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Is this really a rant?
Unsure.

All I wanted to do was bring to the attention of the public the availability of the following two peices of software. One is RealPlayer Alternative and one is QuickTime Alternative.
I am unsure as to the legality of these substitutes, but whoever wrote them deserves a lesser sentence than the evil, evil people who wrote the actual Realplayer and Quicktime video players. Such abortive, buggy and hopelessly bloated software should never see daylight, let alone become an internet Pseudo Standard.

So!

Format your winows boxes today, and pop these beauties on your hard-drive instead of the virii we’ve all learned to hate, RealPlay.C.worm and Quicktime.Win32.Trojan…

Probably not.
Well, happy new year to anyone out there who’s reading, though I’m not yet convinced whether it’s really going to be any different to the last one. I’m even used to writing 04 on cheques already. Why? Council tax and water rates of course!! Don’t you just love the government? I don’t mind spending my few pounds of saved money on something so long as it’s well spent, but with taxes you just never know. I think, given the amount they charge you simply for breathing in the UK, that they could afford to produce a penny-by-penny breakdown of exactly how the money is spent. Not just blanketting wages under “Overheads”. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a person-by-person salary breakdown, just so you know which fat-cat git took the money that was supposed to pay for just an hours more gas?

I’d like to find that man and wink at him suggestivly.

Then may he never sleep soundly again.

EUrope and Italy posted to me this morning by my good friend majic, made me chuckle. It’s got a wonderful soundtrack to it too.

After the last rather miserable post about gun vioence, this made me laugh again…
Dictionary.com/shat

It *IS* however only from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and I’m not sure what kind of authority over the English language an American body can have. Perhaps it should be the American heritage Dictionary of the American Language? Who knows.

Today, I have been mostly listening to Tom Paxton – Johnny Got a Gun. It’s not the best song in the world, it’s got no drums for starters which is never a good thing. It does, however, have a message. One that I like lots.

I was moved to post this as my GF was looking at a website regarding “Killing Kids for Votes” and a shift in some US policy that allows 14 year olds to receive the death penalty. She told me, I said “So?” and she looked horrified. A 14 year old murderer is no different to a 30 year old one, except they’re more likely to do it in a tantrum or “paddy” if you will. My girlfriend then argued there’s still time to reform them, to which I replied that there’s no reforming for the dead guy.
There is no justice for the innocent dead, or their families, for that matter.

This article from the Beeb outlines what I have been telling several friends of mine for a while now. It’s time to let go of Win95 and move on. Some people’s resistance to change is extraordinary, though sometimes understandable. I myself rue the day when Windows, and the only peice of software I need it for, becomes a DRM lock-box that’s largely unusable for anything other than giving $$$ to Mr Gates.

The whole DRM thing scares me. Especially if Adobe don’t get their arse in gear and build a Linux version of their new CS suite. For heaven’s sake, the MacOS10 version is compiled using GCC (Allegedly) so it’s a stones throw from being Linux buildable. I’m betting, though, that behind closed doors a contract was signed to put the pinch on Linux development. Lots of design houses use Macs, but I’m sure a lot more would switch to Linux platforms if they could, simply from an economic standpoint.

I know I would.

I don’t know how many of you are ganesplayers gamesplayers, but recently I’ve been getting a little ticked off with the “Single Player Experiences” that games companies are offering these days. Back in the day ™ you could hack away at a single player game for weeks on end and finally, after a couple of decent plot twists you’d reach the end, satisfied. As I see it, going to watch a movie costs about 4 pounds, a game costs 10 times that and thus should last 10 times longer. We’re talking 20 hours minimum. MINIMUM. No, hell, even 20 hours is too short…

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Well, what’s all this then? Four very tiny thumbnails? And they’re ALL swans ?
It seems swans aren’t as popular these days as they once were.

Yes that’s right viewers, those 4 diminuitive thumbs are the four ugliest, most despised, most overlooked photographs from my website. And yes, it is because I was bored and being cocky with my beautifully organised backend. *Ahem*.

They will shuffle, but only if you, dear readers, pay them the courtesy of a visit to drag them, kicking, screaming and begging for appreciation from the bottom of the hit counter. Do your best people, they’re counting on you.

Additional: Shadow suggested an Overlords box. My 4 most heavily viewed pictures. The thing is, they wouldn’t change, and my poor GF’s rear end has already stolen enough of the limelight… 😉