Monthly Archives: August 2006

Tjampoer

Posted on August 13, 2006 by Arthur

For the first time in 6 or 7 years, I had a taste of Atjar Tjampoer (‘pickled salad’). Funny thing is that I never even thought of scooping some bits when I was in Holland, 2 years ago. A couple … Continue reading →

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Browse Happy

Posted on August 13, 2006 by Arthur

I downloaded Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 3) today, just to see what the buzz is all about. Comparing it with Opera and Firefox, the only difference I see is that (out of the box) IE uses ‘ClearType’ to render the … Continue reading →

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V for uninspiring

Posted on August 13, 2006 by Arthur

Two movies today: ‘An unfinished life’ and ‘V for Vendetta’. The first one had the unlikely combination of Redford and Lopez (Jennifer that is), which ended up to be a match that, well, didn’t match Lopez. The story itself was … Continue reading →

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FAL or not?

Posted on August 12, 2006 by Arthur

This morning, while ordering coffee at a local Tim Hortons’, I was watching one of the slideshows about the Hortons Kids camps, which somehow reminded me of the first weeks of my military service. I mentioned this before. Smiling kids, … Continue reading →

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More Computer stuff

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Arthur

After fiddling for hours with a 7100 AP to discover that it does not want to work together with my Linksys router, I decided to give up for now. I suspect that it just doesn’t like retrieving an IP address … Continue reading →

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Holy Cows!

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Arthur

Tomorrow (for you Europeans that is today), it’s the 25th anniversary of the IBM PC. Some people and companies may celebrate that event, but for some kind of reason, I was silently hoping that IBM would be leading the pack. … Continue reading →

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Knuckle month

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Arthur

knuckle monthcol. 1. A month with 31 days. 2. Informal: a month that has one extra payweek, or a month that spans 5 weeks instead of 4. ex – “August of 2006 is a true knuckle month” Origin: Called after … Continue reading →

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Dark. Huh?

Posted on August 7, 2006 by Arthur

I read that there was a major power outage (Dutch) in the southern portion of The Netherlands. Nu.nl has some weird pictures with the ‘Fair’ of Eindhoven just milling about like if there was no power outage. Obviously some people … Continue reading →

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And Titan begat Callisto

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Arthur

Reformatting and reinstalling XP on a Toshiba (“Titan”) A40 was actually easier than expected: Back-up data. Reset computer to boot from CD-drive first (Reminder: the default is set to ‘HDD’). On your Toshiba laptop, just start the ConfigFree application and … Continue reading →

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Civilization, Part 11.

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Arthur

After many moons of playing Civ 4 (all posts on xsamplex), I finally found out who sings that brilliant opening tune: It’s the Talisman a cappella, a group of a cappella1 singers and students operating from Stansford University. The song … Continue reading →

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Good News!

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Arthur

If I say there’s good news, then there is good news: I have finally started to appreciate The Gimp! This is because there was always one reason why I pertinently refused to use it: plugins. Everytime the program opened, it … Continue reading →

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80, what?

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Arthur

Contrary to what I regularly do on Saturday mornings (about that later), I decided to listen to The Internationalist’s audio ‘travelcast’ (I don’t have a better name for this). Actually, the direct link is right here (Player is Windows Media … Continue reading →

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Random-izer

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Arthur

I forgot to mention about ‘Google Project Hosting’, Google’s latest service geared towards (as the name suggests) hosting projects. It was prominently featured

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