Monthly Archives: February 2007

Planes

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

I just read about the financial troubles at Airbus, which are caused by both a weak US dollar and by serious delays to its flagship A380 Super Jumbo (Wikipedia). There’s an interesting quote from an employee at a German plant … Continue reading →

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The Tech, The Science and Space

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

For no reason I was earlier up than normal, today: with the extra time I had I looked into several compiler-compilers (or parsers/scanners) targetting C#. I ran into a couple of ones: First of all there’s ANTLER (Public Domain, needs … Continue reading →

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Roll up the Rim 2007

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Arthur

Hey: it’s the new accounting year clocking in and, guess what: Tim Hortons’ Roll Up The Rim 2007 has just started. This means another glorious year of more ‘less winning donuts’ and more ‘less winning coffees’. Go Team. I was … Continue reading →

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Disk-less

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Arthur

If you work in the tech industry, you may become aware of that in the near future, people may consider you old-fashioned when you talk about 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch disks and disk drives. I think I’ve told … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

One point with which I want to close off for today: Ownerdraw stuff in C#. Yesterday, I was comparing code to create owner-draw listboxes and comboboxes in both Delphi and C# and noticed how remarkably easy it’s to switch from … Continue reading →

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Code and gear

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform has been released (or here for fancy images). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems … Continue reading →

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Sources

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Arthur

I was reading this posting at Slashdot (“OSS Music composer gaining attention”), which is about a developer who has started a Buzz-like music ‘tracker’ in C#. The part that caught my eye at the linked article was the following paragraph … Continue reading →

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The S

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Arthur

The third week of February is just around the corner, and guess what? It’s almost Spring! Idle hope maybe, since we’re still skimming the low -10s. For now, on average, Winter seems to have been cold but not as cold … Continue reading →

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Singing fish (and other links)

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I noticed that The Singing Fish has (officially) become part of AOL: it now redirects to Video@AOL.com. I generally stay clear from everything AOL, but the original Singing Fish was actually a good site to find audio fragments. Over … Continue reading →

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Abug.

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Arthur

There’s a bug in the latest WP version that apparently puts extremely low numbers in the ‘attachment’s’ post_parent field: I haven’t figured out why this happens, but my suspicion is that the defect is in the update query in either … Continue reading →

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You asked: Satellite A100-TA9 review

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Arthur

There we go again: you ask and I’ll take a look at it. To start right off: It appears that Toshiba has been rushing to get laptops out before the official Vista release, last week. Their current A100 high-end laptop … Continue reading →

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Airport. Cake.

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Arthur

Minor things of note: Travelers traveling to Canada via Nova Scotia: the Halifax International Airport has been officially renamed to Robert Stanfield Airport. If I’m not wrong, this is the 3rd Canadian airport named to a popular Canadian politician. Which … Continue reading →

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Keroncong Kemayoran

Posted on February 11, 2007 by Arthur

The week before we buried our dad, Alfons took it upon him to compile the music for the funeral, that is from beginning to end. I think I was asked about my preferences, but decided to leave most of the … Continue reading →

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