Author: richard

I keep forgetting to check the BBC Radio 4 Comedy site. They have some great stuff to listen to. Right now I’m listening to Laughing at Dingoes, which is Mark Little’s documentary on Australian humour. Ross Noble goes Global is something else I like, too. There’s lots of stuff there, but you need to check weekly because many of the programmes don’t get archived, presumable because the BBC want to sell them on tape and CD.

If you’re interested in software licensing and copyright… ok, for those of you who are left, take a look at Problems in Open Source Licensing. It makes some useful comments on what you can and can’t do with copyright, and when you do and don’t have a contract. Note, it’s written from an Australian law point of view.

Here we go again. I guess the fire crew on the pier this morning didn’t quite finish the job: it flamed up again this afternoon.

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The reason I’m trying this is because it should alow me to post photos from my phone.

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Ok, so now I’m trying out Moblogger, and if you see this
blog, then you know it worked.

I’ve grabbed a copy of Blogplanet to see if I can blog from my phone… It sort of worked, but not quite as it breaks our blog with some stupid junk text along the lines of “this was produced with a trial version of the software”. Duh and Shame.

On Sunday we went to see Александр Невский (also known as Aleksandr Nevsky). It’s a 1938 Russian propaganda film about a prince who leads the Russians against all sorts of Bad People, and in this case it was shown with the Philharmonia Orchestra supplying the music and the Brighton festival Chorus singing in Russian (I think).

Sounds mad; was wonderful. Lots of funny moments. The battle on the ice could have been cut by 20 mins IMHO, as that part didn’t have me “on the edge of my seat” as was advertised.

On Saturday we were at Don’t look back, which was a non-tour of Stanmer Park with the theme of Orpheus and Eurydice. So think death, think opening doors and seeing brides running away from you, think lots of stuff involving rivers. It was a non-tour because you were left to explore the crumbling house, and stumble across the various “sleepers” (actors) who were scattered around.

We had no idea what to expect, and it turned out to be a lovely, but slightly baffling, thing.

We don’t live in Hove, but apart from that this story from thisisbrighton.co.uk seems about right.

My Sloppy project has a write-up in PC-Pro magazine, issue 104 (June 2003, cover headline: “Can you ditch Microsoft”). Jump to page 207/208. One day you might see it in the Real world section of the magainze’s web site. But not for a month or so, I’d guess.