{"id":1257,"date":"2006-09-12T22:17:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2006-09-12T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:21:40","slug":"not-even-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Not even close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> second <a id=\"p1256\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1256\" title=\"Tropical Storm Florence\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/tropical_storm_florence.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical Storm Florence\" \/><\/a>hurricane that flies off the coast of Nova Scotia (Florence), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/story\/2006\/09\/12\/storm-newfoundland.html\">heading right for Newfoundland<\/a>. Tomorrow that is.\n<\/p>\n<p>I think the weather office reported rain for us all day, which didn&#8217;t turn out to be quite that right: it was actually more sunny than I expected. Since it was colder earlier this morning (furnace time has hit the residence), I ran around in sweater, something I deeply regretted at the end of the day.\n<\/p>\n<p>I did not really follow Condo&#8217;s visit to Nova Scotia: you may just as well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2006\/09\/12\/canada-us.html\">read it over at CBC&#8217;s<\/a>. Colour me unimpressed. Related: Canada and the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/money\/national\/2006\/09\/12\/softwood-signing.html\">signed the softwood deal<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>With Syria foiling an attack on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5339834.stm\">US embassy in Damascus<\/a>, what would the pundits say after the US government thanked the Syrian leadership! Nada, I guess, is the answer.\n<\/p>\n<p>And then technology, where apparently Apple is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2006\/09\/12\/apple-annnoucement.html\">create a set-top box<\/a>: actually, it looks like it will only be able to download and play movies on your TV. Earlier I was browsing throught the current list of PVR-like devices. Most of them appear to have crappy user-interfaces, notably the ones that come from Philips. I wonder what OS these Philips devices run<sup>1<\/sup>: I think we all already know that TiVo&#8217;s run a modified Linux (and the company is adhering to the GPL, as you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tivo.com\/linux\/linux.asp\">right here<\/a>). I&#8217;m pretty sure that they run something like a BSD based Unix distro. But then, a company with the magnitude of Philips (Royal Philips at that) probably has created their own operating system.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> Earlier I read that Philips PVR users just needed some kind of bootdisk to update\/upgrade their existing firmware.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second hurricane that flies off the coast of Nova Scotia (Florence), heading right for Newfoundland. Tomorrow that is. I think the weather office reported rain for us all day, which didn&#8217;t turn out to be quite that right: it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1257\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"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=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}