Author Archives: Arthur

All things 70s and 80s

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Arthur

Talking about the Eighties, this item at Slashdot had me look up the Rubik’s Cube at Wikipedia. I was particularly curious when the cube hit the market, and apparently it hit the Western European toy markets in May of 1980. … Continue reading →

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Ze Saturdoit

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Arthur

I noticed that there was a DOS attack on the Dreamhost servers (what is a DOS attack), which hampered access to both hoogervorst.ca and strncpy.org. I was notified by Alfons that old classmates were planning a reunion (“Class of 82”) … Continue reading →

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BA

Posted on June 2, 2006 by Arthur

Today was a tiresome day, which I obviously blame on both weather (rainy and warm == muggy) and the apparent after-effects of the scope. At some points it felt like I was trying to catch up with the world and … Continue reading →

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Evolution in the tub (and cave, at that)

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Arthur

Two science articles that caught my eye today (and yesterday): First the finding of unknown species in a cave that appears to have been sealed off for over 5 million years and may as well contain ancient lifeforms that appear … Continue reading →

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About that new species

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Arthur
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Public Domain

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Arthur

Reading about all these issues people have with Wikipedia the main point of why Wikipedia is ‘good’, is that it is a valuable public domain resource. I’ve seen Dave Winer hammer about this-and-that, but I bet the main problem he … Continue reading →

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Digest-this

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Arthur

The best part of going to an endoscopic clinic is that after the ‘procedure’ I was tickled to refresh my brains how the digestive system works. If I’m not wrong, the digestive system was part of the biology classes during … Continue reading →

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Spin that, Doc

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Arthur

In preparation for the day before, the following emergency plan to keep me as ‘fasting’ as possible: I’m not allowed to eat anything before 6 PM because after that it’s PicoSalax time. Hey, what can be worse than trying to … Continue reading →

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Galactic Civilizations 2

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Arthur

I decided to look for GalCiv2 at the local EB Games franchise, which I found eventually. StarDock’s 4X game had so much praise, that I thought it might be interesting to add this one to my (already bulky) HD. The … Continue reading →

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LIGO

Posted on May 24, 2006 by Arthur

The CBC radio reported about the LIGO project, The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. I’m not sure who the CBC (science) reporter is on the local CBC station, but he’s obviously engaged in everything that matters in science (he also … Continue reading →

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Phis-hing

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Arthur

I‘ve noticed a flood of phishing attempts and there are actually some good ones in the set, noticably the ones that purport to come from e-bay. GMail provides good protection against accidently clicking any of the links in those mails. … Continue reading →

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Hey. You!

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Arthur

A couple of movies we’ve watched (links go to IMDB): Flightplan – Foster tries to find missing daughter and fights hijacker. There were a couple of scenes where I balked at the screen: the scene where Foster leaves the plane … Continue reading →

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Civilization, part X

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier today, I decided to update my Civ 4 version (1.09) to the latest patch, which is 1.61 (earlier). And yes, this is true (from the readme notes): “v1.52 is a major upgrade to Civ IV and includes numerous optimizations … Continue reading →

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