Author Archives: Arthur

25 Degrees and listing

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Arthur

I read the news about that ship that sailed into ice and had to be evacuated. Crew and passengers were all evacuated: nobody was wounded. Currently the ship hasn’t sunk yet but is lying on one side, hull exposed, as … Continue reading →

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You. Read.

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Arthur

Amazon came out with an electronic book called the ‘Kindle’. The regular news sources are mixed about this device. For a company the size of Amazon and the business they’re in (selling books, originally) it makes perfect sense. I’m only … Continue reading →

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I, link.

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of links I ran into which are worth mentioning and that only for future reference: I discovered NYT’s amazing Multimedia section only because I was looking for photos discussing the Black Sea environmental disaster (discussed earlier, direct link … Continue reading →

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Made in WhereEverLand

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Arthur

My Apacer multi-card reader just broke on me. Upon closer inspection, the pins on both ends of the CompactFlash reader seem to have broken off1. Maybe I was in a stage of ‘excited delirium’, which according to popular belief, makes … Continue reading →

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A wreck

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I was reading two articles about two wrecks: the first one was about that shipwreck found by a Swedish TV team somewhere in the Baltic sea. Early pictures suggest the ship resembled work of Dutch ship-builders (16 or 17th … Continue reading →

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Oh. Noes!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, my two sets of Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) arrived by snail-mail, which means that I’ll be upgrading my ‘v1r7u41 b0xen’ this weekend. Once again, the package came with free stickers. Hey, Sun, what’s that? Still no free stickers with … Continue reading →

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Who broke it?

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Arthur

You may have witnessed theme switching the last couple nights: it happened so fast that you wouldn’t even know it was me. I’ve been working on changing the layout accordingly, something that involved plenty of PHP stuff because the original … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Arthur

I noticed that Google has released their Android SDK, which is an attempt to break open the cellphone market. There are a couple of exciting things to mention but the most important is that Google has adopted Webkit, you know … Continue reading →

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Dike 1. Dike 2.

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday portions of Western Europe were on storm watch: A strong North Eastern Western wind and the right (rather wrong) tide caused water levels to rise abnormally. My civil engineering background was the reason for looking for tidal information at … Continue reading →

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More power. Unix power.

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, Walmart (evil Walmart) started to sell the Everex TC2502 gPC for only 199.00 US (Thanks to the high Canadian dollar, that is in or about 50 dollars CDN1, or for Europeans, that is 5 EUROs: yes, approximately the … Continue reading →

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Footprint

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Arthur

I was able to play around with a beta of the upcoming Firefox 3 (which is scheduled for release this year, according to the roadmap) and was a bit underwhelmed mostly because it drags. I was an early adopter of … Continue reading →

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Klaatu barada nikto

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Arthur

When astronauts (or cosmonauts for that matter) from a different country get into a fight, which country’s law does apply? (via Slashdot) According to a 1967 treaty (Outer Space Treaty), states have legal jurisdiction within spacecraft registered (‘owned’) by them, … Continue reading →

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Noel V

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Arthur

From what I’ve heard, sections of Northern Truro (including Onslow) are still without power and according to NSP, power for most customers won’t be completely restored until Tuesday. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the crews on the … Continue reading →

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