When I first heard about A9s block view it wasn't very hard to navigate near to where I work and see two of my collegues crossing the road on their way to lunch! Anyone else found anyone they know? Or themselves?
I'd much rather see a Dirk Gently movie. The only real screen time the character ever got was in an old South Bank Show that I have on tape somewhere.
I think it would make a really great movie.
And Douglas Adams always thought of Last Chance to See as his best and favourite work.
I have heard rumours of a proposed TV follow up with Stephen Fry joining Mark Carwardine, and after Stephen's "spectacled bears" adventures I think that would be a great idea.
My new NJ driver's licence has my signature scanned onto it (50% size), underneath the laminate.
Would there be any benefit in the credit card companies requiring same?
Obviously this would increase production costs of the cards to some degree, but might the idea have some merit, especially if merchants then REQUIRED both the photo ID and card and this could be enforced somehow.
Funnily enough the precise reason I bought my MP3 player was to listen to quality radio programming from the BBC. I'm not into music that much, and far more interested in comedy and documentaries, which the BBC have in abundance on Radio2,4 and 7. Now I live in the States I'm actually listening to MORE radio than I ever did - all of it British - thank heavens for my stream-recording software. BBC's ListenAgain feature is wonderful.
I'm using YourMusic.com from BMG at the moment for adding to CD collection. $5.99 per CD, free shipping. I don't know how they make any money, really I don't. Seems like a steal to me. You set up a monthly queue a bit like the NetFlix model, but you can get as many CDs as you like at that same price. Double albums run $11.98. I'm very happy with it so far.
I'm still not into this burning of downloaded albums. Too much of an arse about. Give me a shiny factory pressed CD and booklet any day of the week.
Not sure from reading your post, but just to clarify...
Radio came first
Then books
Then TV
(and stageplay)
More books
New radio adaptions of the "more books"
Movie
Obi-won chops off Anakin's other real hand and both of his legs.
Obi-won: What are you going to do, bleed on me? Anakin: I'm invincible! Obi-won: You're a loony. Anakin: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
[...] Anakin: All right; we'll call it a draw...
Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
The CDs you had were the Cd-Rom version of the book, including lots of photographs and Douglas Adams READING his book (an augmented audiobook essentially). It's actually out there on the web as a free download, (whether or not it SHOULD be is another question), but its there, and doesn't take long to find with a good Google.
The actual radio series was a documentary style narrative from the field, with voice over from the late great Peter "The Book" Jones. Rare to hear any of it. Although "Douglas Adams at the BBC", a CD audio release from last year does have a lot of segments from it. If you'd like to send me some Amazon Associate pocket money, the CD set is available from my site's sidebar...
It was actually a radio crew. Still a shame the radio series has never been released commercially - would make sense if you could divert the profits to the programmes designed to save the Kakapo, Mountain Gorilla, and the last 20 Northern White Rhinos etc. Less than 10 wild NW Rhinos left these days. They're in the middle of an emergency evacutation from DR Congo to Kenya....
http://anotherchancetosee.blogspot.com/2005/01/nor thern-white-rhinos-devastating.html
It was his favourite book. I wish I could attend the lecture myself, but being in the States now, its just not possible.
I have a link to the lecture webpage on my blog-site which updates "Last Chance To See"... Another Chance To See
I'm with you. I've done lots of work with XML, transforming them into XHTML, both client and server side, and I've produced some of the most useful intranet applications my firm has ever seen, all styled with CSS.
My Firm Directory is beloved, and is used by about 60% of our employees DAILY, consigning the old printed phone-book to memory...
fast, flexible and useful. xslt is a beautiful thing, once you get the hang of it.
They don't generate *anything*. They just spew the same old thing over and over and re-distribute already distributed content. Bleh. Lame
Just like Slashdot really..... and yet here we are.
Slashdot is gathering "stuff that matters" for us, saving us the trouble. I don't see anything wrong with that. Blogs that perform a service like that (and like mine -- http://anotherchancetosee.blogspot.com/) gather news and articles about particular topics that are valuable to people because they save us time. They bring things to our attention that we would normally have to hunt a bit harder for.
The angst ridden personal blogs I'm happy to avoid, and like most, wish Google had a mechanism for excluding them easily.
