Saturday, August 11, 2007 Call of Duty 2 in the Office (U.S.):
A few months ago (here), I mentioned the fact that HBO might be making a TV series of George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”. This fan has matched each character with the actor he would like to see in the role (good call on the clerk from ER as the Greatjohn). [...]
I went off to Africa to work in an orphanage and when I was leaving, this man came up to me and said “please take my son because if he stays here he will surely die, but if he goes home with you I know he’ll have a good life. And I didn’t take him… [...]
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 I spent some time today setting up a new TV the old fashioned way, scanning through the frequencies with the remote control. I confess that I was gripped by an eager anticipation as RTE 1 materialised on the screen – a residue of the excitment from the old days when one guy would be up [...]
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 This will come as great news to any fan of George R. R. Martin’s heptalogy-to-be, “A Song of Ice and Fire”. The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for each novel (they average 1,000 pages each) to fuel a season’s worth of episodes. This is [...]
A couple of interesting Linux-related tidbits from the mailing list today. Conor on ILUG linked to a very valuable wireless card database. I have been forced to use ndiswrapper on all four of my linux boxes that have wireless cards, since none of my randomly chosen wireless cards were natively supported. Elsewhere, on the Freevo [...]
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 You’re a Star. You’re a waste of my TV licence fee more like. The best thing RTE has produced in recent years, Reeling in the Years, didn’t cost them a penny and is now repeated more often than the Simpsons “Timmy O’Toole Trapped Down the Well” episode. But they continue to play it safe with [...]
Today my boss introduced me to Freevo – an open source home theatre system for linux, written in Python. Record your TV shows and save them for later, accessible via the web interface if you’re at work and you forgot that The Return of Howard the Duck is on. A localised and accurate TV guide [...]
Despite her best efforts – picking the worst team possible, and getting soundly beaten in the task. The contest was sewn up last week by her good performance in the interviews. The badger softened slightly towards the end, and actually gained my support at the final hurdle, but it was the dark horse who triumphed, [...]
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This is probably an old one, but its the first time I’ve seen it, Bruno interviews the neo-Nazis at EvilFest in England: