Archive for June, 2003
Bruce Almighty
I went to see Bruce Almighty this weekend.
A very funny and entertaining movie, with Jim Carrey being given almighty powers, which obviously results in catastrophy!
Also a nice role for Morgan Freeman, playing God!
Hmmm… weird… though not as weird as Alanis Morissette in Dogma.
Anyone else know of any (well-known) actor or actress playing God?
DVD writer (2)
I don’t know if it has to do with my posting from last week, (maybe it was cause for some discussion,) but we now have a dvd writer in our group!
No, it is not the new one announced by Iomega, capable of writing DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM, but the Sony DWU10A DVD±RW writer (which, by the way, does not seem to exist on the Sony site; the closest you can get, is probably this one).
Finally, I can now backup my home directory on one single disc again!
Bad luck
In other news today, I had some bad luck with my motorbike.
I had stopped somewhere in Rotterdam for a while, and the moment I wanted to ride off, the clutch cable broke! Well, I suppose it is possible to get home without a clutch, but to be honest, I did not want to try…
Of course it was just a few minutes past six, so all the shops were closed. *sigh*
I did get home, eventually, on the back of my friend’s bike… (and thank you for that, HJ!)
Update (June 27): I bought a new clutch cable this morning. I’ve gone to work by car today. I have left my bike where it was yesterday, and I’m going there this afternoon to fix the cable. Then I still have to figure out how to get my bike and my car back home… 
A new tradition
We heard this morning that our survey paper of Feature-based flow visualisation techniques has been accepted for publication in Computer Graphics Forum, the journal of the Eurographics Association. So that was very good news! And quick too, because we submitted our revised version only last Tuesday.
DVD writer
Who needs standards?
There are three different formats for writable DVD’s, DVD+RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM. For more info about the differences, take a look at this site, for example.
So, the big problem is of course, if you want to buy a dvd writer, which format should you choose? The one may be technologically more advanced, the other more widespread or compatible.
Microsoft Antivirus?
Read this on tweakers.net (in Dutch):
June 11, 2003: Microsoft buys RAV antivirus software from GeCAD.
What? Is Microsoft going to make their own virus scanner?
June 12, 2003: RAV AntiVirus ceases to exist.
“At the moment there are more than 10 million users and most of them use Linux.”
Ah, no, they just misuse their monopoly again and buy out the competition! That’s more like Microsoft… how typical!
Update: Have a look at this, it’s true after all…
June 18, 2003: Microsoft is going to develop own virus scanner.
Netiquette
People that use MS Word to write their emails should be shot!
Once in a while I get messages like that, for instance as part of a mailing list.
Such an email message is normally a “multi-part message in MIME format”. The first part is the normal plain text version of the email, and the second part is the HTML / XML version. (Sorry, I don’t mean “HTML”, of course, I mean “MS’s definition of HTML”!)
Attila the Hun?
I was just browsing through the Men’s Singles draws of Roland Garros, when I saw this…
Busy weekend
Because last Thursday was Ascension Day, I also took the day off on Friday, and therefore had a nice long weekend to enjoy the beautiful weather.
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