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slowUp 2012

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<html><body><p>Tijdens <a href="http://www.ramdyne.nl/wordpress/vakantie-2012/">afgelopen vakantie</a> kwamen we de eerste dag in een "slowUp" terecht en maakte ik deze foto: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599417158/" title="20120617-_MG_5021.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/7599417158_37621418c1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120617-_MG_5021.jpg"></a>

Een slowUp leek ons een fietstocht toe, maar wat doen al die skeelers enzo er tussen? Vandaag eindelijk eens gaan kijken <a href="http://www.slowup-hochrhein.info/fragen.html">wat dat nou is, een slowUp</a>: > Unter der Bezeichnung «slowUp» werden seit 2001 Mobilitätsanlässe > durchgeführt. Auf Hauptstrassen wird eine ca. 30 km lange Strecke für den > motorisierten Verkehr gesperrt und den Bewegenden aus eigener Körperkraft > zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Anlässe fördern die Freude an der Bewegung und > schaffen eine hervorragende Präsentationsplattform für die beteiligte > Region. Derzeit gibt es 18 solcher Anläse in der Schweiz. Die Durchführung wiederholt > sich jährlich.

Kortom, een (gedeeltelijke) autoloze zondag waarbij een parcours geheel vrij is van gemotoriseerd verkeer. Ideaal voor een fietstocht natuurlijk. Omdat het ons allemaal verschrikkelijk in de weg reed met al die wat, eh, mindere fietsers hadden we soms moeite om nog te blijven fietsen. Maar ach, het was mooi weer en leuk om al dat kleine grut voor het eerst een fietstocht te zien doen. Oh, en de gratis Rivella, repen, yoghurt etc, was ook niet verkeerd, dat vrolijkt een dag fietsen niet een klein beetje op.

<a href="http://www.slowup-hochrhein.info/galerie_slowUp%202012%20Impressionen.18.html">Onderstaande foto</a> staat op de <a href="http://www.slowup-hochrhein.info/">slowUp Hochrein</a> site, maar lijkt verdacht veel op de foto die ik gemaakt heb. <a href="http://www.slowup-hochrhein.info/galerie_slowUp%202012%20Impressionen.18.html"><img src="http://www.slowup-hochrhein.info/img/galerie/slowUp-2012-Impressionen/slowUp_hochrhein_2012_0105.jpg" alt="slowUp_hochrhein_2012_0105.jpg"></a>

Trouwens, in het Duitse Laufenburg (ja, er is aan de overkant in Zwitserland ook een Laufenburg) moesten we meteen een mooi hellingkje op. Ik zag veel mensen lopen, maar wij reden daar met bagage toch maar omhoog. Het ging mij zelfs iets te langzaam, maar ach, als je dan de bejaarden en kleine kinderen naast je omhoog ziet worstelen is dat het wel waard.</body></html>

Bruiloft Jildou & Namke

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<html><body><p>Ik heb tijdens de bruiloft van Jildou en Namke niet <a href="http://www.ramdyne.nl/wordpress/timelapse/">alleen een timelapse</a> gemaakt, maar <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/sets/72157632412442965/">ook foto's</a>. De meeste foto's zijn voor het gastenboek (en zijn hier lekker niet te zien), maar ook wat andere, losse foto's. Hieronder de beste, waaronder de beste foto die ik ooit gemaakt heb.

Dit is, IMHO, de mooiste foto die ik gemaakt heb:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8339323564/" title="20120907-_MG_5969.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8220/8339323564_40a075b462.jpg" width="500" height="157" alt="20120907-_MG_5969.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8338267281/" title="20120907-_MG_5995.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8079/8338267281_b45a491bfc.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120907-_MG_5995.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8339319528/" title="20120907-_MG_6019.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8353/8339319528_cac7cab996.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120907-_MG_6019.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8339321314/" title="20120907-_MG_6120.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8504/8339321314_1fe8dd726a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120907-_MG_6120.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8339317454/" title="20120907-_MG_6172.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8071/8339317454_121618a12b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120907-_MG_6172.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8339312956/" title="20120907-_MG_6265.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8360/8339312956_fc1114faa0.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120907-_MG_6265.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8338254963/" title="20120907-_MG_6280.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8338254963_71e7f6b5fa.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120907-_MG_6280.jpg"></a>

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Firefox add-ons not (all) working

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Today I had a funny thing happening with Firefox. Some Add-ons (Extensions) appeared to be not working, but the one which I use via a keyboard shortcut did work. The Add-ons dialog (via Tools/Add-Ons) also didn't work, all the screens didn't show the installed add-ons nor did it show the add-ons site.

