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.
Whine Rack
We’ve been talking about getting a big wine rack for… well probably years. And yesterday we finally got round to buying one. Like just about any piece of storage that you buy these days it arrived in a flat pack. So being the alpha-male type (hah!) I decide that I’ll put it together last night.… Continue reading Whine Rack
Propaganda Goes Both Ways
Just in case you were thinking that I was only interested in the propaganda that it coming out of the US and UK war machine, here’s something from the Iraqi information minister. There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah… Continue reading Propaganda Goes Both Ways
Molesworth at Hogwarts
Ho For Hoggwarts! (via Ben Hammersley)