Being on the road meant I missed this one.
… the R-rated Western gay romance “Brokeback Mountain” – had been pulled from screens at the MegaPlex 17 at Jordan Commons. Management at the MegaPlex 17 decided late Thursday afternoon not to open “Brokeback Mountain” on Friday as scheduled.
No reasons given. Any guesses 😉
My sister is the Akela of a cub pack back home in England. She wanted something ‘on the web’ – she now has a blog and a website.
I looked at all sorts of options for building the website – it needed to be easy to use, minimal maintenance, good functionality – but also secure, not resource hungry and obviously run on Apache, PHP and MySQL.
I eventually selected Drupal. It has an active developer community; the architecture and structure was logical; the security seems good. Best of all it’s easy enough for non-IT people to use.
It’s Thursday – today I am on Wall Street to see a large financial services customer.
I took the train in from Philadelphia – that was fascinating. Amtrak looks starved of investment. Grand old stations like Philadelphia 30th Street – look magnificent in the main hall; once on the platform it is dark, unkempt and pretty dirty. The new Acela “high speed train” looks good; with a striking similarity to the French TGV or Eurostar. The similarity ends with looks. Turns out that the original plan for the Acela was a fast TGV-like corridor between Washington, New York and Boston. The reality is the investment in new track, dedicated running and then compromises and beaurocratic meddling made the train slower, heavier and unreliable.
On the positive side – the transportation was pretty well integrated. Train to 30th St Station, Acela to Newark, PATH to the World Trade Center site. Pretty good.
I’m kinda sneaking this out early – but several ZENworks people from across Novell are going to start blogging on Novell Cool Solutions.
It’s called ‘Cool Blogs’.
Any requests for a first post?
I’m in Philadelphia for a couple of days visiting customers; currently in my hotel room IMing with Jose and talking about Apple.
The new MacBook Pro looks sweet.
I’m watching a DVD of New Order music videos –Â NEW order A COLLECTION. It’s stunning. Music videos that are almost twenty years old for Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith and Round&Round look really fresh.
There is also an interesting – and half completed – web site http://www.kinoteca.net from Michael Shamberg which describes a lot of the background to his music videos for New Order.
It’s live. I updated this blog to WordPress 2.0.
So far so good. The new WYSIWYG editor looks pretty sweet too 🙂
Normally you can’t go swimming with your iPod. (Pedants will point out that you could – it’s just a one time thing.)
Grania swims a lot during the summer (when the bubble roof comes off the pool) – and last year we saw some cool headphones and a small MP3 player that worked under water. We thought this would be good if you could use your existing iPod.
I just found this:
It’s a soft neoprene cover for your iPod. It caught my eye because they support all sizes of iPod – even the new Nano; also they have partnered to offer ‘flood insurance’ for the iPod itself.
Now that’s cool.
I experimented several times during the holidays on various configurations of SpamAssassin and the like. I finally settled on something I liked and was easy to manage.
I found an addition to IPcop that added these services in a controllable manner – CopFilter – http://www.copFilter.org.
CopFilter plugs into IPcop and adds (for me) an SMTP proxy, ClamAV, SpamAssassin – as well as giving me a really simple web UI to manage things. Best of all all of the components are GPL.
I’ve trained the anti-spam – and it’s really working better so far than my own manual tweaking on a seperate server. 🙂
So far so good – I’ll keep track of the performance and post the results later.
I rejoined Audible a few months ago.
I first tried it out about three years ago when I got my first iPod (wow! three years!) and found it – somewhat clunky. Audible support was patchy on my old iPod, the software didn’t work too well – and the content was somewhat sparse.
Things have changed dramatically in the last couple of years. I am now listening to several books a month; mainly on plane journeys, also on my commute into the office.
I am currently listening to Michael Palins “Around the World in Eighty Days” – I first read this at University many years ago (1992!). Turns out the whole book is now available online.
We’re down to less than two days worth of coffee beans!
We buy coffee in bulk from a friend.
Not like this:
but in cases of two 7kg drums. Like the ones your favourite espresso store has.
I’ll take a picture when we get a delivery. Hopefully tomorrow.
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