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LifestreamWired seems to think the movie was way long. I thought it was OK. Plus of course they deplore the meddling with a classic movie. Well, I never saw the original and I’m not a romantic fan of originals. Not when they are that old at least. I just can’t stand bad special effects and [...]
Archive for December, 2005
As I mentioned here, my hosting company was subject to a massive intrusion a few weeks ago. But that wasn’t the last of it unfortunately. I ran into something really awkward the other day as posts were being denied on Silent Nation. I couldn’t figure it out because I had no idea what to look [...]
Not happening. I guess I can count that interior design idea as a no-go. I was really hoping I could do something original with spiral tubes but alas the person I thought would be able to supply me with discounted ducts seems no longer interesting in doing so. I had been in contact with a [...]
Rain. Darkness. I had an on-site exam on a saturday afternoon. That sure stinks. I thought I had put all those things behind me really. I have become very complacent I suppose with exams usually being either project or home assignments / essays. On-site exams are tedious. You have to be on time for one. [...]
The Making of Modern South Africa. Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid. Nigel Worden. 3rd edition 2000. Blackwell.
Recent events in South Africa have taken on renewed interest for historians and general readers alike. In this third edition of The Making of Modern South Africa, Nigel Worden provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the key themes and [...]
I got a peculiar note from the Postal Service (foreign section at Arlanda) today. Apparently they have a package with my name on it that they want me to provide an invoice or receipt for. I assume they want to add tariff and VAT charges or something and lack a basis for doing just that.
The [...]
Most notably, I suspended the use of NP_Referrer. In the end I felt that the benefit of having public Referrer data (that no one looks at presumably) did not outweigh the use of almost half of my total database and the extra load it must have produced gathering all that information.
Also, I fixed the Flying [...]
It’s that time of the year again. December. Unlike not so long ago, Christmas seems to start a good month ahead of time. No wonder. How would the hucksters and traffickers otherwise be able to maximize their gain and convince us that commitment has to be a material expression. Kind of like some nations turn [...]
So, we finally did away with our Delicard gift certificate. I don’t remember if I mentioned it before but it was a corporate xmas present for last year. But due to the crappy selection of gifts, we couldn’t bring ourselves to use it. But now it was about to expire and so we had no [...]
