Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King As long as Father O’Ryan’s Sunday sermon and about as interesting. I liked the battle scenes and settings. The thing that bugged me the most was that I felt that my emotions were being manipulated throughout the film. However, I am going to see it…

I recently finished ‘Letters to a young contrarian’ by Christopher Hitchens which is a shining example of great writing. I also slogged through the very short ‘Communist Manifesto’ by Marx and Engels. Hard work, but nice to have on the shelf as a reference. I was surprised to find myself wondering if it is an…

I’ve installed FeedDemon for testing puposes. A lovely bit of work, but I’m not sure that I’d want to pay for it.

And so is bucketFountain. I’ve done some work over the weekend, tidied up the very messy backend of the application, gotten most of the pages to validate, and cleaned up the interface a little. I’ve nearly got an RSS feed on the site too, just gotta sort out an issue with the pass thru html…

Here’s a list of (most of) the books I read during 2003: Inventing a Nation – Gore Vidal The Trial of Henry Kissinger – Christopher Hitchens 911 – Noam Chomsky Chomsky and Globalisation – Jeremy Fox Profit Over People – Noam Chomsky Pirates and Emperors – Noam Chomsky The Last Empire – Gore Vidal Globalization…