Author Archives: Arthur

Lists and a public announcement

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Arthur

This is weird: Whenever I do a ‘reply to all’ to a mailing list message in GMail, I expect it to show only the mailinglist’s/major-domo e-mail address in the To: Field (and that it ignores any individual e-mail addresses). This … Continue reading →

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Disaster, waiting to happen.

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Arthur

Via MetaFilter (original discussion thread), the Hungary-based ‘AlertMap’, a service that shows current events in a “Google Maps” map. Not really original, but effective and (as it seems) close to ‘real-time’1. I need to add that the AlertMap heavily relies … Continue reading →

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I think I saw a pussycat

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Arthur

Via Paul Miller’s, , I was reminded that I saw the same birds flying around freely in Deventer last year. Apparantly, these birds enjoyed their freedom by hanging around the cages of their ‘jailed’ cousins in a bird park close … Continue reading →

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Politics

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Arthur

I followed the events yesterday, when the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had Valerie Plame on the witness stand who, under oath, told the public her side of the story (QT7). I flipped forth and back between opinions … Continue reading →

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What’s in your flue?

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Arthur

I hate mentioning commercials, but (once again), Capital One’s latest commercials beat the other ones. Earlier, the company was quite successful with their ‘Hand in the pocket’ advertisements. It looks like their ‘exterminator’ ads will be equally as successful: you … Continue reading →

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Stats, Canada

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Arthur

You may have noticed that the results of the Census 2006 were officially released today. If you plan to dive in the numbers yourself: The Flash version at CBC’s is god-awful: for a good overview, you may just as well … Continue reading →

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tech>he>d

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, I read about the Canadian Tax problems, which forced the Revenue centre to shutdown operations because of ‘inconsistent’ data. I hear that they expect to be up and running starting next Thursday. Earlier, via the Postgres mailing-list, I … Continue reading →

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You’ve got flu

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Arthur

I happened to run into a meeting with the flu, last Monday, and I’m gradually recovering. I’ve not been sick since I’ve lived here: a feat I thought was so unique that it could have earned me a place in … Continue reading →

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What?

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Arthur

Computer stuff then: The first thing that caught my attention was the ‘FizzBizz’ discussion (started here). The main point of discussion is how to filter out programmers from not-programmers by asking them to write a simple program. I’ve got a … Continue reading →

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Where was that moon?

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Arthur

We had a hard time locating the moon today, as we were anticipating the lunar eclipse (earlier). Nothing happened at 5:30 PM, apparently and it wasn’t until 6 that we finally saw that moon coming from behind the distant tree/mountain … Continue reading →

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Winter March

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Arthur

There’s a weather warning for the Maritimes, and I can tell from the snowshovels that appear to be driving around the block (and the wind gusts): Snowfall accumulations of 10 to 20 centimetres are forecast for many areas before the … Continue reading →

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Nah

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Arthur

I closed down the comments for now: the last 3 days I received spam that came (consistently) from one IP address (Australia, if you want to know). Consistently. For three days. You’d say that an administrator would know after 3 … Continue reading →

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Planes

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

I just read about the financial troubles at Airbus, which are caused by both a weak US dollar and by serious delays to its flagship A380 Super Jumbo (Wikipedia). There’s an interesting quote from an employee at a German plant … Continue reading →

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