Author Archives: Arthur

Go Stet Yourself

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Arthur

There’s a long (winding) oped at the New York Times about how Internet users (on online forums) seem to dramatically change the structure of English grammar. This is only interesting because I also have a knack to write long winding … Continue reading →

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Go version-control yourself.

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Arthur

So, I was going to give a rant about the painful upgrade to WordPress 2.6, but I’ll leave it at that. Wait. Version control has been added to WordPress, which means that you can finally revert to your previous 42-word … Continue reading →

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Soft-ice-wear

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Arthur

I had troubles with a patched up version of the Flashplayer 10 plugin (Ubuntu-non-free) this weekend and I wasn’t surprised to see a new patch being applied just a couple of hours ago. Additionally, it looks like a Firefox patch … Continue reading →

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Marburg

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Arthur

Via Aetiology, I found out that the Marburg virus was discovered in a Dutch woman: According to Dutch reports, Friday (or Thursday night) she didn’t survive (Dutch language alert, see also WHO report about the individual case). That same article … Continue reading →

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Universal Fog

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Arthur

W hen I was younger, I always associated (morning) fog with pending clear weather and sunny periods, which is definitely not true for Saint John: the question here is not when it will clear up but actually, when the next … Continue reading →

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Speed

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Arthur

I thought Mark’s posting about the new Adobe Acrobat 9 was the hilarious. If you’re into more snark, try the Adobe Acrobat 9 installation guide as done by the MicroPledge site. After the unpacking, the install process itself took 10 … Continue reading →

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A suffering object

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Arthur

An assortment of links, or as my English-speaking portion of my brain prefers to call them: a ‘whole bunch of I-forgets’. A while ago, a Dutch teacher discovered a weird object in the constellation of ‘Leo Minor’. Thanks to the … Continue reading →

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Unused icons.

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Arthur

When I was playing Call of Duty 4 online (earlier on xsamplex), I used to have a running joke when fellow PC players always asked me about my favourite mouse configuration: I said I was actually playing the game on … Continue reading →

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Ready to go

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago, I was humming the tune of Republica’s “Ready To Go” (mp3, +30 seconds): earlier I had found an excellent live performance of the song at VH1 Loudly Fashionable (or something like that), which led to … Continue reading →

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Same old. Same old.

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Arthur

This week, the New England Journal of Medicine reported about a small success in the fight against (skin) cancer: An Oregon man diagnosed with skin cancer, was injected with a couple of billion of cloned T-cells of his own and … Continue reading →

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Whirl

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Arthur

So, Obama has become the Democrats’ presidential candidate, which reminds me of his best moment of his campaign, a rebuttal to laughter from Hillary Clinton on the question why there are so many Clinton advisers on his team: Hillary, I’m … Continue reading →

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Evil Twin

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Arthur
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Missing: 2 Milky Way arms.

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Arthur

I found this map of the Milky Way (warning HUGE [5000×5000]) via Reddit (thread). The picture comes from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and (ofcourse), comes with a brief press release about the actual point of the map: Two of Milky … Continue reading →

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