Author Archives: Arthur

X3: The return

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arthur

Last week, I noticed that I had missed an update for ‘X3: Reunion’ (earlier on xsamplex), which should patch your X3 game up to 2.5 (if you’ve got X3 via Steam, it should come as an automatic update). Since the … Continue reading →

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A Carrier

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arthur

Way earlier (a couple of weeks perhaps) I was reminded of the fact that the Dutch navy at one time had a carrier (actually two but that’s a different story) which served a small amount of time in and around … Continue reading →

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Roll up the Rim 2008

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arthur

If you read this blog, you’d know that I’ve been tracking the Hortons’ ‘Roll up the Rim’ contest for quite a while (“Since 2002”). Just like last year, 2008 also misses the ‘breakdown of winning cups per size’ which makes … Continue reading →

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Moby Octopad

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Arthur

I brought up Yo La Tengo a couple of times, skirmishly, I admit (previously on xsamplex). I discovered the band via the ‘regular musical path’: As a fan of Sonic Youth I ended up listening to Yo La Tengo. I’m … Continue reading →

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The, Surprise

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Arthur

Microsoft’s move to open up the (file) specifications for its Office applications quite surprised me. I don’t think it has hit Slashdot yet, but it made it to the ‘frontpage’ of ZDNews. Brian Jones (Program Manager for Office) made the … Continue reading →

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WTH

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

NO-REALLY?

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PropertyGrids in C#

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

Yesterday, I decided to tackle .Net’s PropertyGrid component: for Helios, I was working on code to allow users to view Datasource-specific data at run-time. For this, I already had several support objects programmed and ready to go, and what better … Continue reading →

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CVS meet Enscript

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Arthur

Last night, I was installing CVS on my Debian box. Actually, it was already installed: the CVSROOT was ready to go and the service itself had been listening since the early days. However, I never finished assigning rights to myself, … Continue reading →

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When the Earth

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of links to keep you busy for now: I’m not sure where I got this one from, but to me ‘Social Wallpaper’ is the only compelling social network. If you can call it a social network: basically, it … Continue reading →

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And then for…

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Arthur

And then for something slightly different: More of the same! You guessed it: Yesterday morning, I was surprised to find we were a bit snowed in. When I say snowed in, I mean that I have to use force to … Continue reading →

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VirtuAmp

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of months ago, I found VirtuAmp, a (real-time) virtual guitar amplifier that comes with a range of virtual pedals, including a tremolo, flanger and compressor. It works actually pretty good too and it’s easy to setup: your (desktop) … Continue reading →

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Aliens uh?

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Arthur

If you’re bored and feel for a challenge this weekend: I watched a couple of videos online that were interesting enought to share. ‘Alien Planet’ (1h:30m) is a documentary about an imaginative human mission to an inhabited planet (“Darwin IV”) … Continue reading →

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You failed

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Arthur

Via Crooks and Liars, I saw The Daily Show’s coverage of Romney’s CPAC speech: the speech contained so many platitudes, cliches and stereotypes that it had me laughing. Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of … Continue reading →

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