Archive for September 2005
Boobie-thon 2005 29 Sep 2005
As if most people (I’m not excluding women here) need an excuse to stare at breasts all day, now you can do it in pursuit of a good cause too! I realise this might be heaven for many people, but bear with me, there is a serious message. The fourth annual blogger Boobie-thon is launched [...]
Sony MicroMV Format 27 Sep 2005
The other weekend I was at a wedding and I’d been asked to bring my video camera along and shoot some footage of the reception. I have had my camera, a Sony IP7, for quite a while and haven’t really used it all that much. It’s a minuscule thing, smaller than my G5 still camera [...]
Ad Break 23 Sep 2005
I’ve had conversations about advertising towards men on two separate occasions recently, so it was with interest I followed the link from Kottke’s site to a BBC article about how ‘Men are tired of their portrayal in advertising.’ There seems to be at least as many stereotypes for men as women in advertising, many of [...]
Millennium Villages 21 Sep 2005
I’ve written before on my thoughts about how to help tackle poverty and that money alone is not an answer, so it was nice to stumble across a pictorial on the BBC website about a UN Millennium Village that was doing well using a concerted, wide-ranging aid effort that involved help, advice and training and [...]
Nasal Questions 19 Sep 2005
Can someone please explain to me which element of evolution, which survival need, what human endeavour requires that nasal hair be tied stright to your tear duct (if you’re a creationist, explain why the All Mighty — whichever variety you believe in — decided that was a good design decision)? I would like to say [...]
Disneyland Hong Kong 17 Sep 2005
You may not have noticed it (I’d never heard of it before yesterday, which is odd as they must have been building it for a while) but Disney opened their first theme park in China (though not on the mainland), Disneyland Hong Kong (doesn’t roll off the tongue as with the others). Nowhere, it seems, [...]
Down Time 15 Sep 2005
I was on holiday for two weeks recently (I doubt you noticed, I stayed at home) and when I came back it struck me as odd how the passing of time seems different. When you’re at work and someone is away for two weeks it doesn’t seem very long. All but the gravest emergencies can [...]
Competition Time 13 Sep 2005
I’m running a competition over at List Books this month. All you have to do is register for an account (make sure to validate it and stay signed up for the newsletter) and you’ll automatically be entered in a free prize draw for a Goodmans GPS 150RS CD/Radio/Cassette player. There’s nothing to lose, so why [...]
Bad Signs 11 Sep 2005
They’re fairly consistent across the world, little signs that indicate road and traffic status, telling you of a reduced speed limit or warning you of fog. In the UK they were fairly basic, limited simply to speed and fog warnings now, however, we seem to be coming to the end of an expensive makeover to [...]
Move to Mac, Part 3 9 Sep 2005
In this part I’m going to discuss what software I’m using for what and why. You might want to check out Part 1 and Part 2. I was pointed in the direction of Server Logistics for easy installations of Apache, MySQL, PHP. I have to say that it was all they were supposed to be, [...]