Archive for December, 2009
Let me preface this review by saying that I enjoyed Avatar. It is a pleasant enough way to pass 162 minutes. This film has everything. Natives presumed by the human invaders to be primitives. The arrogant humans exploiting a worlds natural resources, with careless disregard. Gung-ho marines. The dedicated marine who sees the light and [ READ MORE ]
W00t! I got a scam e-mail today. Having been on the internet for many, many, many years I am surprised I don’t get more. I must be lucky, or careful, or both. This one was so transparent it was laughable. It purports to come from DHL. So far, so good. I do business with DHL, [ READ MORE ]
Yes. James Cameron has single handedly redefined what it means to make a movie. My arse. I have no doubt Avatar will, like Titanic, be a perfectly adequate film and no doubt it will contain some cutting edge technology and it is almost certain to make a bucket load of money. But seriously! From the [ READ MORE ]
The British government’s Public Account committee (bless ‘em) are blaming old IT systems for their failure to collect all taxes due (£11.2bn apparently). But while the Department is working to improve its debt recovery, its efforts are constrained by outdated systems and it has deferred plans to invest in them due to lack of funding. [ READ MORE ]
If you’re a Mac user and you use both PathFinder and Dropbox then you may be experiencing problems with PathFinder hanging occasionally. This is an incompatibility with Dropbox, but fortunately easily fixed by updating to the latest version of Dropbox[ READ MORE ]
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