February 2006 Blog Posts
Lots of interesting stuff from the last ten days or so.
Windows Antispyware has been rebranded Windows Defender as is now available as a beta 2 product.
Windows Vista Feb CTP is apparently feature-complete and available for download. Yet to see where though.
For the movie fan with lots of hard drive space, try DVDWMV to rip your DVDs to wmv files and DVD Audio Ripper to get at the soundtracks.
PC Mag details components to choose and how to build your own Media Centre...
Last autumn, we had simultaneous seasons of The Apprentice with Donald Trump and a one-off season with Martha Stewart. Right now, we have back to back runthroughs of season 2 for The UK Apprentice and season 5 of The US Apprentice, a far better combination of styles and approaches for the same show to compare and contrast.
The US series always puts a sugar coated gloss on its shows while the UK does away with that and keeps its feet firmly on the ground. It's like when Simon Cowell went to the States to act as a judge on American...
The many pieces that were up in the air on Monday have started to fall into place and our lives will definitely change in April (blimey, this is sounding like some astrology back page of a trashy magazine kind of thing. ah well).
Janey has been offered a job at the Open University business school in Oxford, having blinded the interview panel with her skill, intelligence, project management experience and general grooviness. So we need to be moving out of Birmingham in the next five weeks. Which is nice. Nine years after noticing the best thing about Birmingham are the...
I've been off the net for a bit. Since last I wrote, a lot of things have been thrown up in the air and have yet to settle down to the ground while I've been working through my current project at work to move our live system to a new physical location. 'Moving' is a good description of everything at the moment. Change of course is a good thing, although everything at once take a little more patience \ causes a little more stress than even DNS alterations do. So the servers I manage are moving, the place where I...
Once in a while, a director makes a film documentary that really reveals the emotions and the camaraderie (if any) in the events and the people inside it. Stacy Peralta has done it twice with Dogtown & Z-Boys and Riding Giants. Likewise Jeffrey Blitz with Spellbound and even Kevin MacDonald with One Day In September.
Gpod has torrented Doug Pray’s Scratch, another documentary in that league.
“This energetic, insightful film, which was a big hit at the 2001 Sundance Festival, traces the birth of “turntablism.” Directed by Doug Pray, Scratch documents the ongoing history of today’s turntablist movement and features...
Something is going to have to change soon. It's getting harder to write or work at home again.
Jim wants to know if I'll be at any conferences this year. Much as I'd liek to say yes, the answer is probably not. Mix 06 / Web Tech Ed:TNG or ICANN Wellington would be nice though.
I mispelt an entry a search on wikipedia the other day and found the GTD style of time management which seems to suit me well. More investigation required.
Another...
No, not a reference to my previous experiences there. Some clever bods have recut a trailer for Sleepless in Seattle as a horror movie. Looks better than Skeleton Key or The Fog, that's for sure.