Posts in the Offtopic category
Personal stuff, rants about stuff that do not fit into other categories and more…
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November 11th
17Personal note: wedding pictures!
Excerpt: So I've been meaning to show a couple of these to all my readers for a while but just didn't get to doing it, but here goes. Serge Chamuleau of Trouwen in Arnhem made these wonderful pictures of my wife Marieke and son Tycho at our wedding (ow yeah, warning, I'm in some of them too). …
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September 1st
97Just Married!
Excerpt: Just before we go off on our honeymoon, 12 days on lovely Rhodes, I wanted you all to know that last friday, the 29th of August, I got married to my lovely Marieke! We had an awesome day, and as you can see, Marieke looked absolutely stunning! If you want something to read in the meanwhile, I h…
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May 13th
59Guide for contacting me
Excerpt: Seriously, most of you out there, are really nice people, and inspire me to give away all the stuff I do for free. Some of you SUCK at interacting with other people though, and I really mean SUCK. Just about 3 minutes ago, I received this email: About Sociable for Wordpress: add diggita.it That wa…
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December 8th
1Blogging at Google Tutor
Excerpt: I've started guest blogging over at Google Tutor this month, and I've already written two posts, and one tool: Post: New Tool - Simply Advanced Google Search! Post: Google Chart API Tool: Simply Advanced Google Search I hope you enjoy them (too)!…
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December 7th
8MSN / Live Messenger problems
Excerpt: More than a few of you have complained that when at work, my MSN Messenger kept siging out and back in again. After having cursed at it again for several times this morning, I decided it could not be my connection, so I started looking around for what it could be. It's pretty darn simple, actuall…
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December 5th
7Blog Tag: When I'm not doing SEO...
Excerpt: So Barry tagged me in this new meme "When I'm not doing SEO...", which was started by Shimon Sandler, in which I should tell what I do when I'm not doing SEO... Now that's a hard one. I code a lot, and work on css3.info, but I guess that doesn't count. A lot of my time goes into my own company, A…
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December 4th
0Developers needed!
Excerpt: We're looking for a full time developer here at Onetomarket to help us in automating a lot of our work. If you: Are a good PHP / MySQL developer. Can develop an application based on different API's on your own. Have ideas on how to improve stuff and can explain them to us. Would like to w…
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November 26th
17Check out my new gravatar
Excerpt: My new found friend SEOIdiot made me a cool new gravatar, check it out (this is the large version, you'll see the 80x80 version in your blogs): …
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October 24th
1That's it! I'm switching to GMail!
Excerpt: GMail seems to be getting IMAP support: It's not enabled for me yet, but once it becomes available, I think I'll switch to that instead of my regular IMAP.…
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October 14th
7Sorry about that: back to full feeds...
Excerpt: I somehow changed my feeds to crippled ones, which I hate when others do it, but since I rarely read my own feed, I never noticed... So dear readers: sorry about that, you'll now get full feeds again!…
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August 30th
6We need more colleagues!
Excerpt: A note to all my Dutch readers: we're looking for collegaues at Onetomarket! If you want to work in and learn from the best SEO team the Netherlands have to offer, drop me a line at joost at joost de valk . nl. We offer a very, very nice place to work, a good salary, and colleagues like Roy, Ra…
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August 5th
37Microsoft Censoring .info domains in MSN Messenger
Excerpt: As most regular readers know, I own CSS3.info, and because of that, I talk quite a bit about it on MSN messenger. Recently, I started getting problems when I was sending links with css3.info in it to my contacts. Tonight, after doing a bit more research, I found out that ALL .info domains are being …
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July 12th
0A note to my Spanish readers
Excerpt: I know there are quite some people in Spain who read this blog, and if you are one of them, this post is meant for you. The company I work for, Onetomarket, has an office in Spain, and it's growing very rapidly. So we need new SEO's and SEM specialists there. If you want to work as an SEO or AdWo…
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July 3rd
0Bidvertiser.net - Text-Link-Advertising
Excerpt: This is a sponsored review. I got a request to do a sponsored review for Bidvertiser for Advertisers. Requests like this are always fun, and this one started off even better, since the people at Bidvertiser really get how this market works. They encouraged me to sign up for their referral program…
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June 22nd
7MSN Reporter still buggy
Excerpt: MSN are apparently still unable to fix the bug I found, they seem to have taken down all Reporter sites for a while, yet the Dutch one is working for me right now, and the Belgian-French one is as well... Kind of weak though, don't you think? It's still possible to vote multiple times on an article …
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June 16th
7The future of the internet.
Excerpt: Roy pointed me at this: …
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May 4th
16Tele2 sucks, but I'm back online
Excerpt: I've been using Tele2 for a while now while on my old address, it was slow at times, but it usually worked, so I was pretty satisfied. I'm not anymore though... We've been moving to our new house over the last weekend, and I had arranged for our phone and internet connection to be moved last friday.…
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May 2nd
4Moved the blog to the homepage
Excerpt: Since moving the seo blog to the main URL worked so well on css3.info, (it came out of the last PR update as a PR7 and has had more search referrers since), I decided to do the same here. Let me know if you find any errors, but I think it all went smoothly. All old posts are 301 redirected of course…
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April 24th
2The meaning of "de Valk"
Excerpt: Another great query found in my 103bees account "what does devalk mean?". Well, this one is simple. "de Valk" is "the falcon" in Dutch. If you've never seen one, this is an example of a peregrine falcon, one of the most beautiful species within this family of birds. A few other nice members of th…
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April 10th
27Help me brand this blog!
Excerpt: This blog always goes by the name "Joost de Valk - SEO & webdesign blog", which kinda sucks of course... Why does it suck? Well: it's not brandable at all, and part of building a blog is building a brand. The "brand" in it right now is my name, which I don't mind of course, but I'd like to brand…
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March 28th
0Sorry, fucked up the feed
Excerpt: I fucked up my FeedBurner feed redirection, so my feed had not been updating for a few days. Should be all good now!…
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February 26th
5Short note: switched to full feeds
Excerpt: I've switched to full feeds instead of crippled ones, let me know if you like it!…
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February 20th
6MSN Reporter...
Excerpt: SEW reports that MSN Reporter has gone live in Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway and states that it attracts a lot of visitors with some articles receiving up to 10,000 votes... While I can't deny that it drives quite some traffic, it's still broken as hell, and those of you who are creative mi…
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February 6th
14"Officially" starting my own Webdesign company
Excerpt: I've been doing webdesign work for friends and family for years already, but I've now decided to start my own webdesign company, called AlthA Webdesign Nijmegen. I won't be taking hundres of jobs since I'm still working for Onetomarket and this is just a job on the side. But if you need someone to s…
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December 18th
75 Things you didn't know about me
Excerpt: Jaimie Sirovich tagged me, so I'm now thinking of 5 things you didn't know about me yet. I guess these are good: I studied Theology, yet didn't finish it. The reason? Once I met my girlfriend, priesthood didn't seem all that much fun... I have a son, Tycho, who is 6 months old, and I work …
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November 10th
2ReviewMe
Excerpt: Note: this is a sponsored post I got an email today from Text-Link-Ads, saying that my site had been pre-approved for ReviewMe. I thought: now that's the way to go, that is an awesome marketing action. They probably just automatically pre-approved all Text-Link-Ad approved sites, and sent out an …
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October 25th
19rules, I hope I'm in :)
Excerpt: 9rules this morning, I hope I'm in, keeping my fingers crossed...…
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July 26th
1So long, OpenDarwin!
Excerpt: So OpenDarwin is now officially dead, or well, dying. WebKit had already decided to move off of it, so I knew my connection to it would be ending soon, but the admins and the core team have now decided to shut it down entirely. I think that OpenDarwin had been dying for a while now, so this was a go…
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July 5th
3Tycho!
