I guess this is mostly my fault, because I didn't tell anyone. I just assumed people would notice by themselves, which I now found out, they didn't.

So, here goes: I have two feeds on my site. One is the one you are reading now, which I will update occasionally when I add text or pictures to the site.

The other one, is the feed on my blog, which is automatically updated with each entry in that blog.

Hope this helps ;-)

And... there's a blog too now :-)

It actually took me a while to come up with the name, as I really like Locus Meus, and I initially was thinking of using it for this site, and change the name of my personal site to something else. I came up with Locus Privatus for the personal site, but obviously that title is prone to misunderstandings that I'd rather avoid :-)

I searched the Latin dictionaries on the web for a good alternative with the word Locus in it, and after some time bumped into the word Optimus. Optimus stands for 'one of the best, aristocrat, noble'. Now I'm not an aristoc(r)at, nor noble, but I suppose for most non-Latin speaking people the word Optimus will have a connotation of 'best, optimal, optimum, optimize'.

So, the new site is Locus Optimus, which could be translated as 'the best place'. A bit arrogant maybe, but that's okay ;P.

In July the kids and I played tourists in our own city, and I took quite a lot of pictures of the Port of Rotterdam whilst enjoying a ride on the Spido, a sort of ferry.

After that we went up the Euromast, took some pictures of the view and by then the clouds had mostly gone, so we went to the nearby park to enjoy the sunny weather.

More info can be found on the Euromast and Spido sites. (The Spido site isn't exactly working right now, hopefully this will change in the near future...)

Then last weekend I visited my friend Heidi in Antwerp and took some really nice pictures (imnsho ;-)) in a park garden.

Besides the regular pictures which can be found on the 'Antwerp page', I seperated the best ones and added them to the gallery, in which the pictures are displayed in a 800x600 format.

In the mean time, I'm trying to make sense of some stuff Andy Dingley said about RSS feeds in alt.html. Apparently RSS version 2.0 (according to diveintomark.org) is not what it appears to be, and none of the various versions are compatible with each other. And there is the issue of styling the feed for use in a regular browser, for which I used regular CSS. This doesn't do what I want though, so I might have to look into XSLT, which I was hoping to avoid :-(

I'm still using the CDATA "tag" to make it possible to make paragraphs in the feed, however, in the browser the text looks ugly because of this. Haven't had time to figure out how to change it in a way that it'll do what I want. Maybe next time :-)

Problem is I haven't done any major changes or updates in the last week, only added a little bit of text on the Friends and on the Music page. Other than that, I installed Apache on my pc, thus creating a better environment to test my site locally. If it weren't for my firewall, you'ld be able to log into my pc and see me work on the site 'live' ;-)

In a day or two I will update the photo section, as I did take some pictures at the Thunder concert on the Borstrock festival in Holland on the 22nd of May. It was my first time taking live pics with this digital camera, and only near the end of the concert I discovered how to set it to 400 ISO :-( . I'll update this feed as soon as I put the pics online, of course.

And I wrote a little bit more on Tiago's page.