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Dec
24
Greetings
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Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious / secular persuasions [...]
Dec
24
Another example of corporate disrespect
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Yesterday morning, I thought I would let my daughter (2) watch “Shrek 2” Why is that DVD makers make it so time-consuming to play the blasted film? You can’t just slap in the DVD, press play and walk away. You have to wait while it plays some stupid THX introduction, and a few corporate logos, [...]
Dec
24
NORAD really have got too much time on their hands… but the mp3s are rather cool.
Dec
22
Tragic. Churches closed for Christmas
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Church Marketing Sucks: Closed for Christmas: “3. some peple say ‘why don’t you just do 1 stripped-down service instead of none? you should have enough staff to do a simple guy-and-guitar service!’ well…our mission is to reach people and help them walk with God. we also believe God is honored by excellence. a ‘stripped down’ [...]
Dec
21
Today is a big day in the life of many a teacher: we have no more get ups! It’s also the vernal equinox. We say after the summer equinox that the nights are drawing in. Ought the opposite to be the days are drawing in or the days are drawing out? The former has the [...]
Dec
21
There’s an interesting difference here in iBook experiences. I’m typing this from a shiny new iBook G4 which we received on Saturday as a replacement for the G3 whose logic board died, for the fourth time this year, a short while ago. The G3 is sat next to me as Apple UK do not intend [...]
Dec
20
Virgin Digital music quiz
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We had some fun today at work attempting Virgin Digital’s music quiz. I have not been able to find the original but I can assure my reader that it’s a challenge and pretty darned good. There are, I am told, 75 answers. We found 68 before discovering that we were too naïve to have heard [...]
Dec
18
We were a little surprised yesterday morning to be awoken by a courier who asked us to sign for a large parcel. The parcel turned out to contain an iBook G4, replacement for the G3 which keeled over a couple of weeks ago (and a couple of months ago, and a couple of quarters ago, [...]
Dec
7
iBook problems
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For the fourth time this year, the logic board on Kate’s iBook has gone. We’re hoping not to have a repeat of Zoara’s iBook saga and were pleased today to be told by the nice man at GBM that we should be due a replacement. Fingers and toes are crossed.
Dec
7
PearLyrics is no more. (Well, I’m sure it can be found elsewhere on the internet.) Why? Because numpty-headed lawyers at Warner Chappell have decided that the distribution of a tool that searches websites for lyrics is an infringement of copyright. Doesn’t Google do that too? Or is it actually the case that Warner Chappell realise [...]
