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Archive for April, 2005

You can’t pluck me!

I tossed out my television in 1993, and have never missed not having one. There is an interesting social phenomena you start to observe after about 10 years of not owning one, when everything you know about TV is now just history. TV personalities are deeply part of peoples lives.

At any gathering of friends […]

Apple’s Safari wins conformance challenge

Safari now passes the Acid2 test

Good news, great work Apple! Although this only really useful if the other browsers also meet the challenge - so far only Opera have hinted that they are trying.

Mozilla have said they’ll get around to it, but it’s not a high priority.

IE? - to be announced.

Oh-la-la

On Friday night The Vangaurd was turned into an isle of joy.

The night was a deeply satisfying banquet of jazz/blues with occasional hints of Blossom Dearie, Astrud Gilberto, James Taylor, Janis Joplin and the Allman Brothers marinated in the unique and considerable talent of Ms Alana Stone and her quartet.

We were putty in […]

Pope pooped

This is the picture from my 2002 Xmas card — it’s been the most popular card so far.

Brain fuck

This is the only April fools joke I fell for. It showed up in my aggregator, I practically dropped my laptop. I was dizzy with confusion and hope. I opened the page and read the whole piece. I was dizzy with the possibilities and hope and confused.
Then I saw the date it was written. In […]

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