Monthly Archives: August 2007

That’s not my bike

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, there was a great Metafilter thread on Amsterdam’s (or Dutch) bicycle culture (direct link to photos). Generally speaking, what was possible to do in The Netherlands you’d be arrested for over here. Some annotations that … Continue reading →

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Ghost Recon (Gold Edition)

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Arthur

Actually, I wanted to play Medal of Honor, but since the (original) discs appear to be damaged, I ended up looking at a set of Ghost Recon discs. I bought this set of discs 3 or 4 years ago (for … Continue reading →

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Moo!

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Arthur

Via Smashing Telly, Dawkins’ “Enemies of Reason” (2 parts): Slaves to Superstition and Irrational Health System (I think that’s the title mentioned in Google Video). There is a hilarious scene in the second part, where Dawkins addresses the viewer after … Continue reading →

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A coincidence

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Arthur

Our brain’s ability to dish out memories whenever it thinks we need them is absolutely mind boggling. This morning I was reading that article about an Indonesian naval ship that ran aground in Australia: it was heading for a tall … Continue reading →

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Cold. Huh?

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Arthur

The weather at night seems to be going slowly downhill: tomorrow morning we’ll be hitting temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees Celsius. This is probably a good thing, hurricane-wise (I was thinking of hurrican Dean), albeit a bit too early … Continue reading →

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The Soviets are here

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Arthur

I was going to write an anecdotal posting about that ‘Red Dawn’ movie (earlier) after I saw it mentioned (or referenced to) in a ‘Scrubs’ rerun (‘Wolverines!’). Yeah, uh, no, I don’t think I’d like to think of that movie. … Continue reading →

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Cold war

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Arthur

I read that Russia is restarting its long range patrols, a Soviet-era practice that was suspended in the early 90s. Somewhat earlier, Russian and Chinese armies joined in the Russian mountains for a multi-country military exercise. It looks like they … Continue reading →

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V-J Day

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Arthur

Today marks V-J day, which is the day that (then) emperor Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of the Japanese forces, eventually ‘freeing’ my parents, their siblings and their parents (the independence of Indonesia was called for two days after that, … Continue reading →

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You asked: heathrow+how+much+time+needed…

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

Actually the complete search query was ‘heathrow +how+ much +time+ needed+to+go+ through+customs+and +retrieve+luggage +for+connecting+flight’. For that, the searchee ended up somewhere at January’s entries on my travels to Europe. (Note this only applies to travellers who booked connecting flights on … Continue reading →

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Oh. Yeah.

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Arthur

This will probably help a bunch of people out too: Obviously, Microsoft made changes to the shared networking stuff in Windows Vista. For example, in our case a printer has been set to shared on a Windows XP computer but … Continue reading →

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Sol

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Arthur

Today, I received my Solaris kit. The good news is that it arrived here ‘unharmed’. The bad news is that it didn’t come with a sticker. What, you mean, Sun can’t afford sending stickers? And no, Solaris 10 does not … Continue reading →

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iBlackhole

Posted on August 6, 2007 by Arthur

Via Digg, I think, a NASA/MSNBC/Microsoft collaboration to show off the PhotoSynth technology: Space World. I don’t think I ever mentioned it here before: PhotoSynth is an application that can create interactive/3d-like environments from a set of photos. The technology … Continue reading →

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MSIBA

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Arthur

This morning I noticed an ‘MSIBA.tmp’ entry in my (Windows) process list, which I eventually tracked down to a service named asurscsi. The service starts up that same tmp file (which I assume to be some executable) from my user’s … Continue reading →

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