I’m trying to complete my collection of David Bowie CDs. This isn’t as simple as you might think. In 1990/91 most of Bowie’s albums (from Space Oddity to Tin Machine) were re-released with extra tracks. These are generally singles and B-sides which were released at the same time as the album in question and many… Continue reading David Bowie
New Toy
We bought a new widescreen TV. It’s a Panasonic TX28DK1 if anyone’s interested in such details. There’s one feature that I’m very impressed by. That’s its intelligent picture resizing algorithm. By looking at the amount of of black screen around the picture it calculates whether the transmission is in 16:9, 14:9 or 4:3 and adjusts… Continue reading New Toy
Religious Festivals
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve no objections at all to a four-day weekend. I just wish we could give it some label doesn’t link it with 2000 year old superstitions.
Saving Private Gellar
Whilst I’m a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I’ve never really been a fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar. She’s not the strongest actor in the cast and I’ve read interviews with her where she says stuff that I really can’t agree with. She often comes across as a bit of a bimbo. And… Continue reading Saving Private Gellar
Jeremy Hardy vs the Israeli Army
The most excellent comic and political writer Jeremy Hardy has made a film about his “adventures” in Palestine last year. There’s a good article about the film in today’s Guardian. The film is on at the Bloomsbury Theatre on the 23rd and 24th April. Tickets £6.50.
Content Syndication with RSS
Just got my copy of Ben Hammersley’s Content Syndication with RSS. Haven’t looked at it in any detail yet but from the brief glance I’ve had, it seems really good. He seems really… er… diplomatic about the whole Dave Winer RSS 1.0/2.0 “issue”.
Curriculum Vitae
I’m getting a bit worried about the number of recruitment agents who just ignore me when I send them my CV[1] to apply for jobs. Part of it is probably the fact that in the current job market they get 50 CVs for every advert, but I’m also starting to suspect that I should do… Continue reading Curriculum Vitae
Double Standards
If you knock the head of the statue of a deposed ruthless dictator in Iraq then that’s cause for massive celebrations. If you do the same thing in the UK then you get three months in prison.
Book Review
My book, Data Munging with Perl has been out for over two years, but the Programmer’s Bookshelf column in Dr Dobbs Journal has finally got round to mentioning it. And they like it. A lot. For example, However the book is not really about Perl. Instead it is about data, and paterns that occur repeatedly… Continue reading Book Review
Snow
Snowing? In April? The weather has gone really weird.