Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Aliens uh?

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Arthur

If you’re bored and feel for a challenge this weekend: I watched a couple of videos online that were interesting enought to share. ‘Alien Planet’ (1h:30m) is a documentary about an imaginative human mission to an inhabited planet (“Darwin IV”) … Continue reading →

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Moo (and other stuff)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier today, the WordPress developers released a fix for a security issue in the xml-rpc code. There’s no need to completely upgrade your installation: upgrading overhere is sort of painless and that’s not because of the fact that my host … 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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The sound of

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Arthur

This morning, I woke up with the sound of snowplows driving by our house, which to me, is the first hint that it’s time to do some shoveling outside. So, I guess, that’s something I’ll be planning for later. We’ve … 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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Oh, wait.

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Arthur

You may have noticed that the Canadian Blog Awards have started: the first voting round is open until January 21st. Xsamplex has been nominated in the Tech category: If you want to vote for me, go ahead. Last year, we … Continue reading →

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And then some more

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Arthur

I ran into a couple of surprises this week: First, I noticed that Mozilla now has their own video outlet/pod cast, Air Mozilla (Requires Flash 9). The video cast is spearheaded by Asa Dotzler. Older footage can be found at … Continue reading →

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Round

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Arthur

Last night, I decided to follow the Iowa Caucus thing: Apparently Obama and Huckabee are now considered (repectively) Democratic and Republican front runners. I also tuned into to hear their speeches and thought they were dull and boring. This brings … 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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The Queen has her picture taken

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Arthur

Various news organizations report that the British Queen has launched a YouTube channel (@ YouTube). The Palace promises clips from garden parties, footage from overseas travels, prime ministers and even a day in the life of the Prince of Wales. … Continue reading →

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Any.links

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Arthur

An assortment of links: I was reading this article at More Intelligent Life written by Enid Stubin (who appears to be an assistant-professor of English) and the first comment in the comment section literally says: Brilliant. This chick can actually … Continue reading →

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Shoelaces

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Arthur

Earlier this week, while fastening new shoelaces I was reminded of the fact that, during my life at my parental home, we (seemingly) never used to run out of shoelaces. I think one of my parents was smart enough to … Continue reading →

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