Monthly Archives: May 2005

Haiku-day

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Here, it’s Haiku day according to others, may I have another?

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Which Vega?

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Talking about not-wasted talent (they do exist, trust me), I see that Suzanne Vega’s still around. I consider her one of the better lyricists around, probably on par with the other lyricist I can appreciate, Leonard Cohen. Um, I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Delicious Monster

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Back when I was younger (weren’t we all?), I religiously followed every single little issue of a Dutch music magazine called Oor. Around 1993, it briefly discussed an album of Delicious Monster (‘Joie de Vivre’), a British band with an … Continue reading →

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Truth, Justice and whichever Way you want it

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Arthur

Via Accordeon Guy, a link to the Indian Superman, apparently not sanctioned by the official copyright and trademark holders. The Indian movie doesn’t particularly impress or something, nor do I think it’s particularly funny. Most likely, the (typical) Indian jokes … Continue reading →

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A new computer…

Posted on May 5, 2005 by Arthur

brings recreating test environments, setting up compilers, ODBC links, reinstall of the patch-generator (my own, based on NSIS, which I highly recommend) and particularly, checking out modules, source code and making sure that all the source directories in CVS are … Continue reading →

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The turbo button that wasn’t

Posted on May 4, 2005 by Arthur

Our first computer was an MSX-2 computer. At that time hobby computers were highly popular and in the computer market then, these MSX computers heavily competed with other computers like the Atari 520/1040 and the Amiga 500/1000. At a certain … Continue reading →

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The word is:

Posted on May 3, 2005 by Arthur

Reading my last entry, I suddenly got a laughter-attack. Hype and ‘techno-mumble-jumble’ remind me of two words: Ren-Sha Turbo If you don’t know what that means, don’t bother right now: put it aside. Here’s a hint: it has to do … Continue reading →

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I beg you pardon?

Posted on May 3, 2005 by Arthur

Without going to deep into the specific “B-Wars”1 (‘My Database Is Bigger/Better/Br0ken than yours’), Postgres-mailing-list readers already know that this Microsoft guy is blurting out hype as usual. (Now On Slashdot):   “What’s interesting is that PostgreSQL is already working on … Continue reading →

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Frozen Sarge

Posted on May 3, 2005 by Arthur

Let it be known: Sarge is frozen. Everybody’s favourite unstable (or rather testing) Debian is apparently slated to be officially released soon now. Or as the releasemanager says (and I quote):  “Anthony Towns has committed a minor change to the … Continue reading →

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Importing old data

Posted on May 2, 2005 by Arthur

Alfons managed to export existing WordPress data, which I imported over here this very morning. What I basically did was updating (update set…. wp_posts/post2cat etc.) the IDs of posts and post2cat tables with the latest known entry of the dyndns … Continue reading →

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Why-O-why?

Posted on May 2, 2005 by Arthur

Why would my network connection drop (literally the hardware) when I do a simple tracert on my Windows b0xen? I presume the problem may lay in the router or the cable modem. I have to try it on my Linux … Continue reading →

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Walk the Dutch talk

Posted on May 1, 2005 by Arthur

A couple of sidenotes on the Veterans hospital visit, earlier today. While I’m not-so obviously Dutch, events where Dutch people appear always put me in a ‘cautious’ mode. For example, for me it was easier to talk to Canadians than … Continue reading →

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Veterans Halifax

Posted on May 1, 2005 by Arthur

We (wife and me) managed to get to the Veterans’ hospital in Halifax in time, despite of the poor weather conditions: it was pouring rain and visibility was pretty poor. Upon arrival, The Honourary Consul (Peter McCreath) introduced the chairman … Continue reading →

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