Monthly Archives: August 2003

The BBC and their archives

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Arthur

You’ve probably seen this everywhere plastered on the news: the BBC is planning to put their complete TV and Radio archive online. I hope this means that they’re also going to make available the RealAudio streams of the Weill Centenary … Continue reading →

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Bike Trucking

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Arthur

While driving through Truro today, I noticed that very same feeling that I had before: that drivers here are not used to bikers, let alone know what to do when confronted with a cyclist that does not (I repeat: not) … Continue reading →

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Black-out whammy

Posted on August 25, 2003 by Arthur

CNN curled my toes today when AM’s ms. O’Brien mentioned (and showed) the great black-out picture from space. Apparantly CNN is not aware of the Snopes site (of urban legends fame), which named the very same picture a hoax.    “The … Continue reading →

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Genius genie

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

Imagine spam software finally deliver the right message in your mailbox! Via Cleverhack, an interesting demonstration of an algorithm that attempts to predict the gender of the author of (any) piece of text. Interesting success ratio too.

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Cam-nowhere

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

I was looking for a program that mimicks Lotus ScreenCam, and I only found references to an opensourced CamStudio. However, going to the developer’s site brings me to site of the maker of RoboHelp. Which is weird. First the application … Continue reading →

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When sci-fi movies take the wrong turn

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

Over at the BBC a cynical editorial how Sci-Fi movies sometimes forget about real science. Or rather use dodgy science to explain unnatural scenarios.

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Budget the States

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

Game as done by AP puts you in the place of the honourable President (via) and brings you the ultimate experience of Live! Action! Budgetting! and Senator! Bribing! (I mean, asking representatives to vote for your bills). For some kind … Continue reading →

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Ugh

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

I suppose it’s actually bedtime. Yay for blue. And grey. And Doubtful.

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Static pages in MT

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

I found a way to add static pages to a Movable Type blog, since I’m too lazy to go FTP/SCP. Scroll a bit down to ‘Adding an about page’. An example here is the Disclaimer page which I used to … Continue reading →

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PBS

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

PBS, the American public broadcaster was broadcasting 60-70s music. I think it started around 7 and it’s still going on (Soul/Rythm, Roy Orbinson and Elvis Presley). Weird… Did I see Andre Rieu in the schedule? Isn’t that that weird guy … Continue reading →

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It worked

Posted on August 24, 2003 by Arthur

Apparantly this is my first post.

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Tron (1982)

Posted on August 22, 2003 by Arthur

Tron. For some kind of reasons I keep thinking of BASIC (the language) commands ‘tron’ and ‘troff’, effectively meaning something like (respectively) ‘trace on’ and ‘trace off’. I think it showed the line numbers of execution, but I can’t remember … Continue reading →

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Red Water (2003)

Posted on August 22, 2003 by Arthur

Yesterday, TBS (self proclaimed ‘Superchannel’) had their ‘original movie’ ‘Red Water’ on the programming. And trust me, it was bad. My wife and I started betting who would be killed in the movie and we were almost right. The guy … Continue reading →

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