The <a href="http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/782221">solution</a> is described at the Mozilla support forum, but not very clearly, so here's the minimum amount of steps:

1. On the menu bar, click on the Help menu and select Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open. 1. Under the Application Basics section, click on Show in Finder (on Windows it might be called Explorer, I don't know, don't use it anymore). A window with your profile folder will open. 1. Go back to Firefox and quit it completely 1. Go to the folder window opened in step 2 1. Delete all files with the name extensions (extensions.rdf, extensions.cache, extensions.ini, extensions.sqlite) and compatibility.ini in the Firefox profile folder. Do <strong>NOT</strong> delete the folder called extensions! 1. Start Firefox again. All add-ons will now behave as being newly installed, so Firefox might have to restart itself again)

Moved

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<html><body><p>So this website has moved from an old school Dell server running FreeBSD to a virtual server somewhere or other running on some form of hardware. I have no idea. Any issues should resolve themselves over the next few days.</p></body></html>

New York

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<html><body><p>Het was weer oktober en "dus" moest ik voor het werk weer naar New York (ik vind het geen gekke traditie worden ;-) ). Deze keer maar beperkt tijd voor toeristische bezigheden, dus maar <a href="http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCHjUSH">een paar foto's</a>. De meeste trouwens gemaakt met de iPhone 5, vooral de panorama modus is erg handig.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155299533/" title="20121016-_MG_6626.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/8155299533_5b28bd7aa1.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20121016-_MG_6626.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155299907/" title="20121016-_MG_6629.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/8155299907_5d44ab2e14.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20121016-_MG_6629.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155330388/" title="20121016-_MG_6644.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7126/8155330388_98540523ff.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20121016-_MG_6644.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155330714/" title="20121016-_MG_6647.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7247/8155330714_e93cac4596.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20121016-_MG_6647.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155521081/" title="IMG_1161.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8063/8155521081_209d36014d.jpg" width="500" height="112" alt="IMG_1161.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155555790/" title="IMG_1169.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7273/8155555790_b7ae03f370.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1169.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155558528/" title="IMG_1170.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8070/8155558528_988236ea80.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1170.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155300947/" title="20121017-_MG_6648.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7254/8155300947_b2d46682ba.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20121017-_MG_6648.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155561366/" title="IMG_1175.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/8155561366_33fa838ef0.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1175.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155532867/" title="IMG_1184.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7112/8155532867_7126ec9f11.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1184.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155301575/" title="20121018-_MG_6655.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8155301575_69f4d7a6bb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20121018-_MG_6655.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155537075/" title="IMG_1185.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8209/8155537075_15d0b8edbe.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1185.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155595598/" title="IMG_1189.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8064/8155595598_2eb6125677.jpg" width="500" height="108" alt="IMG_1189.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155569739/" title="IMG_1195.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8155569739_e7e30b7c66.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1195.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155572673/" title="IMG_1196.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8488/8155572673_e6bfdcea04.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1196.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155576433/" title="IMG_1200.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/8155576433_1e0e88eeb2.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1200.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155611760/" title="IMG_1201.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8350/8155611760_17b1c5a15f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1201.JPG"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/8155615586/" title="IMG_1222.JPG by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7139/8155615586_5d3e97fd5d.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_1222.JPG"></a>

Met deze keer zelfs foto's vanuit het vliegtuig. Vooral de foto van de Thames in Engeland met dat tegenlicht is erg geslaagd. Voor betere kwaliteit, klik op de link hierboven ipv de slideshow te openen.</p></body></html>

Ketelbrug

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<html><body><p>Op een van de laatste dagen met echt mooi weer moest ik wachten voor de Ketelbrug. Van de gelegenheid gebruik gemaakt om wat foto's van het IJsselmeer te maken met Urk op de achtergrond.

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Timelapse

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<html><body><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/49129211" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/49129211">Jildou &amp; Namke</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ramdyne">Andreas Sikkema</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Pas nadat het filmpje af was viel het me op hoe goed de muziek bij het beeld past, als de muziek wat drukker is gebeurd er veel in beeld, de climax in de muziek zit redelijk in de buurt van de climax van het hele trouwgebeuren...

