A woman with four personalities has won the right for a documentary of her life to be screened on Channel 4 next. That’s a really tough call – one might initially wonder how she could have been denied the right to document her life, but, then I don’t think the responsible authority (and the Official Solicitor) were incorrect in questioning whether she had the capacity to give permission to take part.
So I’m moving house in a few weeks, a major pain in the ass when it comes to the task of packing up all my stuff transporting and unpacking, only to find I don’t need half of it – why does that always happen?
I feel better about it this morning though – having just stumbled across this mess, I’ve just realised I don’t have much stuff at all!
An interesting “improvement” to a McDonalds billboard, done in broad daylight in The Haight (San Fran). Kudos to the BLF, whoever they are!
A documentary, focussing on the how U.S. soliders are being treated upon return from Iraq is looking for donations to get finished – no surprise the big networks are not backing it then. Interesting project though.
Unbelievable that a soilder who lost his arm was asked “Is that war still on?” when he explained what had happened (see trailer).
Pundits, eating words. If you’re a Liverpool FC fan, Des Cahill’s slots on Morning Ireland(RealPlayer stream) this morning are worth listening to. Skip to 33rd minute for the first report, the second one (better) starts at about 1 hour 33mins.
The second time that Dunphy and Giles have had to eat their words (remember Olympiacos).
I’m going to have to leave an Ubuntu LiveCD lying around at home – James Clarke just posted that it boots up nicelyon a Powerbook like mine. Not that I’m going to wipe OS X off my Mac but this tip means Ubantu could help as a very useful disaster recovery tool, should OS X ever fail to boot up (touch wood!).
Off to del.icio.us with it…
Woah I like this – never mind sales or unit shipment based charts Audioscrobbler plugs into your media player and builds up a profile of your musical tastes while you play. So what you might say – well they combine your play history with everyone elses and generate some very very useful charts, groups associations etc via a personalized web page. Very cool.
It is worth noting this as yet another fantastic example of near perfect REST protocol/service design – the client plugin only has to submit one handshake when started (to see how healthy the server is) and then multiple subsequent submissions, one for each song played (or half played). Sweet, it’s no wonder plugins are popping up for every major media player.
These guys could have gotten carried away and defined SOAP interfaces for querying/deleting/updating the back-end data but why do that when you can provide a more usable interface via a local servlet application. No doubt when this becomes more popular(and it definately will), people will start demanding fat client – there’s a lesson here that many a WS-stack-fascinated architect could do well to heed.
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