News from Bree

Second Life Mesh Support

2011-08-26T03:07:00.005Z

A Brief Look at Second Life Mesh Support is a short explanation of why Second Lifers are so excited about Mesh. Up to now we've had Prims, polyhedrons which can be manipulated using an inworld editor, and 'sculpts', weird single prim objects that are created offworld. Now, finally, we can import 'mesh' objects of the kind used by other computer generated worlds. There are plenty of free editors

Fiber Optics arrive

2011-06-29T14:30:00.004Z

...six months after BT's original date, but welcome!In the UK this means a noise free line from the exchange to the cabinet at the end of the road. My old connection had a maximum of 3.5Mb due to the 3.5km distance, now I have a steady 4.5Mb. I could pay more for more, but that's enough for me.A plus is that the telephone is now crystal clear.

Virtual reality scripting

2011-05-05T02:17:00.003Z

Second Life has its own scripting language, without which nothing could move. Since SL is user created, anyone can write their own scripts using the built in editor and see them go wrong! Here is a library with some free samples.Below is one what I wrote myself, the controller for a magic bridge. Say the password and the bridge appears!// say password to activate prims in object// this script

Crowd numbers

2010-10-31T16:54:00.005Z

I just spent a happy half hour googling around on the subject of crowd numbers (yes, the recent rallies in Washington DC sparked this off).CBS News was slated by supporters of Glenn Beck for its estimate of his rally attendance (87,000), so they published the methodology and here's their estimate for the Rally for Sanity (215,000). Both have a 10% margin of error. Their estimate for the Obama

Saint Hill picket report 15th October 2010

2010-10-16T12:22:00.003Z

Mostly the UK OG tag on to Anonymous protests these days, but this one we set up ourselves being on a Friday: Three Old Guard and three Anonymous went to rain on Davey's big speech day at the IAS weekend.After a short stint in East Grinstead High Street we arrived outside Saint Hill about 14:30. Traffic into the grounds was better organised this year with no jams, otherwise things inside seemed

Farmville is eating the Internet

2010-10-08T11:04:00.006Z

The xkcd webcomic has a new edition out of its Map of Online Communities. Go take a look (the map enlarges if you click on it).What the map does well is to place otherwise unconnected Internet communities into perspective. For example, political bloggers who suppose the wired world reads their every flame may be chastened to find the map needs an enlarged inset to show them. In some regions one

Multiscreen

2010-07-14T14:09:00.005Z

The only problem with my big (37") TV screen that's been doubling up as a monitor is that its text display isn't good; using programs with unadjustable text size (such as Eve Online) causes serious eyestrain. So I looked around for a reasonable size monitor and came up with a 22" LG E2250. It's an 'LED' monitor, an improvement on pure LCD.Connecting via a DVI-D lead was no problem, Windows7 auto

Googlevanned

2010-03-21T18:55:00.004Z

Mr Google came round last year on a Tuesday afternoon, just after the binmen. My house is in the middle of the terrace.As you can see it's in a cul-de-sac at the bottom of a valley, the river is at the end of the path (click on pic for full size image).

My (second) life as a film extra

2010-02-03T14:16:00.003Z

A fortnight ago my Second Life avatar was an extra in a pub scene being shot for a PBS programme that aired last night, online now at Digital Nation.The programme was wide ranging, the Second Life segment had Philip Linden (creator of SL) showing off both his offices and then switched to a surreal shot of presenter Douglas Rushkoff wandering the corridors of an empty IBM office complex. The staff

Home Networking

2010-01-21T12:03:00.004Z

Just because I possibly could, I tried networking the old and new machines via the two sockets on the router.Vista recognised Win7 right away, and after some fiddling with permissions I found out how to add folders. Win7 however... it turned out the firewall I had on Vista was blocking access. There were passwords involved in this, but just like on TV shows guessing only took a few seconds.Win7

