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Thanks to Wian I have a new hobby. Geocaching already exists for about 10 years and I was always very interested. Today with the internet, Google maps and mobile phones with built-in GPS it has become much easier and it is great fun!

Here is a picture of my second treasure which I have found with my girlfriend Annemieke and her brother Roelof:

If you are a member you can find my profile here: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=c606c2ba-b9ee-480a-a944-568b8e102344

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Did you like my I Love Stickers post?
I was inspired by a 20 year old sticker that I have found when we were moving to our new house. That sticker is ofcourse based on the famous I love NY logo that was designed in 1977 by Milton Glaser.

For my little Silverlight 2.0 project I have used these resources and tools:

1. The original I Love NY logo
2. WhatTheFont! to find out the exact font used in the original logo. Great online tool!
3. American_Typewriter_Bold_BT.ttf
4. Paint.NET to crop the heart of the logo
5. The amazing Open Source vector graphics editor Inkscape to trace the heart and save it as XAML(!)
6. Expression Blend 2
7. Visual Studio 2008

You can download the source code here: ILoveSticker.zip

And you can view a live example here: I Love Silverlight

.net, design, Silverlight

Don’t you love this retro sticker design? I have one on my bag and I got it from my mum in the 70′s. And now I have made it in Silverlight 2!

You can personalize the text by clicking on it!

Or you can print a sheet of your own with your own text: I Love My Girlfriend or I Love My Car or I Love My Hobby

You can also put it on your own website and change the initparams:

<object data="data:application/x-silverlight," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="400px" height="400px">
   <param name="initparams" value="Name=Stickers,Scale=2" />
   <param name="source" value="http://www.johnbruin.net/silverlight/ILoveSticker/ILoveSticker.xap" />
   <param name="onerror" value="onSilverlightError" />
   <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="2.0.31005.0" />
   <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
   <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=124807" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108181" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style: none" /></a>
</object>

Have fun!

.net, design, Silverlight

Cool huh!? Try it yourself

design

Yooouuu reeeaaalllyyy haaaave to seeeeeee this! I loooooooove it!

Try these examples:

Moby – Bodyrock

Gorrilaz – Clint Eastwood

Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid

design, music

design

My best friend Wilfred showed me this video yesterday and WOW this is cool and reminds me of the Matrix.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

This movie may seem very futuristic but the best of it is is that this future is not far away! Check out this fantastic demo movie of the Sixth Sense a study project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

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music

In this post I have told you about my entry for the 10K Smart Coding Challenge. My app is doing great in this challenge and there is only a few more hours left to vote. So please vote for me!

Because of the 10K limitation there were only a few different words in my entry and the hi-score was not saved. So here is the extended version with lots of words and hi-score saving! Can you beat my hi-score? Please drop a comment…

.net, commodore 64, Silverlight

I have always wanted to program this in Flash but I never took the time to learn it. But now there is Silverlight!

.net, Silverlight