{"id":1188,"date":"2006-08-07T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2006-08-20T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T13:29:51","slug":"dark-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Dark. Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> read <a id=\"p1189\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1189\" title=\"Dark Is The New Light.\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dark-is-the-new-light.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Is The New Light.\" \/><\/a>that there was a major power outage (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/797643\/16\/Grote_stroomstoring_in_Brabant.html\">Dutch<\/a>) in the southern portion of The Netherlands. Nu.nl has some weird pictures with the &#8216;Fair&#8217; of Eindhoven just milling about like if there was no power outage. Obviously some people use generators. My advice in case the power goes out: just go to bed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Excellent pictures of more <a href=\"http:\/\/strncpy.org\/Photos\/Amnesty\/\">demonstrations<\/a> at Alfons&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Big news: Earlier Paul &#8220;SuperWindowsSite&#8221; Thurrott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/windowspaulthurrott\/Article\/ArticleID\/47208\/windowspaulthurrott_47208.html\">criticized Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer 7 development<\/a>, meaning to say that there&#8217;s <em>no real progress<\/em> and that it looks like that the newest version might not even completely support any of the webstandards. Firefox and Opera are still topping the list. Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=922\">I said<\/a> the following of the &#8216;imminent release of IE 7 Beta 1&#8217;:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not impressed, for the simple matter that I do not believe that IE 7.0 is an actual upgrade if compared to Gecko, KHTML or the Opera engine (all three renderers have been rewritten from scratch to accommodate new CSS\/HTML\/XHTML standards).\n<\/p>\n<p> <a id=\"p1212\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1212\" title=\"Toshiba P100 SD3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/toshiba_p100_sd3.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Toshiba P100 SD3\" \/><\/a>Somebody should tell Microsoft to <em>rewrite<\/em> IE. And open source the current codebase. For one browser it meant the <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.netscape.com\/browsers\/future\/whitepaper.html\">start of a new life<\/a>. Oh and the <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/developers\/06\/08\/07\/1824250.shtml\">Slashdot discussion<\/a> about this is rather tasty too.\n<\/p>\n<p>OK. So your new Mac OSX now comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.rubyonrails.org\/2006\/8\/7\/ruby-on-rails-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopard\">Ruby On Rails<\/a>, something that you <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/tools\/rubyonrails.html\">could have downloaded<\/a> before the announcement was made.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s it. Have at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read that there was a major power outage (Dutch) in the southern portion of The Netherlands. Nu.nl has some weird pictures with the &#8216;Fair&#8217; of Eindhoven just milling about like if there was no power outage. Obviously some people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}