locusmeus

You know, how sometimes you can be so pleased with yourself? Like when you’ve accomplished something you think you’ve done really well?

Well, I have those moments. Like when I take photos that actually look good after pulling them off the camera.

You know how it feels when your accomplishment pales all of a sudden when discovering someone else has done the same thing only much much better? Well, that’s what happened to me when I looked at this site: [link removed, site doesn’t exist anymore].

It’s not the site itself, which I think looks quite amateuristic, but the pictures. Such good, excellent, brilliant pictures! Yup, I’m jealous. I admit it. Ted Boots manages to take pictures exactly like I wish I did.

Luckily, I don’t feel paralysed by it, but merely inspired — one day I’ll take photos like that, I promise! 😉

One I took last week is already going in the right direction I think:

Today I looked at my favourite CSS filter overview (I can never remember which hacks apply to which browser), and saw it has been updated after quite a long time of unchanged and sometimes even out of date information.

There’s a couple of nice new (to me that is!) filterhacks in there, that will undoubtedly come in handy in the near future, like for instance the underscore hack: these words only have an orange background in Internet Explorer, all the other browsers show a green background.

More info on that particular hack can be found at WellStyled.com, where it apparently was published already in 2003 — no idea why I didn’t find it sooner.

Today I have absolute proof that I’m living in Holland [1] — first day of summer holiday, and it’s raining. Can’t believe, that after two weeks of very summer-like weather, it has to start to rain exactly when summer holiday starts!

I’m happy I didn’t plan our camping trip to start today, and hope the weather will be better in the next few weeks :S

[1] – could have been England or Scotland too I suppose 😉

green walnut

wet walnut leaf