Wednesday, 16th June 2004
09:00
Added today:
* [Richard Berlin](http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/AceOfSpuds),
* [Scott Hudson](http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/shudson310),
* [Bryan Cantrill](http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/bmc).
From uncollected thoughts (RSS)
From uncollected thoughts (RSS)
09:00
[comics] Bat Out of Hell -- preview of Batman Begins. '...the comic-book franchise does have a checkered past. The new chapter, which will hit theaters in June 2005, is called "Batman Begins" -- presumably because "Batman Sucked the Last Time So We're Starting Over" was too clunky.'
From Linkmachinego (RSS)
From Linkmachinego (RSS)
08:00
This post is being written from the luxury of the Terminal 1 ServiceAir lounge at London's Heathrow airport via BT Openzone access point. I have just has a refreshing Bloody Mary to wake me up and before I chomp into a Cherry and Almond flapjacks I thought I ought to update you all on why I have bee...
From Sapientum: One Wise Banana (RSS)
From Sapientum: One Wise Banana (RSS)
08:00
08:00
remember that Pete was meant to be flying round scotland this week ? well, he had a bike accident and...
From funkypancake (RSS)
From funkypancake (RSS)
06:00
03:00
You'll see I've updated the Blogroll at long, long last. So say welcome to a lot of deserving newcomers, some returns that had inexplicably dropped off and farewell to a dew old favorites. Now I'm using Blogrolling, by the way,...
From The Edge of England's Sword (RSS)
From The Edge of England's Sword (RSS)
03:00
Busy TubeI've tried my hardest to get a decent picture of Peter Gander's winning entry for the Mind The Gag London Underground Toon Competition and failed miserably.So I've appropriated it from the tube's website:Ironically the winner Peter isn't a regular tube traveller and gets the overland train ...
From London Underground Tube Diary (RSS)
From London Underground Tube Diary (RSS)
03:00
There is a Nemi strip every day in the free Metro newspaper (read by commuters in London and other big UK cities) — translations are generally decent, but the graphic quality is lacking. I can’t complain though, it’s a free daily injection of Norwegian culture. There used t...
From halvorsen.org - the noggie view (RSS)
From halvorsen.org - the noggie view (RSS)
03:00
02:00
This was meant to be a well-meant yet scathing post in response to the response to my "England Flags for Cars" post, but It's sat on my desktop unfinished, because of more pressing things.Namely work and the odd thing of that quite important matter of the Monday exam being the three hours which deci...
From Tales of the Expected (RSS)
From Tales of the Expected (RSS)
02:00
02:00
I was suddenly struck tonight how much that bald super villian with the huge mono-row that was in 'Thunderbirds' The Hood, looks like Marco of BB....
From Groc's Bloggette (RSS)
From Groc's Bloggette (RSS)
02:00
02:00
if i knew jack about basketball it'd be a big night tonight. as far as i can tell it's not unlike wolves getting to the FA cup final, i reckon, and then being two up against Man U with fifteen minutes to go. i'm trying to get into it, really i am. i've watched it a bit on TV, and i've been reading a...
From blackcustard (RSS)
From blackcustard (RSS)
02:00
01:00
I swear I'm never opening the window at night again. I had a nice breeze going earlier and it was great, but then the Invasion Of The Freaky Big Fat Moths happened. Christ these things are hyooooj. I'm fiddling with...
From Quicksulphur (RSS)
From Quicksulphur (RSS)
01:00
"Numerous bloggers hosted by Weblogs.com are offline and scrambling to find new hosting after blogging pioneer Dave Winer abruptly closed the free service last weekend," reports Netcraft. "Winer, a driving force in the emergence of blogging and RSS, started the...
From Onlineblog.com (RSS)
From Onlineblog.com (RSS)
01:00
I failed to deliver my promise of bodily fluids when I was borking Should I or shouldn't I? The topics...
