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Political Punditry

Posted on October 4, 2005 by Arthur

Sometimes, political blogs remind me of a game of chess, analyzed (live, naturally) by a grandmaster with an ELO rating less than 1000 points. I keep imagining the following screen. Mark the double exclamation: update: If you didn’t get it, … Continue reading →

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WordPerfect

Posted on October 4, 2005 by Arthur

A couple of items drew my attention: first of all Niels‘ link to an article that tells “it’s official to call Windows ‘broken’” and details the struggle of Microsoft’s executives with the problems ahead for its Windows operating system: “It’s … Continue reading →

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Bundling

Posted on October 2, 2005 by Arthur

An article over at the Independent about a forthcoming book (link to Independent) that will (most likely) attract language lovers in the world: ‘The meaning of Tingo’ from Adam Jacot de Boinod. The article over at the Independent lists the … Continue reading →

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Couple-O-Tips

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Arthur

A couple of tips and ‘hacks’ to make ‘big bucks’ fast in VegaStrike: Buy up Regen Tanks at Atlantis (+/- 612 CR) and sell them off at either Serenity or the Radio base (+/- 742 CR). I believe one tip … Continue reading →

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Paradox redux

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Arthur

A posting over at Sadly, No summarizes a certain paradoxal reasoning of the political right in the US, where bloggers literally prefer to believe the news coming from the Defense department above the ones coming from the ‘disgusting’ mainstream media. … Continue reading →

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Railroad troubles

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Arthur
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Buran-Buran

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Arthur

A picture featured at CBC grabbed my attention: a Soyuz rocket booster readied for launch at Baikonur Space Complex. Hey, isn’t that a Buran, right there in the lower right corner? Back in the 80s, after all those succesful Shuttle … Continue reading →

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In the mean time…

Posted on September 28, 2005 by Arthur

In the mean time… President Bush warns of spike in Iraqi insurgency. Not that it matters, since Mission Accomplished. Canadian Press falling in love with the new Governor-General? Artic ice disappearing fast. Perfect reply at Metafilter. Vegastrikes really rocks

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Vega strikes

Posted on September 25, 2005 by Arthur

After so many years of buggy versions, version 0.4.3 of Vegastrike finally made it beyond the startup screen on my computer. I’m not sure about some of the graphics when ‘docked’ (cartoon-like characters), but ‘flying’ out there in space is … Continue reading →

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Count the options

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Arthur

I had the urge to play an MSX game on one of those MSX emulators that you can find on-line. I use an older version of BlueMSX, which makes it a bit easier to ‘change ROMs’. So I went from … Continue reading →

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What size of belt do you have?

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Arthur

I needed a belt so went out to get one. Hey: belts have sizes. I wasn’t aware of that. What size are you? The first thought was to take the belt with a size that matched the number of my … Continue reading →

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Huh, huh?

Posted on September 23, 2005 by Arthur

An item that took me by surprise: Palm announces to make a Windows CE based Treo. Huh? HUH? The Treo will use a version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system – despite a long and bitter rivalry between the two firms … Continue reading →

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“I’m on it”

Posted on September 21, 2005 by Arthur

From: Arthur… To: Alfons… Subject: Re: Nogmaals… In-Reply-To: <9110d5aa0409200320d9e1d48@…> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <9110d5aa0409200320d9e1d48@….> I’m on it. Regards, Arthur On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:20:31 +0200, Alfons wrote… [snip]

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