In some alternate reality, this kind of thing would happen every day. 59 Democratic state legislators in Texas went walkabout to avoid voting on measures to aid their opponents . While the renegades were off in a Holiday Inn across the state line in Oklahoma, where Texas state troopers could only politely request that the […]
Fellow Scottish person Meg Pickard moved recently, and made this IKEA observation ... drove to good old IKEA to pick up a few selected bits and bobs - a TV bench, couple of stools, desk lamp, and the usual extraneous guff. No tealights though, which is a first - as I'm sure I've mentioned here […]
We 're going nuts right now getting ourselves ready for the release of SmoothWall Corporate Server 3.0 , so I haven't had much of a chance to update the Matrix Reloaded daily stuff — hopefully at the weekend I'll get a chance.
Some UK cinema release dates that drive me potty — The Matrix Reloaded — not out until 21st May 2003 Bruce Almighty — not out until 27th June 2003 Charlies Angels: Full Throttle — not out until 4th July 2003 Finding Nemo — not out until 3rd October 2003 The Italian Job — not out […]
Further proof that the once-mighty slashdot.org is becoming, um, how do I say this tactfully — poo? CowboyNeal let through a story submission entitled "NASA Sending Probe to Saturn" , which discusses the joint NASA/ESA/ISA (Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, and specifically Titan. It all sounds great, but the problem is that Cassini-Huygens […]
It looks like one of my long-running wishes is to come true in November 2003 — the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released on DVD ! ( local mirror copy , as IME Yahoo! stories tend to disappear and change URLs at random) Downsides Have to repurchase movies I already own No commentary tracks Upsides […]
A regular feature on the BBC News website, 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week — hat tip to Meg .
Well, I put a couple of SODIMM laptop memory modules up on eBay , but only one of them sold — the other is a PC133 192MB SODIMM, with no reserve and a reasonable £25 'buy it now' price. If you're interested, or know someone who's interested, feel free to check it out .
In three weeks, The Matrix will have us again, which is unfortunately a week later than anyone at Cannes , or in the United States — and for that matter, in Canada, France, Holland, Taiwan, Australlia, Iceland, etc. too. I'm looking forward to this film so much, but I just know that someone on a […]