Monthly Archives: August 2005

Rootbeer

Posted on August 17, 2005 by Arthur

Talking about Caffeine: one of the things my dad apparently enjoyed was A&W’s rootbeer. No joke. As far as I can remember, I haven’t seen it around over in Europe, which is logical since it has always been associated here … Continue reading →

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Kill All Laptops

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Arthur

Just brilliant. The Zotob worm is around and (naturally) virus companies are warning that (especially) Windows 2000 users should start to download the latest patches (that’s a ‘Lazy man’s link to Google News there). CNN’s got the news (too), with … Continue reading →

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Find me!

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Arthur

Via Metafilter (this thread) an amazing picture (actually an artist rendering) of the Milky Way after a survey of the stars in our system showed that it has a bar in the center. Even more goodies over in that same … Continue reading →

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Happy VJ day

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Arthur

Happy VJ day. Right. Since I’m actually writing this on the late evening of August the 14th, by now, you’ve should have noticed the many news items on your local news. If there weren’t too many items, it wouldn’t surprise … Continue reading →

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Where’s the referee?

Posted on August 14, 2005 by Arthur

While playing a game of FIFA Soccer, yesterday, I started to notice that I missed something. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what I was missing: A referee. Yes. I’ve been playing the game for the … Continue reading →

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Euros galore

Posted on August 14, 2005 by Arthur

The other day, I was mesmerizing about last year’s trip to the Netherlands. Of that trip, one of the things that amazed me was the fact that we did not have to worry about exchanging all our valuable Canadian bucks … Continue reading →

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Tech-uh-no-logy

Posted on August 14, 2005 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I was looking at the V-Tech i5871. I was amazed about the fact that this was a home phone center where all its handsets have a colour display. Add to that downloadable jingles and backgrounds apparently. I … Continue reading →

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What huh?

Posted on August 13, 2005 by Arthur

My only source of Dutch news, nu.nl, is to my surprise powered by MMBase. Apparently it’s an Open Source CMS, written in Java. I would have never noticed it if I hadn’t clicked on that link underneath nu.nl’s homepage. Not … Continue reading →

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Spoolsv.exe

Posted on August 12, 2005 by Arthur

Interesting: earlier this afternoon, the firewall notified that spoolsv.exe wanted to have access to the Internet. While allowing it, I came to wonder why it actually wanted to do that. Or actually, since when it wanted to go online. A … Continue reading →

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He-at spell

Posted on August 11, 2005 by Arthur

I‘m glad my dad left 2 weeks ago: we’re in the middle of a heat spell, with temperatures way over the 25 degrees and humidity so high, that even the dog has given up trying to follow us around the … Continue reading →

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computerlogisms

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Arthur

Pondering about great contributions I could have on the English language from a technical point of view I came up with the following neologisms that may or may not hit your English Dictionary within 10 years: “The Internet is getting … Continue reading →

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Which twin are you?

Posted on August 8, 2005 by Arthur

With much amazement I’ve been following the trails of the ‘Bloggertwins’, Cameron ‘CamWorld’ Barrett and Damian ‘Mr. Barrett’ Barrett. Apparently, they’re so crazy of the ‘Amazing Race’ that they launched their Bloggertwins blog to get the attention of the producers … Continue reading →

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War. War. War.

Posted on August 8, 2005 by Arthur

I did not forget about the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There’s plenty of comments about it, in the so-called websphere. Right? Wrong? I personally don’t care and just like … Continue reading →

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