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Lost in Caption
Seems there’s a hiccup in The Animatrix DVD — in this modern day of subtitles on DVDs, you don’t usually get a ‘dirty’ print mastered onto the disc, that is, a version of the film with captions strewn upon it. [Incidentally, I’m using the archaic word ‘print’ when I’ll wager most, if not all, of…
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Twonkle
Once again it seems Dave Winer is a bit slow at picking up editorial pieces on the BBC News website. Then again, this is the same Dave who thinks that the British taxpayer ‘pays’ for the BBC, when it is in fact the British TV licence fee payers who ‘pay’ for it. Sorry to be…
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DNS At 20
“Twenty years ago, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet.” For all the talk about vulnerabilities, low functionality, et cetera, I love that we have robust, proven and — to be frank — old protocols on the net. The biggest change to phone numbers…
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ha ha, blonde!
Everybody laugh at John‘s new hairdo (or old hairdo, I suppose).
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A Latte – and a Rifle to Go
Excellent article from last Sunday’s Observer — it always takes me about a week to rattle through the Observer 🙂 — about the state of Iraq, and specifically Baghdad, in the aftermath of the Bush and Blair Show.
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Union “Black”
An “enthusiastic fan of the UK’s transformation into a multiracial society over the past 50 years” has taken it upon himself to start a campaign called reFLAG to rebrand the flag of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack. “Our” flag — I quote the word ‘our’ as the Union Jack isn’t really the native flag…
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Odds and Sods
Before I forget and slip into unconsciousness — The Matrix Reloaded — rawks more second time round The Animatrix DVD — rawks lots Electric Six, “Fire” — rawks; Metallica, “St. Anger” — I’ll find out when amazon delivers it for me in the morning 🙂 pics from the weegievolt, ta to genghis!
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Movable Moan
“Moan, moan, moan, you’re aaaalways complainin’ …” </montypython> ergo, sorted: link to instead of the silly javascript popup for “make a comment / see comments on this post” links, and use <$MTCommentID pad=”1″$> to capture, create and href permalinks for comments (see the MT docs for full usage info). Dinnae moan, jist sort it :)…
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Movable Feast
Someone else had problems upgrading to Movable Type 2.64. FWIW, I didn’t — it upgraded sweet as a nut, as always 🙂