Author Archives: Arthur

Von Cruisenberg

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Arthur

The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler (July 20 Plot) goes to the silver screen and the actor who’s going to play Claus von Stauffenberg is… Tom Cruise. This doesn’t go over well in Europe, and particularly Germany, of course: … Continue reading →

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Your Windows just broke

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Arthur

So, you have a Toshiba laptop and Windows doesn’t want to start anymore and shows a message in the form of ‘system config corrupt’ and ‘please insert the original Windows disk and press ‘r’ to start Windows Recovery Console’. If … Continue reading →

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The old new

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I downloaded the ‘latest’ Eudora: Officially, there’s a team of developers working on the new open-source version of Eudora (based on Thunderbird, or something like that). Progress is slow, I hear (see also the Penelope project page @ Mozilla). … Continue reading →

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Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Arthur

I keep reminding myself to add a fragment of Luscious Jackson’s ‘Naked Eye’ to this category so, here it is (link goes to page with 30+ sec. something long something music file). I’m not sure how Luscious Jackson’s CD ‘Fever … Continue reading →

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Copy, Paste.

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Arthur

Via something, I ran into this (online) sarcastic presentation about Copy Paste Programming (Wikipedia). A quick summary: Best practices: Find the code, copy/paste it, compile, enjoy! Pitfalls and workarounds: The copied/pasted code does not compile. Copy/Paste larger portion of code. … Continue reading →

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Computers and other news.

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier this week, I heard that the International Space Station’s computers crashed. ‘It was the Americans fault’, according to the Russians: Russian specialists believe that the new solar panel installed by the Atlantis astronauts during their spacewalk could be the … Continue reading →

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Hey, hey.

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I discovered that the StringReaders/Writers in .Net only support UTF-16 encoding, which may lead to some breakage if you’re using it in combination with the XMLSerializer object. If you really need to maintain UTF-8 compatibility, you should use a … Continue reading →

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Multi-meh

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Arthur

Meh: Earlier I found out OWL is a web ontology language and that it has nothing to do with the OWL that was wrapped in a box of Borland compilers (Wikipedia on Object Windows Library). Alfons should know more about … Continue reading →

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Safari

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Arthur

So, you didn’t hear it here first (MetaFilter, Slashdot and Digg links) and to be honest, it caught me a bit by surprise. I’ve mentioned WebKit here before so, I’m not sure why Apple decided to bring the ‘iTunes experience’ … Continue reading →

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Visual

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Arthur

While working on billing software, I was planning to write something on visual inheritance in Visual Studio Express (C#): this feature is ‘amiss’ in the lower end versions of that programming environment. I decided not to because the concept is … Continue reading →

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MT, ToolTips

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Arthur

You may have noticed that version 4.0 of Movable Type has been officially ‘open sourced’ (at Digg). I prefer the rather more correct ‘Movable Type has been relicensed under a less restrictive (or more restrictiver, whichever you fancy) license’. After … Continue reading →

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Around.

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier this week, the most story was the one about that lawyer with that extreme form of TB. I think it’s sufficient to just link to Google: most likely you’ve already read about how the CDC (initially) and US border … Continue reading →

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Last throes

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Arthur

So, it looks like the ‘yellow insurgency’ is in its last throes. By the time you read this, most likely, dandelions have gone from their ‘look, I’m really pretty’-stage to their ‘blow me in the wind’-phase. I heard that dandelions … Continue reading →

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