Our apple tree (heavily pruned) is budding.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
An above average comedy with some engaging characters and just enough solid laughs to keep you going and Pegg holding the movie together.
Body of Lies
Body of Lies is a reasonably good action-thriller with some strong performances and interesting context, let down by a soft-ending.
Babylon A.D.
A fractured and unrealised sci-fi drama which results in a dissapointing and unsatisfying action viewing experience.
Spam
To the authors of spam bots, or to the people paid pennies to submit spam comments – don’t you think it would be worth your while to check after submitting the spam (say after 5 days), to see if it was actually posted. If it wasn’t you can assume that it was successfully blocked, and can stop trying to submit to the same site again.
If it was posted, you can assume it wasn’t blocked and resources you save from trying to post to sites which don’t publish your posts can be re-directed at the sites which do.
Clearly this is more efficient at your end, saves you money and time, and reduces green house gasses across the planet. We can presume that sites accepting your spam either want it or deserve it, and hence are acceptable targets.
None of the spam (several thousand, a tiny amount I should think compared to real blogs) you ever try and post here makes it through and yet the same sources try and try and try again – give it up guys – it’s not working for you.
iPhone + Skype?
O2 (in the UK) can’t be very happy? I can now call any other skype user from my iPhone for free as long as I have a wireless connection somewhere. It’s not as easy to receive calls, you need to be logged into Skype on the phone and you can’t run 3rd party apps in the background, but if you know someone’s calling you via Skype you can be ready for it. And making outgoing calls for free to other Skype users is the real cost saving I guess.
Sound quality seemed pretty good as well.
I bet the Skype charges for calling real phones are cheaper than the O2 network charges as well, I may look into that.