{"id":2016,"date":"2008-10-03T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2008-10-05T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T11:06:21","slug":"only-assorted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Only. Assorted."},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>ssorted links I was thinking about this week:\n<\/p>\n

I read that Cunard’s “Queen Elizabeth 2” is officially retiring<\/a>: in a couple of months the ship sails for her last destination, Dubai, to become a state of the art ‘floating hotel’. I mention this, because a couple of weeks ago, the ship anchored in Saint John<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

I’m only slightly following both US and Canadian elections. I’ve not really listened or watched yesterday’s Palin vs. Biden debate, mainly because, I had other poor excuses not<\/em> to watch it<\/a>. The Canadian elections I have been following through notes and postings at The Internationalist<\/a> and of course, the CBC. I actually expect ms. May to do very well: well, at least that the party gets some MPs in the Commons.\n<\/p>\n

If you’ve played Ultima games, you probably remember the name Richard Garriot: via Information Week, I found out that he’s planning to go to the ISS and conduct some official experiments for NASA (link here<\/a>, apologies for annoying ad in between). I’m, however, surprised to learn that Garriot’s dad was an astronaut<\/a>. This probably explains the Garriot brother’s obsession with computers and programming. I have fond memories to one of the Ultima games, where the main story highlighted the dangers of sects.\n<\/p>\n

And then, just today, the KDE desktop team released KDE 4.1.2<\/a>, which is a highly unremarkable release that is supposed to fix a lot of issues in KHTML and Konqueror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assorted links I was thinking about this week: I read that Cunard’s “Queen Elizabeth 2” is officially retiring: in a couple of months the ship sails for her last destination, Dubai, to become a state of the art ‘floating hotel’. … Continue reading →<\/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":[341,302,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}