It’s the time of the year when the UK starts to close down for Christmas. I estimate that there were about two thirds of the usual number of people on my tube this morning and that number will fall further during the week. From what I’ve heard around the office, Tuesday and Wednesday are popular… Continue reading Christmas Shutdown
Author: Dave Cross
Comment Spam (Again)
Good piece by Ben about the increase in comment spam which is apparently crippling some servers running Moveable Type. This site runs on MT and I get quiet a lot of comment spam, but it doesn’t seem to be having a major impact on the site’s performance yet (I hope no-one sees that as a… Continue reading Comment Spam (Again)
Priorities
blech points out obvious differences in the priorities of two of our daily newspapers. Because if you’re a Daily Mail reader then you’re not interested in global catastrophes. you’re only interested in how political correctness is destroying the traditional British christmas.
The Arrival of the King
My copy of the extended edition of The Return of the King was waiting at home when I got in last night. It was a day early thanks to the vagaries of the British postal system. Now I just need to find about ten and a half hours to sit and watch all three films… Continue reading The Arrival of the King
Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Pride and Prejudice must start with the words “it is a truth universally acknowledged…”. The Guardian likes the joke so much that they used it twice today. In a real news story and also in a feature.
God cut from Dark Materials film
This makes me really angry. I was really happy that they were planning to make films of His Dark Materials but now it seems that New Line Cinema have decided that the subject of the trilogy (an attempt to overthrow god) would impact its saleability in the US. So they’ve decided to replace god with… Continue reading God cut from Dark Materials film
Thunderbird
Last month we were encouraging everyone to stop using Internet Explorer and use Firefox instead. This month, it’s the turn of Outlook to be replaced. If you’re bothered by the insecurities of Outlook, then you should take a look at Thunderbird. It’s from the same people as Firefox and it’s a very stable, very secure… Continue reading Thunderbird
Recruiter Stupidity
Summary of a conversation that took place between me and an recruitment agent a couple of weeks ago: agent: So we’ve got a job going at [large media company]. me: Is that working at [location] for [rate]? agent: Yes. That’s the one. me: Well in that case my CV has already been put forward for… Continue reading Recruiter Stupidity
The Golden Bough
It’s about time I read The Golden Bough, but the problem is deciding which version to read. I’ve got a copy of the Wordsworth Classics version that I picked from from a second hand bookshop a few years ago, but it seems that this is a reprint of the 1922 edition and in that version,… Continue reading The Golden Bough
Corporate Email
Jeremy Zawodny speaks much sense about the dismal state of corporate email.