“One scoop of creamed potatoes. Four peas.”
I’ve been very bad, and lied in the title. I’m not going to try and review it, so I need to be punished…
Though that’s because I can’t begin to describe it. But it is an exhilerating and beautiful film, definitely worth watching. And if you’re a James Spader fan, or you enjoyed Sex, Lies and Videotape it’s definitely required viewing.
It may have been a pretty grim weekend for trying to drive across Bodmin Moor, but when we drove west we didn’t hit the snow until Charmouth, only 5 miles short of our destination.
When we got up on Saturday my nephew saw snow for the first time. He wasn’t terribly impressed, at first, but then we went sledging…
A mac enthusiast friend has pointed me at this totally excellent utility. It’s a life saver if you have an OS X problem and don’t have your installer disk handy, because it can repair your disk for you from single user mode even with Tiger, with just a simple command. It will also repair permissions, and clean your caches and swap files while it’s at it.
Just type applejack auto restart at the command prompt and it will run, do its checks and repairs, and then reboot with the GUI for you.
Visit the V&A via your iPod – see instructions here.
Doctor Who on Children In Need
If you missed it last night, as I did, see it here. Not an auspicious start for Tennant, I fear. Let’s hope “The Christmas Invasion” sees him leave up to the promise the “new teeth” line promised…
I’m a little late arriving at this party, but WOW! I’ve been swooping around Google’s hybrid map/satellite pictures, enjoying the search facilities and directions (with the dynamic zooming) and longing to think of something useful to do with it. I can think I can delete multimap from my bookmarks now!
Cool, OS X version of Google, with magnifier.
Commercial Square’s Firework Display, reflected in the Ouse, in this photo a friend of mine took.
Well, it was the 400th anniversary, and a Saturday, but I’ve discovered a wonderful spot (which I’m not going to disclose here) for watching the processions, where you get a good view and the crowds are thin.
I wonder what will happen to the Lewes Bonfires if the proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred becomes law. It’s a strange place, Lewes, on Bonfire Night. There are confederate flags, pagan foxes and North American Indians (lots of them) and I get very confused, because I don’t know who is serious or what they symbolise. For there are many who are seriously unequivocal in their authentic anti-Catholicism.
Some people try to claim it’s not about religion any more, it’s just an excuse to have fun. I’m sorry, WHAT? They BURN THE POPE. The banners say NO POPERY. What would you say if the banners said “burn the Jews?” But anyway, trying to disassociate the religious aspect from the calendar date seems a bit like joining in an Orange parade and claiming it’s just a bit of a party. It’s not any less offensive if there are only a few Catholics in Lewes or a vast community.
So the whole thing is indefensible but at least it doesn’t pretend to be harmless. There is a tangible sense of menace in Lewes on the night. And because I live here I can’t avoid it. But I do feel guilty for enjoying it so much…
And I can’t see a new law stopping it…if they’d wanted to stop it before, they could have done it years ago on health and safety grounds.
If you don’t think a pest control company called anti-pesto is funny, or you don’t get a laugh out of this:
you basically have no soul.
I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s already clear to me that The Curse of the Were Rabbit is going to be a worthy successor to, and as funny as the shorts that preceded it.
I’ve never held with this idea that the internet is an unsafe place to use a credit card, because there’s always a danger of fraud whenver you make any transaction. There’s far more chance of a waiter swiping your card than a hacker intercepting a secure transaction with Amazon.
Now chip and PIN cards have been introduced to make credit cards appear more secure. But I’ve just been told a fraudster has been making cash withdrawals from my account (I still have my card). Previously I never had a PIN because I never made cash withdrawals, and I’ve never had unauthorised transactions on my card. The perception that this system is more secure hides the new opporunities for thieves who now have so many more opportunities to catch your PIN simply by looking over your shoulder at checkouts.
