Monthly Archives: May 2004

OK then, I’ll summarize it

Posted on May 31, 2004 by Arthur

The new craze in Bloggetry is purple numbers. If it sounds familiar, you’ve probably already read about it. Most likely you have also read about the cons, as Mark Pilgrim so clearly shows in his ‘Pink Numbers’ entry.# The question … Continue reading →

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Garden State

Posted on May 30, 2004 by Arthur

It’s going to be a long summer of obnoxious movies. I, Robot (starring Will Smith, for goodness sake!), Vin Diesel’s ‘Chronicles of Riddick‘ (‘He starts to believe’. Where did I hear that line before?) and naturally, ‘Alien vs. Predator’. Each … Continue reading →

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And then there was…what?

Posted on May 30, 2004 by Arthur

The president keeps the gun of Saddam Hussein in arm’s reach, according to this Time article: Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the … Continue reading →

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And then there was Debian!

Posted on May 30, 2004 by Arthur

Took all night: We were watching Master and Commander first, then The Others. However, the last DVD was apparently b0rken so I ended up installing Debian from, what was it, 11 to 2:30 AM. The good thing is that there … Continue reading →

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Square root.

Posted on May 29, 2004 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago a colleague asked me if I was good in math and showed me his problem: he (basically) needed to know the length of a hypotenuse of a triangle (both sides are known) and he forgot … Continue reading →

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Is it already over yet?

Posted on May 29, 2004 by Arthur

I‘m sitting here behind my computer and wondered, ‘What happened to the Tim Hortons Roll Up The Rim contest’? Or should I ask ‘Who won?’. Raise your hands if you won more than 2 donuts. But seriously, I expected more … Continue reading →

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Tiny footprint mode

Posted on May 28, 2004 by Arthur

Windows Taskbar screwed? No tabs? Menus gone? Maybe your Taskmanager is running in Tiny Footprint Mode?

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Peanuts

Posted on May 27, 2004 by Arthur

I was reading about Bush’s latest healthcare initiative (no, it’s nothing about faith-based initiatives this time). Basically he wants to create a ‘mid-level’ Health Care IT advisor. Or something to that order. Why? Here’s what he says:    Docs are still … Continue reading →

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Swan, swan, hummingbird

Posted on May 26, 2004 by Arthur

I saw a hummingbird. For Canadians (Atlantic Canadians only, I wonder?) that’s not a big deal. As a European, I’ve never seen one in my life. Not even the last years, while living here: I was either skeptic or plain … Continue reading →

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Jiggle-do-jigdo

Posted on May 25, 2004 by Arthur

The Linux server (‘Elsie’) needs to be upgraded. After hours looking for a replacement of the Fedora Core 1 kernel I’m back at Debian. A couple of years ago, Alfons sent up a couple of Debian disks, which I planned … Continue reading →

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DVD-Arthur

Posted on May 23, 2004 by Arthur

For this long weekend my wife and I decided to check out Blockbusters for DVDs. We ended up with 4: Kill Bill vol. 1, Gothika, A Bridge Too Far and one DVD with a couple of Charles Bronson movies. My … Continue reading →

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The Planet Of Channel 9

Posted on May 21, 2004 by Arthur

Just this morning I tried to go through the videos, shot over at MSDN’s ‘Channel 9’. After cancelling a hundred of dialogs displaying security certificates (!!!), I managed to get through some of the videos (note, they’re all WMVs). For … Continue reading →

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Search and You Won’t Find

Posted on May 19, 2004 by Arthur

Over at the NYT, an article discussing Google’s new ‘local PC search’ tool. It will be interesting to see how this ‘integrates’ with the browser, and how they plan to be ahead of Microsoft’s search local-engine-plus-DB-to-Web-integration plan. Interesting times ahead, … Continue reading →

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