Archive from September, 2003

Cinema at the end of our road

15 Sep 2003: The new “Cambridge Leisure” park at the corner of Cherry Hinton Road and Hills Road is coming on well. It’ll be fun to have cinemas and a bowling alley within walking distance. Looking at the site plans however, I don’t see any sign of the bridge over to the railway station which was mentioned at one stage. I could do with that.

Internet Vulnerability Profiling

12 Sep 2003: Without your knowledge or explicit permission, the Windows networking technology which connects your computer to the Internet may be offering some or all of your computer’s data to the entire world at this very moment! Shields Up! is a great site which quickly checks the security of your computer’s connection to the Internet. Cool.

Fat Man on a Bicycle

9 Sep 2003: And as the sound of the overture to Wagner’s Tannhauser fades into the background, I’m indebted to Mudd Radio for its archive of four episodes of the long-lost “Saturday Night Fry” radio series, available as MP3 downloads. Let’s hope BBC Radio Seven gets around to broadcasting the whole of Stephen Fry’s 1988 gem*. Now let’s talk Strom… *Edit: it did!

RSS – A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers

3 Sep 2003: If you’re thinking of publishing your website’s content in RSS format (or if you don’t know what RSS is), check out RSS – A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers which has been written by the good folks at EEVL alongside a project where they used and helped develop RSS feeds from the Pro-Talk websites I work for. Very well written stuff.

Too promising to be true?

1 Sep 2003: QI is a new TV series starting next week on BBC Two: “With Stephen Fry as host, guests including Alan Davies, Rich Hall and Jimmy Carr are quizzed on bizarre facts and unusual information, and points are awarded for interesting answers rather than correct ones.” It sounds too good to be true. And it gets even better: Bill Bailey was shown as a guest on the trailer.

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