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Lately I’ve been searching for nice lighting.
There is so much choice - and it’s difficult to find the right lighting for a specific room.
Since we are still refurbishing our home, these are some of the lights I stumbled upon.

Dark (BE)

1) Crosslight

They are available in different colors and versions.
You have for instance a wall-version of this model, but I wasn’t so fond of that one.

2) D2V2

Truly nice. Also available in different colors and versions (hanging or standing).

Baulman (DE)

There are many LED lights available on the market for use in staircases, but most of them are not very minimal.
This one is, in my opinion.

Bover (ES)

For reading in bed. Very clean if you ask me.

That’s all for now …

Just installed Mac OS X Leopard on my laptop at Netlash and I’m damn happy about it.No need for a reinstall - I just put the cd in and clicked on ok twice or something - then - archive … and hupsakee.And untill now only Little Snitch broke … but I can live with that.

This will be my lecture for the weekend.

Thinking with type written by Ellen Lupton.

Just found out about this young, very interesting, beautiful woman, Ayo.
A soul funk singer - songwriter from Germany, with Nigerian - Romani roots.
It’s a soul, reggae-like sound … Love it!

You can read here biography here.

I’m thinking of buying her first album “Joyful”

The single of “down on my knees”.

Little improvisation on the French TV. Funny …

Ghost in the shell is a Japanese anime/manga with large cyberpunk influences created in the late 90’s by Masamune Shirow.

The story goes on in the future and tells us about Major Motoko Kusanagi who works for a special security organisation called Public Section 9 and leads a team of highly skilled cyborgs, androids and hybrids.
Up untill now there are 2 movies and 3 DVD boxes.
The movies are truly masterworks. In my opinion not only the drawings are terrific, but with the (mostly japanese) music included, it creates his own cold, scientific, computerized atmosphere.

The series (dvd’s) are less serious than the movies and most of the time quite funny. For instance you have the Tachikoma’s, spider type multi leg combat vehicle equipped with artificial intelligence. They are childish, funny and full of joy. On the other hand you have the major who is a cyborg with a full prosthetic body. I guess the illustrator wanted her to wear sexy outfits, because sometimes it’s hilarious to see what she wears while working on assignments.

Yesterday I watched the first series of 2nd DVD box. I enjoyed it as always …
Here you can find a slightly more detailed article about Ghost in the shell and its philosophy.

A little Youtube warming up …

I found this nice online web2.0 application (wishlistr.com) ages ago, but I forgot about it …
A way to organise your wishlist in this gifts-period to come (christmas | new year) - so everyone around you can keep track of what you really want :-). Isn’t that fantastic … ?
People can even subscribe to the rss of your wishlist :-).
Hehe, I just love it.
Check my very short wishlist….

I was always convinced that buying clothing on the internet would never reach a high level.  Because in my opinion you have to try things on first, to see if they fit on you. I must say that I’m not so sure about that anymore…

I hear more and more people buying their sneakers online, because some models are quite exclusive and not to be found in shops (anymore). For instance my boss at netlash also buys some his t-shirts online.

Lately I’ve been checking out this notcouture website (actually quite a lot :-)). Not that I would buy expensive clothing online, but nothing is wrong with buying a scarf whithout really trying it on … now is it? I really love the clothes and fashion accessoires they put on their site. Unfortunately most of the shops mentioned (when you click through) are not to be found in Belgium … Hmm, did I hear city trips …?

I’ve been looking into several ways to create rounded corners on websites with css.
And the nicest way I found untill now, is without images, using only css and javascript.

It’s really clean and nifty. I already tested it on different browsers and it’s also ie6, ie7, firefox, safari - proof.

First u need to include 3 files.

   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="niftyCorners.css">
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="niftyPrint.css" media="print">
   <script type="text/javascript" src="nifty.js"></script>

The Javascript

window.onload=function(){
if(!NiftyCheck())
    return;
    Rounded("div#header","transparent","#C3D9FF","small");
    Rounded("div#box","#FFF","#E4E7F2");
}

The css

body{
    padding: 20px;
    background-color: #FFF;
    text-align: center;
    font: 76% Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;
}
div#container{
    width:500px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align:left;
}
div#header{
    margin-bottom: 20px;
}
div#box{
    float:right;
    width:150px;
    margin-left:15px;
    background:#E4E7F2;
    text-align:center;
}
div#box p{
    margin:0;
    padding: 5px;
}
h1{
    font-size: 120%;
    margin:0;
    padding: 0 5px;
    background: #C3D9FF;
    color: #333;
}
p{
    margin:0;
    padding-bottom:0.7em;
}

.rtop,.rbottom{display:block}
.rtop *,.rbottom *{display:block;height: 1px;overflow: hidden}
.r1{margin: 0 5px}
.r2{margin: 0 3px}
.r3{margin: 0 2px}
.r4{margin: 0 1px;height: 2px}

.rs1{margin: 0 2px}
.rs2{margin: 0 1px}

The HTML

<div id="content">
       <div id="box">
            <p>No rounded corners images have been used on this page. </p>
            <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
            Suspendisse adipiscing eleifend eros. Aliquam erat volutpat.
            Quisque aliquam libero at mauris tempus accumsan.
            Quisque et mauris et nunc consequat condimentum. Nam a libero.
            Cras nonummy, orci sed honcus accumsan, leo nulla eleifend massa,
            eget pellentesque nisi odio at velit </p>
       </div>
</div>

Download the full working example here.
Or you might also want to take a look at the nifty corners site by Alessandro Fulciniti where you can find plenty more examples.

Lately I’ve been looking into a lot of interior designs, since we are in the middle
of refurbishment ourselves.

I already saw several decals - and I really liked the idea of it.
Decals are big or small illustrations, stickers to paste on your walls,
floors, windows, … or wherever you’d like to. Most of them are made in some kind of vinyl.
The nice thing about them is that when you get bored of them you can tear them off again.
I’d like to create my own designs for our home some day. The only thing I need is … time.

Floor decal

Window decal

Wall decal