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Something which puzzles me deeply is why Altoids (mini-extra strong mints and boiled sweets) are unknown in the UK in spite of being manufactured by Callard & Bowser in Bridgend and available everywhere in the US. I mention this only because we Brits are missing out on a great source material for Geocaches, minty piggy banks, USB chargers and other cool hacks.
I have to wonder if this is for real - a prototype flying saucer invented by Brit Geof Hatton “in his garden shed”, with plans to build an internal combustion engine version by 2008?
You know it’s ages since there’s been something I’ve wanted to watch on telly, but hidden away amongst hour upon hour of “I’m a Celebrity, Please Nuke this Island”, “My Colonic Makeover”, “Top 100 Cheap TV Programmes of All Time” and wall-to-wall imported Lost-the-plot wannabies, there’s the corking Life On Mars. OK it’s clichéd, as deep as a shag-pile carpet and as cheesy as a cheezy whatsit, but hey, that’s the fun! A world without colour TV, mobile phones, computers, paramedics when PC was what you called your very non-PC no-nonsense walking-the-beat copper abetted by Sweeney-Todd-style DC’s (’shad-it, you slag!’); when men were men, lasses were lasses, pink-wafer biscuits were pink-wafer biscuits and Mark II Escorts roamed the earth. Oh, how far we’ve come. Recommended!
Update: it seems I can’t spell cheezy!
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Sunday, and a family jaunt out to see Rachel Whiteread’s installation at the Tate Modern. Entitled “EMBANKMENT” it’s either 1,400 or 14,000 (the curator didn’t seem to know) white boxes stacked at one end of the turbine hall. Verdict: an interesting idea on paper, and the kid’s loved it, but ultimately as empty as the boxes themselves. Maybe that was the point!
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I’m amazed how accurate last.fm’s suggestions are. So far most everything it’s recommended is already in my library and the popular->obscure DHTML slider is way-cool!
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Jonathan has me pegged as one of life’s data collectors, but compared to FELTRON SEVEN, I ain’t doing nothing!. Via ldodds.
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Vancouver, January 2006 is a set of 135 odd photos taken last week during the W3C Web Services Addressing meeting and fun Interoperability Event.
Technorati Tags: flickr, photography, wsaddr, Vancouver, w3c
As a relative newcomer to the Web services Description Working Group (member for 29 months), I’m happy to echo the call for implementations. CR is where the spec bashing stops and the fun really starts!
Technorati Tags: wsdl, w3c, WebServices, wsdl20
As anyone who spends time flipping between Windows, Cygwin, Unix and other worlds knows, punctuation is annoying. My brain is hard-wired to type ‘/’ in path names as the good lords intended, and not ‘\’ as some CPM-DOS-wallah picked just to be different. I wonder why Java can’t just use ‘;’ as a universal CLASSPATH separator, but the one that’s pressing my buttons today is the “Santa Claus [santa@northpole.org]” format taken by Outlook (v) “Santa Claus <santa@northpole.org>” as used by most everybody else. All I can say is *@!#?!
