Category Archives: Truro NS

I made a startling discovery today. After hours of rationalizing, reasoning and thinking I came up with the following conclusion: Our dog doesn’t understand us because she only understands French. Our 12 year old puppy was born somewhere in Acadia, … Continue reading →

Compare this:    “I can imagine them sitting at a coffee shop in San Francisco, an old seedy one on Van Ness, both needing a shave and a bath, quoting Trotsky and Marx to each other” with this:    “It is indescribable. … Continue reading →

While reading the release notes for the latest version of Firebird (conveniently compiled by Alfons) I noticed the following:    “You must also delete your old Mozilla Firebird directory rather than just overwriting the files there. Not doing so WILL result … Continue reading →

I used to compare programmers to mechanics but I wonder if that comparison is still valid. At work it is expected from me to solve problems. They are categorized too and I can tell the difference if they’re critical or … Continue reading →

I have been thinking about a couple of ideas which I’d like to round up: more or less in a hobby-like matter. For some kind of reason, those ideas remind me of the two starmaps I made when I was … Continue reading →

Clay Shirky’s essay on the Semantic Web has drawn a lot of criticism from weblog luminaries. You know, the A-List type. More interesting are the matters that had to be solved somewhere else. Over at work, I finally found out … Continue reading →

I watched Saving Private Lynch, which had its premiere tonight. It was bad. Bad. With a capital B. Embarrassing. There are so many different versions of the story. To make things worse, private Lynch herself says that she can’t recall … Continue reading →

We managed to take some time to watch the lunar eclipse, around 9:05 PM. Interesting red colours: no serious. First thing on my mind was that it looked like the Pepsi logo. There was only a bit left to be … Continue reading →

It’s cold outside, there’s no cloud in the sky and it’s going to be a perfect night for tonight’s lunar eclipse. Most likely you have heard about it, since the media here has been right on this very topic since … Continue reading →

Good news and bad news always go hand in hand. Hundreds of others agree. It looks like that the immigration process is finally getting together. My application was stuck for so many moons that we almost thought to give up … Continue reading →

One thing that just popped in my head. As a programmer I like playing word games, or basically, play with languages. English is fascinating, particularly if compared with a strict language like Dutch or German. There are so many ways … Continue reading →

I‘m currently overlooking the backup of precious code and data to a CD: I grabbed a BackPack (MicroSolutions) from work. Quite an experience to install those drivers too: the old MyNote resisted to let any new hardware install on its … Continue reading →

There was a power outage, that lasted from 12:30 last night to, well, about 1:30 this PM. Over 12 hours. Pretty annoying, because this time it didn’t have to do with mother Nature. Around 11, we decided to find a … Continue reading →