There seems to me to be something very fucked up about using private security firms once you invade another country. Mercinaries have always existed, so lets call them what they are. Somehow it is even worse when they are being offered immunity when they screw up, something that might well not be offered to a [...]
You can’t help reading about somebody who builds their own helicopter from scrap, and be impressed. Most people in this country can’t explain how a car works, and wouldn’t even have a clue where to start. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Mushrooms, live! Train + [...]
I did have a post about how I didn’t hate Windows media Player quite as much as I did last week having used it for a little while and found some useful things, however…. As I was looking through some Unknown Artist files, I noticed some funny items in the Comments section of the mp3 [...]
Every so often I will try to send an email from gmail and I get a pop up that says something like “It appears that you wanted to attach a mail to this mail” and gives me the OK/Cancel options. I put this down to me accidentally clicking on attach but not specifying a file, [...]
Being away from my beloved ibook and synology cube for a few weeks, I have imported my entire music collecdtion into windows media player on a portal harddrive. I’d like a nice way to visualise the information about how many tracks by each artist I have. WMP has one interesting feature (and many many wank [...]
Do these announcments about cuts mean that the BBC is killing it’s Purple Cow? Surely things like backstage and all of the new programming are what make the BBC watchable unlike the lowest common denominator trash that ITV spout and the vile and vapid dross that channels like ABC spew forth with? Possibly Related Posts: [...]
yes, it would appear that lighting a pipe and smoking it on set on Top Gear causes the health and safety Nazis to get their knickers in a twist again. “Ash’s spokeswoman said smoking was “not appropriate for the BBC”. “There are no exceptions,” she said, adding: “You cannot smoke in a public place. This [...]
Flash Gordon (sic) fans dispair – it is no longer Gordon V’s Ming. Missed headlines there. Possibly Related Posts: Bigger guns won’t help A bear called Muhammed Monsanto seem to think information is evil RIP Ned Sherrin AIDS – it’s not complex people
I received a comment on a post nearly four years old, and it stirred up such strong feelings its increadible. At the time I wrote it I could have been sick I was so upset, my heart torn out, and now I read it and realise I’ve not made some the mistakes again, so maybe [...]
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Aways visionaries in music (Kid A – idiocy that sounds perfect), Radiohead have released (or rahter are releasing – it’s on pre-order at the moment) their whole next album and you can pay what you like for the download. Lots of people have lots to say, and I find the idea that they are behind [...]
It would appear the music industry is just not thinking, listening or doing anything more than bitching a sueing to try and maintain a business model thats just got working anymore. They’re even contradicting themselves now, for example check out these gems, only lines apart. “when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we [...]
Congratulations to my wife (sic) for being voted “Cameraphone Photographer of the Year“ Possibly Related Posts: Multiple photo fails A little bit of webcam trickery wiiPong (or, how to make a crappy games from exciting technology) A week of great tools Discount shiny things
As cool as the items on Die Electric as I can’t help thinking that a)super ugly side scrolling site and b) surely making the prongs out of plastic would be a good idea as metal is far from dielectric. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together [...]
Between my Outlook install for work, and my gmail account which aggregates the mail from about 4 or 5 pop3 addresses, I was drowning in a sea of email. I got about a thousand messages a day, of which a good 800 were spam, and of the remaining 200 I probably only had to deal [...]
I will miss your voice on loose ends. I always enjoyed the strange mix of music, politics and comic sketches is something that only radio4 could broadcast, and you were the perfect person for it. May you rest in peace. Possibly Related Posts: Bigger guns won’t help A bear called Muhammed Monsanto seem to think [...]