Monthly Archives: October 2003

Knuckle month

Posted on October 21, 2003 by Arthur

This month it’s knuckle month. Make fists out of your hands, put them together so that eight knuckles are lining up. Knuckles are months with 31 days. The valleys between the knuckles are the months with 30 days. Apparantly this … Continue reading →

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Strike a pose

Posted on October 21, 2003 by Arthur

I was compiling an example conduit for the Palm PDAs, which apparently worked out OK. Well: partially. For some kind of reason it just synchronizes the Addressbook instead of basically fetching the data and saving it to a textfile. Not … Continue reading →

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Couple slain

Posted on October 21, 2003 by Arthur

Last night this got coverage from local ATV: a couple was killed last Sunday night. A Cape Breton woman (Port Morien) and her Dutch internet friend were shot to death by the woman’s estranged husband. Weird: it’s not mentioned in … Continue reading →

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Cloink

Posted on October 20, 2003 by Arthur

As a programmer I ask questions. That’s part of the job and eventually, it’s part of the nature. You ask questions because there’s a need for an answer: after all, it’s part of trying to find the solution for a … Continue reading →

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Bilingual speakers

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Arthur

Just a couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion about and between ‘bilingual’ speakers on the topic of being bilangual (Earlier here). Now via EurekaNews, researchers conclude that the our cognitive control system that takes care of ‘code switching’ … Continue reading →

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Child’s play

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Arthur

Let a bunch of kids (preferably ‘Playstation’ generation) play the good old games from the Eighties and magic things happen. Space Invaders: EGM: This game was so popular in Japan that— John: They made it into a TV show? EGM: … Continue reading →

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Threewheeler

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Arthur

The guy that owns the (self-proclaimed) best page in the Universe comes with the perfect solution to balance a two-wheeled scooter without a gyroscope and other expensive hard and software: just add an extra third wheel.    “Amazing! In fact, the … Continue reading →

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‘Leak proof’ Outlook

Posted on October 19, 2003 by Arthur

The BBC dives into the latest Outlook version and notices that it comes with a new ‘leak-proof’ feature. The new version will allow users to make e-mails ‘self-destruct’, restrict other users to read mail or prevent the forwarding of e-mails. … Continue reading →

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SCP fun

Posted on October 18, 2003 by Arthur

Yuck. It took me an hour to scp a hundred plus of pictures to Alf’s computer. Some of them needed to be resized, then copied and then copied and once again scp-ed. I couldn’t have done it without the cat, … Continue reading →

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A toad on steroids

Posted on October 18, 2003 by Arthur

Alfons has a pretty picture of an ugly (new type of) frog, recently found in China. The new frog is a chubby, blob-like animal: scientists describe the find as a help to find out more about evolution of frogs. For … Continue reading →

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Meddling and peddling

Posted on October 16, 2003 by Arthur

I have been pretty busy lately. Just yesterday, I told my wife that today it was going to be a crucial day where the peddling against the stream should end up into a forward motion. Peddling it was for sure, … Continue reading →

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Windows security/bug fixes

Posted on October 15, 2003 by Arthur

I was checking today’s recommended fixes by Microsoft: a total of 5 fixes. Four of them are defined as ‘critical’. And guess what? Two of the issues have to do with ActiveX. It would be rather mean to say that … Continue reading →

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Weird deep sea encounter

Posted on October 15, 2003 by Arthur

Researchers had a spectacular encounter with a rare Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), much deeper and far south of its normal range. During a standard dive (but never a dull event, as the researchers mention), the shark carefully (and gracefully) checked … Continue reading →

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