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Lee: "Is there any area, any action, any intrusion, that the government cannot justify undertaking in the name of fighting terrorism? How much of a police state are you willing to live in? And given this administration's well-demonstrated desire to make sure that the web is free of icky pictures of girlies what ain't got on no clothes, I see this record-keeping as much more of a tool of Christian social policy than anything that will reasonably be beneficial in prosecuting the GWOT." 2006-06-01T15:10:26Z
iMomus is doing some sociological resarch on geek couples and their 'net habits. Tres interesting! 2006-06-01T13:51:41Z
The Guardian have an interview with John Prescott. However sore people feel about paying over a thousand quid a day to keep Mr Prescott content in his manor, think how much better it is that he's out in Buckinghamshire listening to his iPod or playing croquet than it is when he's in Westminster causing havoc. 2006-06-01T13:45:11Z
Woo! A UK TV guide widget. It's like using the Sky EPG, but you can just list the channels which don't suck - meaning I have about ten channels listed rather than 200. It's almost as good as using RSS. Almost, mind. Of course, it would be even cooler if you could add the stuff to a list or outline (or in to iCal or, better yet, Google Calendar). 2006-06-01T12:45:16Z
Rich has found a gem with the A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania photoblog. These photos really are stunningly beautiful. 2006-06-01T09:27:43Z
Looks like we've got lots of silly people in Britain, thus confirming the line from Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." 2006-05-31T23:36:37Z
Another Argument Bites The Dust 2006-06-01T12:23:03Z
Everyone always moans about the cost of a Mac and claim that buying a PC is so much cheaper.
Well, Dell has now built a machine that's equivalent to iMac. Only problem is it costs $1000 more.
It's very cool, but that $1000 buys a lot of memory and accessories.
New Functionality 2006-05-31T23:04:35Z
Okay, so I bought a Radio UserLand licence - I want to explore the depths of the software and port the good bits over to the Editor.
The first thing I noticed was the distinction between "Work Offline" and turning upstreaming off.
The difference is simple. The inbuilt server which provides functionality like NewsRiver doesn't work if you tell OPML to work offline.
But one of the points that John Fraser makes on the Radio testimonials is:
In an age where everything is shifting to the server, it is nice to have an application that lives on my machine. It publishes my information when I get a connection, and receives information from others that I can take with me.
Or as Scoble puts it: "This means I can weblog in an airplane."
If you also want to write a long post and save it without updating your weblog, for instance, you can flick it off until you're ready to go.
This is very easy to replicate. All it needs is a little hack to the folderWatcher script in dotOpml.root (as if, you know, I've not had enough drama with dotOpml.root in the last few hours...).
I now have this working in my install, and it looks very cool. I'll test it for a few days and see if there's any bugs, and if not, I'll release an OPML file with instructions on how to install it.
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
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