Don’t forget that today is Global Orgasm day, as well as being the Winter Solstice.
A very merry Yule tide to you all.
Richard
Spiderman 3
I’ve just seen the “World Premier” of the trailer for Spiderman 3 on VH1, and boy does it look good, but really, do you have to trail the film now when it won’t be out until May next year – that’s a whole 6 months away! We’ll have got fed up with the hype, or forgotten about it by then.
If you want to see it yourself, then go to http://www.ifilm.com/ and download it in HD.
More Filming
We had CBBC come and film us last Monday for a new series starting in the new year. Wonderful World of Weird features a number of reporters travelling around the UK looking for weird and wonderful things to add to the map of the weird.
You’ll have to watch the show to find out if we were judged weird enough, and apparently it airs in February in a 7:30am slot, so you’ll have to be up early.
I’ll put some photos up soon.
Piracy, Copyright, Copyleft
A couple of films to watch – the first pretty short, the second somewhat longer.
I’m reminded of Michael Moore going on record saying that it’s OK to download his movies and watch them as long as you don’t make a profit from them… A link to the blog on creative commons
What’s in that meat you eat?
The US Food and Drug Administration have approved the use of Viruses on food. There’s a report on The Register about this oddly worrying development, and the fact that the foods treated in this way will not be identified to the consumer makes me even happier that I don’t eat meat.
What metros have you been on?
Nerdiness Meme
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Power outages in Mid Wales
This server is likely to suffer a little of the yo-yo mode because:
The power outages at the University today have been caused by a
problem with Manweb overhead equipment and has affected a large part
of west Wales (SY23, SY24 and parts of LL35 and LL36 postcode areas).
They currently have no information on how long it will take to resolve
the problem and until they do there is the likelihood of further power
cuts.
Happy SysAdmin Day
Nikon customer service are stars.
I sent the D70 off about two weeks ago to Nikon, and it took them a week or so to check it into the system. They told me that it would be probably five or six weeks before I would see it again. True I wasn’t being charged for the repair, even though the camera is out of warranty, but six weeks seemed to be an inordinately long time to be without my DSLR. :’-(
So how suprised was I when the neighbours came over tonight with a parcel conaining my Nikon, completely repaired. 😀
A quick couple of shots, and it turns on again, and responds to the controls again instantly, and the shots that I took are perfectly exposed.
Off to look at a boat with Dad tomorrow – so I’ll be able to take some photos. (P)
Happy 🙂