Author Archives: Arthur

Weather, wise

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Arthur

While talking to my overseas relatives, I briefly brought up the impression that (as we grew older) the weather in The Netherlands got milder too. Yes, I remember driving on the bike through -20 degrees temperatures. Or through snow. I … Continue reading →

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Supply and Java

Posted on December 2, 2006 by Arthur

I read that the WSJ invited two bloggers to discuss and debate the state of uh-Microsoft. Who did they invite? Dave Winer and Robert Scoble. The best pals in the world. That never works, and it shows too. Debate? That’s … Continue reading →

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Not even tech

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Arthur

A couple of notes: The first link that I ran into this morning was a bookmark at Digg with the title ‘This is what happens when you let developers create UI’ (actual blogpost). I have a problem with the ‘insinuation … Continue reading →

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Left, or right?

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Arthur

For no particular reason, I was looking for images of Leopard tanks, when I noticed that the majority of the photos show the tanks moving from right to left (or rather, the picture taken from the left side). This appears … Continue reading →

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Sidenotes

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Arthur

Rumour has it that I plan to move this blog to its own separate domain to offload the traffic on this domain. Heavy traffic (unrelated to above) also came from fark today, because someone thought it was nice to include … Continue reading →

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A camera strikes

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Arthur

Back in my teenage years, I apparently was able to buy not one but two SLR cameras. My very first one, was an East-German made ‘Praktica’. I bought extra lenses for that one, and as a matter of fact, became … Continue reading →

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String theory

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Arthur

Yesterday, CBC’s ‘The Current’ had a section about the discord in the theoretical physicist community regarding String Theory. There’s an excellent recording of that section right here (Scroll down for recording, or try this link [RealAudio!]) While not going too … Continue reading →

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Up Round

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Arthur

This week the Dutch went to the polls and to much surprise, the Christian Democrats kept most of their seats in the Lower House. The other surprise was that the Socialist Party was officially named winner of this year’s election … Continue reading →

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Empire at War

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Arthur

This is going to hurt so much, so I might just as well throw it out: LucasArt’s “Empire at Wars” rots. I got the game a couple of months ago and was too embarrassed to mention it earlier. Don’t buy … Continue reading →

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Ball-points

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I read about the ball-point pen at BBC. Revolutionary? Probably not, but definitely groundbreaking: how many generations have used the ball-point pen since it’s invention in 1938 by the Biro brothers? How many of your pens have been stolen … Continue reading →

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There

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Arthur

As you may have found out: xsamplex made it to the second round of the CBA 2006 awards. Congrats to the others who made it through. For the ones that didn’t make it: that was quite a narrow margin. The … Continue reading →

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You asked: CreatMapFile & Pascal

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Arthur

From the logfile, a Polish person looking for CreateFileMapping, most likely using Delphi. The WIN32 API function is generally used in conjunction with ‘MapViewOfFile’. You’d generally use memory mapped files when you run into a TStringList limitation. At this stage, … Continue reading →

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Made in Whereverland

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Arthur

Back in the early Eighties, we used to make jokes about every single electronic product, which always appeared to come with a label ‘Made In Japan’. In the early 90s, production of electronical goods apparantly shifted to Taiwan and Singapore … Continue reading →

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