Tales of Drudgery and Boredom

Michel Vuijlsteke's Weblog. Altijd al geprobeerd een dagboek bij te houden.

I've moved
My new address is http://blog.zog.org.
Not because I was immensely dissatisfied with Radio, just because TypePad is the better service. That, and Robb's Law: I don't want to have a weblog (any website really) on a domain that I don't own.

Ik ben verhuisd
Mijn nieuw adres is http://blog.zog.org.
Niet omdat ik heel erg ontevreden was van Radio, maar gewoon omdat TypePad beter is. En omdat ik er een website kan hebben op mijn eigen domeinnaam.

  vrijdag 7 februari 2003

Kom het tegen. De spekpater is vandaag begraven.

Een kwestie van ratten die het zinkende schip verlaten? Of gewoon beu om acht jaar aan 200% overbezetting te werken? Jeremy Allaire verlaat Macromedia.

Crap crap crap crap crap. Ziek ziek ziek ziek.

State of the Union, samengevat. 't Is wel die van vorig jaar, maar 't blijft goed.

En leve Terry Jones. Mijn favoriete Python, en ik ben zeer content dat hij weer op tv te zien is.

Go Argus!

U.N. Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix on Tuesday begged Iraq for new evidence about its weapons programs. He warned Iraq it's five minutes until midnight. They've got just five minutes to move all their oil to North Korea or it's curtains.

 

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Orion on Film
Credit & Copyright: Matthew Spinelli

Explanation: Orion, the Hunter, is one of the most easily recognizable constellations in planet Earth's night sky. But Orion's stars and nebulae don't look quite as colorful to the eye as they do in this lovely photograph, taken last month from Vekol Ranch south of Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The celestial scene was recorded in a five minute time exposure using high-speed color print film and a 35mm camera mounted on a small telescope. In the picture, cool red giant Betelgeuse takes on a yellowish tint as the brightest star at the upper left. Otherwise Orion's hot blue stars are numerous, with supergiant Rigel balancing Betelgeuse at the lower right, Bellatrix at the upper right, and Saiph at the lower left. Lined up in Orion's belt (left to right) are Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka all about 1,500 light-years away, born of the constellation's well studied interstellar clouds. And if the middle "star" of Orion's sword looks reddish and fuzzy to you, it should. It's the stellar nursery known as the Great Nebula of Orion.

Tiens, waren dat mijn longen die ik net uitgehoest heb? Ah neen, gewoon vieze fluimen.

Ikzelf

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