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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Happy new year folks, I’m off to Brussels for a few days….

Talk about exotic destinations for your holidays. My friend Paul has just left Iraq after spending a few days there, including a soiree to Baghdad. He had to do a bit of fast talking to get across the border, but found people to be friendly and helpful on the whole. “Only when I saw 2…

If you are a regular visitor to bucketFountain, you may be aware the bulk of the links to other sites open in a new window. If you were to hover over the link prior to activating it, you will see the title tag displays “Link opens in a new window”. I use this technique so…

Anyone know of any sites that have large collections of the designs on snowboards? A pretend chocolate fish to anyone who can send me cool links. I found this, which has some funky old boards; and this one, which was the closest thing to what I was looking for, all though not exactly what I…

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. – Theodore Roosevelt