Monthly Archives: May 2005

Das Keyboard

Via Waxy, I found this magnificent keyboard: Das Keyboard. It’s a keyboard, yes, without lettering! Brilliant. Since there is no key to look at when typing, your brain will quickly adapt and memorize the key positions and you will find … Continue reading

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Smile!

I saw that the Liberals survived a vote of confidence: I decided to follow it live on television. Interesting to watch: I always expected a majority to be at least 60% of the votes. In the Canadian House of Commons, … Continue reading

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FIFA Soccer 2005, Xbox style

Earlier this month, I decided to do away with my PC version of FIFA 2005 [I’m facing the ever-shrinking harddrive-dilemma] and afford myself the Xbox version. Playing it the other moment I ran into the situation as shown in the … Continue reading

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If David Lynch…

If David Lynch had directed ‘Return of The Jedi’, would we have seen a different ‘Star Wars’? I wasn’t aware of this fact nugget: that indeed he was asked by Lucas to direct ‘Return of the Jedi’. Lynch’s comment on … Continue reading

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Belinda goes to the Other Side

The bombshell of the day was the defection of Conservative Party MP Belinda Stronach to the Liberal Party. It didn’t go over well (naturally) at the HQ of the Conservative Party, the party that (together with the BQ) is just … Continue reading

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Unsobered

The day before yesterday, my wife happened to receive hundreds of e-mails: yes, she was also one of the millions targeted by Sober.Q virus/spam. The mails received are pretty harmless: all of them link to several German pages expressing the … Continue reading

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Scary voices are in the box

Something I noticed the other day: when you leave the XBox running with no game in it, after a couple minutes it starts to talk in some kind of language. Others suggest it’s a demonic language. Really: I’m not making … Continue reading

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CVS

Having used WinCVS for so many moons, both personally and professionally, there’s one thing that annoys the hell out of me: When importing new modules, the dialog that shows which files are going to be part of this module and … Continue reading

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Huffington Post

I‘ve been reading and watching the Huffington Post the last couple of days, and while it hasn’t had good reviews (Technorati), it certainly has interesting posts and articles. And before people call her full of crap, think of this article … Continue reading

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Xbox uh 360

Yesterday, on a show televised by MTV, Microsoft officially unwrapped the XBox 360 and revealed the specs to the outside world. I’ll just link to the Slashdot discussion thread, where you’ll find links to all the other news sources covering … Continue reading

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The Taping

Tomorrow, Microsoft is going to unveil its next XBOX platform, supposedly called XBox 360. Gates has mentioned this particular event a couple of times too, convinced as his of the impact it will have on our lives™. Uh. Apparently, the … Continue reading

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The problem with movies

The Spiegel illustrates the problem with disaster movies made in Hollywood. In an interview with Spielberg and Cruise about their upcoming ‘War Of The Worlds’ movie, the following fragment sticks out: Spielberg: We wanted to make a film in which … Continue reading

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Stop-words-watch

For no particular reason, something reminded me of a practice in primary school (in The Netherlands that’s approximately [or was] from age 4 to age 12): periodically, we were tested on our vocabulary: in turns, we kids were taken separately … Continue reading

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