So, through no fault of our own, we find ourselves in the World Cup Quarter Final, playing Portugal tomorrow afternoon. The prize is a Semi-Final match against the winner of Brazil v. France. It’s a bit of a mystery how England have managed to get even this far, because despite having watched all their games,… (read more)

After mentioning quite a lot about the Pet Shop Boys recently, I was rather disappointed to find out that their new web site (which I won’t link to, for reasons which will become clear) has been “redesigned” by some non-standards-aware design company and requires Flash 8 to work. Not “requires Flash 8 for some parts… (read more)

I wrote the first version of colordiff ages ago, but only recently have I started to take over the maintainence of the Debian packages for it. As you can see at the developer page the packages I made earlier in the month have now migrated automatically into Testing, which means they’ll be part of the… (read more)

The British Phonographic Industry announced that making copies of music for personal use “is OK”: “We believe that we now need to make a clear and public distinction between copying for your own use and copying for dissemination to third parties and make it unequivocally clear to the consumer that if they copy their CDs… (read more)