30 May 08
I've been mulling over whole topic of having comments enabled on my site for a while, and I've decided to turn them off. This isn't because of anyone who has commented wrote something I got upset by, I have met some supremely nice people as a response to comments left on my posts.
Then again, I have received comments from insufferably unpleasant individuals, which I chose to keep on the site out of openness and honesty, and tried to answer with a reasonable comment, but I did somewhat wonder the point of leaving responses to a discourteous fly-by-night....
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19 May 08
After a few weeks of fiddling, I have finally released 281 - Habari Edition.
This is a port of the original Wordpress theme 281, created by Paul Stamatiou. Obviously I should thank Paul for letting me fiddle with his original theme, maybe this will prompt him to look at moving to Habari in the near future. 281 should look identical to a Wordpress site running the same theme, although over time I will be adding some of the additional plugins Habari offers to give you more to play with, right out of the box!...
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18 May 08
Last year I commented on how we in the UK are poorly served in terms of topical satirical comedy on television by comparison to the US.
Since then, Marcus Brigstocke's The Late Edition on BBC4 has continued to stagger on with only occasional success. Comedian and musician Mitch Benn, (and colleague of Brigstocke on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show), has a theory on why there's no true British equivalent of Real Time with Bill Maher or The Daily Show....
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09 May 08
After taking Mario Kart Wii round to my friend Gary's for a game or two, I was rather put out when he said, "yes its fun, but the graphics are shit". He then put on Gran Turismo on the PS3 and I had to concede that yes the graphics did look much better.
As I mentioned in my initial review of the Nintendo Wii, compared to the other seventh generation consoles, the Xbox and Playstation boast some seriously impressive graphics hardware, Blue-ray and/or HD-DVD playback. But, simply put, it makes no difference how good the graphics are, when you are playing a game, you want fun, and entertainment and simply put: Nintendo make the best games....
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06 May 08
The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for "racism" and "Islamophobia."
Sam Harris; a response to the controversy over the film Fitna.
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