Monthly Archives: March 2006

Solar eclipse

Portions of Africa, Europe and Asia enjoyed a (partial/whole) solar eclipse today, and Space.com has the pictures. From that same page, a spectacular picture what a solar eclipse looks like from the great void (original pictures over at NASA). I … Continue reading

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Gratitude

Via Blake Ross’, I read that we should thank Microsoft for its monopolistic behaviour. After all: …and for all those who lament the pre-inclusion of Internet Explorer, it’s worth noting that if IE WASN’T pre-installed, most people wouldn’t be able … Continue reading

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Pirates!

For a couple of months, an ad for ‘Sid Meier’s Pirates!’ has been laying on my table. It’s actually the backcover of the manual for Civilization 4 (category), but nonetheless, an ad it is, showing a couple of screenshots with … Continue reading

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Bloody huh

While ‘Doom 3’ (XBOX) is absolutely a great game from a graphical point of view, I have plenty of criticism on the gameflow, or rather, the single-mindedness of it: “KILL-YAAAAAARGHH”. There are situations where I had the impression that the … Continue reading

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The Lion sleeps

Earlier on the news, I heard that the family of the original writer of the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ have won the (6 year) battle to regain the copyrights of that song. This struck me as good news, or … Continue reading

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A Centre or a Center?

The big discussion around town is the feasibility of having a new Civic Centre (TD News): apparently the aim is to build a centre so Central Nova can host the 2011 Canada Winter Games. This is big news, naturally and … Continue reading

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ETA: ‘permanent ceasefire’

Good news coming from Europe: The ETA (The Basque separatist group) announced a ‘permanent ceasefire’ today. In the early 80s the group was frequently in the news and apparently in one year it claimed over 100 deaths. It’s not known … Continue reading

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The return of the Excel experts

Via David, this graph that appears to illustrate that Saddam killed a lot more people during his regime than the current Iraqi dead count! Spot the errors! Hints: 1. The red graph is a daily average of people killed during … Continue reading

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Huh !!!

Yesterday’s logs revealed that the amount of MBs transferred topped the 160 MBs. That’s only for one day. Generally, this domain only pulls a boring 20 MB a day on average. Either someone was downloading images from my wife’s pages … Continue reading

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A Scribe

I noticed that Everything2 has updated the level advancements, which means that after 5 years of not actively contributing, I became a level 4 user. When I logged into my account for the first time since, uh, 5 years, I … Continue reading

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Tabs vs. Spaces

There’s an interesting collection of links in this Metafilter thread ‘Spaces vs. Tabs’. I, naturally, use spaces when indenting code. Two of them, actually, so, I’m with JWZ: Tabs don’t belong in plain ASCII files. But skimming the replies in … Continue reading

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I just ate your culture

For some kind of reason, I find this image of New Zeelanders celebrating the win of Moss Burmeister (news),while performing a Maori dance, highly comical. Maybe it illustrates that our great western ‘civilized’ culture is just a mash-up of cultures … Continue reading

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While I was away

While I was away (as in doing other more important stuff), the following stories caught my attention, the very first moment I decided to log-in to this site: The Winer vs. Cadenhead issue: Cadenhead, formerly known as Winer’s secondante1 published … Continue reading

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