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Efterklang - Tripper
read moreEfterklang (Flash only site) uses a very special electronic percussion and base sounds which reminds of Kraftwerk’s drum computers. This combined with the soft voices and acoustic instruments (trumpet, flügelhorn, piano) gives the music this very unique sound
Efterklang is a Danish group and the name means something like aftersound, or reverberation. On the album Tripper they play together with Amina, who already had done ( ) with Sigur Rós.
You can download the video clip for Swarming (Quicktime) (WMV) from the groups web shop which gives a very good idea of their music.
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Introduction to the music section
read moreThis is a special section of my journal where I’ll now and then post links to music artists I like. Posts on music I already posted will be moved here, keeping their original publication date, so you’ll notice that this introduction is not the first post… Well, so be it.
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De Schijvenaer
read moreOver the last few months I spent some time on a website for a colleague of my father. They started a mini camping this year and wanted a nice website.
So I started off once again on a job I never wanted to do again: Creating a website for a broad public (i.e. mostly Internet Explorer users). Having had some annoying experiences two years ago with the Spacelabs RGE project, I almost swore never again to write a site with IE in mind. However, something changed in the last two years. It was not the browser, it was not the XHTML and CSS standards, it was me. Two years ago terms like “semantic HTML” were mostly unknown to me and sites were written in some form of XHTML abusing the beautiful table-tag.
Enter 2004 and the CSS Zen Garden which is a site demonstrating the possibilities of what can be achieved visually through CSS. The site exists in a multitude of CSS files, but only one single XHTML file, which is exactly the same for every single design.
One of the key requirements of a CSS to be accepted to CSS Zen Garden is that it has to work on “most” browsers, which of course includes Internet Explorer. The nice thing about that requirement is that the CSS files are thus compatible with most renderers (MSIE, Gecko and KHTML are the biggest right now, Opera usually also works); create your site in the same structure, and you’ll already have a mostly working version!
This is what I did with de site for Mini-Camping de Schijvenaer which works in all browsers, except for the image of the Schijvenaer. This is a little extra for non-IE users…
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iTunes 4.9 with Podcasting
read moreThe idea of podcasting intrigued me, but since there were no really user-friendly applications (from my point of view) handling podcasts, I never really got into it.
Last tuesday, Apple released an updated version of iTunes which integrates Podcasting into their Music Store and they did it very well. So, I decided to listen what the fuss is all about and subscribed to the Daily Source Code, Adam Curry’s podcast.
I also subscribed to some other feeds to check the quality of the broadcasts. Now, the content isn’t always of very high quality, but the idea of never again miss a radio show because you didn’t turn your radio on too late is great!
Already quite a few bloggers are doing podcasting in audio and some of them even do video broadcasts. I hear great success stories from Adam Curry, about how unknown bands become famous just by having their song played on a podcast. They would never get on regional radio, let alone national, so that is pretty cool. But then again, Curry is of course one of the initiators of the whole podcasting thing, so it might be a little bit biased.
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Orion back once again and Planet Luon
read moreWell, revived Orion once again, this time back in its old case with its old mainboard and all is back as it was before we got the new (cursed?) hardware. So I just hope things will run smoothly until I say it to stop instead of stopping on its own.
In the meantime, Paul and Bram apparently created Planet Luon and put me on it, so you’ll find my journal there as well! A two-feed planet is kind of boring I thought, but it appears that both Admar and Bram started blogging this month, so now we’re four.