Author Archives: Arthur

Red Green

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Arthur

While I’ve slowly mastered the humour in Canadian Air Farce (according to Citizen and Imigration Canada, it takes the average foreigner over 4 to 5 years to understand Canadian humour [more on that later, I hope]), I cannot grasp The … Continue reading →

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“We’ve got hostiles”

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Arthur

Playing the ‘elder’ Half-Life has some entertainment values: first of all I wasn’t that amused seeing the Steam engine installed. It crashes so once in a while too (a couple times already), plus it seems to update itself automatically to … Continue reading →

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Shock and awe

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Arthur

During a presidential event, an audience member goes off-script and criticizes the presidency and the administration’s policies: What I wanted to say to you is that I — in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more … Continue reading →

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Back to that BIOS

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Arthur

Following up on the BIOS story: Yesterday, before installing the ATI card, I went into the BIOS to disable the primary (onboard) SiS video adapter to find out that the Primary Video Card setting was already set to PCI [instead … Continue reading →

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Flater

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this day, a close Dutch relative (understatement) brought up the Dutch word ‘flater’, which had me confused for a couple of seconds: the actual meaning of the word (“a fiasco of gigantic proportions”, I guess you could call that … Continue reading →

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Computer dude

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Today it was Computer Dude Day. We had planned to buy a new videocard for the half so she could play her Sims 2 game, something we did indeed earlier this morning (Additionally she bought a mini Zen Nano player, … Continue reading →

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Say that again?

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Reading a flyer of an unspecified company selling electronic wares like MP3 players and computer stuff I was startled by a slogan next to a picture of a DVD burner: BURN ALL YOUR FILES! Imagine living in the 70s and … Continue reading →

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Static! Google and Gopher.

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Recently, I’ve noticed that I’m statically charged all the time. It started a couple of months ago. It can be pretty painful too, particularly when I touch objects that, well -uh- conduct. Better stay clear from me. You too, cat. … Continue reading →

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Solar eclipse

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Arthur

Portions of Africa, Europe and Asia enjoyed a (partial/whole) solar eclipse today, and Space.com has the pictures. From that same page, a spectacular picture what a solar eclipse looks like from the great void (original pictures over at NASA). I … Continue reading →

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Gratitude

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Arthur

Via Blake Ross’, I read that we should thank Microsoft for its monopolistic behaviour. After all: …and for all those who lament the pre-inclusion of Internet Explorer, it’s worth noting that if IE WASN’T pre-installed, most people wouldn’t be able … Continue reading →

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Pirates!

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Arthur

For a couple of months, an ad for ‘Sid Meier’s Pirates!’ has been laying on my table. It’s actually the backcover of the manual for Civilization 4 (category), but nonetheless, an ad it is, showing a couple of screenshots with … Continue reading →

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Bloody huh

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Arthur

While ‘Doom 3’ (XBOX) is absolutely a great game from a graphical point of view, I have plenty of criticism on the gameflow, or rather, the single-mindedness of it: “KILL-YAAAAAARGHH”. There are situations where I had the impression that the … Continue reading →

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The Lion sleeps

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier on the news, I heard that the family of the original writer of the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ have won the (6 year) battle to regain the copyrights of that song. This struck me as good news, or … Continue reading →

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