Monthly Archives: July 2006

Databases

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Arthur

I updated the plug-in accordingly but want to issue a warning before you download it: I’m not sure which version of MySQL does or does not support ‘left outer joins’. I think versions > 3.23 should be able to do … Continue reading →

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W10x!

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I uploaded ‘AHCommentCentral’, which is a plug-in that is supposed to help closing/opening comments and ping/trackbacks in your post sections. For now, you’ll find the initial release right over here. That is, for the daring people who experiment. It’s … Continue reading →

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W09

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Arthur

After many moons of bickering and looking around, I decided to take up the gloves and do it myself. Currently I’m using a slightly altered script that ‘automatically’ folds and closes comments after 10 days. This generally works good and … Continue reading →

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The 25 list of computer stuff

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Arthur

In preparation of the 25th anniversary of the ‘Beige Box’, eWeek lists the 25 most influential products of the last 25 years (the list starts here). Number one is (naturally) the IBM PC. I can find myself in most of … Continue reading →

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Hello Old World?

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Arthur

This is a weird read: The Royal Shell group wants to expand the production of oil (Dutch) at the Athabasca oilsands project (slow site alert). The article mentions that the company admits that the costs of personel and equipment are … Continue reading →

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So you think you can dance?

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Arthur

And for some reason, I keep thinking of Chris Elliot’s ‘Get A Life’ dance. However, I saw scenes of Fox’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance’. It’s obnoxious, but I have no doubt that it attracts viewers, which is (of … Continue reading →

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Brush your teeth, everyday!

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

Over a year ago, I wrote a long entry about the Eurovision song contest, in which I tried to attempt to link to all winning artists from the 70s to now. Since the rise of the YouTube phenomenon it’s finally … Continue reading →

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The real Objective is not an Adjective

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

During breakfast, English pronunciation came up (yeah, we tend to have endless discussions early in the morning). This time it was the word ‘adjective’ (Webster has a neat ‘pronunciation’ sound file there too). It’s a word I keep pronouncing the … Continue reading →

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Slugs.

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Arthur

Too many more slugs Giant ones at that. Would you like French fries with that? Update: You need to fry them, obviously.

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I have a bakhara on my head

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Arthur

This afternoon, Alfons forwarded a couple of pictures of the Anti-war demonstration in Amsterdam he ran into today (for him that will be yesterday)1. I ended up making a joke about the possibility of intelligence services monitoring these kind of … Continue reading →

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Beryl

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier today, tropical storm ‘Beryl’ brought some relief (or rather, a lot of rain) to our part of the world: the last couple of days (week probably) it was muggy and hot with temperatures around the 25 and higher. Probably … Continue reading →

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Massage. No.

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Arthur

So, you’re the president of the mightiest and wealthiest country in the world and you attend the industrial world’s most important gathering. Seven men and one woman. What do you do? You have a jolly good time. You wave at … Continue reading →

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Waffling

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Arthur

Earlier, I uploaded a newer Fandro version, a version that finally fixes the ‘CaseInsensitiveSensitive’ problems. I actually had to dive back in the code and at the end I needed to make a couple of changes to the program’s internal … Continue reading →

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