Yippee! I’m in the top 500 in Perplex City! And, as if to celebrate, the PPC folk have added a new feed to the pages where you can see your (my) score build up over time.
I can give up any time I want to, you know.
Archive for August, 2006
478!
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006You can’t steal something that’s free
Friday, August 18th, 2006You may have seen that Google have released their own Google Video Player with which you can watch (surprize) Google Videos. What is particularly interesting is that the code for this player comes from an excellent Open Source media player called VLC (get it if you haven’t got it). This code is released under the GPL so Google are quite entitled to do with it what they will. And they have. They’ve crippled the player so that it only movies from Google’s site(s). You can’t play anyone else’s movies with it.
Even aliens know a good browser when they see one
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006Either by way of celebration for the upcoming FireFox Day, or out of sheer glee that there’s such an excellent browser available, the good students of Oregon State U. have created this.
Or maybe it was aliens…
Wow: great one-liner
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006In a marvellous blog entry about how we need to get the whole terrorists-and-airlines into some perspective, Kung Fu Monkey wins the award for the Best Clause In A Blog This Week: “suck my insouciance”, and the FDR/Churchill (faux) quotes made me cry with laughter. Mentioning Hello Kitty panties was off-base but worthwhile too.
Read and enjoy, and possibly donate.
Disgusted, amazed, and hooked
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Another day of colliding emotional states: today I will mostly be
- Disgusted – about 20% at Israel for its pathetic apology for its refusal to stop killing innocents, but 80% at us, the rest of the World, for our utter lack of any spine in tackling Israel over this. Make. Them. Stop. If it were North Korea, you know the UN would have had a dozen resolutions before it already and we would be applying sanctions like it was going out of fashion. We are all so feebly ovine. I disgust me.