Monthly Archives: February 2008

You failed

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Arthur

Via Crooks and Liars, I saw The Daily Show’s coverage of Romney’s CPAC speech: the speech contained so many platitudes, cliches and stereotypes that it had me laughing. Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of … Continue reading →

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That’s not a calf

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier this morning I read that the Australian government released (graphic) pictures of the Japanese whale hunt in the Antartic seas. I thought this was quite unique: normally, I expect these pictures to come from organizations like Greenpeace (they released … Continue reading →

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Web traffic

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Arthur

Right in time for this year: the current statistics for this domain, which includes a chart with extremely boring colours (click the image on the right of this paragraph). Last year, I didn’t list the individual page views: these are … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw (II)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier, which is, almost a year ago, I was comparing owner-draw programming in Delphi and C# and concluded that it’s quite similar: basically you set any visual component in a particular mode (‘I’m going to take care of drawing the … Continue reading →

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Moo (and other stuff)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier today, the WordPress developers released a fix for a security issue in the xml-rpc code. There’s no need to completely upgrade your installation: upgrading overhere is sort of painless and that’s not because of the fact that my host … Continue reading →

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Tango Habanero (‘Youkali’)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Arthur

Tango Habanero (or ‘Youkali’) is probably the most popular music piece of the (musical) play ‘Marie Galante’ (based on a novel written by Jacques Deval). There is too much to tell about ‘Marie Galante’: first of all, the book was … Continue reading →

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The driveway

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Arthur

I think it’s an understatement if I’d say that last week, we’ve gone through quite some weather. Monday, we started out with lots of rain which at the end made our driveway look like the perfect ‘slide and glide ramp’ … Continue reading →

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