Anyone who knows me will eventually discover my passion for movie scores and soundtracks. When I was younger, I would listen to the greats — John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith , James Horner , Michael Kamen , Ennio Morricone and so on. As time has moved on, I've discovered more depth to those composers I loved […]

Macbeth , Act V, Scene III : "It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." DaimlerChrysler Corporation's Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Disposition : "At bottom, SCO's arguments, though full of sound and fury, serve only to demonstrate that summary disposition should […]

BBC News: Extent of child net porn revealed — BT proactively block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation assessed as "illegal to view" under the 1978 Child Protection Act, presumably blocking such sites at the IP level, as they don't use transparent proxies any more . However, an interesting comment in the article is: […]

Cool, I'm apparently getting married ! And all it took was a text message ... I wonder what John will wear ... Actually, Sabrina has gotten herself—and her excellent site—a write up in the Daily Telegraph — way to go, hon!

El Reg reports " The Home Office is to install iris scanning technology in major UK airports ... The Immigration Service will invite "certain groups of foreign nationals" to join the scheme. To qualify, would-be registrants must have a track record of complying with the UK's immigration laws." They're amusingly calling it the Iris Recognition […]

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According to the BBC, BT is planning to ditch the existing PSTN network and have us all using our phones over a wholly IP-based network by 2009. El Reg has further details of the last mile fibre optic trials that will take place in selected exchanges later this year as part of the initial work […]

Nigritude Ultramarine — because Anil told me to. Clearly Nigritude Ultramarine has a lot to offer the world, but I'm sure it won't be long before George Bush bans it! Ah, playing with SEO , gotta love it. However ... as much as I hate to indulge SEO tactics ... Nigritude Ultramarine is clearly something […]

Looks like the Scottish Blogs site been updated . Funny, I was just looking at nyc bloggers and thinking, "we should really have something like that ... hang on, didn't Gordon McLean [who runs Scottish Blogs] say something about setting up our version of that?" Lo and behold, after making a bit of clicky, I […]