Monthly Archives: February 2006

Strike. Past.

Posted on February 20, 2006 by Arthur

Over the weekend I was reminded of an incident that happened during German classes when I was (way) younger. I was called upon to write my homework on the blackboard and I refused to do so. I had done my … Continue reading →

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Bow wow wow

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

While preparing snapshots of music from Sonic Youth, for a new addition to the ‘Past-The-Bridge’ collection, I decided to turn the clock back a bit more (once again

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The Island (2005)

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this weekend we watched ‘The Island’, a movie with so many (amazing) stunts and effects that it makes your head whirl. Quite an action movie: not flawless, but that’s why it’s called an action movie. Interesting to see a … Continue reading →

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Konvoi! Absinken!

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Arthur

For no apparent reason, I’ve been humming one of the themes of the movie ‘Das Boot’: the one that (apparently) is titled ‘Konvoi’. The History channel is to blame this time: I think they showed that movie 3 or 4 … Continue reading →

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Half-Life 2, II

Posted on February 18, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this month, I decided to replay Half-Life 2 (earlier and earlier): while the gameplay is excellent, I still think 50 dollars for a game with no extra features is a waste, particularly compared to what you get in the … Continue reading →

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Keyboard madness

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Arthur

During one of those longer coding sessions, my development environment started to act up and (at the end) gave up on me. There was no way to save the code because of some ‘modal madness’ occurring in the background. I … Continue reading →

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Algorithms Fun

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Arthur

Interesting detail: Yahoo has released its AJAX library under the BSD license. The archive shows some neat examples of JavaScript. There are other AJAX libraries around. Some of them good. Some of them not good enough. Yahoo’s dev. blog can … Continue reading →

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Google and more Olympics

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Arthur

Returning from work, I noticed that my Gmail account includes the web-based GoogleTalk. I complained earlier about not being included. Thanks. I was also surprised to see the approval of Adsense coming through. In 20 years, I’ll be a millionaire! … Continue reading →

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Don’t thank me!

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Arthur

I‘m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but I have a plan for fending off hurricanes (and other related storms) from Nova Scotia. We are (once again) looking forward to another busy hurricane (uh, ‘storm’) season this year. Forget … Continue reading →

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It hurts. Sometimes.

Posted on February 11, 2006 by Arthur

Oh, so it was. While changing the layout, I peeked around at the WP tables and decided to ‘merge’ a couple of older MT-related categories with the appropriate ones. To my surprise, I noticed that the rowcount (or, the number … Continue reading →

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Rate any posts

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Arthur

I noticed that Google Groups (formerly Deja News, Usenet as we called it in the back-days) now allows you to rate posts. A quick look in Google’s help, confirms this feature. You need to log in to GMail (or any … Continue reading →

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Olympics

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Arthur

The start of the Olympics in Torino, Italy also appears to be the start of a lockdown of the ‘NOS Journaal’ for people outside of the right timezone. Over at the Public broadcaster there’s a sobering message saying that some … Continue reading →

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Burnt WordPress

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Arthur

Talking about burnt: it looks like WordPress is pretty much acting up with a couple of ‘SQL-errors’ on my side. They happen to appear around the time I press the ‘Save’ button. WordPress returns the following error: UPDATE IGNORE wp_posts … Continue reading →

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