Monthly Archives: January 2010

Edinburgh Man

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Arthur

I guess, this is 2010’s first ‘Past The Bridge’ posting, and today’s band is ‘The Fall’. There are two things I can tell you about The Fall. First, nobody knows them and second, the band’s music is extremely hard to … Continue reading →

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The war that wasn’t

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Arthur

One of Brooker’s ‘Screen wipe’ episodes reminded (a whole playlist on YouTube) of the many nuclear war shows (fiction and documentaries) that were shown in the Eighties in West European countries. Some of the shows I’ve mentioned here before. Most … Continue reading →

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Local observations

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Arthur

Yesterday, we drove into town. The night before it had snowed and the roads were somewhat cleared, that is, depending where you were. Unsurprisingly, the closer we came to SJ, the better the roads. If only NB’s Department of Transportation … Continue reading →

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You asked: KDE or Gnome?

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Arthur

I work in both environments: that is, whenever I think there’s a need for working in KDE or Gnome, I just logout and change session (I have both window managers installed). But that wouldn’t really answer the question, I guess. … Continue reading →

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Notepad Haiku

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Arthur

Aghast. Is there no notepad on my Ubuntu? Wine to the rescue. Obviously, a lot of people helped in getting Notepad to run under Wine.

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You can

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Arthur

There is nothing as glorious as opening up a terminal session on my spare Ubuntu laptop and log right into my server. That is, without downloading either Putty or a host of other MingW/Cygwin utilities on Windows. You guessed it: … Continue reading →

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Seasonal tales

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Arthur

Earlier this week I found out that the French director Eric Rohmer (Wikipedia) died at the age of 89. Ebert has an elegant in memoriam: additional commentary at Metafilter. My first introduction to Rohmer’s movies was (I think)‘Conte d’été’ (1996): … Continue reading →

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Dragon Age: Origins

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Arthur

I finished my first ‘Dragon Age’ (official site, Wikipedia) run earlier this weekend, so I thought a write-up was an excellent start of the year of 2010. You may have heard of ‘Dragon Age’, most likely because it received excellent … Continue reading →

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This is 2010?

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Arthur

In 2010, nobody blogs anymore: Most likely the main reason for this are other distractions like the social networks Facebook and Twitter, where people can selectively ‘opt others out’ of their ‘personal friend lists’ and pump 148 characters messages out … Continue reading →

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