Month: October 2004
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Paddington Flashmob
As a follow up to my entry doubting whether Flashmob The Opera would go ahead at Paddington Station yesterday, it’s worth noting that it did indeed. So I’m not quite sure why Londonflashmobs had to cancel their plans to take part. I’d suggest that the confusion caused by this was probably the reason that only…
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Sue Your Customers – They’ll Love You For It
And so it came to pass. The BPI, is announcing today (free reg. reqd.) that it’s sueing “uploaders” of music. Now I still don’t really understand what they mean by “uploaders”. Do they mean “encoders” or “rippers” of the music? Because everyone who leaves a song in a shared directory surely becomes a lender as…
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DES
Great article on the DES or Data Encryption Standard – neatly summing up where we are with cryptology. This makes a nice follow up to the pieces I talked about previously on hash functions.
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Stealing A Nation – Diego Garcia
I’ve just watched the latest of John Pilger’s Special Reports about an island people who were first wronged forty years ago, and continue to be wronged until the present day. Stealing A Nation was his report on how the British Government deported an entire island race, so that they could hand the people’s land over…
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Maurice Wilkins Has Died
Very soon after the death of Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, who shared the Nobel prize with Crick and Watson, has also died at the age of 87. Read the BBC obituary here and Nature’s first piece here. UPDATE: A fine Guardian obituary is here.
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Podcasting
So just to make sure that everyone knows that I’m really up with the new technology, I thought that I’d better acknowledge Podcasting. A few weeks back I was bemoaning the fact that it was really hard to find radio in a downloadable rather than streaming format. Well it’s out there and it’s called Podcasting.…
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Bride and Prejudice
If there’s one classic novel that’s well known in the UK, it’s Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s been dramatised many times, with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in 1940 and televised on the BBC in 1967. But the most famous version to date has been the 1995 Andrew Davies adaptation with Colin Firth and…
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Superset
So on Sunday, courtesy of a sponsorship deal at work, I got to go along to Superset Tennis at Wembley Arena. I must admit that I hate travelling to and from Wembley, but on Sunday, aside from my local train service being a bus for the day (and thus making it quicker to catch a…
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Has Flashmob The Opera Been Cancelled?
One of BBC Three’s autumn highlights was to be Flashmob the Opera, which was to take place next Wednesday. Last week I got an email from Londonmobs telling me to prepare for a mob event near Paddington on Wednesday 6 October. But a few minutes ago saying that is was being cancelled for security reasons……