Monthly Archives: December 2006

Yes. And you too.

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Arthur

We have been walking around a lot, cameras on our necks, reflecting on the last couple of days, from deathbed to funeral. Not all of it bad either: when people die, it appears that there’s a lot of catching up … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam

Posted on December 24, 2006 by Arthur

(1930-2006)

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So yeah.

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Arthur

It looks like it’s going to be a waiting game. If you work in the banking or insurance industry, the following products could be part of your 2007 products and services line-up: Emergency Fly-Over Account: an account your customers can … Continue reading →

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Frozen Etch

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Arthur

I just noticed that there’s a commit freeze for the Debian Etch branch (Debian admin), meaning that it’s slated to be released really soon now. Or from the Debian mailing list: We just edited the generic freeze file, so that … Continue reading →

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It’s like that

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Arthur

It strikes me as ironic, that I’m trying to read up as much about cancer after finding out that another loved one has been diagnosed with the same disease as the one who succumbed to it a couple of years … Continue reading →

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All things European

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Arthur

Via Flea, I found out that Dutch peanut butter is the best, or rather, (as this Wikipedia article says): [The Dutch peanut butter] is very different from its international counterpart. It is sharp instead of sweet and most people say … Continue reading →

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Lack-an-ODBCy

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Arthur

The silly thing of having out-of-date interface files + up-to-date SDK files is that nothing matches and that (generally) the next step is to ‘duke it out’ with everything, except for the compiler. Here’s what I was fighting out: Using … Continue reading →

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Dancers.

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Arthur

I‘ve finally figured out what makes Windows XP Media Center unique. Or rather, what you get if you decide to buy Media Center1 instead of (say) Windows XP Home edition: Dancers. I’m not kidding. It’s like the bonzi-buddy but then … Continue reading →

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From databases to other bunnies

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Arthur

You may have noticed that the Postgres developers released a new version of the PostgreSQL database server. There are particular reasons why I like working with Postgres: trivial data import and export is one of them. Take for example the … Continue reading →

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Huh. Huh?!?

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Arthur

While returning back to some older ADO/DAO stuff (earlier on xsamplex), I decided to take a look behind the scenes: the ADO/MDAC SDK comes -uh- with a set of tools to help developers find out problems with ODBC drivers and … Continue reading →

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Who’s blogging this?

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Arthur

This morning I read about that crocodile in Indonesia, the one they found human body parts in. What to do with a dead human-eating crocodile? Easy: When the villagers recovered from the shock of finding human body parts inside the … Continue reading →

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Dump, snow

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Arthur

Hee. We got snow. It also looks like these were ‘remnants’ of the storm that blanked mid and eastern parts of the US. Or maybe it just grew worser because of cold air hitting warmer air above oceans. You may … Continue reading →

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Chaiyya, chaiyya

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago, we watched Spike Lee’s 4th movie, ‘Inside Man’. The movie was released earlier this year with reasonably good reviews. Albeit a heist movie, the movie features some of Spike Lee’s trademarks, like the tension and … Continue reading →

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