More glitches

2009-12-12T20:03:00.003Z

I have a couple of Win95 programs, a decade old but never bettered, that Windows 7 refused to Install - surprising, as Vista hadn't quibbled. Maybe it's a 64-bit problem. Anyway I transferred the folders over and they ran fine, complete with previous settings since Win95 programmes store those in their own folders.Webedit is a long lost HTML editor that has enough bells and whistles for me, and

Windows 7 arrives

2009-12-03T17:45:00.005Z

My Vista machine never really recovered from its overheating problem and recently lost contact with its graphics card, defaulting to the onboard graphics. So, an early Yuletide prezzie - a brand new Windows 7 desktop, 64-bit OS, with a Radeon 5750.Overall I'm happy - as promised it's all rather smoother than Vista. I'm slowly loading in stuff and so far the only program that didn't want to know

Winterfell pictures

2009-10-04T12:21:00.007Z

The Primgraph: Issue 8 - October 2009 has articles and pictures featuring my Second Life homeland, the Dark Victorian regions of Winterfell. The link is to the First Life online edition, though I read my copy sat on the bench in my castle garden.Er, not in this weather though - a photo I took last winter. Brrr! Click on the pictures and they will appear full size. The next one is of Port

Website Stats

2009-08-14T14:12:00.004Z

I use Statcounter.com, an excellent free service. It records stats for the most recent 500 visitors, and thus provides a rolling snapshot of Internet user preferences.BrowsersMSIE 55%Firefox 30%Safari 5%Chrome 4%MSIE is split between versions 6, 7 and 8. MSIE 6 is the bugbear of webpage designers due to its many faults that require workrounds, but it is now down to 11%.Resolution1280x1024 40%

Spot the religion

2009-08-06T17:43:00.004Z

Another contest folks! This is a graph of audience reaction to the latest adverts on American television from - let's say a certain well known bona fide religion that isn't a cult. You have guess at which moment in the advert the name of the religion was first given.

24 hours in limbo

2009-05-23T23:25:00.004Z

On Friday Mr Blue Screen overran my machine and I had to call in the repairman. Fortunately I got a good (though expensive!) one as it took several hours to get everything sorted. It turned out the CPU fan was not speeding up when it should have been, the CPU was overheating and that most likely killed some memory and corrupted Windows.So it was full reinstall time, after which Vista got down to

Let there be light

2009-05-07T03:51:00.002Z

This is really just an illustration of how the Internet just works.Houses have light switches. But can Second Life houses have light switches? I'm in the dark about this (ha ha), but let's try 'remote light switch second life' in Google.http://code.google.com/p/secondlifelivelyscripts/Here's not only the code I need but also two YouTube clips with the author's Avatar demonstrating how to do it.

Spot the Scientologist (2)

2009-04-10T23:43:00.002Z

Difficult this one isn't it? The photo was taken outside the Scientology shop in London during an Anonymous protest. It inspired one of my leafleting callouts: "Scientology - the unhappy religion!"

Infinite Complacency

2009-03-20T16:46:00.003Z

...you'll have to read the Infinite Complacency blog to find out where Jonny Jacobsen found the title! He's a journalist who has been observing Scientology from the sidelines for quite a while, and is now blogging his notes for what may eventually become yet another book on the cult.Here he concentrates on David Miscavige, the violent psychopath who has led Scientology since the 1980s.A recent

Google is watching you

2009-03-18T14:18:00.004Z

I wrote a satirical comment to a Youtube video yesterday with a :-) at the end to indicate humor and got the usual humorless replies such as "let me guess not a real person just a part of the scientology PR machine". Guessing is not necessary however - Google is your friend! My name is almost unique on the Internet, and a Search on it produced this (snipped for brevity):Results 1 - 10 of about

Do not do this in Real Life

2009-03-02T04:56:00.004Z

Oriella: OhLiz: whatwhat?Our neighbours have demolished their house againwhaaaaat????lolseriously? it's gone again??I'm standing in a very empty fieldi'm on my wayomgit is gonephewI thought I might need new glassesdon't get too happy...they might rebuildAdded: They didn't and abandoned their land. Our present neighbour is an actress currently appearing at the SL Globe Theatre, but not given to

