Richard's been commenting on our mutual appreciation obsession of Monsieur Kevin Smith 's fine motion picture works. Nooch. So how did that come about? To be honest, I've no idea ... I remember seeing Clerks in Virgin Megastore years ago, and thinking "ooh, this looks good". Upon watching it, my initial reaction was totally vindicated. […]
work, sleep, work, sleep, leuchars , sleep, work, sleep, work and we're here already. Incidentally, I caught up with some of the September 11th stuff that's been on television the past week, and managed to watch 9/11 — I dare anyone to watch this and walk away with a cold heart about the whole thing. […]
It's now after 8:46am Eastern Daylight Time on September 11th, 2002. It's one year since New York's world was turned upside down, America's world, our world. I was flicking between the news channels before 8:46 EDT just to see who's coverage seemed most appropriate to watch. I settled on CNN's. The beginning of what will […]
Seems that Bruce Perens , long time open source advocate and employee of hp , has been fired for 'MS baiting' [NY Times link - registration req'd]. Compaq and hp merging has created the biggest Microsoft customer ever, and it seems that hp's management wasn't too keen on Bruce's rather hostile attitude to the Redmond […]
I stumbled across a bizarre little new media project while reading up on the reasons why Transport for London and the London Underground has such a hard-on for PPP (Public Private Partnerships, née PFI under the Tories). It's called Flux 2.0 , and it needs Shockwave . Basically, this ickle Shockwave applet goes off and […]
After some feedback from Michele , which went something like ... [04:15] <Mishka> white on purple .. ouch ... the site now uses a dark coloured text for normal text and links, as opposed to the *chiiiing* white I used before. I doubt there'll be probs, but if there are, :P
via telsa ... IBM 's page of dying hard drive noises . I personally want the album of IBM worker songs ...
Weeeeeeell, thanks to someone who emailed me, called — c r a i g - :) — I've wasted ¥2200 of my hard earned cash (about £11) and ordered God Hates Japan , which you may remember , I got a bit narked off about because I couldn't find it on amazon.jp ... but lo, […]
via Michele ... "13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them." Time to ban vending machines? They are of course the dark horse of the criminal world, you know. Alternately, a "TILT!" light and buzzer, akin to a pinball machine, might be useful. Early warning systems always rock.