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Archive for November, 2007
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure
Saturday, November 24th, 2007The Genius of Photography on BBC4
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Veer Zaara
Saturday, November 24th, 2007The Darjeeling Limited
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Mac OS X 10.4: How to prevent .DS_Store file creation over network connections
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Microsoft drops IE’s ‘click to activate’ nag
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Microsoft finally sort out the ridiculous “click here to activate this content” message on embedded Flash objects in IE7. The fix is due to go live in an update to IE7 “next month” (December).
Detail of the original issue, from March 2006. Something to do with intellectual property behind the way ActiveX works, and non-payment of royalties, I think.
Like gonzo journalism on acid
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Shrooms is described by a Zoo magazine hack as “Blair Witch on acid”. Sounds like she’s missed the point somewhat. Lazy journalism, hackneyed cliches and meaningless soundbites, on top of all the cheap and tawdry shots of naked soap stars – doesn’t really add up to an attractive package does it, Zoo?