chez dafyd

I was really quite moved by the poetry of a spam email I received this morning:

I do not ask you to tell me more. The document type declaration, indicated by the following tag. It is long since I heard them, and I thought deeply before I could recall them to [...]

I’m getting even more excited by this international trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

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Alan Johnston, the BBC’s correspondent in Gaza, was abducted on his way home on March 12th. He remains missing, almost six weeks on.

Alan Johnston has lived and worked in Gaza for three years, the only Western reporter permanently based in the often violent and lawless territory.

He has reported on all sides of the Palestinian struggle, [...]

Best mash-up ever:

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var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.youtube.com/v/JgrMtwhHsD0″, “paxman_movie”, “425″, “350″, “7″, [...]

Waterstone’s is 25 years old this year. Some might say the true Waterstone’s died some years ago, but that’s neither here nor there.

What’s interesting is that, in association with the Daily Telegraph, Waterstone’s is carrying out the Great British Literary Census to investigate what and how Brits read. It’s been done before, but hey.

One of [...]

When reinstalling stuff back onto my computer, I (naturally) downloaded and installed the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.3.

Version 2 onwards has built-in support for spell checking, proofing text you enter (here, for example) as you type it. Nifty.

But… the British English dictionary at the Firefox Add-ons directory claims not to be valid with any version [...]

It appears that I have not made a bloggy post in a week (apart from yesterday’s video – I started this post before that…). Oops. I don’t even have Rob’s excuse of, you know, working. I have been posting on Twitter, not that it’s much help…

Anyhoo, my desk seems to be rather a mess at [...]

More lazy blogging. Teaser trailer for the Bourne Ultimatum.

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var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.youtube.com/v/_GbvNL6s45U”, “bourne_movie”, “425″, “350″, “7″, “#ffffff”); so.write(“bourne”);

Also, I [...]