Monthly Archives: November 2007

My. Suck.s

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier, I was looking for an OpenWRT version that could run my Linksys WRT54G. This is where I found out that the hardware version of my router (“8”) isn’t supported. Aw. Apparently, Linksys switched to a propriety embedded OS, the … Continue reading →

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Pray, tell, rain

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Arthur

I read that the Orthodox Church of Cypres has ordered priests to pray for rain on December the 2nd of this year. It appears that this is a routine that has been done before, most recently when a comparable drought … Continue reading →

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Strings and Skies

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Arthur

There’s an old Dutch Polish Swedish British Belgian Luxemburg Czech Hungarian San Marino 18th century saying which explains the correlation between full moon and cold weather: “Clear Skies, Invalid Memory Writes”. OK. Skip the European geography introduction in the first … Continue reading →

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25 Degrees and listing

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Arthur

I read the news about that ship that sailed into ice and had to be evacuated. Crew and passengers were all evacuated: nobody was wounded. Currently the ship hasn’t sunk yet but is lying on one side, hull exposed, as … Continue reading →

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You. Read.

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Arthur

Amazon came out with an electronic book called the ‘Kindle’. The regular news sources are mixed about this device. For a company the size of Amazon and the business they’re in (selling books, originally) it makes perfect sense. I’m only … Continue reading →

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I, link.

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of links I ran into which are worth mentioning and that only for future reference: I discovered NYT’s amazing Multimedia section only because I was looking for photos discussing the Black Sea environmental disaster (discussed earlier, direct link … Continue reading →

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Made in WhereEverLand

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Arthur

My Apacer multi-card reader just broke on me. Upon closer inspection, the pins on both ends of the CompactFlash reader seem to have broken off1. Maybe I was in a stage of ‘excited delirium’, which according to popular belief, makes … Continue reading →

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A wreck

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I was reading two articles about two wrecks: the first one was about that shipwreck found by a Swedish TV team somewhere in the Baltic sea. Early pictures suggest the ship resembled work of Dutch ship-builders (16 or 17th … Continue reading →

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Oh. Noes!

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, my two sets of Ubuntu 7.10 (“Gutsy Gibbon”) arrived by snail-mail, which means that I’ll be upgrading my ‘v1r7u41 b0xen’ this weekend. Once again, the package came with free stickers. Hey, Sun, what’s that? Still no free stickers with … Continue reading →

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Who broke it?

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Arthur

You may have witnessed theme switching the last couple nights: it happened so fast that you wouldn’t even know it was me. I’ve been working on changing the layout accordingly, something that involved plenty of PHP stuff because the original … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Arthur

I noticed that Google has released their Android SDK, which is an attempt to break open the cellphone market. There are a couple of exciting things to mention but the most important is that Google has adopted Webkit, you know … Continue reading →

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Dike 1. Dike 2.

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday portions of Western Europe were on storm watch: A strong North Eastern Western wind and the right (rather wrong) tide caused water levels to rise abnormally. My civil engineering background was the reason for looking for tidal information at … Continue reading →

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More power. Unix power.

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, Walmart (evil Walmart) started to sell the Everex TC2502 gPC for only 199.00 US (Thanks to the high Canadian dollar, that is in or about 50 dollars CDN1, or for Europeans, that is 5 EUROs: yes, approximately the … Continue reading →

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