Went to see Sofia Coppola’s new film Somewhere starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning. A meditative piece of similar themes to Lost in Translation but less comical. Not much happens but I liked it.
December 16, 2010
December 6, 2010
GoFlex
My pair of Formac 160GB rotating back-up drives were full so I needed something bigger. I got a pair of GoFlex 1TB drives which came with USB interfaces. I got a single Firewire pluggable interface to share between them. One drive is sitting in the Firewire dock getting backups stored on it while the other is rotated out offsite.
A £5 Firewire 400<->800 cable let me plug it into my iMac.
December 1, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest
Probably incomprehensible if you hadn’t read the book. Various scenes from the book unclearly connected in the film. Worst of the three, and not a very good film.
At imdb.
November 23, 2010
Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas
Another ‘re-imagining’ of cult character Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer should brace themselves for a cinematic “re-imagining” of the cult character, which producer Charles Roven describes as a “a completely new reboot”.… [From Buffy to slay her way back into cinemas]
At best this would seem to be unnecessary and I expect it will be a lot worse than that. Joss Whedon is not attached to the project in any way.
November 17, 2010
Purple Chips
Bought some Purple Majesty potatoes and peeled them.
Cut them into chips.
Cooked them in the Actifry.
And ate them with fish fingers, peas, and fried eggs. Put on some malt vinegar and HP sauce too.
I had mandarins in orange jelly for pudding.
November 9, 2010
Motörhead
Saw Motörhead at the AECC last night. They played from about 9:30 PM until 11 PM. I didn’t recognise any of the material in the main part of the show apart from Eat The Rich, but they played Ace of Spades and Overkill for the encore. H&S must have taken a toll in the thirty-odd years since I last saw them as I was able to hear normally after the show. I went home and watched Dexter and didn’t even have to turn the volume up.
November 1, 2010
Noodles
A large parcel of 48 assorted bowl noodles and three packs of spicy shrimp crackers arrived this morning.
Pip was intrigued.
These ones are Vietnamese.
Kimchi flavour !
October 29, 2010
Apple passes RIM, now number four cell phone maker globally
Apple’s stellar fiscal fourth quarter results continue to break records for the company. It sold 14.1 million iPhones, and its $20 billion in revenue topped one of Microsoft’s best quarters ever. Now, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics, the iPhone has catapulted Apple past both RIM and Sony Ericsson to make the company the fourth largest mobile phone vendor in the world.
Apple’s sales of 14.1 million iPhones was enough to capture 4.3 percent of the global mobile phone market for the last quarter. That’s double the roughly 2 percent market share the company managed this same time last year.
Despite the boost in ranking, however, Apple still has a tough road ahead to move into one of the top three positions. Nokia is still the global leader with 33.7 percent market share, while Samsung grabbed 21.8 percent and LG held on to 8.7 percent. All three of those vendors still sell millions of feature phones in addition to smartphones, though sales of those devices has been slowly waning as smartphones increase in popularity.
But Apple doesn’t plan on backsliding, either. “We’ve now passed RIM—and I don’t see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future,” CEO Steve Jobs boasted during Apple’s most recent quarterly earnings call.
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[From Apple passes RIM, now number four cell phone maker globally]
The naysayers appear to have been wrong again.
October 20, 2010
The Trainyard Story, or How To Make a Smash Hit iPhone App [Stories]
#stories There are people who make some serious bread from the App Store. Matt Rix, the creator of the wildly popular iPhone game Trainyard, is one of them. Here’s how he did it, starting with his sketchbook. More » [From The Trainyard Story, or How To Make a Smash Hit iPhone App [Stories]]
Interesting reading. And it’s a good game too 🙂
October 15, 2010
With iPad, Apple is the biggest US PC maker
Apple is now the biggest US PC maker if you read between the lines of the latest Gartner and IDC PC sales data. This is why Apple’s announcement of new Mac OS X features next week will also be the point when AAPL defines the future of computing. read more [From With iPad, Apple is the biggest US PC maker]
The categories have always been broken.