Mooi dat internet. "Gaat heel groot worden" zei ik als grap 10 jaar geleden... Grap is al heel lang niet meer leuk. Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te.

Wel leuk, elke debiel kan "er iets opzetten", Ecce signum

Dus de ene debiel mompelt wat over dat "Hiep Hiep Hoera" roepen anti semitisch is op zijn jaren 80 blog (Ad vocem):

Velen zijn onbekend met de duistere en antisemitische achtergrond van de kreet HIEP! HIEP! HOERA!

Het woord "hiep" komt vanuit het Latijn. Het was oorspronkelijk HEP! HEP!
H E P is een acroniem:

H = Hierosolyma [Jeruzalem / Jeroeshalajim]
E = Est [is]
P = Perdita [verloren, vernietigd, ten gronde gericht, vergeten]

En de andere crowdbedielen roepen op crowdpedia:

One theory is that it is an acronym from the Latin "Hierosolyma est perdita" ("Jerusalem is lost"), said (without verifiable evidence) to have been a rallying cry of the Crusaders. [...] There is no contemporary evidence for the "acronym theory".

Deze debiel met zijn jaren 70 blog? Die zegt Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur.

If you own a mac, you use spotlight daily. Or even better, use Alfred. A great way to navigate faster with a keyboard towards the app or data you need.

A very long time ago a Boy Wonder made something like this for Drupal 5, navigating through the /admin pages using a simple spotlight alike interface, see the menuscout module. Unfortunately, Boy Wonder, he wandered off and the module gained dust.

Then some time ago co-worker Michael Mol showed me a module he has been working on. Since he was doing D6 and D7 development at the same time and since the URL's changed and developers use URL's as well for navigation, he decided to d a spotlight alike search on the admin pages so he could remember the name, not the URL. It ended up being coffee, for now a sandbox project but anyday now a real project in d.o. To see it in action, take a look at this screencast.

Think of coffee as spotlight for the admin interface. And if you want an easter egg like the do a barrel roll, get active in this issue.

Every day or so I try to browse so modules that might be of use for customers. Not that my team is afraid of building own modules. Not at all as the Hansel module for example shows. A rather cool module for developers to make better breadcrumbs that we build for the NCRV.nl and was donated by them. Not afraid to make own modules that make "awesomeness happen". But using Open Source means building on the shoulders of giants and no matter how tall you are, there is always someone taller then you. So despite being 2 meters tall, I always look for smarter people writing interesting code/functionality.

So the other day I came across the Drupal anywhere module that uses twitters anywhere service. Anyway, clicking the demo link brought me to... drup.al!

And this is what I wrote about that domain-name back in 2006:

If Drupal would have started in 2005 and Albania would have had a real NIC, we wouldnt have claimed drupal.org but drup.al.


But we arent followers, not here to be hip and we were twodotooo before Tim could spell it out. So we are Drupal.org, rocking without being Beta Two Dot Oooh!

And I still think it is true today. Even if Time gave an excellent keynote at DrupalCon SF. Drup.al is a funny domain-name. Demoing a nice module, that is all it is. And when the Albanian NIC was any more open back in 2001 when I registered drupal.org I am sure I would have looked at drup.al as well. Nice domain name, but search engines are the new DNS, Google is the new Bind. Funny name, drup.al. But most outsiders already think that the name Drupal by itself is funny enough.

I love my iPhone and I love Google. And the combination of these to leads to a nice user experience; when an iPhone user visits Google with Mobile Safari. Google reads the user-agent string and gives the user a page optimized for the user experience on the phone. As stated before, it is not the user that should change and go to m..example.com but the site that adepts to the user('s browser).

This leads to an optimized situation, one can swipe through images in Google images and has the least HTML overhead when visiting Google.com. There is however one thing google can do better. Spelling. Okay, there is also one thing I could do better, but that is not my point :-)

If google reads a search string and a user-agent, they could guess if the user/iPhone made a small error on the keyboard and hint to that word, just like the iPhone itself most of the times does.

So when I would search for "Ftupal" Google should see this and even though the word Drupal has only a few characters the same, changes are that I wanted to press the D next to the F and the R next to the T.

Doing this makes Google smarter then the iPhones' OS. And better at spelling and syntax as me are. For sure.

(Woordenwolk / tagcloud van de troonrede 2009. Groter op flickr. Volledige tekst van troonrede oa op ad.nl.)
Ik blijf me afvragen waarom "traditionele" media dit soort nieuwe technieken van visualisatie online niet meer toepassen. Zie ook Regaeerakoord 2007 in een woordenwolk en de krantenoplage in een tagcloud.

U bent minder grafisch ingesteld en wilt de raw breakdown (noisewords deleted)?

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27 regering
15 zijn
13 worden
12 wordt
11 ons
11 mensen
11 meer
11 burgers

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10 land
10 kunnen
10 jaar
9 zal
9 wil
9 dat
8 zorg
8 onze
8 2009
7 vertrouwen
7 niet
7 nederland
7 krijgen
7 goed
7 daarom
6 samen
6 nederlandse
6 komt
6 groei
6 goede
6 economische
6 deze

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5 wij
5 vergroten
5 veiligheid
5 u
5 samenwerking
5 onderwijs
5 nodig
5 leefomgeving
5 kinderen
5 jongeren
4 werken
4 vrijheid

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and this is how you do it:
cat troon.txt | tr -d ',.' | tr [[:blank:]] '\n'| tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

update: ik bedoelde natuurlijk: troonrede /voor/ 2009, niet van 2009