Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

A global strategy starts at home: “When attempting to reconfigure their Web sites with foreigners in mind, companies often overlook domestic minority groups”

The new blogger is (finally) videoblogging ready, with rss with enclosures and everything.

http://politicalvideo.org has 600 hours of Bush video (to start) of the past 6 years. Download, and use in your own videos. A great project, give them some linky love!

I can’t seem to find a regular expression that turns links into a hrefs, and image links into img tags, and leaves the links in Youtube embeds alone. Anyone have something like that? (PHP)

I made a tree painting in the kitchen today. I used paint samples, that have a round tip that you can paint with, so you don’t need brushes or anything.

I did 3 layers, and I let each layer dry before putting on the next one. The idea was kind of a Japanese cherry blossom. Or rather, that’s how it turned out or something. First the tree itself:

Then the cherries (pink), and then I had white left so I added the sun shining on the tree:

It came out nice :) The falling cherry was me trying to cover a spot of paint. I think with this one I knew when to stop, which always helps a lot.