Author Archives: Arthur

Eudora

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Arthur

I‘m both mixed pleased and skeptic about the Qualcomm’s decision to open source that legendary e-mailer Eudora. I have no problems with the open-sourcing part, but more or less with the plans to use Thunderbird as the base for the … Continue reading →

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Who you gonna call?

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Arthur

Ghostbusters! We saw both the films (I & II) and liked them both (naturally). While the effects are rather old-fashioned, the Ghostbuster movies still stand the test of time. Earlier this evening, I played a rather unlucky game of Winning … Continue reading →

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That said

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Arthur

I had the opportunity to play around with Microsoft’s C# and I must admit it’s a breeze (and fun) to learn if you’ve got a C++/C, Pascal or Java background. Obviously, Microsoft’s C# designers took the best of many worlds, … Continue reading →

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Programmers are from Earth

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Arthur

The latest popular ‘programming article on a blog’ is “Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus”, which, mind my language, is a piece of crap, obviously written by somebody who is an application developer. It is so full of … Continue reading →

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And then some tech

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, Google announced that it is taking over YouTube1, the popular video sharing site. There was a lot of speculation last week and rumours were abound about what would happen if Google bought YouTube, with many ‘experts’ expecting lawyers readying … Continue reading →

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Pumpkins

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Arthur

With Halloween around the corner, businesses have been focussing on pumpkins and other harvest and Fall related items and products. There’s a local restaurant that still serves home-made1 (seasonal) cheesecake: in this case pumpkin cheesecake pies, which apparently are of … Continue reading →

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In other news…

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Arthur

On this Thanksgiving Day, I predict a slow newsday, despite yesterday’s news (‘North Korea conducts first nuclear weapon test’). I tend to believe that this proofs the failure of the current US policy. However, last night, I saw brief segments … Continue reading →

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Le Boeuf sur le Toit

Posted on October 8, 2006 by Arthur

Yesterday, I came across this performance of Milhaud’s ‘Le Boeuf sur le Toit’ at Google Video. I actually ended up at Google via Daniella Thompson’s excellent Brazilian music blog (permalink to video)1. I ran into her blog a couple of … Continue reading →

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Nova Scotia: Open 7 days a week.

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Arthur

The biggest news event this week (you heard this on CNN first! Wait, no, scrap that) now prominently featuring on today’s Tourism NS e-postcard, which you can send to your Europeans pals (who obviously don’t enjoy this particular human right … Continue reading →

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You asked: How to find count between two dates mssql

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Arthur

Oh: that age old problem. It depends on what you’re looking for? Years, days? Milliseconds? /* Days */ select DATEDIFF(D, getdate(), ’10/11/06′); select DATEDIFF(Y, getdate(), ’10/01/02′); You may need to be careful with using year calculations: obviously MS SQL does … Continue reading →

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All Things Canadian

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Arthur

This morning there was a weather warning out for Nova Scotia, but according to weather experts, the warning had nothing to do with hurricane Isaac (or rather tropical storm). Point is, later this day, meteorologists from the Weatheroffice significantly downgraded … Continue reading →

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The word is bike (with a little bit of stone)

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Arthur

For no particular reason, I came across the word ‘stane’, which M-W says is Scottish for ‘stone’. I thought that was silly: the Dutch word for stone is steen, which is pronounced exactly the way Scottish people would say ‘stane’. … Continue reading →

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Numberwang

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Arthur

Ze Frank had a brilliant commentary on the US Detainee bill issue. You can watch the full show right here. Since it’s both sad and funny, I quote: In recent years, Mr. Corpus’ tactics of trying to protect the innocents … Continue reading →

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