Monthly Archives: September 2006

Le Tourbillon Mecanique

Early 2000, I joined Alfons to visit a concert of the Ebony Band, one of the leading modern music orchestras in the Netherlands. The main theme that night was typical ’30s avant-garde music from (rather unknown) Hungarian and Czech composers. … Continue reading

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LOL. Wait, make that: damn!

I was reading about another battery recall yesterday (IBM/Lenovo). Today I was reading about another recall for batteries in Toshiba laptops. This time it’s about 800,000 batteries. There’s a short notice up on Toshiba.ca’s website. Affected laptops (this time) are … Continue reading

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Yo. Horrors.

I think I found the following via Digg: M&M’s ‘Find The Horror Movie’ game. While I’m generally not into horror movies (my eega, in fact, is), I was still able to find 27 out of the 50. Probably peanuts for … Continue reading

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You asked: Lyrics “The People are heroes now”

So you wanted to know the lyrics of ‘The People are heroes now’ and you stumbled on a rant about Civ 4 (I’m still trying to find out about the performance details of that specific track in the game). I … Continue reading

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More Hardware

Alfons earlier pointed to Basix, a company that recently released the One Chip MSX, a computer that is compatible with the MSX1/MSX2 standard1 (A press kit can be found here). Actually, the box is supposed to do more than just … Continue reading

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Smaller, smallest

Yesterday, I think, I was briefly skimming Slashdot and found this article at LinuxDevices, with, supposedly, the smallest PC you have ever seen: a Gumstix Netstix 200xm-cf. Looking at the specs, these devices run the same hardware that nowadays power … Continue reading

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A Coup for huh

Aren’t coups so Eighties like? I mean, I was surprised to read that there was a military coup in Thailand. While I was aware that there was some political unrest (religious conflicts, monarchy problems) in that country, I thought the … Continue reading

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Batteries and that

Deep buried somewhere on the Toshiba site the following (official) announcement: Sony is one of the suppliers of battery packs used in some Toshiba notebook PCs. We have investigated with Sony whether those PCs that employ the subject batteries are … Continue reading

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Coffee good. PDF bad.

CBC has an interesting article about coffee and fats, which appears to have been based on the US version of a report with the same title (you can find it by clicking here). Surprisingly, the Canadian version cannot be found … Continue reading

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Poison Ivy

The other day I was watching at our backyard and noticed that the Poison Ivy has started the Fall process, as its leaves have started colouring in that distinctive reddish colour. Amazing pretty for a poisonous plant. It’s also the … Continue reading

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Fire walk uh

Earlier this morning, I decided to watch the first couple (5) episodes of ‘Twin Peaks’ (You Tube). Watching the series (conceived by David Lynch), I was surprised how good the first episodes are: I find older shows typically boring nowadays … Continue reading

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Hello, CNN

For the first time in months, I decided to watch CNN’s Paula Zahn to discover that CNN has hired many new reporters. Oh Noes! The first one I didn’t recognize was Melissa Long who’s job was to present the top … Continue reading

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Who slams who?

This article (“The Web is broken and it’s all your fault”) popped up on the Postgres-general list and then made it into Slashdot as ‘Postgres slammed by PHP creator’. The Slashdot thread highlights some interesting PHP flaws and the fact … Continue reading

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