by Aaron Parker on December 22, 2008
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It’s been a busy December, so it’s been a bit quiet around here and by the time you read this I’ll be on the slopes somewhere around Arinsal, so here’s my final post for the year. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Saturnalia or Yule or whatever it is you do or don’t celebrate at this time [...]
by Aaron Parker on September 26, 2008
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Because I haven’t been posting much I thought it might be time for a Friday funny instead. Dugie e-mailed me this one last night and it made be chuckle:
If these guys are the main act, I’m sure Bill and Ted must have been support.
OK, off topic time. We attended the Mighty Boosh Festival over the weekend, which was a heap of fun. The Boosh themselves were on form, and I enjoyed the Charlatans and Gary Numan immensely. However, the highlight of the support acts for me had to be Har Mar Superstar. This guy is the true heir [...]
by Aaron Parker on January 29, 2008
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I came across these couple of videos last night that tickled my fancy, so I had to share. First up is Dr. Quest and Race Bannon:
If you’re wondering why the Dr. and Race sleep in the same room, I’ve got no answers, but I suggest checking out the ‘Bannon Custody Battle’ episode of Harvey [...]
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by Aaron Parker on November 3, 2007
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Any review of a touch screen digital audio player or phone is going to inevitably compare to the iPhone/iPod touch, but touch interfaces are the way forward because they just make sense. So here’s my quick and dirty review of the Samsung P2 which turned up this morning.
First up – why go with the P2? [...]
No doubt you’ve seen lots of news recently about the attempted crackdown on the release of the HD-DVD encryption key (Google lists about 731000 sites listing the key so far.
I’ve got nothing new to add to this myself, but it was timely that this week I watched a talk by Cory Doctorow gave to Microsoft [...]
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by Aaron Parker on April 11, 2007
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I do enjoy Zach Braff’s work and I found this video very funny:
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