June 28th, 2007
Scivener may be a nice app. But it’s developer should dry his eyes. Jeez. The ADC Select membership includes pre-release versions of MacOS X. No promise is made about when versions will be made available. Attendance at WWDC is a separate issue. Many of the sessions at the conference discuss features that are in the [...]
June 25th, 2007
Loading Ready Run present a Public Information Film.
June 24th, 2007
This is good news. Responding to a petition on the Number 10 website the Government have said that creationism and Intelligent Design should not be included in science lessons in UK schools. Now, lets make sure it isn’t pushed on pupils in RE classes.
June 24th, 2007
Possibly. Paul Rodgers has been talking to Billboard.com. Apparently there are nine songs recorded for the new album. Some interesting insight into how Brian May holds the different layers of a song in his head and directs the recording of each bit individually. It then comes together in the edit. BTW it says in the [...]
June 23rd, 2007
The 2-day TVital concert in Belfast this year will be on 21st and 22nd August. Acts confirmed so far are The Killers, Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, and Kasabian. Just watching The Killers live at Glastonbury 2007 on the BBC at present. Marvellous I’ll definitely be there for at least The Killers on 22nd August. Probably go [...]
June 21st, 2007
There is a story in this weeks Nature about the withdrawal of the Downe House site, where Charles Darwin lived when writing The Origin of Species and other works, from the process to make it a World Heritage Site. The withdrawal is due to an unfavourable evaluation by a body that advises the Committee that [...]
June 20th, 2007
This is the third book in the Destiny’s Children series. This is actually more of a sequel to Coalescent than Exultant was. As with the previous two books there are 2 story lines intertwined. One is set just after Coalescent, and includes many of the characters from that previous book, and the 2nd story is [...]
June 17th, 2007
Well, that’s WWDC 2007 done and dusted. It was a week of evolution rather than revolution. All the stuff outside of the Keynote is NDA’d of course, but the whole week was a refinement of what was presented at WWDC 2006. For me the most interesting day was the Friday. Amongst others I attended a [...]
June 17th, 2007
2 hours 45 minutes this film lasted. You’d think that given the time available there’d be a stonking story line to present. Well it seems not. Don’t get me wrong, the effects were 1st class but things like plot, character development etc. seemed to have been left on the cutting room floor (if they made [...]
June 14th, 2007
Venus is very prominent in the sky at present. It was spectacular in San Francisco last night. See pictures below. 800 x 600 pixel version 3072 x 2304 pixel version Click pictures for larger views
June 12th, 2007
What does north Canada, near Hudson Bay, look like from 38000 feet in June? Like this: Click Pictures for larger view Burrrr.. Looks a bit chilly down there!
June 9th, 2007
I like Heathrow. For an airport anyway. For all the ones I’ve been in Heathrow pisses me off the least Sitting there at present. An hour to go to the flight to San Francisco for WWDC 2007. Much happiness. I didn’t get bumped up to Business Class at check-in. Maybe at the gate. Coming back [...]
June 6th, 2007
I haven’t been very good for the environment this week. Monday I flew to Manchester in the morning and back to Belfast in the evening. Tuesday morning I flew to Nottingham, then back to Belfast tonight. On Saturday I fly to London and then on to San Francisco in the afternoon. Maybe I should plant [...]
June 2nd, 2007
We can dream that this opinion piece from the Washington Post comes to pass. (via Pharyngula)