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Wilma and other news

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Arthur

The third weather warning issued this year for Nova Scotia: Wilma (now a ‘extra-tropical’ storm) is slowly going northbound, disrupting existing cold fronts in the Northern part of the Atlantic. All media cautiously issued warnings: effects will start to become … Continue reading →

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Sign of the lights

Posted on October 23, 2005 by Arthur

It’s a sign of the times when a telemarketer calls you on a Sunday afternoon. Just an hour ago, we had a single lightning strike the ground somewhere, trembling the neighbourhood. A bit odd. I always associate thunder and lightning … Continue reading →

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The office of Fitzgerald website

Posted on October 22, 2005 by Arthur

The most anticipated website is coming from the Office of The Special Council Fitzgerald. If you haven’t heard of the name Fitzgerald yet, you must have been living in a different shadow world. Or maybe you just don’t read the … Continue reading →

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X-Files

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Arthur

I noticed that Walmart has all the X-Files seasons1 on sale for (and around) 89.99 dollars (tax included), which I thought was an expensive proposition if you think about it that there are 10 seasons. You do the math. On … Continue reading →

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A most -uh- day

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Arthur

Yesterday, I concluded my search for some code and (particularly) database schemas and gave in to the fears that it was a lost cause. A couple of years ago, I started a PHP framework for a game that I don’t … Continue reading →

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There’s a black guy on your porch

Posted on October 16, 2005 by Arthur

Funny stuff from Bill Maher’s show when highlighting Bush’s speech about a possible avian flu pandemic and the dangers that ‘threaten mankind’. You can watch the video cut at OneGoodMove.

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To Gel Or Not To Gel

Posted on October 15, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier, we dropped in at the local computer grocery chain to look for that (fairly priced) LCD monitor I wanted to buy for the Wife. We were looking at an Acer 17 inch one, to discover that the display showed … Continue reading →

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The Big M

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Arthur

Today’s the first anniversary of the death of my mother, an event that did not pass by without that thought about that early morning when the phone rang. It was too short. As a matter of fact, upon returning to … Continue reading →

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Huh?

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Arthur

Huh? A classical Winer-diatribe perfectly illustrating that he’s not on top of the issues nowadays. It reads chaotic too: does he mean that he’s pro-Microsoft and he doesn’t care about open formats (XML at that!)? (Note the unusual incoherent reasoning … Continue reading →

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Hey. VINCE!

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Arthur

Vince (The Hurricane) hit Europe earlier today, probably the first cyclone that actually hit and ‘exploded’ on the European continent. Get used to it! I’d be interested to see if the hurricane actually affected (and disturbed) weather patterns in Europe: … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Vince?

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Arthur

While we are hammered by rain since Friday, I noticed that an Atlantic hurricane decided to take a turn east instead of going to the west. Yesterday, a weather woman (for some kind of reason I keep hearing the theme … Continue reading →

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What would Google do?

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Arthur

An interesting read about the Plame affair: a story at Newsweek that brings some context in Rove’s next grand jury appearance. It is all about a missing e-mail! I quote: Why didn’t the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says … Continue reading →

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A list of lists

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Arthur

Not playing any major game recently (besides the occasional Fifa Soccer 05), I wondered which games define the current state of the gaming industry. Obviously, it’s ID’s Quake series that mark what can (and cannot) be done on the latest … Continue reading →

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