Tuesday, 5 May 2009 – 15:49 EDT
A number of my friends have this and seem to be pleased. U-verse is vDSL — even though when I ordered it they told me it was FibreOptic — and has speeds up to 18MBPS. It's not been available in my neighbourhood until this month, though the product itself is a few years old. Normally [...]
Wednesday, 4 March 2009 – 17:22 EST
Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake IE6 in market share. (Note this doesn't even include lumping in FF2 so it's a straight up comparison). The open source browser climbed to 24 percent of users in February while IE6 dipped to just over 22.6 percent, making Firefox the second most popular [...]
Wednesday, 6 September 2006 – 20:55 EDT
In another post, I reviewed the play Billy Elliot (London) which has been widely regarded as the best British Musical Ever.
Well, it's finally coming to the United States. As much as I personally loved this play, I'm not sure it's a good thing. I understood the play, I was able to understand the language all [...]
Saturday, 21 January 2006 – 19:23 EST
I originally saw this play on 2 August 2005, and I have been trying to find my original review since then, but it seems to have gone AWOL along with my entire list archive for that trip (and also my review of the Proms, etc). So for this review, I'm going to have to skip [...]
Sunday, 22 April 2001 – 11:53 EDT
This is a retro-post. I put this online 24 December 2005 using the date it was originally sent out.
Yesterday afternoon I saw "Billy Elliot" — I had mixed feelings about seeing it but had always been curious. To be sure, it did not turn out to be the movie I expected. However I can certainly [...]