Tim Almond

I’m a big fan of his work*, so this shouldn’t have made me laugh, but did.
Incidentally, Kubrick and Hitchcock never won one either, so he’s in good company.

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Had one of these today. Some guy from some telecom company. The only decent thing is to make sure that his email is well known, so I’m going to post it in a few places on Usenet. The responses should keep him busy.
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This "clocks going forward" thing? Anyone know what people gain from doing it, and how many are their number?

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Richard Smith writes for Comment is Free
“Evidence going back decades shows that there is a very close correlation between the amount of alcohol a society consumes and the harm it experiences. That harm might be deaths from cirrhosis, suicide, pancreatititis, cardiomyopathy, or the dozens of other medical conditions caused by alcohol or divorce, domestic violence, […]

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Google have launched a service today that allows users to create their own search engine based on a list of sites that they specify.
I was trying to think of some uses for this - for people interested in politics, they could search all their sources. For people who are geeks, they could search a number […]

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In no particular order (except Web Developer Extension which is really great).

Web Developer Extension. If you’re building stuff, a very useful extension. Pretty much like a Swiss Army Knife for site debugging. Too many tools to mention, but if you’re building sites, get it.
ForecastFox. Keep yourself up to date with the weather forecast. Can be […]

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I’m trying out some new (to me) software called CamStudio. The idea is that it can capture screen movements into animation.
In the process of trying to write my piece on Firefox 2.0 features, I did some screen grabbing and uploading to YouTube of some videos. One of these has turned out quite well, a demo […]

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I’ve been using Firefox 2 for a few hours now, and already found 3 features that I wouldn’t want to be without…
1) Spell checking. I’m not yet sure how this feature is implemented, but it sometimes doesn’t work, sometimes does (Is there maybe some CSS tag that checks things?). Nevertheless, it’s there and works like […]

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It’s live. Download from http://www.mozilla.com.
More to report as I use it. 
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I only recently discovered that Ed Wood’s craptacular Plan 9 from Outer Space is in the public domain. It was made in 1959, so should still be under copyright. However, I think that the US copyright used to require renewal, and I presume that someone thought it had no value.
It’s often considered as one of […]

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