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Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Thursday is the start of the Brussels Tango Festival and I’m looking forward to it. This is what my schedule looks like:
- Thursday March 29
Bal: Opening Night @ Concert Noble
- Friday March 30
Workshop: 19h – Giros y Boleos (with Sandy)
Bal: Exhibition Night 1 @ Albert Hall
- Saturday March 31
Workshop: 13h – Canyengue (with Vanessa)
15h – Tango Vals (with Eva)
17h – Milonga (with Eva)
Bal: Exhibition Night 2 @ Albert Hall - Sunday May 1
Workshop: 13h – Tango Salon (with Eva)
17h – Ganchos (with Sarah)
Bal: Surprise and impro @ Vaudeville
- Monday May 2
Bal: Closing Night @ Bains::Connective
I’ve also just ordered my Canon 50mm prime lens to take lots of pictures at f/1.8. Five days of dancing with attractive women, taking pretty pictures and obviously some more dancing. Sounds great!
Too many URLs
I’d list everyone I’ve talked to yesterday, if only I could remember. Some random memories: Dramoghe is a girl, Hendrik has a beard, Sven has a nice blogless girlfriend (enchanté!), LittleQ is about my size without her shoes, Onnozelaar thought my age was 28 (thanks, but you should see me on the painting in the attic) and we ate looooooots of Crokidos!
Animation
1) a singer: I was drinking. 2) standup comedy: I was talking. 3) rappers: I was hanging out with Ine and Lien. There was one video of the Stew crew that I appreciated a lot:
How Twogirls, Dramoghe, KleineKeizerin, Onnozelaar are all created by one guy, a certain Abel Ransbottyn.
Continue reading ‘Bwards: URL overload’
It’s gonna take me some effort to arrive there in time, but tonight is the Bwards event in Antwerp, and I’m looking forward to it! It looks like Jeroen has created a fun party for those of us with a URL and an opinion. The place to be is Het Paleis, and here is how to get there: clopin.be.
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Yesterday I reached 100.000 views on my Flickr account. Using the numbers above, that translates in almost 32 views on average for each picture. But of course, my Flickr photo collection has power law (big head/long tail) distribution. Let’s dive into the head.
Most viewed pictures
The top five of my most viewed pictures are:
5787 views and also a favourite of 29 people. My not-so-bad Web 2.0 overview from the early days of the meme (Sep 2005)
5482 views. I have no idea where those came from.
4196 views. A very unappealling Excel scatter plot about anorexia amongst models, used in The next German top model will be thin
UPDATE: it appears that I got the new “Google Mail” logo because for some reasons Google maps my IP address to Germany, and so I got the German branding. I still think it would make sense for them to switch to a branding they can use anywhere, and thus get rid of the Gmail name. When, is anyone’s guess.
Now that Google changed the logo in my webmail client, I think we can say that Gmail is close to disappearing from Google’s (European) pages. They’re replacing it everywhere with the even less sexy “Google Mail”.
This might be due to the following legal hassle Google has in Europe:
The latest legal developments arrive just weeks after a European Union trademark office denied Google the rights to register the Gmail name across all of its member countries. Company representatives maintain that the EU ruling has no effect on its use of the trademark Gmail in countries other than Germany and the U.K. and that user experiences will be the same regardless of the service’s name.
news.com.com
They use the URL http://mail.google.com (no longer gmail.com or gmail.google.com) and on the welcome page there is no mentioning anymore of any “Gmail”. On the Google product overview page it’s still Gmail. Same thing for Google Talk: I see hardly any mention on “Gtalk” anymore.
If they’re gonna use common names for all their products, then maybe Froogle will become “Google Shopping”, Adsense/Adwords maybe “Google Ads” and Picasa “Google Photos”.
Pietel has started an ‘army’ which should grow to 300 persons fast, if he wants to win a 300-persons premiere of “300“, the movie. He’s at 271 now. I’m already in there. We still need 29 people fast. Subscribe here.
I don’t know if I was expecting too much, but the content of the Humo’s Pop Poll De Luxe was a bit of a disappointment. Thanks to my good connections I was the “+1″ for a VIP-ticket yesterday at the Sportpaleis. While the VIP-treatment is always a most enjoyable circumstance, during the show we often had a “WTF?” feeling, but not in a good sense. K3 doing “3 biggetjes” comes to mind, and the dance steps of the woman that was supposed to be the head of TV station één (she wasn’t). DJ Tony from Willy’s en Marjetten (Bart Depauw) came on stage in a Borat minimal swimming outfit and placed an image in our mind that took several doses of alcohol to get rid of afterwards. Whoever wrote Roos’ texts wasn’t very inspired and even the Methusalem of Humo(r), Guy Mortier, who undoubtedly writes his own texts, was not up to his – granted, quite high- level. Most of the comedy acts went for cheap routines on gays, blacks and women. Wim Helsen even combined all three in an interview with Tom Lanoye. The best stand-up comedy act came from a Dutch guy: Najib Amhali. Ouch!
As for the music: most of it was loud. It felt more like a circus: everyone was invited to do one or two tricks and then disappear again. Why a group like the Van Jets were invited to play, will remain a mystery for me. The musical highlights for me:
Just after the break: Steven Wold aka “Seasick Steve” who played blues with just a guitar and a heavy left foot. Authentic, addictive and big fun.
Geike Arnaert together with Sioen did a cover of Nick Cave’s “Wild Rose”. Gripping and classy. ‘Kiekevel’!
Continue reading ‘Humo’s Pop Poll 2007′
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