Ian Robinson’s Soapbox

Or is that a redundant question?

Apparently Mugabe has invited Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration ceremony for Zimbabwe president. What planet is Mugabe on? The man must live in a bubble of reality distortion. When is the world going to intervene in Zimbabwe like they did in Iraq? Answer: never, as it was really only the USA and the UK who [...]

Apparently some of the idiots don’t think the church is discriminating enough against homosexuals and women. But really: Yawn. Irrelevant fools.

It looks there will be a new version of Elite released in 2010. I hope it comes out for the PS3 in HD. It’d be awesome. Elite is the best computer game ever. Click picture for larger view

With the iPhone G3 just around the corner, I thought I’d check the O2 3G coverage for my house and area. See map below. My house is just in the covered area near the edge of the purple area. Happy days.

I finished listening to the audio book version of Frank Herbert’s Hellstrom’s Hive yesterday. God, I love that book. It is so crying out for a sequel. I want to know what happened next, then over the following few years, decades, and centuries. I’m now reading the book again. On my Sony Reader of course. [...]

I switched back to using my MacBook Pro 17 inch today after a few months using a MacBook Air. I’m not going to be travelling quite so much for a while so don’t need an ultra portable Mac for day to day use. The MacBook Pro is noticeably quicker. Plus the screen is magnificent One [...]

I ranted about the new version of Delicious Library before. There is an update available that fixes the Amazon (null) problem. I also heard from their support dudes that the new window layout isn’t popular and they will be looking at it again for a future version. So I paid my upgrade fee.

Just seen that Frank Herbert’s Whipping Star is on Audible as an audio book. Read by Scott Brick. I’m listening to (reading?) Hellstrom’s Hive at the moment. It’s a marvellous book. I’ve read it many times. The audio book version is wonderful. Whipping Star next. Hopefully there will be more of Herbert’s work added in [...]

Went to see The Police and KT Tunstall at Stormont last night. It was brilliant. KT Tunstall is excellent live. Especially Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, which she does mostly solo using echo loops. The Police were excellent as well. They played several tracks that I didn’t recognise that were really heavy and good. [...]

The USA politics show Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC is essential viewing. It’s very, very good indeed. It takes 5 stories in the news each day and covers them. It is no friend of the Right in the USA. Which is good. You can view online or subscribe to a podcast version for free [...]

The truly excellent Mark Morford’s latest 2 columns for SFGate are well worth a read. One discusses Apple without Steve Jobs’ and why we seem to notice the loss of visionaries more than others. The other is a smorgasbord of various good news signs about the way things are moving in the world.

In this post about the latest Indy film I asked the question: What is it with Steven Spielberg and aliens? It seems he will be producing the upcoming film Cowboys vs. Aliens, set in the wild west that has Apaches and cowboys setting aside their differences to run aliens out of town. This has to [...]

Suspended in Gaffa. One of the best songs ever! Suddenly my feet are feet of mud It all goes slowmo…

The latest beta of Ecto has been doing weird things on me recently, so I’m trying MarsEdit again to see what its like. Nice Mac OS X interface. I’ll probably give the other Mac OS X blogging clients a whirl as well. UPDATE: Back to Ecto. MarsEdit is nice and a good blog client, but [...]