Author Archives: Arthur

A Centre or a Center?

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Arthur

The big discussion around town is the feasibility of having a new Civic Centre (TD News): apparently the aim is to build a centre so Central Nova can host the 2011 Canada Winter Games. This is big news, naturally and … Continue reading →

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ETA: ‘permanent ceasefire’

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Arthur

Good news coming from Europe: The ETA (The Basque separatist group) announced a ‘permanent ceasefire’ today. In the early 80s the group was frequently in the news and apparently in one year it claimed over 100 deaths. It’s not known … Continue reading →

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The return of the Excel experts

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Arthur

Via David, this graph that appears to illustrate that Saddam killed a lot more people during his regime than the current Iraqi dead count! Spot the errors! Hints: 1. The red graph is a daily average of people killed during … Continue reading →

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Huh !!!

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Arthur

Yesterday’s logs revealed that the amount of MBs transferred topped the 160 MBs. That’s only for one day. Generally, this domain only pulls a boring 20 MB a day on average. Either someone was downloading images from my wife’s pages … Continue reading →

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A Scribe

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Arthur

I noticed that Everything2 has updated the level advancements, which means that after 5 years of not actively contributing, I became a level 4 user. When I logged into my account for the first time since, uh, 5 years, I … Continue reading →

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Tabs vs. Spaces

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Arthur

There’s an interesting collection of links in this Metafilter thread ‘Spaces vs. Tabs’. I, naturally, use spaces when indenting code. Two of them, actually, so, I’m with JWZ: Tabs don’t belong in plain ASCII files. But skimming the replies in … Continue reading →

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I just ate your culture

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Arthur

For some kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (news),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western ‘civilized’ culture is just a mash-up of cultures … Continue reading →

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While I was away

Posted on March 17, 2006 by Arthur

While I was away (as in doing other more important stuff), the following stories caught my attention, the very first moment I decided to log-in to this site: The Winer vs. Cadenhead issue: Cadenhead, formerly known as Winer’s secondante1 published … Continue reading →

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Canadian tire

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier I discovered that the Canadian Tire family (Via Alan), Ted and Gloria Simonett no longer star in the new Canadian Tire commercials. There’s (most likely) going to be a short discussion over at Metafilter. Not that I really care: … Continue reading →

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And uh.. once again

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Arthur

Once again, I decided to do a WordPress update. This time I was actually prepared and created a simple shell script that should get me going next time. No mention what was actually updated, exept for some information at the … Continue reading →

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Opera

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier we finished watching the opera ‘The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny’ on DVD. The performance (Salzburger Festival of 1998) on this DVD was recorded for a TV production and was originally distributed by ORF. The DVD (courtesy of Alfons, … Continue reading →

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Strictly rhetorical

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Arthur

A rhetorical question, more or less closer to a joke than to a question: If you were hired by Yahoo!, Google or MSN, would a free e-mail address (Yahoo/GMail/Hotmail) be part of the company’s benefits? Would you be demanding this? … Continue reading →

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Varchars kill the integers

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Arthur

Iknow several professional applications that use varchar fields to store typically invoice and order numbers, just because it makes it easier to fill this field with non-numerical characters (for example when issuing credit notes and that). This is pretty irritating … Continue reading →

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