Archive for November 2005
Come In, Houston 28 Nov 2005
I am still here, honestly (not that I’ve had a flood of people asking why I haven’t posted in a week). I just haven’t posted because, well, two reasons: 1. I haven’t found anything that has roused me to do so, and, 2. I’ve been busy Not that I haven’t been posting to my other [...]
Download TV 20 Nov 2005
Ivan Askwith has written an interesting article on how TV downloads will change the way TV works. As someone who has recently taken to the freedom a PVR allows for control and rescheduling of TV programmes I can certainly see what he’s saying. I am also one of the people who bought Firefly on DVD, [...]
My Pirate Story Part 3 16 Nov 2005
Okay, this is part three of my pirate story for WriAShorStorWe. You might like to check out part 1 or part 2. The following morning the crew assembled on the deck of the Revenge. Captain Ardent addresses them from the poop deck. “Well lads, I think it’s safe to say that you’ve just written another [...]
PC Favour 14 Nov 2005
I’ve had my Mac Mini for a while now and have been using it a lot, but I’ve noticed recently that I am not totally enamoured with it. Bizarrely, I have come to appreciate my PC. It comes down to a split really. Some things the Mac does better, some things my PC does best. [...]
Digital Library 10 Nov 2005
One of the reasons I’m an exponent of print options is because I often don’t get time to read everything online when I first see them, so I print them to PDF and save a copy to read later. Originally, I would simply find time to read them and, once that was done, delete them. [...]
Hunting Poachers 7 Nov 2005
Trust me, folks, if you think some of my previous posts come from some random direction, you’re in for a surprise, because I think I may have surpassed myself. Let me take you back to what you were doing on 7th August 2003. I honestly haven’t got a clue what I was doing, but in [...]
Blockbuster 6 Nov 2005
Hollywood is ruled by two mistresses: creativity and money. Back in the 1920s/30s when Hollywood was making the move to sound it found it an expensive exercise, so it turned to Wall Street to raise the cash. The investors were happy to help, but not without moving some of their own in to manage the [...]
My Pirate Story Part 2 5 Nov 2005
Okay, this is part two of my pirate story for WriAShorStorWe. You might like to check out part 1 first. As the group stepped from the murky depths of the fort out into the bright sunshine they hit the wall humid heat that layered the Caribbean in the summer. “Captain, would you be so kind [...]
Eldest 4 Nov 2005
Eldest is the second installment in what author Christopher Paolini calls the Inheritance trilogy (the first being Eragon and the last, the to-be-released Empire). I was eager to read it having not long finished Eragon and I was not disappointed. Paolini started writing the trilogy when he was 15, spending a year writing, a year [...]
My Pirate Story 3 Nov 2005
Okay, this is the first part of my pirate story for WriAShorStorWe. Be warned, it’s very rough, even though I have tidied it up a lot compared to the original. In the harbour of Port Royal sits the pirate ship Revenge, a silent floating menace, dark and brooding in the moonlit night. The ship looks [...]