Monthly Archives: April 2004

Science and virusses

Posted on April 23, 2004 by Arthur

Apparently, SARS is once again popping up in China, as you may have read around. One of the articles covering that topic, sported the picture (click to view in seperate window) as shown in this entry. Pretty image of a … Continue reading →

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Who is Hilary Duff?

Posted on April 17, 2004 by Arthur

I was browsing the Zellers flyer which had an annoucement that Zellers finally has started selling ‘Stuff by Duff’. I have no idea what that stuff might be, but apparently ms. Duff is really popular with the kids. Me: I … Continue reading →

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Canada to revamp Copyrights Act?

Posted on April 14, 2004 by Arthur

Via GenX40, Heritage minister Scherrer intends to draft legislation to completely forbid file sharing. Alan closely followed the Canadian digital copyrights cases (and rulings) here, here and here. A Metafilter discussion is here.

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Idol moves for idol

Posted on April 13, 2004 by Arthur

Over at the Whitehouse Interactive, the following question by an Idol fan was answered by nobody else than Scott McLellan: Q:Tiffany, North Canton Middle School, Canton, Ohio: Can you please move the Presidents speech to another time? I want to … Continue reading →

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Hutspot and Kale. And Texas

Posted on April 11, 2004 by Arthur

I made hutspot the other night, which is a traditional Dutch meal (French). I’m used to use corned beef, instead of the traditional ‘speklap’, but then, the concept is practically the same: it’s all about mash-mash-mash. Anyway, I was reminded … Continue reading →

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What accent do you have?

Posted on April 10, 2004 by Arthur

Perfect-ly in ti-me for Easter week-end: the Speech Accent Archive (via DevNull). The site has 2 classic examples of Dutch people speaking English (Nijmegen and Amsterdam). Note that I doubt the claims of the Nijmeger speaker that he has an … Continue reading →

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Matrices

Posted on April 9, 2004 by Arthur

I decided to buy the complete set of Matrix DVDs. It was Revolutions’ DVD release this week, and as an extra, someone gave me 4 or 5 genuine Revolutions wall posters. No really. Watching them the last couple of days, … Continue reading →

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Ready. Set. Laugh.

Posted on April 6, 2004 by Arthur

Article over at CNN makes me laugh (actually, it comes from Reuters).    “You have to be careful about jokes. They do not translate from culture to culture” As if I never discovered. I don’t understand the Canadian, or rather, Northern … Continue reading →

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The curse of the Tunnelvision

Posted on April 6, 2004 by Arthur

Tunnelvision. I suffered programmer’s tunnelvision today. Suffering tunnelvision is bad. Really bad. I need a drill. Like in, a giant drill. (Note that I was always used to call the Channel Tunnel, ‘the Chunnel’. Maybe it actually has a real … Continue reading →

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Paddington

Posted on April 5, 2004 by Arthur

Over at the BBC, an article that seems to bring closure to the Paddington crash (story about the crash). Around that time, Alfons and I were in London too: we were visiting the old City to attend the Kurt Weill … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future!

Posted on April 3, 2004 by Arthur

I gather that the time already changed over in Holland, last week, as the picture so rightfully shows. There would have been a six hour difference between this part of the ocean and the old continent. I have just seen … Continue reading →

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Quays

Posted on April 3, 2004 by Arthur

Alfons sent in some pictures from around the Deventer quays. They have been rebuilt in the Eighties, but the city’s Public Works department was smart enough to keep the old stones and bricks. There’s something funny about that picture. Normally … Continue reading →

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Rain and ad

Posted on April 3, 2004 by Arthur

Temperatures have been floating around the 5 to 7 degrees here, making the ground extremely soggy. Too much snow melting too fast. It’s a mess: supposed to be raining too, all weekend. Showers. Rain, reminds me of AT&T’s ‘Rain’ commercial: … Continue reading →

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