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I'm looking forward to Mike Arrington saying something stupid about this." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:34:40 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/29/phpbb/&quot;&gt;Simon Willison&lt;/a&gt; points to something cool - &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.phpbb.cc/2007/04/28/first-beta&quot;&gt;phpBB&lt;/a&gt; now suports OpenID through a set of patches." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:05:33 GMT"/>		<outline text="I think the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onedayblogsilence.com/OneDayBlogSilence.com.html&quot;&gt;One Day Blog Silence&lt;/a&gt; thing is utterly retarded, and, no, I won't be following it. It smacks of victimhood being good in and of itself. When someone kills another, the &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; morally justified response is to shout louder, to think bigger and play the music louder. This respect for silence is a hangover from Christian morality and it's something we need to tie a brick to and chuck in the damn ocean. The only way you can stop me blogging is to either pay me a large amount of money not to or kill me." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:58:44 GMT"/>		<outline text="I find these Alcohol Concern people utterly insane. They &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/27/nalco27.xml&quot;&gt;want to criminalise parents who give alcohol&lt;/a&gt; to their children. Next they'll be criminalising ginger beer because it has the word 'beer' in the name, and, heaven forbid, someone use their own damn brain. I haven't got the time or energy to get angry this morning, so I'll leave it to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/04/addicted_to_usi.html&quot;&gt;Perry and the Samizdata kids&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:54:59 GMT"/>		<outline text="Graze your Twitterspace and other experiments" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:00:42 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2007/04/twazr_v2_the_tw.html&quot;&gt;James&lt;/a&gt; has named a little OPML mashup I've written to get the Twitter friends of any user and display them in a Grazr." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:00:56 GMT"/>			<outline text="The URL format is simple enough:" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:03:06 GMT"/>			<outline text="tools.opiumfield.com/twitter/&lt;b&gt;username&lt;/b&gt;/opml" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:03:11 GMT"/>			<outline text="There's secret behind-the-scenes Semantic Web magic going on with this that you'll see over the next week which uses the script that produces the Grazr to seed a triple store which we use to allow comprehensive searches of the (public, non-protected) Twitterscape." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:03:21 GMT"/>			<outline text="The results of some of the early Semantic Web experiments will be available as RSS feeds and Grazr-specific OPML feeds." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:05:16 GMT"/>			<outline text="One of these is the 'compare friends list' function (because your friends &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; just like collectible trading cards, see?) - which allows you to do a 'diff' on two people's friends list. Another is the ability to produce blogrolls from a friend list." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:08:38 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/grazeYourTwitterspaceAndOtherExperiments52630/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('grazeYourTwitterspaceAndOtherExperiments52630');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/grazeYourTwitterspaceAndOtherExperiments52630/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('grazeYourTwitterspaceAndOtherExperiments52630'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Angels for everybody" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:17:28 GMT">			<outline text="So, you think theology is a proper academic discipline. You'll be glad to know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/04/28/do2809.xml&quot;&gt;the Archbishop of Cantebury, Dr. Rowan Williams&lt;/a&gt; has just published a book on - wait for it - angels. Belief in angels is, according to the columnist, far more respectable than belief in other 'terrestrial unseen beings'. It'd certainly be nice to know &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt;, but I'm pretty sure that such reasons will be as cloaked in mystery and wishful thinking as everything else that we call 'theology'." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:14:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;blockquote&gt;Why should there not be pure intellects, with no admixture of matter, who are located wherever they act, are of immense intelligence and power, and vary greatly from individual to individual? They remain servants of God.&lt;/blockquote&gt;" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:18:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="Yes, just consider to yourself that a broadsheet British newspaper is actually publishing an op-ed piece arguing that angels exist, and this is the reason." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:21:16 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'm looking forward to &quot;In defence of pixies&quot; and &quot;Hobgoblins: teach the controversy&quot; or whatever else these superstitious pretend-intellectuals and numbskulled hacks think up next. Okay, I'm not. I think it's the intellectual equivalent of candyfloss and that the public are being played for fools by funding the academic charlatans that inhabit the discipline of theology." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:21:51 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/angelsForEverybody85967/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('angelsForEverybody85967');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/angelsForEverybody85967/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('angelsForEverybody85967'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="For MacBook Pro users" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:39:09 GMT">			<outline text="Apple seem to have released a new 'Battery Update' for MacBook Pro users which updates both the &lt;abbr title=&quot;operating system&quot;&gt;OS&lt;/abbr&gt; and the battery firmware is available via Software Update." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:39:21 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's a 700&lt;abbr title=&quot;kilobyte&quot;&gt;KB&lt;/abbr&gt; download which makes updates each of your batteries as you plug them in." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:39:51 GMT"/>			<outline text="Hopefully, it'll fix a few of the little errors I get with the batteries, which have been less than satisfactory." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:41:56 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/apple&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/macbook+pro&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;macbook pro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/laptop+batteries&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;laptop batteries&lt;/a&gt;" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:43:31 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/forMacbookProUsers85969/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('forMacbookProUsers85969');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/forMacbookProUsers85969/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('forMacbookProUsers85969'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Why being an Apple customer sucks" created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:28 GMT">			<outline text="So, last &lt;i&gt;July&lt;/i&gt;, I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/tommorris/186827370/&quot;&gt;battery&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/photos/tommorris/180089089/&quot;&gt;problems&lt;/a&gt; with my MacBook Pro batteries, so much so that I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2006/08/05#When:10:51:08&quot;&gt;a cynical ditty about it&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:45 GMT"/>			<outline text="Apple have &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6606727.stm&quot;&gt;finally admitted&lt;/a&gt; that they have a problem with some batteries in the MacBook and MacBook Pro range. This is after hundreds of blog posts and thousands and thousands of threads on Apple's Support forums and elsewhere. This is combined with the fact that they must recieve absolutely hndreds of support calls every year from people who can and &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; Googled it and know exactly what the problem is, but the drones they have on the end of the phone line has to pretend that each customer is talking absurdities." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:35:10 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'm trying to do some damn work, and Apple have these fugging adverts all over London telling me that the laptop I spent the best part of £1,500 on is &quot;for home&quot;. No, it ain't. It's my &lt;i&gt;primary&lt;/i&gt; coding machine. I use it to crunch tons of XML and cook up yummy Python with." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:37:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="Going to the bloody 'Genius Bar' in London (which one has to do these days - regardless of practicality - if one wishes one's machine to be repaired) has all the allure of an NHS waiting list. At least on the NHS, you can book 48 hours in advance while with the Genius Bar, you have to book on the day. Or take your chances at the Store, where you can end up waiting for the best part of an hour to talk to someone who'll give you the stock answer and find every reason to disqualify you from getting a warranty repair. When you have an appointments policy that makes the NHS seem competent, something is &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:48:59 GMT"/>			<outline text="Decent support and admitting that St. Steve can be wrong (as he was in &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; case) are the key - if only they could sort all these annoying little problems out, then I'd be the most satisfied Apple customer there can be." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:42:32 GMT"/>			<outline text="As for the iPhone? I don't want one, at least not until (a) it runs Python and (b) Apple sort the process of owning a Mac out so this kind of crap doesn't happen." created="Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:56:19 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/whyBeingAnAppleCustomerSucks86102/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('whyBeingAnAppleCustomerSucks86102');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/whyBeingAnAppleCustomerSucks86102/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('whyBeingAnAppleCustomerSucks86102'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>