Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/26
Interesting: Tram 2 in Amsterdam amongst the best 10 in the world.
The best tram rides:
–jeroen
via: Tram 2 bij de beste ritten ter wereld – AMSTERDAM – PAROOL.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/17
Last time when I was in the USA, I got myself a new T-Mobile USA SIM card with a local phone number so I could call and have data.
There are a few pre-paid T-Mobile USA plans interesting, depending on how long you visit the USA:
Voice+Text+Data:
Data only:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/14
Great music. Still a few hours left: Why De La Soul Is Giving Away All of Its Music for Free – Businessweek.
All you are required to do is sign-up on their mailing list. They will then send you an email with links to download each album individually. Afterwards, you can unsubscribe if you’d like.
Be sure to read the comments at De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free | Hacker News, as there are various reasons they published it this way.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/31
Yes, I’m a font addict (:
K-Type Independent Type Foundry » Freebies.
Most of their fonts have at least one style that is a Freebie for non-commercial use too, a great way to experiment with some of their fonts: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/10
Jessica TaylorGo to the Google maps link and click on the double arrows!https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.492159%2C-0.19092&spn=0.005291%2C0.013937&sll=51.492140%2C-0.193028&layer=c&cid=12502927659667388442&panoid=c9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw&cbp=13%2C291.8%2C%2C0%2C18.86&gl=US&t=m&cbll=51.492132%2C-0.192862&z=17 —
For me it only works if I open the link in an incognito Chrome window.
–jeroen
via Jessica Taylor – Timeline Photos.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
More than 2 years ago, I wrote about InfoCom adventures before, and recently noticed that since then a Zork map I saw like 30 years ago is now online in a digital scanned version.
Cool!
Thanks David Caldwell for putting it online.
Zork user group ad (thanks Apple2History.org). Click to enlarge.
I didn’t know there even was a Zork User group (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/22
Funny: he started with a Chemistry study too (:
▶ Near to the Metal – Computerphile – YouTube.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/20
1983 Apple IIe ad (thanks Apple2History.org) click to enlarge
Some of you might remember that Apple ][ plus and Apple IIe was part of my early programming days.
I vividly remember the Vlasveld Computers shop in Leiden (back then at Morsweg 21 in Leiden), then ran by Aad Vlasveld as one of the first Apple dealers in The Netherlands. Back then I barely could afford floppy disks, but a few months ago I was able to buy the hardware we used at high school.
Well, I bought an Apple IIe from (from a private person as ClassicComputerShop.eu failed to react in time), so here are some links to stuff I’ve used: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/09
(English translation below)
Edit 20230510 – added new URLs after the AHN viewer moved from ahn.geodan.nl to new domains ahn.arcgisonline.nland www.ahn.nl.
Veel van Nederland ligt onder zeeniveau, inclusief de meeste plaatsen waar ik gewoond heb, maar ik wist nog niet hoe ver het van N.A.P. “zeeniveau” afweek.
Via toeval kwam ik er achter dat dit on-line heel makkelijk op postcode opvraagbaar is, met een URL als deze:
http://ahn.geodan.nl/ahn/viewer3/zoekpc.php?postcode=1060NPhttps://ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/?find=1060NP
Je krijgt dan een resultaat als dit:
Volgens AHN2 is de gemiddelde hoogte in postcodegebied 1060NP -1.8 m.
(Inmiddels – 2023 – geen tekst meer met gemiddelde hoogte, maar als je klikt op een locatie krijg je de gemeten hoogte aldaar)
Onderaan de postcodes waar het om gaat.
Vrijwel mijn hele leven was dus beneden zeeniveau, maar ik ben boven zeeniveau geboren (:
En als bonus: AHN Viewer en AHN [Wayback/Archive] AHN Viewer | AHN (snapt geen URL parameters) en [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer (snapt wel URL parameters, zie [Wayback/Archive] ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/Release_notes_versie_2_februari_2019.pdf).
Er is ook een postcodetool, maar die snapt geen URL parameters: [Wayback/Archive] Postcodetool
Most of The Netherlands is below sea level, including most of the places I lived, but I didn’t know how far from N.A.P. “sea level” that was.
By coincidence, I found out that it is easy to find this relative altitude by Dutch poascal code with a URL like this:
http://ahn.geodan.nl/ahn/viewer3/zoekpc.php?postcode=1060NPhttps://ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/?find=1060NP
It will get you a result like this, where the last number indicates altitude:
Volgens AHN2 is de gemiddelde hoogte in postcodegebied 1060NP -1.8 m.
(By now – 2023 – no text with average altitude, but if you click you get the measured altitude value)
Below is a list of postal codes where I lived or where my post got delivered.
So I lived most of my life below sea level, but was born above it (:
As a bonus, I also found AHN Viewer and AHN [Wayback/Archive] AHN Viewer | AHN (does not allow URL parameters) and [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer (allows URL parameters, see [Wayback/Archive] ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/Release_notes_versie_2_februari_2019.pdf).
There is even a postal code tool, but it does not support URL parameters: [Wayback/Archive] Postcodetool
via:
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