Does anyone else have a problem with accessing live.com (now annoyingly used for hotmail.com too)? I can see it here (WinXP64+Firefox and Ubuntu 6.10+Firefox) and at work (Win2k+IE6 over Citrix) but not on the client PCs at work (Ubuntu 6.06 … Continue reading
Someone left a copy of the Sun on the tube this morning, so I had a look through. … Continue reading
.. is very very good. Aardman claymation visual style plus a very British sense of humour done with Dreamworks computer animation. I see Pixar are doing a 'rat' film: their's have beautifully animated fur, while these don't even have combed … Continue reading
Pop star tries to justify his owners' getting even richer as 'socialism'. Really nice to see him being jumped on by so many people and I do love the irony of the current reader's offer. … Continue reading
The Prestige The original book is magnificent. I liked the film… but it isn't. Interestingly, for once a film adaptation has made the main characters nastier and less sympathetic. The book's Angier and Borden are tied into a rivalry in … Continue reading
Somewhere I have a much more extensive review of the films that were at this year's Frightfest, but I see two of them are 'coming soon', albeit in an low key way: Puritan – low budget UK, starring Nick Moran … Continue reading
This may just be me being dim, but what on earth makes YouTube worth so much money to the otherwise usually sensible Google? To be sure, it currently has lots of users, but there's nothing special about the technology (see … Continue reading
.. after a freebie two day conference which paid for the trip. I'm not silly enough to say 'no thanks' to that 🙂 Worst bit was … Continue reading
As a rule, most modern operas are crap. The composers are too frit to write anything with a tune, in case someone accuses them of writing – horrors! – a musical. Some of the people responsible for the book and … Continue reading
Just over four years ago, I did a post about an article by Danny Finkelstein in the Times on 'why we should invade Iraq'. Unfortunately, the site that mirrored the original article no longer does so, but my post has … Continue reading