Category Archives: xsamplex

The war that wasn’t

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Arthur

One of Brooker’s ‘Screen wipe’ episodes reminded (a whole playlist on YouTube) of the many nuclear war shows (fiction and documentaries) that were shown in the Eighties in West European countries. Some of the shows I’ve mentioned here before. Most … Continue reading →

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This is 2010?

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Arthur

In 2010, nobody blogs anymore: Most likely the main reason for this are other distractions like the social networks Facebook and Twitter, where people can selectively ‘opt others out’ of their ‘personal friend lists’ and pump 148 characters messages out … Continue reading →

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Onst–mig

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Arthur

The weather has been fairly mixed the last couple of weeks and the only word that correctly describes it is the Dutch word ‘onstuimig’. At least I find there is some consistency: the weather is fairly unpredictable. Last week, I … Continue reading →

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Roll Up The Rim 2009

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Arthur

Oh yeah: I happened to walk downtown and found a couple of Roll Up The Rim cups laying around, which effectively means that that specific time of the year has arrived. So, yeah, the contest rules are right above (or … Continue reading →

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Sardines, cans, computers

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, I was watching Planet Earth (BBC’s award winning documentary) and I noticed one of the documentary’s crew member trying to though out a can of sardines (see photo). We used to eat that stuff too, … Continue reading →

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Web Traffic

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Arthur

It’s that time of the year again, and a quick summary of last year’s statistics for this domain As suggested last year, December 2008 pageviews hit beyond 100,000 mark: either directly or via any of the popular search engines. My … Continue reading →

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This Year In What

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier, I lightly remarked on a couple of top ten lists (see here, opens in new window). Personal observations: Science: The most remarkable scientific breakthrough I thought happened a month ago, when astronomers made the first photo of an exoplanet. … Continue reading →

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VHS.

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Arthur

Over the Christmas days, I read that the last (US) VHS supplier bailed out from selling VHS tapes and if I believe The Register, this effectively means that VHS (Wikipedia article) is no more. VHS literally became a standard after … Continue reading →

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Oh: hello, what’s your name, again?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Arthur

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but walking in a town far away from the place I lived for almost 30 years, I keep thinking I recognize faces of people who I knew and who I’m 100 percent certain of … Continue reading →

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Washing Machine

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Arthur

I was watching that story unfold about that 700 billion dollars bail-out, and I was just thinking, hey, maybe all they need is a washing machine. I saw the political theatre of American presidential elections where a presidential candidate suddenly … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Arthur

I‘ve been playing PyChess on KDE (which is actually a GNOME application) and noticed that it’s not too bad of a chess engine (I think the other chess engine is GnuChess). It doesn’t like trading pieces for example but comes … Continue reading →

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Blueish

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Arthur

The last weeks were absurd so to say: first of all, my wife suffered from a (sort of) ear-infection which made her feel out of balance. This was also the week where we were exposed to the lows of the … Continue reading →

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They Chose China

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of months ago, I downloaded the documentary ‘They Chose China’ to my Ubuntu laptop with an intention to watch it some day, whenever I had time. The documentary features American ‘turncoats’ in China: American soldiers, who after the … Continue reading →

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