February 2009 Archive
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Heath wins Oscar.
This cartoon is actually from 23rd July 2008. This poster is also pretty neat.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
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The Simpsons goes HD
The opening sequence of ‘The Simpsons’ has been updated for the first time in 19 years to mark the first HD episode which airs in the US tonight.
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Added Viddler video commenting
Now when you disagree with what I’m saying you can record a video, at least until I get sick of it and remove the plugin again, which could be in a week or in a years time, we’ll just have to see how it works out.
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DotNetNuke — Not Good Enough
See what happens when you ask for a discussion around something that’s really been getting up my nose for the last 6 months, I go and write. I vent. I rant. But that’s what my blog is for, and thankfully it doesn’t run on DotNetNuke. So you want to know what I really think, keep reading.
Background
It all started with a tweet, the intention wasn’t to cause trouble, but to simply highlight what I thought of the contents of the post in question. I got a reply surprisingly quick from the co-founder who suggested “It is easy to take a shot at someone in abstract…”, and then “how bout a real discussion on the merits or lack thereof of his points”. Ok, let me elaborate.
Disclaimer
I’ll get this out of the way now, this is my blog so I’m entitled to my opinion, but so are you. If you don’t agree with my opinion, that’s fine with me, I don’t care at all. However, if you’ve never tried to use/customise/configure/upgrade/install this steaming p.o.s. then hold back any disagreement with me until after you have. Note: I’m not forcing you to try it out, that would be mean..
Retort — ask and ye shall receive
Those who work on DotNetNuke seem to be constantly defending themselves over the openness of their open-source project, so much so that I’m sure there are more defensive efforts than actual attacks. Despite what I think of their “openness”, I’m not here to specifically attack how open it is. Well not to begin with anyway, we’ll see what happens once I get going.
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Flash of Genius (2008)
A movie about windscreen wipers…
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Adam Savage on obsession Talks about the creation of his replica Dodo skeleton and Maltese Falcon, very interesting.
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10 harsh truths about corporate websites Quite possibly the best article I’ve ever seen on Smashing Magazine. It’s all so incredibly true.
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Sneaky peek of the Red Bull RB5
Great video showing the differences between the 2008 and 2009 Formula 1 cars, which have changed substantially due to a huge number of rule changes. Very cool, very transformer-like, explanation.
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