D*Note - Shed My Skin

YouTube - evergrowing database of small, online movies - has something to offer for just about everyone connected to the internet, myself being no exception. I don't watch that many videos on YouTube, but when I do I tend not to watch one particular thing, I like switching from one video to the next, spanning various subjects and topics.

So when I was hopping from one video to the next yesterday night, I stumbled upon this little gem: the videoclip for Shed My Skin by D*Note, a track which became one of my favourite tracks years ago, when I first heard it. And now, years later, this little video still manages to amaze me.

Belle replaced by Medusa

After nearly six years of faithful service, I've decided to replace Belle, my current development machine with a more powerful version.

It took me quite some time to install everything (mainly because I decided to rewire all the cabling from the other machines during the setup as well), but Medusa is finally up and running.

A complete list of all HTML escape characters

From time to time you need to escape a character in a web page, but most of us don't know all the character codes by heart. Some of them, the ones you use most, tend to stick in the mind, but all of them? Besides, a good programmer is a lazy programmer - there's no need to memorize tables and tables of boring data when all you have to do is look them up!

In order to have my very own cheat-sheet at the ready wherever I am, I took the liberty of putting the entire list on my website. Feel free to bookmark this page, in case you ever need to find the correct escape code for that dodgy character.

My vision on the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

For the past decade or so, I've watched the Eurovision Song Contest nearly every year. Some of the songs presented during the semi-finals and the final of the contest are pure kitsch and not even worth the airtime, but year after year I'm amazed at some of the entries. These entries are my main reason for watching - from time to time there are some real gems, stuff you'd never ever hear, if it wasn't for this contest.

This year I was unable to watch the song contest however, so I had to record it and watch it later on, even though at that point I already knew that Germany would end up the winner of the contest, which took away a lot of the excitement of the show. Anyway, here's a summary of my thoughts on the entries for 2010.

Studio Brussels Top 100 albums of all time

If you've been following my website for a while, you might have noticed a little trend - music lists. Yes, I admit, I'm a big fan of top whatevers, as well as what you might call an avid trainspotter of music.

So when my favourite radio station decided to air a list of the top 100 albums of all time, naturally I couldn't resist listening and posting the list in it's entirety.

Joe FM's Top 600 Of The 60's

For the past three days, my colleague and I have been listening to Joe FM's Top 600 of the 60s. We decided to stray from our favourite radio stations for a while, and listen to the entire list instead.

The pitch drop experiment

In one of the episodes of "I didn't know that", they featured what must be one of the most boring jobs of all time - watching paint dry. As it turns out, paint companies actually hire someone to check how fast their paint dries, comparing the results with various paints produced by the competition. This reminded me of a scientific experiment I found on the internet some time ago: the pitch drop experiment.

Studio Brussel - De Zwaarste Lijst 2010

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