Monthly Archives: April 2006

Tests and Current

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Arthur

In my teenage High School years, English classes included audio tests/exams: The teacher played a 15 minute tape featuring people talking or rather discussing in English about specific topics. Most of the tapes were probably taken (or recorded) from original … Continue reading →

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Show-show

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Arthur

While most in the ‘blogosphere’ will probably concentrate on Google’s latest bombshell (Calendar), a couple of remarks about not so related stuff: Congrats to the Deuville Ice Hockey rink (Salmon River) for making it to the next round in CBC’s … Continue reading →

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OK is Not OK

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Arthur

OK: and now a note to aspiring Web 2.0 developers: The frequent use of the word ‘OK’ in your ‘how-to’ article (or posting for that matter) is not OK. OK? OK: This was a public service announcement. OK: And now … Continue reading →

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You are the remote control

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Arthur

Growing up in the Seventies, I remember our family going through three specific TVs. The very first one was a black and white in a wooden-like box with a giant knob to ‘switch channels’. With the popularity of colour broadcasts, … Continue reading →

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The Gospel of Judas

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Arthur

This is too interesting to let this slip by as a ‘Recent Link’ item: Today, The National Geographic channel will broadcast ‘The Gospel of Judas’ documentary, about a document lost for 1,700 years, that sheds a different light on the … Continue reading →

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The DaVinci Code

Posted on April 8, 2006 by Arthur

I finished the ‘DaVinci Code’ in approximately 6 hours. Curious about the buzz, I decided to buy a copy this afternoon and settled for a reading marathon. What gives (without revealing too much of the content)? While the story is … Continue reading →

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Red Green

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Arthur

While I’ve slowly mastered the humour in Canadian Air Farce (according to Citizen and Imigration Canada, it takes the average foreigner over 4 to 5 years to understand Canadian humour [more on that later, I hope]), I cannot grasp The … Continue reading →

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“We’ve got hostiles”

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Arthur

Playing the ‘elder’ Half-Life has some entertainment values: first of all I wasn’t that amused seeing the Steam engine installed. It crashes so once in a while too (a couple times already), plus it seems to update itself automatically to … Continue reading →

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Shock and awe

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Arthur

During a presidential event, an audience member goes off-script and criticizes the presidency and the administration’s policies: What I wanted to say to you is that I — in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more … Continue reading →

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Back to that BIOS

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Arthur

Following up on the BIOS story: Yesterday, before installing the ATI card, I went into the BIOS to disable the primary (onboard) SiS video adapter to find out that the Primary Video Card setting was already set to PCI [instead … Continue reading →

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Flater

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier this day, a close Dutch relative (understatement) brought up the Dutch word ‘flater’, which had me confused for a couple of seconds: the actual meaning of the word (“a fiasco of gigantic proportions”, I guess you could call that … Continue reading →

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Computer dude

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Today it was Computer Dude Day. We had planned to buy a new videocard for the half so she could play her Sims 2 game, something we did indeed earlier this morning (Additionally she bought a mini Zen Nano player, … Continue reading →

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Say that again?

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Arthur

Reading a flyer of an unspecified company selling electronic wares like MP3 players and computer stuff I was startled by a slogan next to a picture of a DVD burner: BURN ALL YOUR FILES! Imagine living in the 70s and … Continue reading →

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