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Recommended Viewing

• 300†
  Does exactly what it says on the (comic book) tin. Loved it.
• Little Miss Sunshine†
  Very funny, disturbing (the beauty pageant) and completely messed up -- but in a good way.
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky†
  Story great, characterization a little on the weak side -- though the big robots are cool.
• Porco Rosso†
  Stylish, funny, exciting.
• Grave of the Fireflies†
  Very sad, which was a little unexpected since I didn't know much about it before watching it. Can be a little too slow in places though, otherwise it's very good.
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind†
  The story can get a little dense at times what with the various factions, but still really enjoyable, inventive and engaging.
• X-Men: The Last Stand†
  Opportunity, talent, money - all blown. Over 3 films X-Men has hinted of something great that could have been, this last one says "No, sorry - not going to happen". Bah.

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Flickr Pro

Hello, before I forget everyone say holá to mharrigan, who is the benefactor behind my recent upgrading to a Pro account on Flickr. I figure had he the benefit of knowing me a bit better he probably wouldn’t have, but I’ll take the money and run.

1 CommentsApril 30, 2005

Belfast Rails User Group

Do you use Rails? Are you interested in using Rails? Do you live, or work, in or around Belfast?

I would like to set up a Belfast Rails Users Group for the purposes of having the occasional meetup for show and tell. I’m a Rails beginner, I’m not a programmer (yet), I’ve got into Ruby and Rails only recently, so the entry level to this would be pretty low in terms of technical knowledge.

I’ve set up a mailing list as a start, if you’re interested at all then you can subscribe here.

Any suggestions or recomendations welcome in the comments section here for now.

4 CommentsApril 23, 2005

I like cheesey choons and I cannot lie

Nothing to do with good taste,
Only time and place.
Listening to Journey
is completely ace.

1 CommentsApril 19, 2005

MP3 Players

I want to get an mp3 player, so I do. I like the look of iPod Mini’s but I also like the idea of having a tuner onboard as well. So now I’m looking at something like the iRiver iFP-795 (512mb) or the iRiver iFP-899 (1GB), if anyone has any advice let me know.

7 CommentsApril 17, 2005

Ooops, sorry

I managed to delete this weblog last week, the database for it anyway, it wasn’t my fault really though. I’ve tried to find a patch for this, but can’t. Anyway I keep fortnightly backups of my db’s so it was ok, a couple of posts are missing, a couple of comments too, but nothing to really worry about.

SIX APART DIE DIE DIE!!!! Especially you Jay Allen.

No, really it’s all cool. I knew about this before I started deleting but arrogantly thought it might not happen to me. And I was tired and annoyed at the time. Really, it was all my fault so if you left a comment and it’s gone I’m sorry.

5 CommentsApril 17, 2005

Songs of Praise: Nation's Favourite Hymn

The twenty hymn’s in the Songs of Praise Nation’s Favourite Hymn is pretty good. ‘Be Thou My Vision’ is far and away my favourite hymn; the lyrics I beleive are a lorica, something you’d write on the inside of your shield and recite before battle, definately my favourite hymn.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heav’ns Son!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O ruler of all.

0 CommentsApril 10, 2005

body {voice-family: Marc; voice-volume: soft; voice-balance: inherent;}

I spent a short time today playing with aural style sheets and Opera’s voice controls (in the beta verison of Opera here), for one thing the new Opera is very nice but it renders some visual things screwy which is not a shame but a crime (but as it’s only beta we shall remain calm), however the voice stuff is cool, even if it ignores most of the styling elements of CSS3 it says it adheres to (I might have got this wrong, I didn’t get long to play).

Also, the future is OBJECT.

I hate internet explorer. I’ve had it up to my eyes in doubled margins, 3 pixel borders, relative positioning and box model bugs. Internet Explorer must die, it’s the evil in my web monkey universe, the Aku to my Samurai Jack.

You know, I’d like a #cabal del.icio.us feed. I would. Like Penfold of old.

What did you read on the interweb before weblogs came along, did you read as much interweb content?

1 CommentsApril 1, 2005

Link Prefetching in Mozilla†