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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Buran-Buran
A picture featured at CBC grabbed my attention: a Soyuz rocket booster readied for launch at Baikonur Space Complex. Hey, isn’t that a Buran, right there in the lower right corner? Back in the 80s, after all those succesful Shuttle … Continue reading
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In the mean time…
In the mean time… President Bush warns of spike in Iraqi insurgency. Not that it matters, since Mission Accomplished. Canadian Press falling in love with the new Governor-General? Artic ice disappearing fast. Perfect reply at Metafilter. Vegastrikes really rocks
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Vega strikes
After so many years of buggy versions, version 0.4.3 of Vegastrike finally made it beyond the startup screen on my computer. I’m not sure about some of the graphics when ‘docked’ (cartoon-like characters), but ‘flying’ out there in space is … Continue reading
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Count the options
I had the urge to play an MSX game on one of those MSX emulators that you can find on-line. I use an older version of BlueMSX, which makes it a bit easier to ‘change ROMs’. So I went from … Continue reading
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What size of belt do you have?
I needed a belt so went out to get one. Hey: belts have sizes. I wasn’t aware of that. What size are you? The first thought was to take the belt with a size that matched the number of my … Continue reading
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Huh, huh?
An item that took me by surprise: Palm announces to make a Windows CE based Treo. Huh? HUH? The Treo will use a version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system – despite a long and bitter rivalry between the two firms … Continue reading
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“I’m on it”
From: Arthur… To: Alfons… Subject: Re: Nogmaals… In-Reply-To: <9110d5aa0409200320d9e1d48@…> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <9110d5aa0409200320d9e1d48@….> I’m on it. Regards, Arthur On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:20:31 +0200, Alfons wrote… [snip]
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Days and days
For days, I’ve been wanting to write something about the documentary ‘Shake Hands With The Devil’, a Canadian production about Dallaire’s return to Rwanda, 10 years after the genocide. I simply can’t find the words. The documentary is good: I … Continue reading
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And the winner is…
Amazing how the two big German political parties have spun their election loss in a win. Does it count to say ‘Ha-ha we won because we lost seats but we are still a couple of seats ahead of you’ or … Continue reading
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Pretty poor
I was wondering what was going to be on CBC’s tonight to find out that the site doesn’t even show this anymore. This must be related to the strike, right? Pathetic point 2: schedules can be downloaded as PDF files, … Continue reading
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Mandela
Reading this interview with former president Bill Clinton [part1, part2](via Metafilter) , the following portion stuck out (on meeting Mandela): I said that, ‘Now, come on, when you got to walk out of prison the last time, didn’t you hate … Continue reading
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The return of the spider
Yesterday, I guided a spider to safety in case extreme weather conditions from the storm called Ophelia were going to hit the province. Since a couple of weeks, this particular spider has decided to make a habitat in front of … Continue reading
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Ophelia epilogue
While the wind is still blowing (and rain still falling) outside, I decided to see what happens after a hurricane blows into the Atlantic. Discussions with Alfons end up with a consensus that these hurricanes end up as depressions in … Continue reading
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