Monthly Archives: July 2004

A thin red line and other things

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Arthur

I was called by the local (previous-Philips-owned) video chain that my movies had arrived. Both of them, so I’m now the proud owner of ‘A thin red line’ and ‘Empire of the sun’. I have seen them both too, but … Continue reading →

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Man on the moon

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Arthur

Today it’s the 35th anniversary of the landing on the moon. It must have been quite the day and naturally, I was not yet put on this world that day. This is also the day you’ll see people questioning the … Continue reading →

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From Sydney to Singapore and then you’re in Paris

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Arthur

An alert reader over at Slashdot noticed the following:    From the product page on Apple.com.au; “you could fly from Sydney to Singapore and still have hours of listening time left over as you stroll the Champs Elysee.” I think the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Wrap up

Posted on July 18, 2004 by Arthur

Bought Rise of Nations last Friday and am still not sure what to think of it. It looks like a combination of Risk (the board game) and Civilization, that is when playing the ‘Conquer the World’ variant. Neat sea battles … Continue reading →

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Owner draw

Posted on July 14, 2004 by Arthur

While doing some ownerdraw stuff in regular Windows stuff (stuff is my favourite word, as you can see), I noticed something weird: I was forced to ‘refresh’ regions by code, instead of relying on the tools of the specific programming … Continue reading →

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Livemarks

Posted on July 13, 2004 by Arthur

The latest Firebird supports RSS/Atom/YourSyndication format straight from within the program. The feature is called LiveMarks and apparently it’s the abbreviation of Live Bookmarks. It works perfect: blog entries (for example) are just added as bookmarks. That’s it. After all … Continue reading →

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Of the worst kind

Posted on July 11, 2004 by Arthur

I have a problem with flag-waving people. There you have it. No matter how you turn it, flag-waving still smells like nationalism to me. Of the worst kind. It’s the symbolism that turns me off: it happens everytime I see … Continue reading →

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Movies and ivies

Posted on July 10, 2004 by Arthur

Yesterday, I discovered that the DVDs I ordered 4 weeks ago didn’t arrive because of an error in the paperwork. Today, I discovered that I had an account at the same store, something I wasn’t aware of. Weird. Additionally, we … Continue reading →

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Diskless

Posted on July 8, 2004 by Arthur

Something weird struck me today. I promised someone to copy a file to a disk and discovered that my diskdrive on my (almost new) laptop was gone. It’s not there. It was never there. When buying the computer, 4 months … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!!!

Posted on July 4, 2004 by Arthur

For no good reason we made ‘oliebollen’ today, using our secret recipe. Well, it’s hardly a secret. It takes flour, sugar, eggs, butter, a sprinkle of salt, milk and yeast. What a coincidence: over at MetaFilter there was a discussion … Continue reading →

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Spinning

Posted on July 4, 2004 by Arthur

Watched ‘House Of Sand and Fog’ (distributed by Dreamworks) today and thought it was a bit over top. Still good but I wonder why it is rated higher than, well, for example ‘City Of Ghosts’, which I thought was more … Continue reading →

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Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben

Posted on July 3, 2004 by Arthur

And thus starts the painful road to execution. Anyways, today’s ‘mystery person of the day’ (Encarta) over at Encarta (yeah, yeah, what the hell was I doing there?) is Franz Kafka (Wikipedia). Note the difference between Wikipedia and Encarta If … Continue reading →

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Euro 2004 VI

Posted on July 1, 2004 by Arthur

Greece surprised another time: it beat the Czech Republic in the last semi-final by 1-0. The goal was scored at the end of the first extra time period, invoking the ‘silver goal’ rule. That’s going to be a party in … Continue reading →

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