Author Archives: Arthur

Kitty and/or Peanut

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Arthur

When Imoved to Canada and married my wife almost 12 years ago, I automatically begot two pets, Katy the wonderdog and Peanut (nee Kitty). We lost Katy 2 years or so ago (previously). Last Wednesday we put down Peanut: for … Continue reading →

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Murdering the classics

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve mentioned Yo La Tengo before on xsamplex (right here); as part of my ‘Past The Bridge’ series, I (slightly) proclaimed my likeness for the NJ based band. If you’ve been on the Internet, you are probably aware of the … Continue reading →

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Japan and Clancy

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Arthur

A month or so, I decide to start reading all the books in Clancy’s “Ryan-verse” (Wikipedia). In short, the serie’s protagonist, Jack Ryan, is literally put in so many life dangering situations that at times made my toes curl. My … Continue reading →

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Roll up the Rim 2012

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Arthur

Hey: it’s Roll up the Rim time again, you know, Canada’s favourite pastime besides eating donuts and shovelling snow. I got my first cup just a couple of days ago and I was allowed to “play again”! Amazing. The low … Continue reading →

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SXSW stuff for 2012

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Arthur

So this week, the first batch of music files in the traditional torrent file has appeared on the internets (here). There are currently 700+ files in there and I believe there’s another set coming up. Get your torrent app out … Continue reading →

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Winter 2012

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Arthur

On the personal side: This month the weather has been really wet and mild. The weather has been hovering around the -5 to +7 degrees. I recall we only had 2 or 3 days really cold weather (-19s). Additionally, we … Continue reading →

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Convendro, Soliendro

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Arthur

So, the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally decided to push for a 1.0 release of Convendro (Google Code downloads, Github code): the reason being that I thought it was getting obnoxious that it was still in ‘beta-ish’ mode. After … Continue reading →

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X3 and Elite

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Arthur

It probably doesn’t surprise anybody that I’ve added “X3: Albion Prelude” (Egosoft) to my collection of playable games. This is supposed to be an expansion to “X3:Terran Conflict” (earlier on xsamplex), but to be honest, it doesn’t feel like that: … Continue reading →

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20/11 hindsight

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Arthur

The main event that marked 2011 was most likely the Japanese tsunami back in March, which triggered that nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant. I mentioned the disasters in a posting on March 20th (here), where I mainly focused … Continue reading →

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More of December and the same

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Arthur

I‘ve been mostly reading books these days: The Iconia I bought for my birthday (review) is the ideal reading device. Well, mind the glare then: I’m sure that future devices will have touchscreens sans gloss. What’s the point of having … Continue reading →

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A bird. A what?

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Arthur

Now that I’m a full-blooded Canadian (previously),there are a couple of distinctive things that make the difference between the continents I’ve lived on, North America and Europe. The five things that truly surprised me: Snow. During my very first snowstorm, … Continue reading →

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Oh noes

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Arthur

Earlier this week, Friday to be exact, Kerebos Productions released their much anticipated sequel to “Sword of the Stars”, “Sword of the Stars II”. The game was originally distributed on Steam: however, this ended up being a (so it was … Continue reading →

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Gnome 3 and Oneiric Ocelot

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Arthur

To my surprise, I saw that Ubuntu’s “Oneiric Ocelot” was released, which I decided to let go through via Ubuntu’s Update manager. I ended up double surprised when I found out that, from version 11.10 and on, only the Unity … Continue reading →

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