Author Archives: Arthur

400 to volunteer?

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Arthur

National Geographic has an article about how readily people are to volunteer for ‘single fare’ missions. According to the National, when Fox News (yeah, we know) reported about future Mars missions, 400 readers signed up for a possible trip. Apparently, … Continue reading →

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Uprock

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Arthur

I have been thinking about my ‘breakdance’ period a lot recently for no apparent reason, except for that it was triggered by the song ‘Uprock’ from the Rock Steady Crew (DailyMotion video and my own sample on this server in … Continue reading →

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Old. Very old.

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, we were staying right in town for a couple of months: For our groceries we drove to the Sobey’s at McAllister’s. We always took our dog with us, which meant that one of us went … Continue reading →

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Return to mail

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Arthur

So once in a while, this blog acts as my right-side brain part. I’ve mentioned Eudora plenty of times on this blog and back in 2006, I reported on the ‘open-sourcing’ of this Grande Olde Dame of e-mailing (Oct 11th, … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile in SJ

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Arthur

Way back in 1998 and 1999, I switched to the Gecko-flavoured Phoenix web browser, which eventually was renamed into the browser you now know as Firefox. When Chrome came out, what, 2 years or so ago, I switched mainly because … Continue reading →

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In Vitro Music

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arthur

Hey, it’s the new year and at xsamplex, we wish you a happy easter and a merry christmas. For 2011, that is. I only have a bunch of left-over links and for no reason, this posting’s title may have nothing … Continue reading →

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SAW

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Arthur

I‘ve played a bunch of on-line games, and while I was impressed with all of them, they always end up tiring out because the maps are too limited, your fellow players are too retarded, the enemies are too predictable or … Continue reading →

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Data.

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Arthur

I woke up early with the thought of cleaning up and organizing this bunch of backup-CDs I’ve never touched since years. While I was tagging them one by one, I remembered this tool someone wrote for the MSX computer to … Continue reading →

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From bridge to evolution

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Arthur

A bunch of links, collected from the Internet: The prime-minister was in Saint John last Friday and gave away a freebie for the people of Saint John: The toll booths on the Saint John Harbour bridge will disappear. I’m not … Continue reading →

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Fall. This.

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Arthur

We’ve finally had a 2 day nice weather stretch: Last week, we had so much rain (and for 5 days straight) that it didn’t surprise me that roads downtown flooded. I have no idea if this was a tropical storm … Continue reading →

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Mass Effect 2

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Arthur

I was going to write a rant about the current state of video games, but I just happened to finish off ‘Mass Effect 2’ (wikipedia) after 25 hours of (clocked) gameplay. That should tell enough. Back in the early 90s … Continue reading →

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Which twins?

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Arthur

If you look for twins on Google Images, the majority of the results show the oh-so-famous Olson twins. I only mentions twins here, because earlier, Gizmodo featured a story about a conjoined twin (the original story at Macleans): it’s a … Continue reading →

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One world One voice

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Arthur

In 1990, the BBC broadcast the ‘One World One Voice’ documentary, a documentary to raise awareness of environmental issues. It was followed by an almost hour long chain of music, initially started as a tape by Kevin Godley (“10CC”) which … Continue reading →

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