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My photo of Michael Arrington on Valleywag

Valleywag posted a short blog about Michael Arrington and used a photo I made as an illustration. More important: they gave me full credit by adding my name + a link to my Flickr account. Michael Arrington's Razor-sharp Wit - Valleywag Nice... The photo was made at the Techcrunch party in New York right at the very second Michael launched Fleck.com by pressing one button. The reason he laughs is because we displayed a huge error on the Blackberry that suggested everything crashed at...

New Gadget Day!

Today I'm expecting TWO new gadgets to arrive!!! Ahh, I love the smell of a new gadget in the morning*. The first is the ExpressCard 5-1 reader I wrote about before. I bought two: one for myself and one for Guido van Nispen. It slides into my MacBook Pro and accepts 5 different memory cards. No more cables! Just slide in the memory stick from your digital camera and download photos. What a relief. The other gadget is the new Blackberry 8800. A friend offered to send me one after I...

Loïs her toys?

Yes these are the tools that Loïs plays with. I wasn't there (unfortunately) but Daniel J Ashes did another photoshoot in my livingroom. They used all sorts of stuff from all over the house to liven up the photos. Loïs was there (before they brought out the doll!) and voluntered some of her toys. Daniel was very happy with the toys and included them in a few photos. Original on Joey Elgersma's website. The guy holding the doll is Brian from Mixin Recordings. The girls are...

OpenIdea: TwitterMail.com

Here is an idea: Lets register twittermail.com (yes, it is available) and use MailTwitterPHP to set up a service for users of Twitter to redirect email to their twitter account. Get it? A user submits his or her Twitter account details at twittermail.com and gets a unique new emailaddress (alskhdftyyeoindhdfiewosnshjfkdfs@twittermail.com). From that moment on each message this user emails to this unique and secret emailaddress is posted to their own Twitter account. Shouldn't be...

Ajaxload: Waiting was never this much fun!

Joe just pointed me to this great service which lets you generate status bars. I tried all of them and one will be used in the new Fleck Plugin. Give it a try yourself: Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif...

My Ultimate Blackberry?

If you have read this blog before you might have noticed that I'm a bit frustrated with my Blackberry Pearl. I can't get it to email photos and the keyboard just doesn't do it for me. A few weeks ago I wrote about what my favorite and ultimate Blackberry would look like: "The features are simple: small, wireless, synchronized, easy to use, build in camera, qwerty keyboard" And it seems that my prayers will be answered with RIM's Blackberry 8300 "Daytona". It might even have GPS and Wi-Fi...

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

This is a question I often ask myself. It is an important thing to think about and my feeling is you are never too old to ask yourself. What I am going to do is answer these questions myself here and then ask a few other people to do the same. It will be interesting to see how things have turned out for everybody and what kind of dreams people still have. What do you want to be when you grow up? As a kid: I wanted to be God. Seriously. I didn't really understand the concept I guess...

Loïs and me having fun with Photobooth

The built in iSight camera provides hours of fun for my kids. With Photobooth you can select funny filters like this one which distort or filter the images in real time. They simply can't get enough of it. Check my Flickr stream for another few funny...