Monthly Archives: January 2005

Streaming music

Posted on January 31, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier, I marvelled about CBCRadio 3’s concert recordings archive. Most of the artists are pretty unknown, for me at least. But Sonic Youth? Blonde Redhead? Interesting. How do you record streaming music? Audacity, naturally. Audacity has a range of professional … Continue reading →

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Stuff that.

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Arthur

I just had the most exciting hours of the year. My wife’s computer (Windows 98) is acting up. I did a couple of checks to see what exactly was wrong but it’s definitely in Explorer: Explorer randomly hangs when she … Continue reading →

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Notes

Posted on January 28, 2005 by Arthur

The last couple of days (after our snowstorm), it has been rather cold. Temperatures beneath the -20 in the morning with an overall of -15 during the day. There were a couple of wind chill warnings in effect too, but … Continue reading →

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On a related note

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Arthur

For users of Postgres 7.2 (and probably up to 7.3, but it might be compatible with all higher versions) who do not have a clue how to get those triggers going because it’s all undocumented, here goes. Two things you … Continue reading →

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Yikes10

Posted on January 26, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier this week, Alan noted a quote from an ‘expert’ speaking at a Blog conference (which happened to be co-organized by Robert Scoble): “if you talk about something long enough, you will become an authority on the topic.” Earlier this … Continue reading →

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Snow and photography

Posted on January 24, 2005 by Arthur

One of best (and educational) parts of photography is the use of a tripod. Even with today’s high tech cameras with contra-weights and internal balancers that literally make tripods unnecessary, I still recommend using one. If not for the reason … Continue reading →

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Winter Wonder Storm Land

Posted on January 23, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier this day (around Noon or something ) I noticed that someone was trying to shovel the driveway. I thought it was a kind of obnoxious, since the snow was still falling down and the wind was still gusting at … Continue reading →

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Sooky and the ‘Trees’

Posted on January 22, 2005 by Arthur

In the comments of the previous post, Alan notices my weird use of the word ‘sookies’:    “…but I think that one is a “sook” or, worse, sookie-baby but either “sooks” or “sookie-babies”. I have never heard the “sookie” as plural.” … Continue reading →

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And there will be…

Posted on January 22, 2005 by Arthur

More snow. Watching CNN’s weather reports, they call for snow amounts between 20 and 40 inches. Ack! Poor Carol and Paula. I can’t wait for live reports from around the snow front from nobody else than Anderson Cooper. Please, with … Continue reading →

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2004, eh?

Posted on January 22, 2005 by Arthur

Ed. Non personal and clickable images have been uploaded. When I feel like it, I’ll add some of the 200+ digital photos online. Is it too late yet, to look back at 2004? In conversations between the better-half and the … Continue reading →

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It’s still a long snowy day

Posted on January 21, 2005 by Arthur

It’s a mess outside. First of all we had a snowstorm yesterday. I ended up cleaning up the driveway last night but I should have known better. Today’s snow added another 5 – 10 cm. What to do with all … Continue reading →

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it was a long long snow day

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Arthur

And thus started my winning entry for the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest. Seriously: Today’s snowstorm was exactly like the Boxing day snowstorm. Same amount of snow, same mess and same wind. They could have been twins (I personally experienced the evilness … Continue reading →

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Garden State/Manchurian

Posted on January 16, 2005 by Arthur

We added two movies to the collection: ‘Garden State’ and ‘The Manchurian Candidate’. I was surprised by a couple of scenes in Garden State, but on the overall it’s a reasonable good movie. The ‘Manchurian’ (directed by Jonathan Demme) had … Continue reading →

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