As babbleblog correctly reports, the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn) will be called Windows Vista.
My very first reaction was “Um, ewww”
Now that I’ve thought about it a little more, it’s not the worst thing Microsoft could have chosen. However, I would have much preferred either a version number or another set of two letters. XP always sounded good to me, Vista is too much like – another word – because it is! (Apparently years don’t work well because they date quickly.)
Still, nice to see some concentration on the user interface in Longhorn Vista!
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. 
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