I don't believe this

2009-02-12T18:55:00.005Z

This picture is from The Guardian 12 February 2009. The caption reads:"A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey family's home in January 2007 was not a meteorite after all. Scientists say it is a stainless steel alloy that does not occur in nature and is most likely orbital debris, perhaps remnants of a satellite, a rocket or some other spacecraft component".Now

Spot the Scientologist

2009-01-26T02:42:00.005Z

On Saturday a couple of dozen protesters visited the CoS 'secret' headquarters in rural California. Lawyer Graham Berry's interview with the local Fox News station was interrupted by the Scientology PR Director who handed the reporter contact details but answered a request for a comment with "No".Larger image, photo by cameraanonymous.Sorry, no prizes for spotting the Scientologist - the look on

Cosplay

2009-01-19T13:22:00.007Z

Second Life has several Rosen Maiden costumes, the Gothic Lolita Paradise shopping mall has all of them. Here is one of my avatars posing. They are not visible in the screenshot but I managed Suiseseki's dichromatic eyes by making green eyes in the normal way and then adding a red one as an attachment. Long red hair that spills over her dress would also have to be specially made, and I don't have

HD TV arrives

2009-01-16T19:01:00.002Z

It did several months ago actually.I live at the bottom of a narrow and twisty valley so terrestrial TV is and always will be poor, the nearest cable is several miles away and across the Thames so satellite is my only option, doubly so when analog is switched off in 2012 as digital doesn't do poor reception. That leaves me with satellite.Rupert Murdoch used to have a monopoly on this with Sky TV,

Second Life

2008-08-12T20:28:00.002Z

I have one. Can't think why I haven't blogged this before!I had a brief look at SL several years back, but the interface was clunky and I wasn't enthused enough to continue. A few months ago I tried again, found it much improved, and as soon as I got beyond the 'new player experience' I was hooked.I'll assume you've at least read the media accounts of Second Life, which indicate that it is

Anonymous terrorism

2008-07-30T12:59:00.003Z

My Anonymous friends have just notched up their sixth monthly worldwide protest against the Church of Scientology, and the cult still hasn't a clue about how to stop them. In most locations the cult seems to have retreated inside its buildings, stuck its fingers in its ears and pretended nothing is happening, which would have been a sensible reaction from the start if the leader of Scientology

ISP, broadband update

2008-07-30T12:12:00.004Z

My ISP (Orange) like most large mass market ones offer webspace as part of their package. However as they don't actually make any money out of personal websites their wonks keep trying to correct this. Their first attempt was an ad banner, easily circumvented by linking direct to index.html. Their latest is to delete my website, scrap FTP access and tell me to rebuild from scratch using a crap

Stealth upgrading

2008-03-24T13:15:00.004Z

Did I mention that the 2006 attempt to upgrade my broadband speed from 1Mb to 2Mb failed? The line was dropping too often so Silent Fred, the BT engineer who doesn't tell you anything, reset it back to 1MB.Easter Sunday, with no warning, my connection went up to 2Mb again and this time it's holding steady without a single dropout. I can only suppose there's been an upgrade somewhere along the

We live in interesting times

2008-03-23T15:13:00.003Z

This is the title of an entry in another guy's weblog. Mr G Allen is he says just an ordinary American who heard about a local protest, went along to take photographs and find out what was all about.Later he received a legal letter saying he was a member of the protesting group. The letter accused the group of illegal activity such as making bomb threats and demanded that 'his' organisation stop

Ides of March

2008-03-17T16:14:00.002Z

The second outing for the Anonymous worldwide pickets against the happy fun cult was just as successful as the first it seems, plus better organised and larger. I attended at London as previously, and whilst waiting for Anonymous to arrive I and a suppressive friend popped into a sandwich bar for sustenance. We were soon joined to our amusement by a spy from the Org a couple of doors away - so

