Monthly Archives: April 2005

You are such a bore

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Arthur

Last night, I decided to try to listen to a couple of podcasts. Podcasts, as you probably already know, are fragments of (uh) spoken things. Some people call it the next installment of blogging. Some say it’s the future of … Continue reading →

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Jelly

Posted on April 16, 2005 by Arthur

I was always under the impression that Jelly, or rather, gelatine, was made from seaweed. Nope: Made from bones and some acid. Uh. Yummy. There are alternatives, which brings me back to the seaweed I just mentioned: particularly agar-agar, that … Continue reading →

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I didn’t

Posted on April 15, 2005 by Arthur

I didn’t break the Internet today. It was him! Really. update (Apr 16th):We did it.

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Revelations

Posted on April 14, 2005 by Arthur

Last night, I watched the premiere of the NBC series ‘Revelations’ and I’m not really impressed. That’s mostly because of the fact that the premiere was only one hour long, marginalizing Bill Pullman’s and Natascha McElhone’s (links after pressing the … Continue reading →

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Huh?

Posted on April 13, 2005 by Arthur

I was listening and watching the NBC documentary about the ‘Da Vinci Code’ and thought I heard a musical piece I recognized. Wasn’t that music from Ultima 7?? No really, you say (mp3)? Thinking back of playing Ultima 7, if … Continue reading →

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Install GD. Get Caudium for free.

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Arthur

Caudium is a webserver, written in C, sporting a non-forking kernel. That’s really good, but why the hell does it needs to be installed for, when apt-getting php4-gd? I’m talking about Debian’s super package manager, you know, the one with … Continue reading →

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That word

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier this day, I completed the task of putting the WAP together and got it to work with the new router (tip: over at Staples they have wireless routers on sale (ranging from 30 -40 dollars), which saves you from … Continue reading →

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More of this, please

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Arthur

Round of a couple of previously underappreciated new items: Back to Terry Schiavo: In the week after the death of mrs. Schiavo, plenty of Republican congressmen and senators backtracked their opinions. Bill Frist, Republican Senator issued a statement that the … Continue reading →

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Linked

Posted on April 10, 2005 by Arthur

I managed to get a LinkSys router and put it in between the hub and this laptop and it seems like it’s working. I had a couple of problems with the internal firewall: apparently there was a conflict between ZoneAlarm … Continue reading →

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Aldu-what?

Posted on April 8, 2005 by Arthur

Looking for Windows Meta Files descriptions, my brain ended up making a weird connection: yes, what happened to Aldus, the Pagemaker company? I guess they merged with Adobe. According to Wikipedia this happened in September of 1994. Yes, Adobe already … Continue reading →

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I’ll be the first one…

Posted on April 7, 2005 by Arthur

To announce it: Google’s Factual Answers feature killed Trivial Pursuit. In other news: Galactic Pancake Mystery Solved. Early hominid took care of the elderly. Mars Mission extended 18 months

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Flowering Maple with Virus

Posted on April 7, 2005 by Arthur

Looking for details for a houseplant we bought last year, I discovered it was a Flowering Maple, or better yet, an Abutilon striatum. Ours is growing pretty good, but needs some kind of trellis to support all the twigs. Half … Continue reading →

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Mindless

Posted on April 6, 2005 by Arthur

One of the reasons not to use FlickR is the connection it has with a rather rude Dutch cursing word. That’s a joke. Really. Right. Mindlessly browsing through the collection of public photos, I ended up over at and around … Continue reading →

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