Voor een eerste timelapse valt het me niet tegen, de volgende keer moet ik alleen veel meer foto's maken oh en die typefout in de aftiteling kan echt niet.</body></html>

Vakantie 2012 (update)

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<html><body><p>5 weken geleden vertrokken Auke en ik voor een drieweekse fietsvakantie van Basel naar Rome. Het plan was om zo lang mogelijk onderweg te zijn en de stad Rome voor een volgende keer te laten, dus er niet langer dan een paar uur te zijn. Dat liep door een blessure aan mijn rechterknie iets anders dan gepland, maar het was ondanks dat een fijne vakantie.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/46176171" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> </p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/46176171">Zomervakantie 2012</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ramdyne">Andreas Sikkema</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Binnen twee weken na thuiskomst de foto's (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/sets/72157630641878882/">Flickr set</a>) online en het filmpje klaar, dat is een persoonlijk record ;-)

Hieronder een deel (!) van de foto's, op mijn <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/sets/72157630641878882/">Flickr</a> account staan veel meer foto's

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599417158/" title="20120617-_MG_5021.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/7599417158_37621418c1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120617-_MG_5021.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599419618/" title="20120620-_MG_5029.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7111/7599419618_f2617c0e20.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120620-_MG_5029.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599420312/" title="20120621-_MG_5034.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7257/7599420312_0e7bbb9548.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120621-_MG_5034.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599422362/" title="20120622-_MG_5047.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8006/7599422362_96aac9ae15.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120622-_MG_5047.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599425286/" title="20120623-_MG_5059.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/7599425286_7513f13240.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120623-_MG_5059.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599429824/" title="20120627-_MG_5103.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7599429824_1003b1d6ca.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120627-_MG_5103.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599430518/" title="20120627-_MG_5117.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7599430518_864dd204bf.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120627-_MG_5117.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599432866/" title="20120627-_MG_5123.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7120/7599432866_befc856884.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120627-_MG_5123.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599437104/" title="20120627-_MG_5162.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7599437104_95d7d8b2eb.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120627-_MG_5162.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599441252/" title="20120628-_MG_5216.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8434/7599441252_822151ca4a.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120628-_MG_5216.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599444282/" title="20120630-_MG_5242.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7273/7599444282_89e851f982.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120630-_MG_5242.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599447470/" title="20120630-_MG_5258.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7134/7599447470_2078c51c9b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120630-_MG_5258.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599449592/" title="20120630-_MG_5268.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7599449592_d031bce38d.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120630-_MG_5268.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7599452576/" title="20120630-_MG_5290.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7251/7599452576_6fd7b2a0f2.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120630-_MG_5290.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600048554/" title="20120701-_MG_5325.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7600048554_d1213f2fc5.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120701-_MG_5325.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600052806/" title="20120703-_MG_5368.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8020/7600052806_9b424371e8.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120703-_MG_5368.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600055744/" title="20120703-_MG_5464.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8292/7600055744_3a1eaeb300.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20120703-_MG_5464.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600056470/" title="20120703-_MG_5479.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8147/7600056470_d5ff76c5fe.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120703-_MG_5479.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600058056/" title="20120703-_MG_5508.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7259/7600058056_bfc1879c0b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120703-_MG_5508.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600061234/" title="20120703-_MG_5532.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/7600061234_c007aeed81.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120703-_MG_5532.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600063274/" title="20120704-_MG_5558.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7600063274_6b6327674a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120704-_MG_5558.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600064810/" title="20120704-_MG_5579.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7600064810_d23f0608cf.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120704-_MG_5579.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600067500/" title="20120704-_MG_5611.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7600067500_693cf44d9f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120704-_MG_5611.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/7600069970/" title="20120704-_MG_5630.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7600069970_07e4a84037.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20120704-_MG_5630.jpg"></a></body></html>

Learning the ways of Python

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<html><body><p>I don't think I've ever conciously said it here on my site, but I've never felt comfortable using PHP. Not for building (dynamic) websites and especially not as a generic scripting language. I know I've never been a wizard at PHP (far from it actually) and have no clue what some items on <a href="http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/">these lists</a> mean, but I have seen some of the, ahh, idiosyncrasies.

A couple of months ago I had to talk to a serial interface and I couldn't find a nice library/interface that would ease the pain of having to do it all by hand. After messing around for a while I tried to do it in Python, just for fun. And in 5 minutes i was talkign to the remote system from a Python script.

Since then I have been developing more and more using Python, all little prototyping scripts, nothing major yet, but it's been a blast. Lots of nice, fully featured libraries, not too many unmaintained projects, I'm loving it.

So my next project will probably involve an AMQP interface, some SOAP, a little WebSockets, and it will all be in Python o/</p></body></html>

Prisencolinensinainciusol

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In het kader van filmpjes die Andreas blij maken ;-)

<strong>Update</strong>

Italianen bedoelen dit nummer als ze zeggen dat rap een Italiaanse uitvinding is. Helaas zitten ze er naast, maar niet heel veel, volgens mij is het maar een paar jaar eerder dat er in de VS ergens een obscuur rap singletje uitgebracht is. Dit was, en is, een zeer populair nummer in Italie. Oh, en de lyrics, dat is complete fantasie, de beste man spreekt geen woord Engels.

