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Musical musings
Oct
29
Nice…
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According to the UK Copyright Service the duration of copyright in Sound Recordings and broadcasts is:
50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was created, or,if the work is released within that time: 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first released.
Does this, […]
Oct
29
There is now a guide to customising BBpress over on Devlounge. This could prove handy now that I’ve started to trial BBpress on the Fulwood Methodist Church site.
I have found that this forum software integrates very nicely with Wordpress but the default template is, in my opinion, an awful mess of tiny fonts (’font-size: 62.5%‘!) […]
Oct
26
It’s almost as annoying as pop-up windows and websites on which music plays as soon as the page loads: the message. Folks, if I didn’t want to enter the site then I wouldn’t have steered my browser in your direction. At the very least, if you must give me a ’snazzy’ front page then […]
Oct
26
What would Jesus do?
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Who says that Americans don’t do irony? You may need to double click on the picture to watch the movie.
See many more such videos at TheChurchYouKnow.com
Oct
26
Santa spotting
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Ever since I can remember, Christmas has been starting earlier and earlier. Indeed, it was perhaps four years ago that the Fishergate Centre in Preston erected its tree in early September.
Earlier this week, as I came close to being run down by a lorry-load of lights, I realised that I had yet to see so […]
Oct
23
Unrestrained children
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For the benefit of those idiots who still allow their small children to travel unrestrained in their cars, the AA has produced a leaflet and video to illustrate the dangers. If you happen to know any of these idiots, please educate them before they learn the hard way.
Oct
22
Danke Michael
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In a little less than three hours’ time, the world of sport will be a smaller place. I’ve never wanted Michael Schumacher to win a single race, let alone 91 of them and seven World Championships (including five on the bounce), but I will be sad to see him go.
He has been criticised for gamesmanship […]
Oct
20
A Linux Distro for Barbie?
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I\’m sure Hannah will be adding this to her Christmas list.
A Linux Distro for Barbie?
A Linux Distro for Barbie?
Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on […]
Oct
19
Stan Collymore has been posting on Shrimperzone again:
As for some of the wilder remarks on the boards about me,i will give you one or two facts,firstly,my physical and mental condition are A1,and having worked closely recently with coaches who train and do conditioning work with olympic athletes,i pay rather more attention to what there diagnosis […]
Oct
15
One of the joys of OS X is that things tend to just work. Indeed, I remember that I spent a long time on the night we got our iMac trying to work out the printer settings before, in frustration, just pressing ‘Print’ and finding that paper came out of the printer with an almost […]
