The success of this weekend’s Doctor Who story, “Blink“, has led to a number of comparisons with last season’s “doctor-light”[1] story, “Love and Monsters“. And I really don’t know why “Love and Monsters” comes off so badly in the comparison. It’s true that “Blink” is right up there as one of the best Doctor Who… Continue reading Love & Monsters Revisited
Author: Dave Cross
Getting Web Sites Wrong
It’s a constant refrain round these parts, I know, but here’s another example of a web site that has a couple of nasty errors that could have been avoided with a little thought. The site in question is Knight Frank the estate agents. I was drawn to their site as they are selling a house… Continue reading Getting Web Sites Wrong
Dali and Film
Yesterday we went to the Dali and Film exhibition that is currently running at the Tate modern. Alongside many of his paintings they were showing a number of Dali’s experiments with film. Most people will know about Dali’s work with Buñuel[1] and the dream sequence from Hitchcock’s Spellbound but there’s plenty of his lesser-known work… Continue reading Dali and Film
Blink
I haven’t been very impressed with this season of Doctor Who so far. Gridlock was ok and the recent two-parter (“Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”) had some very interesting ideas which were spoilt by a horribly mawkish ending – but other than that it’s all been rather disappointing. But last night’s episode, “Blink”,… Continue reading Blink
Another Country
A week ago I was really rather excited about Fedora 7. I’m less excited now. There seems to be a problem with the DVD drive in my laptop. Or, at least, an incompatitbility between it and the ISO images of the new version of Fedora. Over the last week, I’ve burnt several disks to us… Continue reading Another Country
Turning S5 into PDF
For the last couple of years I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s S5 for creating and presenting slides. It uses a combination of CSS and Javascript to create nice-looking slides which can be viewed in any decent web browser (see, for example, the slides from last Saturday’s Perl Teach-In). As an extra bonus, there is BooK’s… Continue reading Turning S5 into PDF
Religious Stupidity
I despair: Tony Blair says he wants more Muslim imams trained in UK universities, to reduce reliance on imams from overseas. No. It is not the job of the education system to encourage people to believe in fairy stories. The job of the education system should be to educate people (not difficult to work out… Continue reading Religious Stupidity
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
The new London 2012 Olympics logo looks like a car-crash. Which is, I suppose, somewhat appropriate. I can only assume that this was done deliberately to make the 2012 Olympics a laughing stock. Hopefully someone from the IOC will see the logo, realise that we’re not taking this at all seriously and let some other… Continue reading The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
Oh The Irony
From a recent BBC Have Your Say (as pointed out by spEak You’re bRanes). dont blame buisineeses for exploiting the cheap labour if the imigrants cant be bothered to learn english they have pnly themselves to blame ,in any country if you want to succeed then the first rule is to learn their langusge, every… Continue reading Oh The Irony
Pop Quiz Answers
I’m really surprised that no-one got the first question. Wikipedia had all the information that you needed. Question 1 (the easy one): What connects Queen’s “Sheer Heart Attack”, Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy” and Emerson, Lake and Palmers “Brain Salad Surgery”? Notice that I didn’t say that I was talking about songs or albums.… Continue reading Pop Quiz Answers