Author Archives: Arthur

That’s not a calf

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier this morning I read that the Australian government released (graphic) pictures of the Japanese whale hunt in the Antartic seas. I thought this was quite unique: normally, I expect these pictures to come from organizations like Greenpeace (they released … Continue reading →

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Web traffic

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Arthur

Right in time for this year: the current statistics for this domain, which includes a chart with extremely boring colours (click the image on the right of this paragraph). Last year, I didn’t list the individual page views: these are … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw (II)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier, which is, almost a year ago, I was comparing owner-draw programming in Delphi and C# and concluded that it’s quite similar: basically you set any visual component in a particular mode (‘I’m going to take care of drawing the … Continue reading →

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Moo (and other stuff)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier today, the WordPress developers released a fix for a security issue in the xml-rpc code. There’s no need to completely upgrade your installation: upgrading overhere is sort of painless and that’s not because of the fact that my host … Continue reading →

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Tango Habanero (‘Youkali’)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Arthur

Tango Habanero (or ‘Youkali’) is probably the most popular music piece of the (musical) play ‘Marie Galante’ (based on a novel written by Jacques Deval). There is too much to tell about ‘Marie Galante’: first of all, the book was … Continue reading →

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The driveway

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Arthur

I think it’s an understatement if I’d say that last week, we’ve gone through quite some weather. Monday, we started out with lots of rain which at the end made our driveway look like the perfect ‘slide and glide ramp’ … Continue reading →

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Is that a fractal?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Arthur

The CBC has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry’s obsession with evil machines. The slideshow uses the new movie ‘Untraceable’ (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine … Continue reading →

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18 characters and counting

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Arthur

Via nu.nl, I found out that the countries that form the EU our slowly moving forward with the introduction of the Single European Payments Area (SEPA). SEPA is a framework for a unified payment system that (should) make European cross-border … Continue reading →

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Noche de Jaranas

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arthur

I read that Alfons recently visited a performance of La Noche de Mayas, so hey, why not add the composer Revueltas to the ‘Past the bridge’ category. I have a couple of sound samples from the Mexican composer but the … Continue reading →

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Rambo vs. Norris

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arthur

The more I watch the US primaries, the absurder it gets. You’re probably familiar with the fact that Chuck ‘I’m on the Internet too’ Norris is a supporter of Huckabee (actually, the other day, even the local paper published a … Continue reading →

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The sound of

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Arthur

This morning, I woke up with the sound of snowplows driving by our house, which to me, is the first hint that it’s time to do some shoveling outside. So, I guess, that’s something I’ll be planning for later. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Lyperhinks

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

There were some considerable announcements made this week and last week: First of all, there was a buzz on the Postgres list that Sun was going to buy up MySQL. The official announcement at MySQL mentions that it went over … Continue reading →

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Is there a statistician in the house?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

I downloaded the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition ISO from the Microsoft site and discovered that specific stuff I was looking for isn’t supported in that special edition. I guess there is (or rather was) a huge difference between ‘Orcas’ … Continue reading →

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