Monthly Archives: August 2005

Opera

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Arthur

I‘m one of the lucky people who managed to get the free Opera license key. Cheers to the Opera Dev. Team. Testing it, I found out that I didn’t like the default ‘Opera look’: something I managed to reset to … Continue reading →

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All silliness aside

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Arthur

All sillyness aside, I feel terribly bad about the hurricane victims of Katrina. I saw that over Google, there are 6,000+ related links about this disaster. I know exactly what this feels like, when Juan hit Nova Scotia, a couple … Continue reading →

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Rings and snafus

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Arthur

We watched both the Rings movies last night. We had seen ‘The Ring’ in the theatre before but decided to get and watch both of them. The ‘Ring 2’ does not even come close to its predecessor. First of all, … Continue reading →

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Packrat or to go?

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Arthur

Humans are packrats. I’m not kidding. I just finished browsing through the files on a CD-ROM disk called ‘sources and downloads from laptop’. As the name reveals, it’s a disk full of older sources from my old laptop. I was … Continue reading →

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Call me old fashioned

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Arthur

Call me old fashioned, but I have to smile when I read the following over at Kottke: For those of you who read the remaindered links in a newsreader, you may not have even noticed the change. Kottke on reading … Continue reading →

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Flesh!

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Arthur

Via Mernit’s a rather provocative picture of (what I presume is) art: women wrapped up in meat packages (link only, NSFW [possibly]). It reminds of a couple of years ago, during Alfons’ second visit to Canada (his first one was … Continue reading →

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Capital punishment

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Arthur

Interesting discussion between Alan (website) and Cory (website), as pointed out by Alfons). I find it hard to formulate the right words in the whole discussion, noting that I find this part of the law is a moral mudpit of … Continue reading →

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apt-listbugs is buggy

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Arthur

I‘m not the only one who noticed that doing ‘apt-get update’ on my Debian system is hanging frequently: I’ve been carefully updating and upgrading my system, only selecting the pieces I actually need. Today, I decided to try a complete … Continue reading →

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Speculation galore

Posted on August 24, 2005 by Arthur

There’s both dismissive and speculative talk abound about Google Talk, Google’s IM and VoIP application for Windows. The point of the Google talk isn’t all about ‘another IM contender or so’, ‘evil empire’ or ‘Skype is next’. Nope: Google supports … Continue reading →

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Google and Jabber?

Posted on August 23, 2005 by Arthur

Will Google officially announce their “Google Talk” service tomorrow? That’s the buzz now and that actually wouldn’t surprise me. After years of locked-in IM protocols, popularity IM contests and ridiculous IM bloat variants (MSN, most notably, with their pay for … Continue reading →

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Broken

Posted on August 21, 2005 by Arthur

Our Internets were broken last night. The problems started around 7 pm and lasted (probably) around 8 am this morning. I think the problem was around (either) Aliant’s gateway(s) or DNS server(s): logging in went fine. After login, the proper … Continue reading →

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Su-per-man

Posted on August 20, 2005 by Arthur

Being part of a twin is the greatest coincidental curse one has to live with. The best part is to make two-liner jokes about it: – “So you guys are twins?” “Eh, no, actually, I was there first, that was … Continue reading →

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Mesmerizing

Posted on August 20, 2005 by Arthur

I was never aware of the fact I was using mesmerizing in the wrong context, until I saw an incoming link from Alan saying that:    Arthur makes up a great word for a being in a deep daydream: mesmerizing1 I … Continue reading →

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