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August 2003 Archives

Some great Italian dessert wine August 31, 2003 - Last year we bought an italian box with desert wine and almond cookies. It was bought to give away as a present but we forgot it. Last week we looked again at the box and found out the the cookies…

Instant counting your visitors August 25, 2003 - Dan Grigsby has a great service which he calls Instant Gratification. This service sends you a AIM message as soon as someone hits your page. It can be customized to show whatever you want to whomever you want. Hmmm… means…

Does my Nec N341i work a bit? August 25, 2003 - One of my colleaguas has a new gadget. He is now using his second Nec iMode phone (after using a lovely Nokia 7110 for years!). The first phone didn’t succeed his (read anyone) tests. That phone’s battery went dead after…

De Omloop; The yearly island walk August 23, 2003 - This year we had the 14th walk around the island Goeree Overflakkee. The walk is called De omloop as that’s dutch for ‘walk around’. The total length is 110 kilometers and you’re allowed to walk for 24 hours. The fastest…

Have you tried to print this page? August 18, 2003 - From now this site supports a printer friendly style sheet. This leaves off all unimportant stuff from your paper when printing this page. In a css2 supporting browser it even shows you the link location of all entries in the…

ftp.gnu.org compromised August 14, 2003 - The GNU ftp server has been compromised. A person got root access and now the following message is seen on the server to tell people: hey, we don’t know what we had for software packages and we don’t know what…

I'm strugling with time August 14, 2003 - Haven’t had the time lately to add a lot of content to the site. Main reasons for that are: I’m strugling with the float property of my stylesheet to get it properly working for ie6. Get a decent print stylesheet…

5th place at fujimugs challenge August 12, 2003 - Thanks all for voting on my photo! This was my first time so guess I had some beginner’s luck. I hope I can lend the camera again for the next challenge. Step on it! 2003; © janco tanis…

Don't make me think!; ISBN 0789723107 August 5, 2003 - This is an exelent book about web usability. Although its brief, its well to the point and a quick read. Steve Krug has a good way in explaning the concepts although a lot the of the items are common sense…

Look what I had at lunch yesterday August 1, 2003 - Tettigonia viridissima; 31 july 2003; stellendam; © janco tanis…