Category Archives: We-reflect-news

Whirl

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Arthur

So, Obama has become the Democrats’ presidential candidate, which reminds me of his best moment of his campaign, a rebuttal to laughter from Hillary Clinton on the question why there are so many Clinton advisers on his team: Hillary, I’m … Continue reading →

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Sinking Brick

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Arthur

What is more exciting than a rant about rising gas prices and peak oil? Why, a photo of an oil tanker in the Bay, of course! This week’s attention grabber was Weezer’s video for their new song, ‘Beans and Pork’, … Continue reading →

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Rice’s fxxx-xx boots

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Arthur

I was reading about the principals of the US torture memo. In one of the blogs I saw a reference to this meeting which included a quite less flattering description of ms Rice (the US Foreign Affairs secretary): Think about … Continue reading →

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The, Surprise

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Arthur

Microsoft’s move to open up the (file) specifications for its Office applications quite surprised me. I don’t think it has hit Slashdot yet, but it made it to the ‘frontpage’ of ZDNews. Brian Jones (Program Manager for Office) made the … Continue reading →

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And then for…

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Arthur

And then for something slightly different: More of the same! You guessed it: Yesterday morning, I was surprised to find we were a bit snowed in. When I say snowed in, I mean that I have to use force to … Continue reading →

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You failed

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Arthur

Via Crooks and Liars, I saw The Daily Show’s coverage of Romney’s CPAC speech: the speech contained so many platitudes, cliches and stereotypes that it had me laughing. Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of … Continue reading →

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That’s not a calf

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier this morning I read that the Australian government released (graphic) pictures of the Japanese whale hunt in the Antartic seas. I thought this was quite unique: normally, I expect these pictures to come from organizations like Greenpeace (they released … Continue reading →

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The driveway

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Arthur

I think it’s an understatement if I’d say that last week, we’ve gone through quite some weather. Monday, we started out with lots of rain which at the end made our driveway look like the perfect ‘slide and glide ramp’ … Continue reading →

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Is that a fractal?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Arthur

The CBC has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry’s obsession with evil machines. The slideshow uses the new movie ‘Untraceable’ (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine … Continue reading →

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18 characters and counting

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Arthur

Via nu.nl, I found out that the countries that form the EU our slowly moving forward with the introduction of the Single European Payments Area (SEPA). SEPA is a framework for a unified payment system that (should) make European cross-border … Continue reading →

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Rambo vs. Norris

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Arthur

The more I watch the US primaries, the absurder it gets. You’re probably familiar with the fact that Chuck ‘I’m on the Internet too’ Norris is a supporter of Huckabee (actually, the other day, even the local paper published a … Continue reading →

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Lyperhinks

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Arthur

There were some considerable announcements made this week and last week: First of all, there was a buzz on the Postgres list that Sun was going to buy up MySQL. The official announcement at MySQL mentions that it went over … Continue reading →

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Bird’s eye view

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Arthur

You may have heard about the death of Benazir Bhutto, who was prime-minister of Pakistan in the Eighties and Nineties. The shocking thing I thought was the fact that this was the second assassination attempt after she returned from exile. … Continue reading →

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