Month: November 2002
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Avalon
After enjoying Arsenal’s imperious 1-0 defeat of Newcastle yesterday afternoon, I headed into London with vague notions of watching one of the films in this years London Film Festival. Working on the basis that screenings are never full and you can always get in line for a return, I consulted by Guardian Guide to see…
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Copy Protected CDs
This article on The Register is suggesting that both BMG and EMI (Germany, at least) plan on copy protecting all their music CDs from now on. I’m furious at this news for three key reasons: 1) I can’t play the CDs back on my PC. Some copy protection systems ship with below par windows encoded…
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RAM
It’s been a while since RAM was so cheap, and at �25 for 256MB PC133 (what my PC takes) with one spare slot in my computer, I decided to wait until it was even lower. Well of course it went back into the �50 range, so I waited. And waited. And finally bought the extra…
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Computers drive me mad
I just had to let out some steam! I’ve just spent about two hours trying to install, remove, reinstall, remove, install once more, then think I have working a TV card, until finally I nearly had the computer not boot up at all. It all drives me totally mad. Just to explain that my computer…
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Disappointing night
Well it looks like the Republicans are going to have an easy ride for the next couple of years, with a reasonably good win in last night’s mid-terms. Let’s just hope that the Democrats can come up with a credible candidate in time for the election in 2004. Isn’t it about now that those with…
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Streaming Video
Don’t you just hate it? I got broadband a couple of months ago or so to iron out these kind of difficulties, but you just know that streaming never works fully. Case in point. At midnight last night (or early this morning UK time, depending on how you look at it), a good friend of…
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Good Luck Max
Good luck with the wedding Max! I’m sat here at midnight trying to watch live online. Adam
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Politics
I think I’m on some kind of politics “kick” at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s because I watched three episodes of The West Wing at the weekend (catching up – and discovering that if I record the late night repeat on E4, I get it commercial free), just reading about IDS and the…
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Journeys With George
By total accident, I caught this programme on BBC4 last night, and was very glad that I did. The film was basically a home movie made by an NBC producer who was part of the George W Bush campaign press pack throughout the 2000 campaign. I had an idea of what this was like from…