Shock Treatment has been released on DVD. If you’re not aware of the significance of this event then you’re not as big a Rocky Horror fan as you like to think you are. There’s also the obligatory collectors edition with stupid amounts of extra stuff.
Month: May 2006
Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed
Richard Dawkins’ programme The Root of All Evil? generated 23 complaints to Ofcom. The latest Ofcom bulletin is published today and it deals with these complaints (the relevant section starts on page 10). In summary, the complainants considered that the programme: showed a negative portrayal of religious beliefs and called religious faith “a virus”, and… Continue reading Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed
Serendipitous Scheduling
Just catching up with some American TV shows that we recorded last weekend and stumbled across some seredipitous scheduling by Channel 4. At 8pm last Sunday on E4, in ER a doctor called Debbie (Mary McCormack) was working at an IDP camp in Darfur with John Carter. At 9pm over on More 4[1] in the… Continue reading Serendipitous Scheduling
Desmond Dekker RIP
Desmond Dekker has died. Altogether now… Woh-oh… me ears are alight
Girls with Guitars (and Broken Web Sites)
(This entry is mostly about technical standards on the web – not, as it might seem at first, my dubious musical taste) I’m a sucker for a pretty girl with a jangly guitar. And we all know that I’m a geek. So I was interested in the idea of Sandi Thom who supposedly[1] got her… Continue reading Girls with Guitars (and Broken Web Sites)
Comment Spam
The amount of comment spam this site gets has gone up by an order of magnitude or two in the last week or so. And it looks like I’m not the only one to be suffering. The server is just about keeping up with the load, but it’s probably just a matter of time before… Continue reading Comment Spam
Deluding Yourself
Thanks to Blairwatch for pointing out a brilliant parliamentary speech[1] by David Cameron from the first PMQ following the recent council elections. […] we can see that the Prime Minister will not even address the fact that he is losing the support of his party. He lives in a world best summed up by the… Continue reading Deluding Yourself
London Javascript Night – Update
As I predicted a couple of weeks ago, the London Javascript Night has proved to be so popular that the original venue wasn’t big enough and a new one has been found. The new details are on the web site, but it’s the New Cavendish St site of Westminster University – the same place as… Continue reading London Javascript Night – Update
Amazon Web Services
I’ve been a bit busy this week, so I haven’t mentioned the Amazon Web Services talk that I went to on Monday evening. Amazon Web Service Evangelist (cool job title) Jeff Barr talked for almost two hours about what Amazon are making available. It was all very interesting and I wish I had more time… Continue reading Amazon Web Services
Da Vinci Dilemma
Nice review of The Da Vinci Code on the BBC blog network. Two categories of people will probably be disappointed by the film: those who have read the book and those who have been looking forward to the movie. For all its flaws, the book is vastly better than the film. And I say that… Continue reading Da Vinci Dilemma