Since well over a year now I’ve been speed skating regularly, so maybe it is time for an update on the state of affairs up until now.

Last week, I got promoted to a higher training group, moving up from the D to the C group. This year, Isis got only a few new members, so there was no direct need of an E group where I was in last year and I started in D right away when I came back from Iceland. So basically, this is my second promotion in one year :)

The groups differ mainly in the balance of technique and endurance exercises. Last wednesday was my first training in my new group, and we started right away with a warming up of 8 rounds “full speed” (which in this case means at about 70% of your power), 2 rounds rest, 8 rounds full, 2 rest, 6 full, 2 rest and another 6 full. In the D group, we hadn’t done anything more than 6 at all… Ouch.

Another change from the lower groups is that you are supposed to take on at least one partner to ride along with and to learn from eachother. In D group, you usually did your exercises on your own.

So far on the news on the ice, along the track I wanted to do something back for the association, so I decided to do some work for the Crisis, the monthly newspaper.

And someone must have seen my Iceland pictures, because he asked me whether I would be interested in joining the photo commission. This would mean I get photo gallery upload access at the Isis website and occasionally take pictures at activities of the club.

Nou, vooruit, dit is dan echt de allerallerlaatste.

1. Bang Gang – Find What You Can Get
2. Jeff Who? – Barfly
3. The Sugarcubes – Motorcrash
4. Apparat Organ Quartet – Cruise Control
5. Einóma – Hringlögun
6. The Sugarcubes – Deus (remix)
7. Bang Gang – So Alone
8. GusGus – Purple
9. Pendulum – Follower
10. Ghostigital – The Heart
11. Stafrænn Hákon – Rafmagn
12. Stafrænn Hákon – Gorecki Magnus
13. Sigur Rós – Refur

Directe download: hier

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:

• One
• Two
• Three

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.

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.

Wel, zo ziet het eruit als je alle foto’s achter elkaar zet!

Ik heb ook een grote versie (640×480, h.264) online staan voor de podcast-volgers (volgens mij niemand).

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

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.

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.

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!