Enoch Powell and Dan Brown

Chase Me Ladies once again destroys my composure, causing a guffaw to escape.

Speaking of Enoch Powell, a hairdresser once asked him how he wanted his hair cut. "In silence," he said. I would have shaved a hole in the top of his head to teach him a lesson, the miserable old anus.

He came to my university once to make a speech about terrorism, back in the days when he was still alive. Can't remember if he was for or against.

And as a bookseller, I must say that I agree entirely with Simon Brunning in his summary of The Da Vinci Code:

It reads like Jeffrey Archer's take on Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

There's a slightly worrying comment on that page, too, where someone named Katherine asserts that, despite her 2 maths A-levels (same as me, I would assume), she had never heard of the Fibonacci progression until reading The Da Vinci Code.

If you want to stare agape at a screen, I would suggest trying to find Dan Brown's sales figures.

Oh, and while on the subject of rants; there's a marvellous piece in the Guardian that takes the piss out of the Mail-reading, star-sign-loving imbeciles that crowd around us.

Posted at 2005-01-05 10:50:08 by Richard • Link to Enoch Powell and D…
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Grand Theft Reality

cityofsound once again exceeds expectations, providing wonderful commentary on the real, the imagined, and the crossover of the two in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Worth a read, Anthony!

Posted at 2005-01-05 10:24:50 by Richard • Link to Grand Theft Realit…
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Fixed!

That seems to have done it… sticking a shift from server time to GMT in one of the filters, and adding in a conditional to ensure that dates get printed for odd, solitary entries.

I really ought to switch from PHP + text files to a Lisp + Elephant solution. Much nicer.

Posted at 2005-01-05 02:50:57 by Richard • Link to Fixed!
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An unintentional blog feature

When I make a post in the early hours of the morning (such as this one), it appears in my archive list under the literal day (26th), but the content appears under the previous day. Furthermore, it doesn't show a date on the page for the entry.

Very confusing. I think it's something to do with the fact that the server isn't on GMT, so there's a date conversion going on. I'll dig into it.

Posted at 2005-01-05 02:07:15 by Richard • Link to An unintentional b…
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