Monthly Archives: June 2005

Arf!

Posted on June 29, 2005 by Arthur

Woof bloody woof. I just finished the harder part of the File Matcher And Res Earch Finder. Whatever that means. It works too: it may need some brushing up so here and there (uh, memory wise), but it looks like … Continue reading →

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Clean up

Posted on June 29, 2005 by Arthur

Cleaning up from aft to night, moving furniture around, I ended up crawling around on the floor because hubs, modem and routers needed to be rewired. Guestroom needs lots of cleaning and I need to to test how far the … Continue reading →

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Boyer-Moore stuff.

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Arthur

Looking for a background information on the BM algorithm, I discovered several neat sites explaining the procedure: From one of the inventors, Moore, comes a plain HTML based (step-by-step) explanation of the algorithm. Make sure you click the links. Note … Continue reading →

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No! Not Yet Another Find Tool!

Posted on June 26, 2005 by Arthur

Hey. I didn’t break it this time! Earlier this year, I rambled about Windows XP not-so-good internal text search tool: It’s broken. No matter how you try to find files with specific portions of text, it will not return the … Continue reading →

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Yig-haw

Posted on June 25, 2005 by Arthur

For a small home improvement project, we decided to buy some lumber: On the spot I decided to afford myself a genuine jigsaw. Since Black & Deckers were out of stock, I was offered the Skil (shown above) jigsaw. While … Continue reading →

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Sunny, huh

Posted on June 24, 2005 by Arthur

Watching the Dutch weather unfold, which seems to hit extraordinary heights with temperatures over 25 degrees for 5 days), I noticed we are in for a hot day too: it’s going to top 34 degrees Celsius tomorrow. A local radiostation … Continue reading →

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Java eppuiqed

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Arthur

My old cell phone’s (Motorola) battery died [not holding its charge], so I ended up getting an LG 4015 instead (“Cha-ching! you have 85 dollars less on your account! Great doing business!”). It has the capability of showing 65,000 colours, … Continue reading →

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Trees. Trees.

Posted on June 20, 2005 by Arthur

A visible reminder for myself: I keep confusing oak trees and maple trees in Dutch. So once again, dear self: a maple tree is what they call an ‘esdoorn’ in Dutch. And no, the Dutch aren’t familiar with ‘esdoorn siroop’, … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day

Posted on June 19, 2005 by Arthur

Coming from a family that typically does not celebrate Father’s Day (maybe I should say that Dutch people generally don’t celebrate Father’s Day), we decided to spend some time preparing the garden for a bunch of veggies and small flowers. … Continue reading →

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Sjako’s ‘Hurt’

Posted on June 19, 2005 by Arthur

I have been thinking to feature Sonic Youth’s ‘Bull in the heather’ in this Past the Bridge item, but ended up bubblesorting Sjako’s ‘Hurt’. Eh. Sjako is a Dutch band that has been going through plenty of personnel changes since … Continue reading →

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Aruba troubles

Posted on June 19, 2005 by Arthur

Here’s something weird I noticed: the case of the missing American girl Aruba (which happens to be part of the Netherlands) gets a lot more mediaplay in the US than in the Netherlands. There’s a fragment of an interview between … Continue reading →

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The mouse evolved

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Arthur

Slashdot has a discussion about mice with a scrollpad (images here), which functions as a vertical/horizontal ‘scrollwheel’. Meaning that besides scrolling up and down, it also allows the user to scroll left and right. Uh. It’s like a touchpad, the … Continue reading →

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Look. It’s…. JABBER!

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Arthur

I‘m underimpressed with Winer’s OPML ..uh.. stuff. Here’s the stuff that bothers me: from a programmer’s point of view, it’s always stuff that has been done before. Revolutionary? Look at the work NASA programmers do, that’s revolutionary. Winer and his … Continue reading →

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