Linklog Current StatusI saw No Country for Old Men last night. It’s a good movie, certainly, but since it followed many of the rules of a typical genre action/chase/thriller. In that context, which you’ll understand if you’ve seen it, it’s ultimately unsatisfying. One of the classic action genre moments is where character of Anton Chigurh performs self surgery using [...]
I’ve just watched The Bourne Ultimatum. It’s an excellent action movie/travelogue, but not as all-round entertaining as, say, Die Hard 4.0 due to the utter lack of humour. Bourne’s been described as an “anti-James Bond” in some of the publicity interviews. Principally, because Bond, like anyone who works in a field dealing with death, has [...]
Occasionally I’ll be reading a text file in a browser window which hasn’t been formatted for a printer/terminal. But the text in Firefox doesn’t wrap, so as a result I’m sliding the horizontal scrollbar backwards and forwards to read paragraphs of text. Is this only me? Am I the only one who deals with this? [...]
Hey, aren’t people in cities recently affected by acts of terrorism supposed to be super-nice to each other in the following days? Based on the interactions I witnessed on the way in to work, London appears to have skipped that. Outside of the immediate areas effected, the only effect seems to have been security alerts [...]
The Northern Line was slightly more hellish than usual this morning. I’ve opted to spend the day at home.
Ah. One of the joys of tracking Debian unstable is that, because upgrading is trivially easy, it’s genuinely surprising when your software noticeably changes. Take today for example – I fire up Sound Juicer and begin the process of ripping a CD. When it’s done I plug in my iPod, launch gtkpod and try to import the new [...]
I brought a copy of The Sun on Saturday to get the Star Wars episode III promo DVD. My flatmate was flicking through the paper and found an advert for those Star Wars branded lottery scratchcards – with the slogan “What would you do with £40k?”. The ad features a photo of R2-D2 in a jacuzzi-type whirlpool flanked by [...]
Updated: see end of entry. One thing that has impressed me with Gnome over the past year or so has been the improvement in the ease of setup of random peripherals. The fruits of “Project Utopia” (udev/Hal/DBUS) mean that plugging in most bits of hardware seems to do something very close to an approximation of “the right thing”. Now, [...]
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