The annual proto-vicar jamboree (also known as the Initial Ministerial Education Residential) begins today so I’ll be mostly offline for the next few days. This means that any updates to Planet SUSE will have to wait until I’m back in the connected world. I’ll try to read email via my N95 but replying is unlikely …
Monthly Archive: September 2008
Sep
26
2008
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Sep
25
2008
America
I think a lot of people who read this blog (and I know that’s like saying – in the words of Bernard Wooley – “a lot of Radio Three listeners”) probably come away with the idea that I’m anti-American. I’m not, what I am is anti-hypocrisy and anti-imperialist. I love the US Constitution (with the …
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Sep
20
2008
Meme(me)
Via Chris; Andrew; Marco (although I added a step) 1. Take a picture of yourself right now.2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair … just take a picture.3. Resize that picture to be friendly to people’s internet connections.4. Post that picture with NO OTHER editing.5. Post these instructions with your picture.
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Sep
19
2008
My day in photos
For some reason, I decided to record the contents of my day (or at least my morning) today in photos. After a bit of a lie-in (today being my day off), I headed for a Light Therapy session. The hospital where I have this is a former naval hospital and is still linked with a …
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Sep
19
2008
Where now for capitalism?
BBC News: Where now for capitalism?
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Sep
17
2008
Some thoughts on recent events
Banks going bust overnight, the US government nationalising huge companies, share prices falling through the floor, rescues, refinancing and restructuring. What are we to make of it all? Strikes me that we are seeing evidence that unrestrained capitalism doesn’t work. It certainly doesn’t work in terms of a fair society. In a society, the people …
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Sep
17
2008
Comparing planets
(I always thought Jupiter was kind of pretty with that spot and all..) Jakub makes some great points about general usability with Planet SUSE and I’ll monkey with the CSS to try and make it clearer. My personal views on this subject are as follows though: I’ve never been a big fan of white space. …
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Sep
17
2008
Question
Why, in this age of electronic calendaring, do we still say we’ll pencil in a tentative appointment?
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Sep
17
2008
New Hitchhiker’s author announced
BBC News: New Hitchhiker’s author announced. Noooo! This is just wrong! How can anyone possibly presume to pick up from Douglas Adams? What will be next? Is Dirk Gently going to be given another mystery to solve using the principle of the fundamental inter-connectedness of all things? I’ll be buying it the day it comes …
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Sep
17
2008
Usability of Planets and Facebook
Federico: Glad you like the way I’ve set Planet SUSE up for hiding feeds. It’s only fair that I pass the credit on to where it belongs which is to Facebook. The old version of Facebook had very handy little ‘x’ icons next to items in your news feed which made it very clear that …
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