Archive for May, 2009
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Back in the day there was no standard way to publish video on the web. You could put any kind of video file you wanted on the server, but there was no guarantee that your readers would have the correct plugin required to view it. Everyone had to have a ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Queen's Birthday has snuck up on me again, as it does every year.
I can never seem to keep my public holidays straight, particularly the floating ones, but that is not going to be a problem anymore now that I have found that the Department of Labour publishes all of New ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
For a blog called "Life of Andrew", this site doesn't actually have a lot about my life. This is partly because I am a cypher with an impenetrable air of mystery and partly because I am very boring. But I have recently moved cities and felt I should mark the ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Once again Hollywood dredges up the corpse of a much-loved TV show to desecrate with a pointless remake that misses the whole point of wha....Hey wait a minute! My brain just typed that automatically. Even now I have trouble gathering my wits to write the truth, so shocking and unbelievable ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My previous blog entry on TXTing provoked this response from my friend Lloyd:...[I] figured out that longest word typed with only the upper letters in the QWERTY keyboard is not only TYPEWRITER but also includes several 3 other words: PERPETUITY, PROPRIETOR and REPERTOIRE. The longest in the middle line is: ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Possibly going for the title of "Most English Book Ever Written", Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell tells the unlikely story of two magicians in the early 1800s, a time when magic is all-but forgotten. The two title characters have very different ...
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