Jul 30, 2009 Posted by Herko

Long live XHTML!

Smash­ing Mag­a­zine pub­lished a comic strip writ­ten by Jeremy Keith and drawn by Brad Col­bow about W3C’s recent announce­ment to end the XHTML 2 work­group char­ter by te end of the year. There has been a huge amount of dis­cus­sion on this topic within the web­stan­dards com­mu­nity, and Jeremy Keith’s expla­na­tion of the exag­ger­ated reports of XHTML’s demise is a great way... read more

Jul 29, 2009 Posted by Herko

RAW rhythm festival FTW

This week­end is the first edi­tion of the RAW Rhythm fes­ti­val, held at the West­er­gas­fab­riek in Ams­ter­dam. RAW Rhythm is the sequel of the Drum Rhythm fes­ti­val, a pop­u­lar fes­ti­val a few years ago, that had to cease its aciv­i­ties due to a new law that pro­bibits tobacco-advertising in The Nether­lands. Now it’s ‘back’, as the organ­is­ers found a new spon­sor in... read more

Feb 14, 2009 Posted by Herko

Why I use Twitter

Recently, there has been some buzz about the microblog­ging ser­vice Twit­ter, such as the free news­pa­per De Pers call­ing Twit­ter ‘mind mas­tur­ba­tion’, and there­fore some­thing tossers would use. This inspired an arti­cle on the sub­ject by Floor Drees on the IKKI web­site, which in turn sparked a dis­cus­sion among its vis­i­tors and staff. I am omong those who replied to... read more

Jan 28, 2009 Posted by Herko

That Other Steve on Steroids

I’m a Mac fan­boy, and it’s actu­ally a Mac Fan­boy Club mem­ber­ship require­ment to do a lit­tle Microsoft bash­ing every now and again. So here’s a small video of That Other Steve (Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft), mak­ing a grand entrance at a past con­fer­ence. I know this is old footage, so don’t flame me for it. Apple’s and Microsoft’s rivalry isn’t that log­i­cal, as this... read more

Dec 2, 2008 Posted by Herko

What does it all mean?

Today I bought the Stein­ski album ‘What does it all mean? 1983 – 2006 ret­ro­spec­tive’ (itunes link). This is an album by hip-hop leg­end Steve Stein, on which he col­lected some of the mixes he and Dou­glas DiFranco (also known as Dou­ble Dee) made back in the early days of hip-hop. In fact, it was back in 1983 that Stein and DiFranco, at the time work­ing as an ad writer and a... read more