The Homosexual bishop debate continues; the UK man who was to be ordained as a bishop has declined the appointment.
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What should have been a
What should have been a five-minute job, changing the low-beam light on my car took the better part of an hour. Have you ever snapped a light-globe in half? I have now. The dust cover was on so tightly, and I had so little room to move (it was the globe closest to the car …
Went to the (as far
Went to the (as far as I know) only Krispy Kreme store in Australia today. It’s in Penrith, and it took us about 10 minutes of queueing just to get to the part of the queue that was inside the store. While all that waiting was going on, there was a similar wait happening in …
It’s possible to do some
It’s possible to do some amazing flash work with some actionscript features, like prototype – a couple are described at dv8flasher.
If only software engineering could
If only software engineering could be more like, say, architecture then we’d benefit from its own approach to design – or would we?
[fury] What the world will
[fury] What the world will be like in the year 2000 (as written in 1950).
If you want to give
If you want to give your geography skills a workout, try this drag-and-drop map game.
[pv] I’ve been pointed back
[pv] I’ve been pointed back to the pages of How To Write Unmaintainable Code – one of the pointers is on how to create variable names that are hard to understand: Obscure film references : Use constant names like LancelotsFavouriteColour instead of blue and assign it hex value of $0204FB. The color looks identical to …
[pr] The Terminator 3 movie
[pr] The Terminator 3 movie site lets you modify a photo that you’ve uploaded (although I couldn’t get it to work with the photos I had on-hand).
Toshiba has released a 17″
Toshiba has released a 17″ Laptop, but it’s pretty hideous compared to Apple’s.