From mad musings of me (RSS)
From mad musings of me (RSS)
01:00
BusinessWeek Online Big Bang!
..."Nearly everyone, it seems, is venturing far from their specialties. And it's not just tech companies. TV manufacturers in Japan and cell-phone makers in Korea are jerry-rigging their products with microprocessors and...
From Duncan's Jotter (RSS)
From Duncan's Jotter (RSS)
00:00
I'm sure my doctor would prescribe staying away from sites like AICN for the good of my health, if I ever visited him. Or maybe it's a her.
From Tagline: a movie weblog (RSS)
From Tagline: a movie weblog (RSS)
00:00
A short clip from Blade: Trinity can be found here. Looks quite promising, though it's early days yet what with the film's release date having been put back to December so as to allow time for reshoots. I liked the first two Blade films, so I have high hopes for this third (and final?) instalment.[V...
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
00:00
This Guardian story explains some of the gaps in the roster of artists on the UK iTunes Music Store.Apple need to come to an accommodation with the UK labels on this issue, sooner rather than later. iTMS UK will be a great deal less worthwhile for an awful lot of users if it ends up as nothing more ...
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
00:00
These guys must be boiling. Sat there, so close to cool water, but they're stuck in fibreglass tubs with all that gear on. I reckon they're hot. I like to think that, because if they're not, I'd be envious, cos...
From Quicksulphur (RSS)
From Quicksulphur (RSS)
00:00
"In a move to pre-empt Google's Gmail, the search site's announced-but-not-yet-final e-mail service that started the arm's race in the Web-based mail space by offering 1GB of storage, Yahoo Tuesday handed out 100MB of storage space to all users of...
From Onlineblog.com (RSS)
From Onlineblog.com (RSS)
00:00
For a London-based launch, that was pretty good. Not surprising, really, as it was the first time Steve Jobs had done a presentation in the UK since returning to Apple eight or so years ago, so they were bound to make an effort. It was swamped by the broadcast media. CNN just in front of me as we f...
From Nik (RSS)
From Nik (RSS)
00:00
00:00
It perplexes me. For a start I can never work out whether I find it attractive or not (as a...
From mad musings of me (RSS)
From mad musings of me (RSS)
00:00
It opened for business in the UK today. So I trundled over to the classical music section, very small, very poor, but found something rather exciting: Cantemir: Music in Istanbul and Ottoman Europe around 1700. I listened to the little...
From frizzyLogic (RSS)
From frizzyLogic (RSS)
00:00
Only in New York (well, touch wood erm... perhaps the wrong adjective) would you get cuddle parties (as described by nerve.com's Grant Stoddard). By the sounds of it, it's an orgy sans nudeness or sex. Everyone's encouraged to cuddle anyone,...
From badly dubbed boy (RSS)
From badly dubbed boy (RSS)
Tuesday, 15th June 2004
23:00
"Helen" reports: Very nice!!!! And not as sickly as you might imagine! The cookie on the outside is soft and delicious. Was a little disappointed that the icecream inside was not cookie dough flavour though! Phew, just managed to post this before the end of the hot weather - much of the delay due t...
From Snackspot (RSS)
From Snackspot (RSS)
23:00
I remember back in January when Dave Shea posted his Friday Challenge asking if it was possible to use floats to position a fixed-width sidebar on the right of a page, with a liquid content area, if the content comes before the sidebar in the markup.
Ryan Brill responded with his negative mar...
From Kayodeok's Weblog (RSS)
From Kayodeok's Weblog (RSS)
23:00
Receive message from Nokia 3650?Yes/No
Installation security warning. Unable to verify supplier. Continue
anyway? Yes/No
Install Cabir?Yes/No
Three little dialog boxes with similar wording to that shown above may be
the only things stopping people installing the latest attempt at a Symbi...
From Feet up! (RSS)
From Feet up! (RSS)
23:00
Paul Mutton - Jibbler - sent his £300 camera on a wild ride under a
kite. One of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time.
