Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Today has thrown up some examples of what strange, dark times we live in.
Firstly the trailer for the live-action version of Where the Wild Things Are is released and turns out not to be a monumental travesty.
Then John Banks is quoted in the Herald saying something that I ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
I have been quietly impressed with the progress web browsers have been making in recent years towards the goal of supporting a wide variety of applications. The promise of web-apps rivaling traditional desktop applications seems within reach after nigh-15 years of ballyhoo. Most recent browsers have extremely fast Javascript support ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I have quite a lot of books. I am not a book hoarder, I quite often do purges of books I don't intend to read again, but my bookcases are always overflowing. I have tried various methods of keeping track of what I have read, but nothing really seemed that ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
The standard C++ iostreams library is very good (well, some would say sort-of good) at reading and writing a file's contents, but it does so in such a way as to completely ignore file names. I am sure there was a good reason for this omission, but whatever it was ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Apple has a new iPod out and that means a new version of iTunes. Along with support for the new device, there are a couple of interesting new features.
The first is autofill, a feature that I have been waiting for since I a got my first iPod. Up until now ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Watchmen is a difficult movie to categorize. As an adaption of an existing work, it is excellent. The attention to detail is amazing, the cast all fit well with their characters and an impressive amount of the plot is exactly the same. A for effort.
As a stand-alone work, Watchmen is ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Alright! This is the last one of these I am going to do, partly due to the time they take, but mostly because they make me look bad.
Fantasy is a much (and accurately) maligned genre. Unlike SciFi, Fantasy cannot pretend that its authors are offering up visions of our ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Yesterdays list of the 100 best books was judged by some to be a little unfair to the more nerdy side of the spectrum. To make up for it, here is the same thing done with this list of the 100 top SciFi novels.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
A friend of mine (Hi Liesl!) recently went through a list of the 100 greatest books and marked off the ones she had read. She then posted it to Facebook, obviously proud of her total (53 - impressive).
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