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Good question, and I’m not entirely sure myself. I think it’s probably because it’s worth reading simply so you can gawp in either admiration at the delusion / mendacity of the man, or feel a hint of sympathy that he is clearly off his rocker and has lost his already feeble grip on reality. Either way, it’s a gread read if you’re a lover of the Fiction genre…
There’s some excellent comments of feedback too – loads of them in fact (hardly surprising given how easy it is to pick apart such awful, patronising bollocks) – though of course, they will doubtless go unanswered.
What with reading that this morning AND all the latest on that other servant of Satan, Sir Fred Goodwin, I’m beginning to wonder if we shouldn’t start working ourselves out of this recession by creating lots of jobs for Gallows Builders.
I’ll stop now before that full-blown Anger Stroke hits… ;-)
Feb 25, 2009 0
Okay – good news for those of you who enjoy surfing the interweb.
There’s so much crud out there (and indeed on this very site) and so many sites to follow and organise and look at… well, in its latest version (the BETA release of Safari 4) Apple has delivered its best browser yet to help enrich your web surfing, and to be honest it pisses on pretty much any other browser I’ve seen too. (yes, that’s basically all of them).
Whilst they’d done a couple of things I’m not so keen on – like shifting the tabs to the very top of the navbar, and changing their behaviour a bit – some of the plusses are utterly brilliant.
People will make certain comparisons to Google’s Chrome browser with regard to the most obvious new feature; the “Top Sites” screen – but that won’t do it justice. Although its starting point is a collection of your most viewed sites (albeit presented in beautiful 3D Aqua-fied glory) the cleverness comes in being able to completely turn this into a beautiful Favourites / Start page by sticking drawing pins into pages you want to keep in a certain place and organising others around them. It also has a nifty little touch of letting you know if pages have been updated by showing them with the top corner folded down and a star showing up.
There’s a whole interface lifting going on with “Cover Flow” (Apple’s gorgeous way of shoing items by flipping through them, derived from iTunes where the metaphor was flicking through a bunch of album sleeves) being used across so many functions such as searching your History for previously visited sites, bookmarks in general, and also special bookmarks such as a folder of sites associated with people from your address book.
The final thing to recommend it is its speed. This is fast. Really fast. Overall rendering is great and the performance on pages heavy with things like Javascript is nothing short of blistering.
Combine it with Safari Ad Block and you have very probably got the most exquisite browsing experience available.
There’s a Windows version too, so give it a try (though given that it will be authored to exploit the structure and processes of Apple’s OSX operating system, it’s unlikely you’d feel quite the same boost. But it’s still a fab browser and deserves a tryout.)
There’s a page covering all the features here…
And you can download the Safari 4 Beta here…
*Just bear in mind it IS a beta version. It won’t be perfect.
…Although it’s pretty bloody close.
Feb 24, 2009 2
For any of you who may be into motorbike sports (or at least the main world championships in various categories) I’ve made a bunch of iCals to help keep tabs on all the important dates in 2009. iCal is an application on the Mac, which uses the open .ics calendar format – which means that you can also use these in various Windows and Linux applications such as Microsoft Works (Version 8 or higher), WinDates, Mozilla Calendar, Sunbird and Zimbra.
MotoGP 2009 Calendar
Click here to subscribe in iCal…
CEV Buckler 2009 Calendar
Click here to subscribe in iCal…
SBK: World Superbikes 2009 Calendar
Click here to subscribe in iCal…
BSB: British Superbikes 2009 Calendar
Click here to subscribe in iCal…
World Superstock 1000cc
Click here to subscribe in iCal…
More information about how to use these calendars on Windows PCs here at iCalShare…
Hope they’re useful.
Enjoy :-)
gb
Feb 23, 2009 0
As the “Music From The Worm Farm” project I did the website for nears its end, I should point out the forthcoming live performance of the project’s output.
The performance is at 7 pm on Thursday the 19th of March at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in South Kensington, London. Tickets are free, and a free CD of work from the residency will be given away.
Click here for full information on the evet…
And click here for the ‘Performance” info page on the Worm Music website.
Ongoing notes form composer Keith Johnson can be found here on the Worm Music blog.
