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The author, Arne Brasseur, came to life the 29th of january 1983. Currently he is finishing his last year of university, studying computer science and modern chinese. After that he wants to travel the world, Taiwan to start with. He has a diploma in Audio Engineering, and a keen interest in music and metaphysics. He takes care of the weekly live sessions at the university radio station. He is also an MC in his spare time, writing and rapping both in Dutch and in English. (No chinese, yet.)
Occasionaly he does freelance Java or PHP programming.

We’re moving

[Update] This blog has now moved to the attic. Www.arnebrasseur.net is where it’s at.
Soon this site will get a serious face lift. I’m moving from the blogging platform Wordpress to the more flexible Drupal system. This site will contain both my blog in Dutch and various pages of interest in English.

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The last post

I have decided to no longer continue to blog in English on this site. I will still be blogging in Dutch.
It’s been increasingly difficult for me to maintain a certain continuity here. It’s been a great experiment, and a lot of fun, but I feel it’s time to let this one go.
I’m working on a […]

Getting subtitles in sync

As an early new years resolution I’ll start with sharing more of the snippets I code up to make my life easier. Here’s one : the SRT subtitle scaler. It’s a little ruby script to sync subtitles with a movie. I don’t know how often one needs this, but I got some English subtitles on-line […]

Do what you can’t not do

By accidentally using the right four-word combination on Google I stumbled upon a 2002 article by Mark Pilgrim, and somehow it prompted me to use that good old blockquote tag once again. These are the closing words of the article, citing himself two years before that. Spot on Mark, spot on!

As I write this, the […]