Kudos to Kevin

I kinda ripped into Kevin Smith the other day for some of his more-than-usually-over-the-top media whore antics in the past few months, but his disgust at movie critic Joel Siegel walking out of Clerks II when only 40 minutes had passed is well placed and well described. If I was to be paid to watch […]

Vox Redux

So, my vox invite appeared out of the blue today, thought I'd give the system a quick whirl. It's immediately very different from Movable Type and Live Journal , attempting to merge the community features of flickr and myspace into a lighter version of TypePad , which was always just an advanced Movable Type hosting […]

Scotland to France and Back in Sixty Seconds

cram post á france » thursday 6th july > trip down to portsmouth, hot as hell on the m6 toll, nice smooth sail overnight on brittany ferries; vendredi 7éme juillet > en france, lunch with friend jc who owns l'equinoxe bar at agon coutainville, crashed hard after reaching the gite near coutances; samedi > spent […]

Clerks II

I finally caught up with the new Clerks II trailer at apple.com . It bodes well that it received an eight minute standing ovation at Cannes last month, but after seeing the first 20 minutes of Jersey Girl again on Sky, I can't get over the dichotomy that Kevin Smith is a dick. Let me […]

BBC News: PlayStation3 Goes On Sale

PlayStation3 Goes On Sale : I may be a bit twiddled from two bottles of particularly nice French red wine, but even I can see that this is one of the most useless, preposterous and bullshit-filled news stories ever. A UK games site has decided to start taking pre-orders for PS3 units, just as hideous […]

Thieving Scum

A tale of woe from Aled, a fellow mailing list subscriber: the West Brecon Cave Rescue Team has had their rescue Land Rover stolen. How low can society go? If they haven't repainted it already, it has CAVE RESCUE in big letters down the side, and it's registration is X338 DCY. If anyone spots it, […]

Chalk, Cheese

Two sides to the same story : Linspire are releasing a freely-available, freely-distributable, community-led, Debian-based Linux distribution ( sound familiar ?) to be called Freespire . Linspire's edge is that they will distribute non-free drivers, such as for nVidia or ATi graphics cards, as part of the core distribution, and not from optional repositories a […]