Great. Hotmail is gasping now, I get This server is too busy message regularly NOW - I dread to think how often I'll see it when they upgrade the storage.
No, thanks MS but no thanks. I'm very happy with my spanky GMail. Sure, I'll keep my Hotmail account, but only as my main "alternate" for commercial email stuff.
Agreed. Another Brit in the USA who would KILL to get access to the real BBC. I have the broadband news service too, but you're right, the content is slow to change.
If they could get in online before Eccleston steps out of the TARDIS I'll be WELL happy....
Which is why my email address is llllllllooong. 20 characters before the @ sign. I don't post it anywhere and I think 20 chars is outside the range of such brute force methods.
I've been spam free for about 2 years. And I mean spam FREE. I get NOTHING to my junk mail folder.
Its marvellous!
Check it out. I was reading this thread yesterday, and then I find this story on the local newstation website....
A woman, getting in and out of the car while gas was pumping causes a static-spark and FFFWWUFFF!!!!!!
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3322888/detail.html
Ah but unfortunately the guy who pumps your gas is probably talking on a cell-phone...
and my wife actually had to yell at a guy last week as he casually pumped gas with a LIT CIGARETTE in his other hand....
Can you please tell that to the myriad of US "shock-jocks". I'm not 4 years old. I don't watch Teletubbies. I don't need to go "Again! Again!", the moment after the video/joke has finished.
As a Brit in the USA it PAINS me to hear the same "joke" over and over again, when I'm forced to endure listening to the radio by others. It's all so f*****' fake!
Thank god my mate Peter is recording the latest BBC series of "Have I Got News For You."..., and thank god for BBC7.
Seconded!!!! Actually, it was EastEnders and the new Doctor Who that I thought of immediately when I read this article... Bring it on....
The BBC Radio Listen Again feature has been a favourite of mine since moving to the States. "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", "Just a Minute" etc. And now BBC7 has gone 24 hours and included a Listen Again section, I'm very happy.
Slashdot Mirror
When I first heard about A9s block view it wasn't very hard to navigate near to where I work and see two of my collegues crossing the road on their way to lunch! Anyone else found anyone they know? Or themselves?
Only old Korean people use the library anymore...
How about some casting suggestions?
And Douglas Adams always thought of Last Chance to See as his best and favourite work.
I have heard rumours of a proposed TV follow up with Stephen Fry joining Mark Carwardine, and after Stephen's "spectacled bears" adventures I think that would be a great idea.
Sadly though, Mark recently said that the baiji dolphin was believed extinct, and the northern white rhino is almost gone too.
The big kakapo parrot is doing OK though.
My new NJ driver's licence has my signature scanned onto it (50% size), underneath the laminate. Would there be any benefit in the credit card companies requiring same? Obviously this would increase production costs of the cards to some degree, but might the idea have some merit, especially if merchants then REQUIRED both the photo ID and card and this could be enforced somehow.
Funnily enough the precise reason I bought my MP3 player was to listen to quality radio programming from the BBC. I'm not into music that much, and far more interested in comedy and documentaries, which the BBC have in abundance on Radio2,4 and 7. Now I live in the States I'm actually listening to MORE radio than I ever did - all of it British - thank heavens for my stream-recording software. BBC's ListenAgain feature is wonderful.
I'm using YourMusic.com from BMG at the moment for adding to CD collection. $5.99 per CD, free shipping. I don't know how they make any money, really I don't. Seems like a steal to me. You set up a monthly queue a bit like the NetFlix model, but you can get as many CDs as you like at that same price. Double albums run $11.98. I'm very happy with it so far. I'm still not into this burning of downloaded albums. Too much of an arse about. Give me a shiny factory pressed CD and booklet any day of the week.
Ahem... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/1 8/0027246&from=rss
Not sure from reading your post, but just to clarify...
Radio came first
Then books
Then TV
(and stageplay)
More books
New radio adaptions of the "more books"
Movie
Obi-won chops off Anakin's other real hand and both of his legs.
Obi-won: What are you going to do, bleed on me?
Anakin: I'm invincible!
Obi-won: You're a loony.
Anakin: The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on then.
[...]
