Author Archives: Arthur

Hurricane Haiku

Posted on September 15, 2005 by Arthur

A hurricane hurles At hurricane force strength. Huh? another outage minor stanzaic corrections

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Hurry, Ophelia

Posted on September 15, 2005 by Arthur

I saw that Ophelia is slowly skimming off the Eastern US coast, meaning that it most likely will do the same over here at the Atlantic coast. It only moves at a speed of 3mph, too. That’s 5 km/h for … Continue reading →

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Donuts

Posted on September 14, 2005 by Arthur

Donuts! Plenty of donuts. Blue ones. Donuts Blogs, Doughnuts, FlickR Donuts, Pre-baked donuts and uh, oh, FREAKING SCARY DONUTS. Your Daily xsamplex will continue tomorrow.

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Hearing. Aid.

Posted on September 14, 2005 by Arthur

One article that caught my eye was this one over at Ars Technica: The iPod generation that becomes deaf (originally via Slashdot/Wired article): Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the … Continue reading →

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Muhahaha

Posted on September 14, 2005 by Arthur

Hey. Google has added Blogsearch. Fantastic, eh?. A quick search tells me that yours truly isn’t even listed. On any search engines. That’s good news. update: 7:11 PM, Looks like Slashdot is down. Must have been because of the Blogsearch … Continue reading →

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Moo Cow

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

Niels’ How-To documentation (Good stuff)

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Missing in action

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier today, I had an error coming up while installing a piece of Microsoft software: ‘The Installation/Removal of a Previous Program Was Not Completed’. After a search in both the filesystem and registry, I ended up finding the culprit in … Continue reading →

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HCC is going to be…

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Arthur

I read that the Dutch National Post (KPN) is taking over the Dutch internet provider HCC-net. To be more precise, it’s actually KPN’s subsidairy XS4ALL (More on XS4ALL’s exciting service over at Niels’ [English!]). Yahren ago, the HCC (organizer of … Continue reading →

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September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2005 by Arthur

It’s September the 11th, and look at the CNN’s frontpage of their website! Just a link to the memorials. I’m shocked. Alan (and Alfons in the comments) has a brief posting about that specific day. I do recall everything too, … Continue reading →

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Separated at birth?

Posted on September 10, 2005 by Arthur

Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Boing-boing’s Doctorow and Half-Life’s Freeman? Or am I the first one to notice this? Wait: maybe there was a look-a-like contest. Update 2: OK: one of them is a bit more chunkier (just … Continue reading →

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Where is that file?

Posted on September 10, 2005 by Arthur

Weird news from The Netherlands: the criminal file on nuclear scientist Khan has been displaced, or as Dutch people would say ‘misappropriated’. Yesterday, a retiring judge for the Amsterdam judicial court who presided the Khan-case in the early Eighties, told … Continue reading →

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Et tu, compile

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Arthur

Managed to compile Regnessem, that is, a couple of hours ago. Compiling isn’t too much of a job: the original directory structure within the tarball (which I hope is the latest version of the program) has been setup nice and … Continue reading →

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I seek you

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier today, I found this gem: a multi-messaging protocol supporting curses based messager CenterICQ. It works too, as you can see from the images. It really works, and you have to take my word for it. The good thing is … Continue reading →

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