Jeroen Sangers

• One more day of work, and I will have holidays;
• Three more days, and I will drive to Holland;
• Nine more days, and my (our) life will change forever;
• Eleven more days, and I will be packing again;
• Thirteen more days, and I will take the plane to Bangkok;
• Probably twenty-eight more days before I will publish on this site again.

See you later!

Almost two years ago, Antipixel published a set of minimal buttons to replace the ugly buttons used by most people at that time.

They were modern, tight, fashion... so a lot of people started using them on their sites and many people designed buttons in the same style. I also preferred them over the traditional buttons, but I never placed them on my sites. Why? Because the Antipixel style did not mix with the style of my site. Just as it does not mix with the style of 80% of all sites. Still people use them. I guess because there is nothing better. Of course everybody is free to create their sites as they like, but I won't put Antipixel buttons on my site. They are soooo 2003…

There is nothing to celebrate yet, but the presents are already rolling in... In Holland people don't want to arrive to a party with empty hands; the people from here feel better when they know that we have already received our present when they arrive.

Anyway, our gadget collection has increased a lot last week. After buying the Palm Zire 31, we received a Sony DCR-HC40E video camera.

I haven't had the time yet to try out all its features, but we are going to take it with us on our holidays in August. That means that I have two weeks left to read the huge user manual and make a list of all features I would like to try out.

I was always thought that the Netherlands have two languages: Dutch and Frisian. Besides these two languages, many dialects exist. Spain in contrary, has 5 languages: Castilian, Basque, Catalan, Galician and Aragonese.

Today I found out these numbers are wrong. Or not? The languages I mentioned above are the languages that have an official status in those countries, based on history and culture. The real number of languages (linguistically seen) is higher: there are 15 languages in the Netherlands, and 11 languages in Spain. So Spain, which has twelve times the size of the Netherlands has less languages —and less water, but that is another subject— than the Netherlands.

For the curious readers: in the Netherlands, people speak Achterhoeks, Drents, Dutch, (Western) Frisian, Gronings, Romani (Sinte), Romani (Vlax), Sallands, Stellingwerfs, Twents, Veenkoloniaals, Veluws (East), Veluws (North), Vlaams and Westerwolds. In Spain, the following languages exist: Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Caló, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Extremaduran, Fala, Galician, Gascon (Aranese), Quinqui and Spanish.

Ik ben dus nummer 22 en doe bij deze de splitsing die door Lijn en David gemaakt was weer ongedaan!

Misverstanden alom! Ik dacht nummer 22 te wezen, maar die was al vergeven op Davids's site.

Daarom gaan we maar voor nummertje 25, leuk nummer overigens… Voor de geïnteresseerden, Mieke was nummer 24.

Voor verdere uitleg, zie Punkey.

Already for some months I wanted to bey me a palmOne PDA. Last week I finally found what I wanted: the Zire 31 was offered on eBay for a very good price. And now I have it!!!! :-D

I still have to research all the available options, study Graffity 2 and enter data, but I am already convinced about my purchase.

An SGML fan, an XML fan, and an HTML fan are watching a movie when they notice smoke coming out of a trashcan.

The SGML fan says “We must convince the theater management to hire an expert to write a DTD for emergency-announcements, and sell them an expensive application for archiving announcements, and get them to hire a team to convert all their old announcements to SGML!”

The XML fan says, “There’s no time for that! We must train all the audience members to recognise XML, and then start a committee to investigate the possibility of starting negotiations to form a working group to write a paper on the future evolution of emergency-announcement semantics!”

Meanwhile, the HTML fan takes out his wireless PDA and types in:

<h1><span style=“color: red;">FIRE!</span></h1>

which he quickly hacks the digital projection system to display, saving the lives of everyone in the theater.

(Found on Molly.com)

The billboard shown above is part of a recruiting campaing of Google. I am far from smart enough to solve this problem, and it this moment I haven’t got any plans to move to the United States. But I am interested in the solution, so for the moment I wait until somebody has solved this problem, and publishes it on internet. After that, I will be able to find it throught Google.

[Update 2004.07.14]: Google already gives some answers. The best discussion about the answer, 7427466391.com, is found at the FogCreek forum.

The Classic IQ Test Watch out, they want your data!

Congratulations, Jeroen! Your IQ score is 136 This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others. Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns. And that's just some of what we know about you from your IQ results.

I wonder how they are able to tell something about my verbal skills based on an on-line test. What’s Your IQ?