Excerpt: Posting will be low for a while, here and on css3.info, as my girlfriend has given birth to our first son last friday. His name is Tycho, he's healthy and wonderful, as is my girlfriend :)…
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June 16th
0HoudahSpot
Excerpt: MacZOT.com is trying to get HoudahSpot users a free copy by having a blogzot for it, i've tried the app, which promotes itself as "Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot". I have to say, it lives up to that promise, it looks REALLY great, and works like a charm, finding files is a lot eas…
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June 13th
1css3.info blog
Excerpt: Well, this is the last post that i'll file under CSS3 here. I've started a blog on css3.info where i'll move all of my css3 activites. Some other people have joined me and i'm very excited about everything that's gonna be happening there.…
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May 24th
1MacZOT fans want Pzizz
Excerpt: MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because 'According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.' - link to full article Let's …
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May 11th
2Posting at CSS Drive
Excerpt: I am now a CSS Drive news poster as well, add it to your feeds ;)…
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April 26th
1Nokia moves S60 browser development to opensource.apple.com
Excerpt: Nokia has announced on the WebKit blog that they're moving their browser development over to opensource.apple.com. They have now moved their latest "stable" branch and will soon be moving their development branch. Very, very good news! [tags]webkit, nokia, s60, apple[/tags]…
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April 25th
1macZOT! offers SubEthaEdit
Excerpt: The people from macZOT! are at it again, they are giving away SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys in what they call BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com. With every blog comment about it, the price is reduced by $0,05. If all goes well, MacZOT will award the Mac community with 3000 (!!) serials, each worth $105,-. …
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April 13th
3Want to sync Google Calendar with iCal or Outlook?
Excerpt: Google recently introduced Google Calendar, an online calendaring service, it seems like it's possible to synchronize your online calendar with Apple iCal... Going to try that tonight, if it works, that would be very cool. I'll update here if I find out. CompanionLink by the way has a program to …
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April 12th
1Got my MacBook Pro!
Excerpt: OK, so, it's lovely, completely lovely. Fast, and everything you want. Some minor annoyances though. My Noklia 6230 has a firmware which is to old to be supported by iSync. Sounds resolvable, probably will be, but annoying nonetheless. I also ordered a Windows XP SP2 CD to install Windows on my lapt…
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April 10th
1Briefly: New headers, Symbian, Webkit Community Release
Excerpt: Well i've been busy, this site has most of it's headers updated, i created quite a few new ones and will be doing some more in the next few days i think. I've also taken control of yet another directory, symbian.startkabel.nl which i love because Symbian runs: WebKit! So, we'll see how much fun this…
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April 7th
0Macbook Pro customs trouble
Excerpt: So apparently, my Macbook Pro gift from Apple got stuck in customs... Waiting for it to be released now, but i think somewhere next week i'll be a happy man. Next to that, i took control of another nice directory today, sportreizen.startkabel.nl, a directory for sports travel related links. [tags…
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April 6th
1WebKit Community Release
Excerpt: Last evening Mark Rowe and myself posted an appeal to the webkit-dev mailing list, asking for opinions on our plan for a WebKit Community Release. Our intention is to make a stable version of the current WebKit tree, especially aimed at bundling with other applications. Applications like Macromedi…
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April 5th
0Apache.Startkabel.nl
Excerpt: Starting yesterday, i'm the maintainer of apache.startkabel.nl! Since i'll be trying to really make this directory a lot bigger, i'd like to hear all your interesting links, blogs, etc. So: leave them in the comments or email me!…
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April 4th
0Mac OS X 10.4.6 iSync supports Nokia 6230
Excerpt: Just a quickie, but this makes my day! I've been waiting for 6230 support for ages, and with my Macbook Pro coming in in a few days, this news is really good. Update: the list of now supported phones.…
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