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Video (from the Latin: ‘I see’)

Brennig — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:46:44 +0000

I’m desperately trying to keep this away from a Bristol-related rant. And also I’m going to work hard to keep this away from an ‘Underage and Having Sex’ (which we’re currently watching) rant… I’m thinking of making a video. No, really. A proper one, not one of those videos! My sitcom sits on the hard-disk; [...]

Ha-ha, fooled you!

Brennig — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:07 +0000

Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for lunch. Ash is a unique guy. Genuinely talented and blessed with an abundance of creativity Ash chooses to spend most of his time working in the public sector; providing valuable [...]

Ha-ha, fooled you!

Brennig — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:07 +0000

Yesterday Soph and I drove in to London, parked the car at Queensway and caught the tube to Mile End where we met Ash for lunch. Ash is a unique guy. Genuinely talented and blessed with an abundance of creativity, Ash chooses to spend most of his time working in the public sector; providing valuable [...]

Inception Review

P.Viktor — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:49:52 +0000

If you like your films smart, action-packed and completely original, look no further than Inception, Christopher Nolan’s latest epic since his career defining Batman sequel The Dark Knight (2008). It has been getting rave reviews from prominent film critics and extremely vocal online fans and for good reason – it is perhaps one of the most riveting and visually original films I have seen in a long, long time. In a single stroke it has reassured the film-going public that ‘blockbusters’ don’t have to be dumb, mindless star vehicles full of action and no heart. As a result, Nolan is...

Stephen King – Bag of Bones | From a Buick 8, Review

P.Viktor — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:33:52 +0000

During the hot summer months I like to put down the serious, dense literature and snuggle into some genre-fiction that doesn’t require quite as much battery power from the brain cells. Stephen King is one of my favourite genre writers and his books are a guilty pleasure - great page-turners by a formidable storyteller and in King’s case, one who is himself devoted to ‘literature’. It seems unfair how his books tend to be marginalised from ‘the canon’, but I guess this is largely due to the fact his books sell in their millions and also because he writes within...

Because you’re worth it

kate — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:41:45 +0000

We want to consume content without paying for it. So why do we still equate professionalism with getting paid?

The Ghost

P.Viktor — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:22:05 +0000

For five laborious years it has been thus, caught in the cool steel of his office lights, fluorescent tubes in a pretence of daytime that never quite seems to arrive, the date ticking over as a manic clock speeded up. Before him the terminal, the unreal glare makes his pale face paler, that bluish-grey of dust settled over centuries. He operates the machine with fingers, limbs, and eyes, producing nought but electronic actions. The rattle of its keys under his fingertips amounts to his voice, deftly spelling out strings of sentences never spoken aloud. Only the phone punctuates this silence...

Stream of unconsciousness…

Brennig — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:06:30 +0000

This is a test piece of writing… It’s been said many times before, that the most intimidating thing, for a writer, is a blank page. That’s cobblers. The most intimidating thing in the world, for a writer, is the audience as it leaves the theatre, having just watched a comedy show that includes pieces you’ve [...]

Cloth

P.Viktor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:02:39 +0000

What do we pull between us – a thread, an artefact, a belief? Does one unravel the truth of another by an absence of proof? Here is a man, he is unknown, his Jewish face is the negative Of a negative. Here is a cloth, perhaps once a shroud, a twill Of flax fibrils, sepia photograph of a mortal, long dead and buried. The name of the man is hidden, but he maybe fits a description. But it probably is him, they said, as if probability was itself certain. Probably is not good enough – probably causes war and death,...

An introduction to Activity Streams

Ben Werdmuller — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:12:59 +0000

I’ve written an introduction to the Activity Streams standard for IBM DeveloperWorks: Enter Activity Streams, an evolving standard that extends Atom for expressing social objects. Although it is a young standard, Activity Streams is fast becoming the de facto method for syndicating activity between web applications. For example, MySpace, Facebook, and TypePad all now produce Activity [...]