Thanks to Elliott Back for this temporary solution while the Gravatar site has domain problems (it expired).
In NP_Gravatar.php, find
$this->createOption(‘gravatarURL’,’Gravatar server’,’select’,’wide.gravatar.com’,’Default|wide.gravatar.com|Alternative
|www.gravatar.com’);
and change to
$this->createOption(‘gravatarURL’,’Gravatar server’,’select’,’wide.gravatar.com’,’Default|wide.gravatar.com|Alternative
|www.gravatar.com|DNS|64.124.231.223′);
then reinstall the plugin and select ‘DNS’ as your option.
Thursday at Eton began with another set of double lessons – starting with History which was my favourite of the week. We looked at Kennan’s “long telegram”, Novikov’s report and some lovely Pravda articles about Stalin (“strong, beautiful, wise and marvellous”) and I concluded that, basically, the Cold War happened because everyone was being a bunch of babies and if they had just sat down and agreed to be social democrats the whole thing would never have happened.
Then we had double Maths consisting of centroids and circumcircles and what-not. And look – there’s Hiten again!
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Let’s get this straight. Batman Begins is a formulaic film with no shades of grey. Characters are either totally good, or really really bad. There’s a love interest in the form of the lovely Katie Holmes, a car chase, a monorail and a cute child who stands there for a while looking scared. And martial arts. And the obvious sequel set-ups. It’s Hollywood!
However, Batman Begins is still a great film. Not deep, but well made, well directed, well acted blockbuster that continues the good run of comic-book inspired films we’ve had recently, most notable Spiderman. It’s just great fun! And believe me, I saw Batman and Robin.
Much better than War of the Worlds plot-wise too. Go see.
Just for the record – just finished Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. Still no spoilers allowed on this site though, for the moment. 
It’s odd – I went away for a week after complaining that “nothing much was happening” news wise to write about. That week, the G8 summit hugely increased aid to Africa, London won the Olympic bid beating favourites Paris, and Britain was rocked by the first suicide bombings ever on its soil.
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Linda Moffitt on Colombia: “Such a sweet memory of the four of you meeting up in Colombia!” Dec 2, 07:42
