SPOETNIK review

Today is the 31st of march. I started SPOETNIK on the 4th of March and have enjoyed every minute of the course. I’ve learned a lot in a few short weeks and am looking forward to the next exercise appearing on April 7. This seems to me a good time to look back on what [...]

New LAVA Font

Easter was cold this year. On Easter day Bonny and I took a trip to the Hague to visit the Museum voor Communicatie. I’d seen a flyer for the expo: Eye opener – de kracht van beeldtaal and was also hoping to take part in the workshop: Ontwerp je eigen lettertype met ontwerpbureau Lava We’d [...]

Interview with Bonny

A couple of weeks back I told my daughter Bonny, about LibraryThing. I wasn’t all that excited about LibraryThing at the time but Bonny took to it like a fish to water. She leaned right over my laptop and started typing, searching for her favorite Manga. She really liked the option to choose your favorite [...]

Social bookmarking, seriously

Q. What makes del.icio.us social? A. Everyone who tags is sharing metadata and it’s possible to link up through del.icio.us with other users to share links. Q. Why would you want to link up and share links? A. It could save you time searching for relevant pages. You could make new friends who share your [...]

Gelato del.icio.us

I’m not sure what to think of social bookmarking. I uploaded my bookmark folders from my laptop at home to del.icio.us. It took about half an hour for del.icio.us to give everything a place. I’d used capital letters to name the folders in my browser so the tags that del.icio.us assigned were also in capitals. [...]

Light through old windows

My name in lights!

Flickr games

I’ve been using Flickr for a couple of years now. It’s handy for sharing photos with friends in far off places. This is the first time I’ve played with letters on Flickr. It’s fun. Thanks to the SPOETNIK crew for finding this fun exercise for week 6.

Library Thing

Library Thing is the toy to play with in week 5 of SPOETNIK. I’ve been a member of a public library since I was 7. I’ve read so many books that I have trouble finding ones on the shelf that I haven’t read. I wonder what Library Thing can do for me? My first impression [...]

Blog stats

Wow! Since I sent out my invitation yesterday my blog stats have gone from 30 views a day up to 98 for today!. Woutv suggested placing the blog stats for Hoi Gagarin on view. I didn’t think I had much to show but now I’ve changed my mind. So Woutv, I’m taking your advice and [...]