Monthly Archives: January 2008

Is that a fractal?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Arthur

The CBC has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry’s obsession with evil machines. The slideshow uses the new movie ‘Untraceable’ (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine … Continue reading →

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18 characters and counting

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Arthur

Via nu.nl, I found out that the countries that form the EU our slowly moving forward with the introduction of the Single European Payments Area (SEPA). SEPA is a framework for a unified payment system that (should) make European cross-border … Continue reading →

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Noche de Jaranas

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arthur

I read that Alfons recently visited a performance of La Noche de Mayas, so hey, why not add the composer Revueltas to the ‘Past the bridge’ category. I have a couple of sound samples from the Mexican composer but the … Continue reading →

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Rambo vs. Norris

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arthur

The more I watch the US primaries, the absurder it gets. You’re probably familiar with the fact that Chuck ‘I’m on the Internet too’ Norris is a supporter of Huckabee (actually, the other day, even the local paper published a … Continue reading →

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The sound of

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Arthur

This morning, I woke up with the sound of snowplows driving by our house, which to me, is the first hint that it’s time to do some shoveling outside. So, I guess, that’s something I’ll be planning for later. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Lyperhinks

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

There were some considerable announcements made this week and last week: First of all, there was a buzz on the Postgres list that Sun was going to buy up MySQL. The official announcement at MySQL mentions that it went over … Continue reading →

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Is there a statistician in the house?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

I downloaded the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition ISO from the Microsoft site and discovered that specific stuff I was looking for isn’t supported in that special edition. I guess there is (or rather was) a huge difference between ‘Orcas’ … Continue reading →

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Around the world

Posted on January 18, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, the local news paper had an article about a lady from Wales who’s walking around the world. Rosie Swale Pope started her run in 2003 and is scheduled to finish her travels this year. She … Continue reading →

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Oh, wait.

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Arthur

You may have noticed that the Canadian Blog Awards have started: the first voting round is open until January 21st. Xsamplex has been nominated in the Tech category: If you want to vote for me, go ahead. Last year, we … Continue reading →

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Lied des Lotterieagenten

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Arthur

People who are familiar with this blog, know that I like early 20th century classical music, particular the music from the early 20s to the 30s. In this time of turbulence (the socio-economical problems in the Thirties and the rise … Continue reading →

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And then some more

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Arthur

I ran into a couple of surprises this week: First, I noticed that Mozilla now has their own video outlet/pod cast, Air Mozilla (Requires Flash 9). The video cast is spearheaded by Asa Dotzler. Older footage can be found at … Continue reading →

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SoundEx

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of days ago, it was the 70th birthday of Donald Knuth (or rather, his webpage), who as you found out, is hero to many programmers around. I think he’s still working on completing his masterwork, ‘The Art Of … Continue reading →

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Passwords

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of months ago (around the same time that I was looking into the sources of the .Net version of KeepPass) I ran into this page: an algorithm to generate pronounceable passwords1. Well, at least a bit more pronounceable … Continue reading →

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