Archive - Sep 2004

From the X1 launch of SpaceShipOne this week to America's Space Prize to India's completion of it's Planning Phase for their unmanned moon mission, Chandrayan.

Future Now gives us a heads up on a conference they are hosting next week. At least one subject that they will be covering is Location-based Services. This is more than using your mobile phone to tell you that there is a Pizza Hut around the corner opposite the cinema. Which isn't that useful if you happen to go to both at least once a week. They talk about Geovector which is looking at much more interesting uses for Location-based Services.

Last night I saw Hero starring Jet Li. I'm sorry to say I was a little disappointed.

Is there any way I can automatically filter out web pages or search results that mention Bush or Kerry? This isn't my election. I don't care.

Who ever wins, you lose.

Right. I've gotten that out of my system, I'll hopefully never mention politics ever again.

Shelly Powers provides a much-needed reality check concerning a couple of posts by Biz Stone and Robert Scoble about pulling traffic to your blog.

Unknown Temple (Third Level)

Moving quickly Morton slipped into the dark room beside Rex. Quick, yet still cautious. Rex had definitely lunged at him when he had appeared.

Nick still winced badly as Diane began to inspect his wounds. He had been hit by three of the bullets from the SMG. Two had hit him in the stomach, the other in the chest. She wasn't sure though. She had never seen a real gunshot wound, only the makeup look-a-likes from films or TV. The damage to the skin looked minimal, a slight tenderness of the skin around what looked more like sores than how she imagined a bullet wound. Nick waved her hands away when she began to prod the wounds. "Still sore. Whatever he did," Nick nodded across the corridor to the doorway where both Rex and Morton had gone. "It helped but I still feel like I just flew another shuttle into the side of a mountain."

"Just relax, it doesn't look too bad. Or at least it doesn't look as bad as it should." She smiled at him then winced as she attempted to flex her wounded arm, "I think we're all feeling a bit beaten up at the moment."

Beside Diane and Nick, there were three of the four guards lying collapsed on the ground. The fourth had gone after Holly back the way they had come. Kara had fled further up the corridor, wherever it led.

Some quotes from the birthday boy:

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
• The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
• When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
• We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
• If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
• I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Restating the Skill Cost point table for easier clarity.

Finally after some hunting about I found the Import page for BlogLines and uploaded my OPML list out of Liferea. Now I can keep up-to-date with all my feeds at home and at work without having to remember to quit the reader on one machine, then rsync the ~/.liferea/ folder back and forth.

I'd like to be able to mark some items for later perusal however. There is the Clip feature, but I haven't really tried that yet. It may give me what I'm looking for.

See what I'm reading.

We have the dates for both shows. Both the DDS one and the Panto in Lochgelly.

DDS presents What We Become In The Dark, a play by Bruce D. Adam, from Nov 8-13th, 2004.

The Sleeping Beauty Panto will be from Dec 14-18th, 2004 at the Lochgelly Centre.