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Category Archives: Hyperlinks
Pandas again
The Gothamist had an item on grammar, punctuation and pandabears. Plus that ‘Eats, shoots, Leaves’, joke. Last year, that particular joke ended up in the list of most appreciated jokes of Canadians, as I dutifully noticed (see also here for … Continue reading
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‘Bout time
Over at the BBC an article discussing Sony’s latest attempt to push the MiniDisc: the successor is called Hi-MD. The new format for the disks allows for storage of over 45 hours of music. Sony finally got the clue too … Continue reading
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Fame and the Bank of Canada
While doing some research for my employer, I had to look up some things on the Bank Of Canada site. Particularly I was thinking of making an interface between the the bank’s currency convertor and (our inhouse made) ordering and … Continue reading
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The spirit of spirit-frenzy
The media frenzy and circus around the latest Mars Rover has reached its climax: apparently NASA wants people to download images like these (opens in a separate window [Original location]). Distributing tile-like images is nice. But thinking that they can … Continue reading
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Er.
The first thing I tried when going on-line, after say 1 1/2 week, was to log-on at recipes.google.com. Not that it really exists (so don’t even bother trying). Oliebollen anyone?
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Idle words and the Netherlands
Blogger Maciej recently visited The Netherlands and has some interesting notes on the cities he visited: Utrecht, Haarlem and Rotterdam. Plenty of pictures, too, sobering though: the pictures reveal typical Dutch Fall weather to me. Weird feelings when seeing the … Continue reading
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Sun’s burden
Sun’s got a problem, just as Alfons already points out in his latest entry: Sun’s Java Desktop isn’t all about Java. It’s a complete package of GNOME, StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, Java run on top of an ordinary Linux kernel. Sounds … Continue reading
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Ornithopter
Right in time for the Wright anniversary, Paul Beard points to Project Ornithopter. The thing actually flies, as the media gallery proudly shows. Not to mention the recognition the makers got from media and scientists. Make sure you check the … Continue reading
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Show me your ID
What Americans have with firearms, the Dutch have with identification cards, passports and privacy. For years, probably since the Second World War, there was always a broad opposition against any law that forced citizens to show any ID card in … Continue reading
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Were they abducted then?
Remember Clonaid, the Raelians, dr. Boisselier and baby-clone Eve? They haven’t been in the news lately and nobody ever has seen proof of the 5 cloned babies. Mark my words: next year they’ll announce another revolutionary technological advance, on eternal … Continue reading
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Microsoft Baseline thing
Via The Register a handy tip about Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (download here). “This, in case you weren’t aware, is a handy free tool for checking for vulnerabilities on systems, and has the particular advantage (unlike Windows Update) of allowing … Continue reading
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The mind is a
Weird thing. Sometimes you remember things instantly. Sometimes you don’t. I was doing some background research on Postgres when I stumbled on the fact that MS SQL Server and Sybase SQL Server had a common codebase. I’m pretty sure I … Continue reading
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The last Samurai
I‘m not particularly interested in Cruise’s new movie, ‘The Last Samurai’. For some kind of reason I don’t like Cruise. Seeing him reminds me of Elizabeth Shue (‘Cocktail’ together with Tom Cruise) who was quoted saying: “If I’d known that … Continue reading
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