Archive for July, 2007

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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

BBC Radio Widget v3.1 is officially the most downloaded release ever. Cool.

Movie time

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I went to see Transformers today - special preview screening or some such. It was pretty busy. The film was kinda cheesy in places. It was pretty shallow, too.
The animation was superb. There were fighting robots. Fighting robots. You know, like, robots. Which fight. This is pretty much all you need to know about this [...]

Reasons to love Webkit

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

If you don’t know, Webkit is the framework in OS X which provides web display to apps. It’s the power behind Safari.
Now, people knock Safari sometimes. They say it’s slow, and they say FireFox has better rendering. People say all sorts of things. Well, Safari is the speediest browser on my MacBook, and that’s nothing [...]

I even look like an idiot in cartoons

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Simpsonize Me is a shameless plug for the new movie. It’s blatant advertising for a certain burger company. It’s poorly designed and it’s unreliable (on my Mac, anyway, stupid Flash). It’s also pretty good fun.
I know they’ve sold out, but I’m really excited by the Simpsons Movie. It took a while for my scepticism to [...]

On Words

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I really don’t like the word “fanboy” (or “fanboi” if you’re über-133t). Or rather, perhaps I just don’t like the context it’s used in - it’s merely an excuse not to listen to the other side of the argument, ironically used by those to whom the term is most applicable. I think we, the internet, [...]