Author Archives: Arthur

Yoo-hoo.

Posted on November 10, 2005 by Arthur

I was surprised to find out that most people I know are not familiar with the ‘cuckoo’ – bird. While everybody is aware of the word itself (and its negative meaning), it’s the bird’s behaviour that’s of interest: female cuckoos … Continue reading →

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Dover

Posted on November 6, 2005 by Arthur

Last Friday, attorneys of the ACLU and the Dover School board district had their closing arguments in the Kitzmiller vs. DASD case. For people not familiar with the case, it’s probably one of the more important cases in the science … Continue reading →

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Civilization 4 (VI)

Posted on November 6, 2005 by Arthur

I thought this was pretty significant: most of the visitors finding xsamplex are looking for the Civ IV T&L problems described on this site. It’s awfully quiet over at the Firaxis developer blog.

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Civilization 4 (V)

Posted on November 3, 2005 by Arthur

I have a long night programming behind me: hacking a file format of a DOS based accounting program. Fair enough: no game for me today. I did notice that my entries here about the black tile problems get more views … Continue reading →

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Google Video and Microsoft Live

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Arthur

I‘m not sure what to think of Google’s Video Search, a place where people can upload videos for everyone to see. Maybe Google is out to kill their competition: America’s Funniest Movies. At least they can afford the monthly bandwidth … Continue reading →

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Team Arrest!

Posted on November 2, 2005 by Arthur

Just today, there was an image reminded me of the mid/late Seventies train hijackings in the Netherlands (Dutch, with pictures). The story that goes with that image, details a scare in a train between Utrecht and Amsterdam: two Muslim guys … Continue reading →

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Fill out your slogan

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Arthur

Almost there to ‘Friday’s Dry Humour day’. The kick-off: slogans for home-made bread: Home-made bread: almost as good as the real stuff! Right. Next question.

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Civilization 4 (IV)

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Arthur

Yesterday, I ‘har-harred’ about ‘Edelweiss’, the oh-so-pretty-sugar-song1 from ‘The Sound of Music’, which I thought I recognized in Civilization. Guess what, it’s a music theme triggered when the player enters the ‘Industrial Age’. This had me go promptly back to … Continue reading →

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Civilization 4 (III)

Posted on October 30, 2005 by Arthur

Playing the second rounds of CivIV, this time trying to stick to a religion and spread it, I ended up founding not 1, not 2, but 3 (three) religions, meaning I was generally ahead of my competitors in Warlord level … Continue reading →

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Civilization 4 (II)

Posted on October 29, 2005 by Arthur

Finishing one game of Civ4, I did another try and ended up with an ‘endless’ black map. I gave up at 1200 AD: the blackness, it hurts. What the heck: it’s a bug. Over at Apolyton some are convinced that … Continue reading →

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Civilization 4 (I)

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Arthur

Managed to get ‘Civilization 4’, the long expected successor of (ha, you guessed it) ‘Civilization 3’. According to EB Games, the game came just in today. Short overview: I had a hard time at the start after installing the game: … Continue reading →

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With Halloween approaching,

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Arthur

This Yahoo item has me thinking: “Although Halloween has become increasingly popular across Europe — complete with carved pumpkins, witches on broomsticks, makeshift houses of horror and costumed children rushing door to door for candy — it’s begun to breed … Continue reading →

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Old Tech in Science Fiction

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Arthur

It’s hard to make science fiction. Picture this: it’s 1980. You’re directing an episode of the Original Battlestar Galactica (which was then known as ‘Battlestar Galactica’ without the ‘Original’). Your main star is about to destroy a Cylon base. He … Continue reading →

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