Author Archives: Arthur

All things Bulgarian world news.

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Arthur

This morning, I read that the 6 Bulgarian medical workers who were imprisoned in Libya, were released after being jailed for 8 years. If you’re not familiar with the story, the BBC’s Q&A and the workers’ profiles should get you … Continue reading →

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Back to X3

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Arthur

With the intermittent (or rather lack of) Internet connectivity earlier this week, I decided to copy my savegame data back to the X3 game directory and play a couple of rounds. Fun: it took a while to get used to … Continue reading →

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Oh, yeah

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Arthur

There’s this excellent BBC documentary about Titan (the moon) and Huygens (you may remember the successful Huygens touchdown). If you’re a movie aficionado, pay attention to the music that accompanies many scenes. You may recognize some of them. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Spoof attacks

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier, when logging on normally I discovered that my Internet connection had literally come to a crawl: simple pings to google.com took over 3000 ms. Then I remembered that I may have mentioned it here before (or earlier), but I … Continue reading →

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In science today…

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Arthur

I read that astronomers have read detected light from the earliest stars in the galaxy. To be exact: Light that shone 13 Billion years ago. The astronomers used a technique called ‘gravitational lensing’ (using gravity of nearby objects to magnify … Continue reading →

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You, bug

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Arthur

I get a kick out of hardware bugs: unexpected (but consistent) behaviour in normal electronic devices. Maybe electronic devices were a bit more foolproof back in the early 80s, basically because they probably had a couple of simple transistors that … Continue reading →

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Virtualization

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, the BBC had an article about the data ticking timebomb: the problem that old digital files are getting less accessible because these files can’t be read by newer versions of software. This particularly happens with proprietary binary file formats: … Continue reading →

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LCD screens (and savings)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Arthur

I was reading this article at BBC’s (Gadget threaten energy savings) and was not really surprised about the finding that the larger the LCD screen, the more power they use, eventually, topping regular CRT screens (at and around 24 or … Continue reading →

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The ban

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Arthur

Via the BBC, I read that the EU has published the last version of the airlines blacklist. The list includes all 51 carriers from Indonesia, 8 from Moldava, 6 from Bulgaria and a handful from Africa. Banned means (according to … Continue reading →

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Power2

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Arthur

I woke up late this morning to notice that the alarm-clock was blinking. It had been blinking for 22 minutes already: which means that we had a power outage around 9:00 AM. This is not spectacular news, albeit that today’s … Continue reading →

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Golden Brown

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Arthur

And then I was humming The Stranglers’ ‘Golden Brown’ out of the blue (sample, 30+ sec, or Daily Motion video). If you’re not familiar with the song, in short, it’s the only hit I know that has a 6/8 time … Continue reading →

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Freaky Thunder

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Arthur

Last night and this morning, we had some freak thunderstorm: I’m probably not the only person who had a hard time sleeping. Additionally, the storm brought several power outages: I hear that there are still people without power this PM. … Continue reading →

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Is it safe?

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Arthur

Last weekend, I was looking up the Numberwang videos at YouTube (earlier) and discovered that I missed one, the

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