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Olympics II

Posted on February 24, 2006 by Arthur

I decided to watch the Olympics at CBC and ended up watching the 4-men bobsled heats. The report only focussed on the Canadian sleds and the leading teams. In this sport that’s generally either Switzerland, Germany or Russia. The final … Continue reading →

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Google Pages, RSS, Sets

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Arthur

Everybody and the other was talking about ‘Google Pages’ today. Might just as well point you to the discussions at Metafilter, Slashdot and Digg. I’m not impressed with what it has to offer, but the technology behind it is pretty … Continue reading →

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Super-cave™

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Arthur

Apparently the world still hasnot been fully explored: In Venezuela, researchers found a cave that huge that two helicopters could fly safely in it and land. Yes, on that picture there, those little specks are helicopters. Looking at the picture, … Continue reading →

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milkman (or milkwoman)

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Arthur

milkman, milkwomann 1. A person who is frequently wandering around the office (‘door by door’/’cubicle by cubicle’) and fills in time by making conversation with anybody who is willing to listen and discuss today’s headlines. ex – Duncan is proving … Continue reading →

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Licenses and other stuff.

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Arthur

A discussion over at Cosmic Variance (‘Apple or PC laptop’) reminds me that a lot of people actually think that Apple runs on ‘Linux’. Nope, it doesn’t: it runs a ‘Unix’ flavour. If you want more points, you say either … Continue reading →

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Strike. Past.

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Arthur

Over the weekend I was reminded of an incident that happened during German classes when I was (way) younger. I was called upon to write my homework on the blackboard and I refused to do so. I had done my … Continue reading →

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Bow wow wow

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

While preparing snapshots of music from Sonic Youth, for a new addition to the ‘Past-The-Bridge’ collection, I decided to turn the clock back a bit more (once again

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The Island (2005)

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this weekend we watched ‘The Island’, a movie with so many (amazing) stunts and effects that it makes your head whirl. Quite an action movie: not flawless, but that’s why it’s called an action movie. Interesting to see a … Continue reading →

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Konvoi! Absinken!

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

For no apparent reason, I’ve been humming one of the themes of the movie ‘Das Boot’: the one that (apparently) is titled ‘Konvoi’. The History channel is to blame this time: I think they showed that movie 3 or 4 … Continue reading →

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Half-Life 2, II

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I decided to replay Half-Life 2 (earlier and earlier): while the gameplay is excellent, I still think 50 dollars for a game with no extra features is a waste, particularly compared to what you get in the … Continue reading →

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Keyboard madness

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Arthur

During one of those longer coding sessions, my development environment started to act up and (at the end) gave up on me. There was no way to save the code because of some ‘modal madness’ occurring in the background. I … Continue reading →

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Algorithms Fun

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Arthur

Interesting detail: Yahoo has released its AJAX library under the BSD license. The archive shows some neat examples of JavaScript. There are other AJAX libraries around. Some of them good. Some of them not good enough. Yahoo’s dev. blog can … Continue reading →

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Google and more Olympics

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Arthur

Returning from work, I noticed that my Gmail account includes the web-based GoogleTalk. I complained earlier about not being included. Thanks. I was also surprised to see the approval of Adsense coming through. In 20 years, I’ll be a millionaire! … Continue reading →

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