Anakin: All right; we'll call it a draw... Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Oh you must read it, it's wonderful.
The CDs you had were the Cd-Rom version of the book, including lots of photographs and Douglas Adams READING his book (an augmented audiobook essentially). It's actually out there on the web as a free download, (whether or not it SHOULD be is another question), but its there, and doesn't take long to find with a good Google. The actual radio series was a documentary style narrative from the field, with voice over from the late great Peter "The Book" Jones. Rare to hear any of it. Although "Douglas Adams at the BBC", a CD audio release from last year does have a lot of segments from it. If you'd like to send me some Amazon Associate pocket money, the CD set is available from my site's sidebar...
It was actually a radio crew. Still a shame the radio series has never been released commercially - would make sense if you could divert the profits to the programmes designed to save the Kakapo, Mountain Gorilla, and the last 20 Northern White Rhinos etc. Less than 10 wild NW Rhinos left these days. They're in the middle of an emergency evacutation from DR Congo to Kenya.... http://anotherchancetosee.blogspot.com/2005/01/nor thern-white-rhinos-devastating.html
It was his favourite book. I wish I could attend the lecture myself, but being in the States now, its just not possible. I have a link to the lecture webpage on my blog-site which updates "Last Chance To See"...
Another Chance To See
I'm with you. I've done lots of work with XML, transforming them into XHTML, both client and server side, and I've produced some of the most useful intranet applications my firm has ever seen, all styled with CSS. My Firm Directory is beloved, and is used by about 60% of our employees DAILY, consigning the old printed phone-book to memory... fast, flexible and useful. xslt is a beautiful thing, once you get the hang of it.
Slashdot is gathering "stuff that matters" for us, saving us the trouble. I don't see anything wrong with that. Blogs that perform a service like that (and like mine -- http://anotherchancetosee.blogspot.com/) gather news and articles about particular topics that are valuable to people because they save us time. They bring things to our attention that we would normally have to hunt a bit harder for.
The angst ridden personal blogs I'm happy to avoid, and like most, wish Google had a mechanism for excluding them easily.
Great. Hotmail is gasping now, I get This server is too busy message regularly NOW - I dread to think how often I'll see it when they upgrade the storage. No, thanks MS but no thanks. I'm very happy with my spanky GMail. Sure, I'll keep my Hotmail account, but only as my main "alternate" for commercial email stuff.
Agreed. Another Brit in the USA who would KILL to get access to the real BBC. I have the broadband news service too, but you're right, the content is slow to change. If they could get in online before Eccleston steps out of the TARDIS I'll be WELL happy....
Which is why my email address is llllllllooong. 20 characters before the @ sign. I don't post it anywhere and I think 20 chars is outside the range of such brute force methods. I've been spam free for about 2 years. And I mean spam FREE. I get NOTHING to my junk mail folder. Its marvellous!
Sorry... here's that link again, tagged this time... NBC 10 News
Check it out. I was reading this thread yesterday, and then I find this story on the local newstation website.... A woman, getting in and out of the car while gas was pumping causes a static-spark and FFFWWUFFF!!!!!! http://www.nbc10.com/news/3322888/detail.html
Ah but unfortunately the guy who pumps your gas is probably talking on a cell-phone... and my wife actually had to yell at a guy last week as he casually pumped gas with a LIT CIGARETTE in his other hand....
Can you please tell that to the myriad of US "shock-jocks". I'm not 4 years old. I don't watch Teletubbies. I don't need to go "Again! Again!", the moment after the video/joke has finished.
As a Brit in the USA it PAINS me to hear the same "joke" over and over again, when I'm forced to endure listening to the radio by others. It's all so f*****' fake!
Thank god my mate Peter is recording the latest BBC series of "Have I Got News For You."..., and thank god for BBC7.
How about Grandad Trotter from Only Fools And Horses?
WOMAN: Why is your grandfather watching two television?
GRANDAD: Because the other one's away getting mended.
Seconded!!!! Actually, it was EastEnders and the new Doctor Who that I thought of immediately when I read this article... Bring it on.... The BBC Radio Listen Again feature has been a favourite of mine since moving to the States. "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", "Just a Minute" etc. And now BBC7 has gone 24 hours and included a Listen Again section, I'm very happy.