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B<\/span>ecause I’m busy programming!\n<\/p>\n

A couple of items in the Dutch news bulletins that caught my eye: first, national grocery chain Albert Heyn is launching a new concept grocerystore<\/a> (Dutch). To focus more on families and kids, the chain will start to ‘sell bulk and wholesale packages’, eat-while-you shop corners (meals ready within 15 minutes for 8 Euros, ‘a brand new concept!’, according an enthousiastic CEO), a ‘customer service corner’ and (amazingly) a washroom<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

Widely (world renown, I hear) popular ‘Uitzending gemist’ from the Dutch public broadcaster<\/a>, will finally include commercials. Darn.\n<\/p>\n

The big buzz around appears to be the ‘editing of the history of podcasting’<\/a>. Mr. Curry was caught while editing the ‘history’ of podcasting in his favour. The real issue is not that he was actually caught: it’s the fact that people can claim fame for something so normal<\/em> as ‘podcasting’. ‘Timeshifted downloads’. Rats ass<\/a><\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

In the article podcasts are described as time-shifted. This seems rather incorrect. Unlike time-shifted material, podcasts cannot be listened to while the content is produced, which makes podcasts more akin to recordings then to time-shifted content.\n<\/p>\n

Questionable practices<\/a>, and a national hero taking a step down. Talking about cloning, where’s Clonaid<\/a>? Where’s Eve? When can I finally start cloning a triplet brother? Not right away though, I’m still in the process of building a genuine StarTrek-like ‘transporter beam’ that works on TCP\/IP. (Note I’ve considered UDP, but for technical reasons, it wasn’t quite feasible)\n<\/p>\n

It’s the same story in Europe. Sold out<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

I was testing Firebird for an SQL analyzer I’m currently working on. Installing Firebird on the Debian box was a breeze. I had more troubles getting the ODBC connection going on my Windows desktop. After being able to finally get the connection going1<\/sup>, I cannot even see my own tables. I’ll be hunting this problem down tomorrow or the day after: it might be some role\/security problem.\n<\/p>\n

Earlier, The Daily Show<\/a> had Chris Elliott as a guest. He’s the guy who did ‘Get A Life’ (and you probably recognize him from ‘The Abyss’). I always thought that show was hilarious: I learned to appreciate his absurd humour after his excellent show on time travelling (truthfully detailing the paradoxes of time travel). Guess what, that particularly show’s script is online (script here<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> If you want to use Firebird server from a remote client, you need to download<\/a> the complete server package (available in many flavours) and select the ‘install the client only’ option during installation.
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