Indiana Jones IV Thu, 05/22/2008 - 13:44 — nathan

The long awaited 4th instalment of Indiana Jones was released today (22nd of May) in the UK. To let people in Bath see the film as soon as possible, our local Odeon ran a 12:05am screening of it this morning which I was fortunate enough to be able to attend!

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Photos at Last Mon, 05/19/2008 - 22:09 — nathan

I have finally got around to uploading some of the photos that I've taken in the last couple of months.
Whilst I was at home over Easter I was fortunate to find that the weather went from really quite stormy and rough weather at the start of the three weeks to gorgeous sunny weather at the end of the time. Add to this the fact that I spent quite a lot of time going around the island mapping it (see my article on OpenStreetMap), I ended up with a variety of photos of various interesting places.

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Access Denied by the BBC Mon, 03/31/2008 - 21:00 — nathan

Why has the BBC decided to deny listeners access to their listen again feature recently? Until fairly recently it was possible to listen to radio shows fairly easily, now it seems that only a small set of users who are running the BBC's idea of the average hardware and software are able to listen.

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Welcome to Earth Mon, 03/03/2008 - 09:03 — nathan

I watched the 1996 Star Trek film, First Contact last night. As the credits were rolling at the end I started thinking about that final scene where Zephram Cochrane is "entertaining" the Vulcan visitors with alcohol and his somewhat suspect jukebox. Not a great advert for human kind, a scruffy man getting drunk and listening to very loud music, was my first thought, but after a few moments it dawned on me that he wasn't trying to impress them particularly, it was just a sharing of culture.

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The Missing Key Thu, 01/31/2008 - 22:16 — nathan

Over the last couple of weeks I have come to a new and significant understanding about the design of modern keyboards, and a way that they could be significantly improved. What is needed is a "Do It" key. No, not the enter key, I mean a key that will always select the fastest route to completion of whatever task you just tried to perform.

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