Unfortunately, it didn't go quit as planned and the camera is now a write
off. Undeterred, Jibbler has launched a
KiteCam Disaster Fund Appeal
- with p...
From Feet up! (RSS)
From Feet up! (RSS)
23:00
Yesterday was an end of an era for the Walker-Smith family (Chile); they sold their trusty car – the Jimny. I bought it after being in Chile for a while and since then it’s been all over the place in the North of Chile, and to the supermarket and back thousands of times, it was the best car for a si...
From Ean WS (RSS)
From Ean WS (RSS)
23:00
Open Automaton Project
"Welcome to the homepage of the Open Automaton Project. The purpose of this project is to engineer modular software and electronic components, from which it is possible to assemble an intelligent PC-based mobile robot suitable...
From Duncan's Jotter (RSS)
From Duncan's Jotter (RSS)
23:00
23:00
I popped over to Numberwatch to order his new book - what an essential site it is - and came back with this musing on D-Day. ..above all, it was for the precious concept of individual liberty that Britons, Americans...
From An Englishman's Castle (RSS)
From An Englishman's Castle (RSS)
22:00
While on a seemingly endless search for a cheap, dedicated hosting provider, I came across a number of references to a technology called WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), something I previously knew very little about. Other than Apple’s use of WebDAV for publishing iCal cal...
From zlog (RSS)
From zlog (RSS)
22:00
MaxSpeak annouces the winner of the Vicious Instapundit Blogroll Contest! The judges' comments: We also observe in these quarters the...
From Where Worlds Collide (RSS)
From Where Worlds Collide (RSS)
22:00
Being a list of the twenty tunes - some old, some new - which are currently enjoying the heaviest rotation on the stereo / on the 'puter / in the car / inside my head.1. phoenix - holding on together2. caetano veloso - soy loco por ti, america3. youssou n'dour - cheikh ibra fall4. kelis - trick me5....
From troubled diva (RSS)
From troubled diva (RSS)
22:00
I really don't understand myself these days. I used to feel really in control but I've been very mood swingy this last year. I had a perfect day on Saturday with Alex. It was lovely and I was so happy. Then there was the Caption meet and that was pretty fun and quite positive too. So I got home...
From tinyjo: journal (RSS)
From tinyjo: journal (RSS)
22:00
For a refreshing view on the news of the day, look not further than snowmail From the BBC the most similar programme in style is probably Broadcasting House on Sunday mornings from Radio4, originally hosted by Eddie Mair, it is now ably...
From take one onion (RSS)
From take one onion (RSS)
22:00
Well I managed to miss the various calendar based points for noting the passing of time here, so 400th post will be a reasonable celebration point. I've been writing a weblog for about 18 odd months and have recently been very quiet,...
From take one onion (RSS)
From take one onion (RSS)
22:00
22:00
I was in Cumbria when the Manchester bomb went off, but I heard a lot of stories from people who were in town when it happened.
From Spinneyhead (RSS)
From Spinneyhead (RSS)
22:00
Yahoo has upped the available space on its free webmail in an attempt to take on Gmail. I now have 100 megs on my Yahoo mail, which would be nice if the shock hadn't slowed the system right down to a crawl.
I still have a Gmail accouint to give away.
From Spinneyhead (RSS)
From Spinneyhead (RSS)
22:00
Well, it's here.I can live with a price of 79p per track, since I'm not going to be buying an awful lot of music anyway. (First, because I don't buy vast quantities of music anyway. Second, because as a dial-up user it's really only practical for me to buy odd album tracks and singles.) For the reco...
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
From Sore Eyes (RSS)
22:00
22:00
These guys must be boiling. Sat there, so close to cool water, but they're stuck in fibreglass tubs with all that gear on. I reckon they're hot. I like to think that, because if they're not, I'd be envious, cos...
From Quicksulphur (RSS)
From Quicksulphur (RSS)