Month: March 2006

Movie Catch-Up #1: “Capote”

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I’ve been a bit lax on film reviewing lately, so before I go up north again and in order to celebrate the new blog I bring you Movie Catch-Up Week, in which I see the movies of the day and post up reviews. First up: “Capote“, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman single-handedly wins the viewer over to an intensely dislikable character.

Minor spoiler warning (I generally try not to, but here it’s necessary) after the break. Continue reading “Movie Catch-Up #1: “Capote”” →

Foobar2000 0.9 is out

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If you like your media players slim and heavily configurable, as I do, this is the player for you – now with added simplicity. Get it here.

The last.fm plugin, which I haven’t been able to use since I went to the 0.9 betas, has now been released for 0.9 as well, and works – get it from this forum thread for now, and share your music taste with the world.

Welcome to “The Hard Sell”

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This is the fourth incarnation of my personal blog, and the first hosted on wordpress.com.

I used to write my blog by hand, and it got annoying after a while. I persisted, though. Now, the disadvantages are becoming clear: I can’t do many of the things that bloggers everywhere take for granted, even with the automated Thingamablog solution I used for the previous blog. The most important, for me, was being able to post from places other than my broadband connection.

So I considered a number of options:

  • Upgrading to Blueyonder’s higher web tier and installing something – no MySQL, so no MT or WordPress hosted
  • Blogger by FTP – can’t FTP to my site from outside the provider’s space, and Blogger’s apparently quite unreliable lately…
  • Paying for a hosting provider – bandwidth limits a go-go

Thankfully, I discovered wordpress.com. Sure, I can only use one of their provided styles – and the site might change a bit until I find one I really like – but otherwise, it’s exactly what I needed. It provides easy access from anywhere, it moderates comments, it’s WordPress, it doesn’t force adverts on you and it’s free. So I went straight for it, and I must say I’m liking it more and more.

And the obvious question: what is “the hard sell”? Simply a comment on our society as a whole, something that everyone has been taken in by, me and you included. Also, it’s the title of the perennially redrafted novel I’ve been writing for a very long time. Hope you enjoy the blog.