Overigens, als je een beetje door de jaren 70, zwart-wit, TV kwaliteit heen kijkt verschilt de choreografie en de beeldtaal niet zo heel veel van de moderne videoclip.</body></html>

Wakeboarden video

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<html><body><p>In het voorjaar van 2011 ben ik te wakeboarden geweest. De foto's heb ik al tijden geleden hier eens geplaatst, maar de video was nog niet af. Dat heeft tot afgelopen jaarwisseling geduurd en toen heb ik hem afgemaakt en online gezet, maar vergeten op mijn blog te zetten. Dus bij deze.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34385883?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

Dit is de eerste video die ik met Final Cut Pro X gemaakt heb, dat voelt wel wat minder beperkt dan iMovie zullen we maar zeggen ;-)</p></body></html>

web.py and nested for loops

Lately I've been playing around with <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> and a Python based web framework called <a href="http://webpy.org/">web.py</a>. Today I tried to do something seemingly very simple but ran in a problem I've had before but couldn't find a way around it, unlike last times.

Suppose you have a web.py template that looks a little like this:

$def with (files, ratelists)
       <table>
            <tr><td>Filename</td><td>date_uploaded</td><td>list</td><td>date_imported</td><td></td><td></tr>

        $for file in files:

                <tr><td>$file.filename</td><td>$file.date_uploaded</td><td>$file.list</td><td>file.date_imported</td>

                <td><select name="importinlist">

                $for list in lists:

                        <option value="$list.list_id">$list.name</option>

                </select></td>

        </table>

For some reason the first time the outermost loop was entered, the innermost loop was executed fully, but the second time the outer loop ran, the inner loop resulted in an empty dropdown box. Searching for problems with nested for loops in web.py gave no obvious results. In desperation I started looking through the web.py Google Groups and found a <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_thread/thread/5bd21de793b146c7#">post hinting at my problem</a>:

> db.select returns webpy's flavored iterator, to get a list from it > > wrap the result in list()

and

> You can even do this: > p = db.select(person).list() > I find it more convenient than wrapping it in list(...).

It appears that db.select() is returning an iterator instead of a list. Once an iterator has reached the end it will obviously not return to the first element so the behaviour described above is exactly as should be expected, but not what I wanted. Adding a .list() call to db.select() and supplying the result to the template above made all my problems go away. I now have dozens of filled dropdowns on my webpage.

So my problem was not with the nested for loops, they were working perfectly. I didn't know results from a web.py database query were an iterator...

New York in autumn

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<html><body><p>Or, sun, rain and snow, all within a few days. I "had" to go to New York on business recently and because of the way cheap flights work and the work related program not being als long as initially planned, I had three whole days of playing tourist in the Big A.

I shot <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/sets/72157628045594690/show/" title="Flickr Slideshow">quite a lot of photo's</a>, the best are below.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6309565835/" title="20111028-_MG_4381.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6240/6309565835_6a6b7fcccb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111028-_MG_4381.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310093812/" title="20111028-_MG_4495.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6310093812_dd199662d5.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111028-_MG_4495.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310082376/" title="20111028-_MG_4364.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6112/6310082376_8aa7fc18af.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111028-_MG_4364.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310083020/" title="20111028-_MG_4367.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6229/6310083020_0f245d380e.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111028-_MG_4367.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6309564121/" title="20111028-_MG_4372.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6048/6309564121_be965f526e.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111028-_MG_4372.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6309567949/" title="20111028-_MG_4400.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6038/6309567949_1343d25eeb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111028-_MG_4400.jpg"></a>

He, isn't that, yes it is. I have almost this <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20114901/">exact same IKEA canvas</a> hanging in the office.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310088712/" title="20111028-_MG_4412.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6101/6310088712_ec17af6c8c.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111028-_MG_4412.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310089900/" title="20111028-_MG_4440.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6053/6310089900_003424f742.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111028-_MG_4440.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6309573183/" title="20111028-_MG_4481.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6118/6309573183_e84f7a0f1f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111028-_MG_4481.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310095074/" title="20111029-_MG_4545.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6310095074_d444da01a4.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111029-_MG_4545.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310097082/" title="20111030-_MG_4627.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6235/6310097082_8fceac5c34.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111030-_MG_4627.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310100412/" title="20111030-_MG_4660.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6097/6310100412_2034d5e894.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111030-_MG_4660.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310100658/" title="20111030-_MG_4662.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6045/6310100658_9180129d10.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="20111030-_MG_4662.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramdyne/6310102584/" title="20111030-_MG_4687.jpg by ramdyne, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6059/6310102584_7b49562199.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="20111030-_MG_4687.jpg"></a></p></body></html>