Monthly Archives: August 2008

Span

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Arthur

We had a (brief) reunion earlier this week: Alfons joined us last weekend and left (surprisingly) a day earlier than we all expected: there was a slight misunderstanding in his flight schedule. Luckily, the airport isn’t too far of a … Continue reading →

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Oh Dear

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Arthur

I‘ve been playing PyChess on KDE (which is actually a GNOME application) and noticed that it’s not too bad of a chess engine (I think the other chess engine is GnuChess). It doesn’t like trading pieces for example but comes … Continue reading →

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Going Underground

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Arthur

I made it a tradition to bring up VJ day on August 15th, but decided to let it go by and return to it today by including it to a Past The Bridge posting here. The song I had in … Continue reading →

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Songs of the Unknown

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Arthur

With the Olympics in high-gear, the New York Times has a collection of national anthems of countries that won the gold medal in the last couple of days. I was briefly listening to the Dutch anthem and I noticed that … Continue reading →

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Blueish

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Arthur

The last weeks were absurd so to say: first of all, my wife suffered from a (sort of) ear-infection which made her feel out of balance. This was also the week where we were exposed to the lows of the … Continue reading →

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Lunch

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Arthur

A few years ago, I visited England and found out that (some) churches provided free lunch concerts. For some kind of reason, I now have the impression that lunch is great time to go to church. Why go on Sundays? … Continue reading →

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HAL

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Arthur

Today, three cruise ships stopped by in Saint John: the Carnival Victory, the Grandeur and the Maasdam. I didn’t have time to try to get all three of them on one photo (I only had the 80mm on me) and … Continue reading →

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This. Means. War.

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Arthur

I guess, I should mention about the news today: I read that there’s a full war going on between Georgia and Russia, after Georgia sent troops into break-away and pro-Russia province South Ossetia. As a result, Putin ordered troops into … Continue reading →

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Four, then II

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Arthur

Observations on KDE 4.1: 1. Everytime I restarted, Kate (the editor) and Kopete kept starting up: I didn’t find any references to these programs in the regular location (.kde4/Autostart), so I did a grep on ps (as in ‘ps -e … Continue reading →

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Four, then

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Arthur

I decided to give KDE 4.1 a go on my current Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) install: There are many sites around with instructions how to install KDE on your Gnome-enabled installation, so I won’t go in too many details. The idea … Continue reading →

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