A slight case of synchronicity. Yesterday we had a discussion about what we would do when people stop making VCRs. We have hundreds of video tapes, both bought and recorded from the TV, and it would be a pain to not be able to watch them again once our last VCR hits the dust. The… Continue reading Death of the VCR
Month: November 2004
Feed the Sudan
Well I finally heard the new version of Do They Know It’s Christmas yesterday and I have to say that I was distinctly unimpressed. It’s even worse than Band Aid 2. So if you want to support the Sudan but refuse to pay money for that terrible record, here’s a suggestion. Until January 9th, the… Continue reading Feed the Sudan
Weird Googling
Normally I’d be happy if my web sites got high Google ratings, but this is a bit weird. Many years ago I bought the domain ars.org.uk. I used it to host an Agency Rating System where IT contractors could share opinions about recruitment agents they had worked with. After a few years of operation it… Continue reading Weird Googling
Monkey Trial
I’m currently reading How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World. It’s a very interesting book and I’ll be writing about it in more detail when I’ve finished it. But last week I read a section which talked about the “Monkey Trial” that took place in Tennessee in 1925. For those who don’t know the story, a… Continue reading Monkey Trial
MP Response Stats
Those lovely people at FaxYourMP have released a new set of stats showing how well MPs respond to faxes sent through the system. The average for all MPs is 63.15%. But my MP, Martin Linton, does much worse than that. He responses to 57.62% of the the faxes he gets. Are you listening Google? That’s… Continue reading MP Response Stats
Digital Interactive TV
I’ve been an digital cable TV customer of ntl for some years. When the system was installed I was told that interactive TV services weren’t available in my area but that they would arrive in “about six weeks”. This was something like four years ago and we still don’t have interactive services. A bit of… Continue reading Digital Interactive TV
More Firefox Press
There’s another piece about Firefox in this weeks Guardian Online. Once again it emphasises the fact that Firefox is only one of a number of pieces of open source software that organisations should be investigating. The significance of these developments becomes clear from research published in August by the British Computer Society. Among those Britons… Continue reading More Firefox Press
Comment Spam
Ben Hammersley talks about a new kind of comment spam that he’s been getting. I’ve been getting exactly the same thing here and my theories run along very similar lines. I’ve been nuking them.
Firefox in the Press
Today’s Guardian leader has a very nice piece about Firefox and how it’s slowly but surely eating away at IE’s market share. Firefox deserves to succeed, but even if it does not it will have highlighted the astonishing success of open source, well known inside the web community but not outside. Among other services, it… Continue reading Firefox in the Press
Terrible Gig
Update: Hello to anyone who has found their way to this page from the Queenzone forum. Sorry if my review upsets you, but it’s just my honest recollections of gig that I didn’t enjoy. As I say below, I’m sure that these problems have all been fixed up in the DVD release, so there’s no… Continue reading Terrible Gig