigenlijk ook gewoon niet categoriseren. Het is gewoon een verzameling muziek die ik kan waarderen, uit verschillende genres en stromingen.

    1. Einóma (.is) – En Route
    2. Dungen (.se) – Panda
    3. Efterklang (.dk) – Chapter 6
    4. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (.is) – Litbriði
    5. Yann Tiersen (.fr) – The Deutsch Mark is Coming
    6. Under Byen (.dk) – Af Samme Stof som Stof
    7. Howard Shore (.us) – The Passing of the Elves
    8. The Gathering (.nl) – Solace
    9. The Album Leaf (.us) – Eastern Glow
    10. Dungen (.se) – Sol och Regn
    11. Gingerbread Patriots (.us) – Blood Beetle
    12. Amiina (.is) – Bláskjár
    13. Yann Tiersen (.fr) – Comptine d’un Autre été
    14. Nightwish (.fi) – Dead Boy’s Poem
    15. Sigur Rós (.is) – Dögun
    16. Sigur Rós (.is) – Hún Jörð

    Directe download: hier

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  • Iceland Blog moved off Planet

    Because it was decided that Pluto no longer is a planet, but rather a dwarf planet, I on my part decided to take the Iceland blog off Planet Luon.

    Really? Well… No. The actual reason is that Planet destroys the markup of my (admittedly invalid) RSS feed. Apparantly, the HTML that can be encoded inside the RSS feed, is not just normal HTML, but some other form where the object and iframe tags are illegal. My own feed reader however renders them well, because it is actually a web browser, right? So, why would you disallow those things? I want to do hip new things in my feed! Don’t hold me back!

    So I ask of you, readers subscribed via Planet Luon, add http://ijsland.luijten.org/feed/ to your readers. The site is now removed from Planet Luon.

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  • Holidays 2006

    Heh, I just read my holiday 2005 planning and apparantly I didn’t do a very good job last year. Most of the projects still aren’t finished :-)

    However, something of a little more importance has come between them since I’ll be going to Iceland in a few days. So, no History of Computing, no Hypermedia, no Linux, no LEDR, no Miriapodo for a while.

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  • Vijf minuutjes IJsland #01

    Goed, in een poging hip te doen zal ik me maar eens overgeven aan het videobloggen. Eens kijken of het wat voor mij is. Helaas zit m’n camera vast aan m’n computer, dus onderweg filmen zal er nooit echt in zitten. Veel meer dan mijn hoofd en af en toe wat foto’s zal er dan dus ook niet te zien zijn.

    Mijn excuses voor het enorm lage geluidsniveau, ik kreeg het niet harder dan dit. Een draai aan de volumeknop moet het euvel maar even tijdelijk oplossen. Volgende keer (mocht die komen) zal ik er beter op letten. Een reactie via de website stel ik zeker op prijs!

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  • Changing Apps

    While my stays in Linux (Ubuntu 6.06 currently) still are very brief, mainly checking some things out and then quickly rebooting to OS X.

    All in all you could say I’m very much hooked to OS X, it only has one very big drawback: You have to pay for many pieces of software… Beh, don’t like that ;-)

    However, there are quite a few very good Free Software apps available, libgaim based IM client Adium being one of them. Safari is a nice browser, but some things just work better on a Gecko based browser like Camino and today, I found a freeware newsreader I really like: Shrook. It is not Free yet, but it’s getting closer :-)

    Actually, the reason I wanted to ditch NetNewsWire which I previously used was that it wasn’t a Universal Binary and somehow apps using Rosetta take up all your system resources and make it dead slow to the point that clicking the NNW-icon keeps you waiting for about half a minute before anything at all happens. And it isn’t limited to NNW also, other apps become slow too.

    Shrook has a few interesting features I haven’t seen on other readers. Firstly, there is this thing called Distributed Checking which uses the fact that other Shrook users probably have some channels in common and if one of them has an update of the channel, this fact is submitted to Shrooks server and then pushed through to the other subscribers. So basically it is an implementation of push in a pull technique!

    Secondly it is possible to synchronize your subscriptions with the Shrook server and in this way keep track of them on other machines as well (along with their article’s read and flag status!).

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  • Centraal Beheer doet het weer

    Zit je net lekker een beetje TV te kijken, komt er een nieuwe reclame van Centraal Beheer voorbij. In eerste instantie is het gewoon de al wat oudere reclame van de kroongetuige die een nieuwe identiteit krijgt en vervolgens nationale bekendheid krijgt…

    Nou, we kunnen nu zelf uit het huis ontsnappen zonder gezien te worden in Calucci, the Game. Briljant!

    Voilà, nu doe ik voor de tweede keer mee aan een viral marketing truuk :)

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