Author Archives: Arthur

Sinking Brick

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Arthur

What is more exciting than a rant about rising gas prices and peak oil? Why, a photo of an oil tanker in the Bay, of course! This week’s attention grabber was Weezer’s video for their new song, ‘Beans and Pork’, … Continue reading →

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Come back to. What?

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, I bought McAfee’s anti-virus software package, mainly to give a sense of protection to my laptop, which was going to be used by my dad during his stay-over in Nova Scotia, the Summer of 2005. … Continue reading →

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Find what

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Arthur

This weekend, I was surprised to see that Google Maps now also shows photos shot at locations (example): these photos are coming from a new service from Google, Panoramio. The site is very beta-ish, but seeing Google’s weight behind this, … Continue reading →

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Interstate

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Arthur

I‘m not really a ‘techno-ambient’ music lover: however, as someone trying to enjoy different styles of music during my twenties I ended up listening and buying into several techno-DJs and musicians. During the early 90s, System 7 became the rage: … Continue reading →

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Off-ice.

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of observations: I follow the US Democratic race but tend to keep it off xsamplex: However, I keep thinking if the Clintons are just bad losers. Seriously, when is enough is enough? Keith Olberman’s summary perfectly illustrates the … Continue reading →

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Trans-Canada

Posted on May 4, 2008 by Arthur

Reading, 3 Quarks Daily’s coverage of the 30th anniversary of e-mail spam, I was reminded that today it’s the 63rd anniversary of (the Dutch) Memorial Day. If today’s your birthday, Happy Birthday. If not, maybe you should attend a local … Continue reading →

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Aw(n)

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Arthur

So, after the “Ubuntu installation” dust is settling, it’s time to add some ‘candy’ to your desktop. After all, the default Gnome docks look quite boring. – You can look for Themes and that over at Art at Gnome or … Continue reading →

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Dark is the night

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Arthur

There were a couple of interesting things that made it in my reading list, this week: Obviously, you may have heard of the official launch of Ubuntu ‘Hardy Heron’ (or if you’re into version numbering, version 8.04). There’s lots of … Continue reading →

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Huh. huh?

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Arthur

I was trying to play a QuickTime movie on Ubuntu (“Hardy Heron”, 8.04) and was surprised to find out that Totem (the default Mozilla plug-in for streaming movies) had a (ahem) hard time to play the movie. VLC to the … Continue reading →

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Rivets

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier this week, I read about a new study on the sinking of the Titanic: Two experts on metallurgy claim that rivets of sub-quality were the main reason why the Titanic’s outer hull gave in so quickly: “A rivet works … Continue reading →

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Them links

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Arthur

Via Suzanne Vega’s site, I found out that she nowadays (also) blogs for the New York Time’s ‘Measure for Measure’ periodical. There are other musicians writing for that very same blog: the only (other) familiar author is Roseanne Cash. You’re … Continue reading →

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More Ubuntu

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Arthur

More annotations on Ubuntu: The installation of MonoDevelop was a no-brainer: I think the .Net runtimes are installed the moment you install Ubuntu. I may port one minor application to Mono, if I have time later this evening. At one … Continue reading →

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Rice’s fxxx-xx boots

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Arthur

I was reading about the principals of the US torture memo. In one of the blogs I saw a reference to this meeting which included a quite less flattering description of ms Rice (the US Foreign Affairs secretary): Think about … Continue reading →

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