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And more around

Earlier today, I received 100 extra experience points by using a chainsaw on a couple of tree branches left behind by one of last Winter’s storms. Cleaning up the saw afterwards, is a completely different matter. I saw and read … Continue reading

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And Around, Around

With the official ‘name release’ of the next Nintendo console (‘Wii’, formerly codename ‘Revolution’), the Internets have become a safe haven for rumours and more speculation. And more of that, just for an ‘extra digg’. It is this bad that … Continue reading

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Birthday and some more

Huzzah! It’s the queen’s 80th birthday today! No, not that queen: but her’s will be in a couple of days! Free food! Earlier today, I read a Rogers’ flyer that proudly showed off their line of podcasts. Which reminded me … Continue reading

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OK is Not OK

OK: and now a note to aspiring Web 2.0 developers: The frequent use of the word ‘OK’ in your ‘how-to’ article (or posting for that matter) is not OK. OK? OK: This was a public service announcement. OK: And now … Continue reading

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The Gospel of Judas

This is too interesting to let this slip by as a ‘Recent Link’ item: Today, The National Geographic channel will broadcast ‘The Gospel of Judas’ documentary, about a document lost for 1,700 years, that sheds a different light on the … Continue reading

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“We’ve got hostiles”

Playing the ‘elder’ Half-Life has some entertainment values: first of all I wasn’t that amused seeing the Steam engine installed. It crashes so once in a while too (a couple times already), plus it seems to update itself automatically to … Continue reading

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Computer dude

Today it was Computer Dude Day. We had planned to buy a new videocard for the half so she could play her Sims 2 game, something we did indeed earlier this morning (Additionally she bought a mini Zen Nano player, … Continue reading

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Static! Google and Gopher.

Recently, I’ve noticed that I’m statically charged all the time. It started a couple of months ago. It can be pretty painful too, particularly when I touch objects that, well -uh- conduct. Better stay clear from me. You too, cat. … Continue reading

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Solar eclipse

Portions of Africa, Europe and Asia enjoyed a (partial/whole) solar eclipse today, and Space.com has the pictures. From that same page, a spectacular picture what a solar eclipse looks like from the great void (original pictures over at NASA). I … Continue reading

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Gratitude

Via Blake Ross’, I read that we should thank Microsoft for its monopolistic behaviour. After all: …and for all those who lament the pre-inclusion of Internet Explorer, it’s worth noting that if IE WASN’T pre-installed, most people wouldn’t be able … Continue reading

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The return of the Excel experts

Via David, this graph that appears to illustrate that Saddam killed a lot more people during his regime than the current Iraqi dead count! Spot the errors! Hints: 1. The red graph is a daily average of people killed during … Continue reading

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Huh !!!

Yesterday’s logs revealed that the amount of MBs transferred topped the 160 MBs. That’s only for one day. Generally, this domain only pulls a boring 20 MB a day on average. Either someone was downloading images from my wife’s pages … Continue reading

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A Scribe

I noticed that Everything2 has updated the level advancements, which means that after 5 years of not actively contributing, I became a level 4 user. When I logged into my account for the first time since, uh, 5 years, I … Continue reading

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