Author Archives: Arthur

More space

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Arthur

CBC Radio’s Bob Fournier touched on the Phoenix Mars today: the mission’s goal is to find out if the Mars can (and does) support life. Oh no, not again, you say: however, interestingly, Phoenix is landing closer to the (North) … Continue reading →

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Your watermark file is b0rken

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Arthur

My wife noticed weird entries in the apache logs which seem to imply that there’s a cross-site security problem in a file called ‘watermark.php’. The thing is, that I have no idea which software package includes that file but it … Continue reading →

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We reserve

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Arthur

We’re in the midst of a heat spell: today the temperatures went past the 30 degrees Celsius, making it a rather too hot day to run errands. We made it out to the mall though, but I didn’t happen to … Continue reading →

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Voyager I, 30 years later

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Arthur

You may have noticed the number of articles about the Voyager missions (NASA/JPL): that’s because today, it’s exactly 30 years ago that the first Voyager was launched and to celebrate that, Wired posted an excellent photo-gallery about the two probes. … Continue reading →

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What, Eudora?

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Arthur

I downloaded the first Thunderbird-based Eudora version from Mozilla, after reading about this on Slashdot. Extra caution, if you were ever used to using Eudora in the golden days of Internet: it doesn’t even slightly resemble anything you’ve seen before. … Continue reading →

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Word

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Arthur

I was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu’s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the freedict site (you probably need … Continue reading →

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That’s not my bike

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, there was a great Metafilter thread on Amsterdam’s (or Dutch) bicycle culture (direct link to photos). Generally speaking, what was possible to do in The Netherlands you’d be arrested for over here. Some annotations that … Continue reading →

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Ghost Recon (Gold Edition)

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Arthur

Actually, I wanted to play Medal of Honor, but since the (original) discs appear to be damaged, I ended up looking at a set of Ghost Recon discs. I bought this set of discs 3 or 4 years ago (for … Continue reading →

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Moo!

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Arthur

Via Smashing Telly, Dawkins’ “Enemies of Reason” (2 parts): Slaves to Superstition and Irrational Health System (I think that’s the title mentioned in Google Video). There is a hilarious scene in the second part, where Dawkins addresses the viewer after … Continue reading →

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A coincidence

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Arthur

Our brain’s ability to dish out memories whenever it thinks we need them is absolutely mind boggling. This morning I was reading that article about an Indonesian naval ship that ran aground in Australia: it was heading for a tall … Continue reading →

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Cold. Huh?

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Arthur

The weather at night seems to be going slowly downhill: tomorrow morning we’ll be hitting temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius. This is probably a good thing, hurricane-wise (I was thinking of hurrican Dean), albeit a bit too early … Continue reading →

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The Soviets are here

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Arthur

I was going to write an anecdotal posting about that ‘Red Dawn’ movie (earlier) after I saw it mentioned (or referenced to) in a ‘Scrubs’ rerun (‘Wolverines!’). Yeah, uh, no, I don’t think I’d like to think of that movie. … Continue reading →

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Cold war

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Arthur

I read that Russia is restarting its long range patrols, a Soviet-era practice that was suspended in the early 90s. Somewhat earlier, Russian and Chinese armies joined in the Russian mountains for a multi-country military exercise. It looks like they … Continue reading →

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