{"id":2048,"date":"2008-11-25T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2008-11-25T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:38:53","slug":"on-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"On. I think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>eteorites collectors, astronomers and researchers are trying to pinpoint the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/saskatchewan\/story\/2008\/11\/25\/meteor.html\">track of the meteor that lit the Prairies&#8217; sky<\/a>, last week. According to the latest calculations (Newtonian, hahaha), the meteor had a mass of 10 tons. I say, it was probably a good thing the meteor hit a not-so-densely populated area.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cancer rates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/health\/story\/2008\/11\/25\/cancer-rates.html\">are down in the US<\/a>, and hopefully, the same is true for other areas in the Western world. As for the US, maybe this is tied to the &#8216;Obama&#8217; effect?\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been carrying a virus with me the last couple of weeks and it appears that my immune system is slowly getting a grip on it. I&#8217;ve not been sick that often as relatives know: I&#8217;m fairly resistant against colds, but when it gets to me, it gets me. Maybe my system got too comfortable.\n<\/p>\n<p>This also means that I postponed some of my coding projects, including the &#8216;safe translation&#8217; of DAWG from Delphi to C#. I&#8217;m surprised how popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?page_id=954\">my wordfinders<\/a> are, and have been, the last, what, 6 or 7 years? I&#8217;ve been planning to slowly move these applications over to something more reasonable, but never had the time to work on the newer algorithms. Sooner than soon, I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorites collectors, astronomers and researchers are trying to pinpoint the track of the meteor that lit the Prairies&#8217; sky, last week. According to the latest calculations (Newtonian, hahaha), the meteor had a mass of 10 tons. I say, it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2048\">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":[128,47,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048"}],"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=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}