Of all the things I've done in the last couple of weeks one thing I've not done is update LJ. This isn't really the slow yet inevitable parting of intimate friends, if not lovers; rather it's a reflection of how I'm having enough trouble reading that I'm not writing ( Read more... )

Dear Lazyweb,

I have to write business cases as to why I can have decent, modern browsers on my work PC. Any good ideas how I can justify wanting IE7 and FF2?

It's terrible to say it, but an element of ICT freedom is very important to me in a job. Where's a good place to find a new one?

Love Simon

This week has been one of endings - though not of life, pets, hobbies, computers or even phones; but of television. The end of Rome (forever) and BSG (series 3) leave a hole in my viewing schedule that is unlikely to be filled by Lost (getting a bit rubbish) but may be by Heroes (which has taken 6 weeks off while they celebrate having a whole ( Read more... )

... dealing with reasonable people. The "picture crime" I mentioned the other week has been resolved - the site, for a large UK electronic music festival had taken a photo from a band MySpace site without considering that they didn't have permission to do so ( Read more... )

From grh

The iRack

It's always nice to be surfing the web and finding a photograph you took being used by someone else without permission or credit.

Sometimes I despair of people. The bottom line is that if you care about having rights and control over anything original you produce then at least have a basic understanding of the issues.

Gah.

Which reminds me, I must post "Simon's view of Photographic Copyright 101" soon.

WIDATW posts have been suspended recently, partly because writing "Sat on a plane" or "Skiied a small mountain" doesn't take a massive amount of space and is probably even less interesting than my normal entry. However last night I was actually "out of the house" and "at a club" which is quite a novelty feeling ( Read more... )

Spending some time overseas, where I soon picked up "No Worries" off the Aussie residents of the Canadian Rockies, it's become increasingly obvious to me that there is a disease at the heart of the English language. That is the phrase "You know ( Read more... )

Bloody hell! George Takei, Stan Lee, Christopher Eccleston and now Malcolm McDowell.

Fanboy overload.

Ok, Christopher Eccleston is really just a good actor, but the others are icons.