Joanna on webcam

2008-02-21T07:53:00.003Z

Back in June I started blogging about a remarkable series of Internet pages and blogs concerning the alternate reality of Joanna. At the time I had assumed that she could not possibly be real, that 'Joanna' was a persona devised for purposes unknown that happened by chance to include Scientology, history, the occult, conspiracy theory and other interests of mine. Was this an extended joke, an

Judgement Day

2008-02-10T21:05:00.000Z

So I'm sitting trying to wipe this grin off my face.It's crunch day for Anonymous. Could they bring their merry band of virtual personas out of the Matrix, down the Internets and into the Real World? I say 'is' because since we don't live on Discworld results from California are not in yet, but first reports look good.I arrived at the London Dianetics and Scientology Improvement Centre at around

There can be only one doll

2008-02-01T02:11:00.000Z

Rozen Maiden is a Japanese TV anime series that ran for two seasons 2004/5 plus a 2006 Christmas special. It was popular there but will never be shown in the UK, but then no Japanese anime series of this kind will be shown outside Japan.Why not? It's a cultural difference. Rozen Maiden is made for teenagers not children. The central (human) characters are all teenagers, and the human plotlines

Hackers destroy Scientology

2008-01-31T14:31:00.000Z

Well not as such, but it's been an interesting couple of weeks.Jan 15th, Andrew Morton's much heralded unauthorised (by a long way) biography of Tom Cruise was published. It revealed two shocking facts - Tom was heterosexual and he was a Scientologist. Not many people knew that.So Tom isn't suing. Being caught lying about having been cured of dyslexia by his religion is it seems a small price to

Spam

2007-11-15T19:04:00.000Z

A survey of the spam situation on my main Email address:Orange, my ISP, stores Email in a webmail system before I collect it with my regular Email program, Thunderbird. It has an optional spam filter. Yesterday there were 7644 Emails in its 7 day Junk folder, 45/hour. About 3/hour get through.There are very few false positives, mostly receipts for shopping online. Orange also seems to use an IP

Halloween updates

2007-10-26T18:31:00.001Z

In a 26 October 2006 post I noted that an AVG anti-virus program update had fixed some Email problems. It just happened again! Spooky...The latest AVG update (7.5.503) appears to have not only restored the Email scanner without disabling PGP but also cured the problem I was having with not being able to send Emails via my ISP's server, though weirdly the Google Gmail server was fine. I've had my

Picket

2007-09-08T14:25:00.000Z

This Orange Multi Media Message was sent wirefree from an Orange MMS phone.Blogged from the pub! Back home, here's another - Gingernut modelling an XL Clambake shirt.Reports elsewhere, but it was an uneventful event.

Hello world

2007-08-28T00:05:00.000Z

...or blog anyway.Having acquired a camera/phone/txt/USB/blog/Email thing, I spend a happy weekend persuading it to do so, acquiring another pageful of passwords, secret codes and stuff along the way.Facebook cleverly cross referenced my mobile number which it knew with the number of the phone that was calling it and linked up without needing confirmation. Clever but spooky as it didn't tell me

False positive

2007-08-23T11:34:00.000Z

For the first time in Vista, AVG found a virus this week. Or... it was a trojan in the DLL and EXE for a popular install program, so I had several copies scattered in Temp folders going back six months to the modem driver install. That seemed unlikely.There are several online virus checkers for suspicious files. I tried a couple and the files came up clean, so this was an AVG only alert.I typed

Medieval II - Total War (2)

2007-08-21T14:49:00.001Z

The default shortcut provided goes to Launcher.exe, a small program that accesses the Internet to provide details of updates and mods. Unfortunately Launcher on Vista takes 50% of CPU doing absolutely nothing and the main program fails to unload it, even when exited. It has to be turned off using Task Manager.The solution is to create a shortcut to medieval2.exe.Creative's sound driver for Vista

Another rabbit hole

2007-08-20T23:30:00.000Z

A favorite website of the anti-Scientology crowd is Religious Freedom Watch (RFW), a 'Dead Agent' website which vilifies enemies of the Church of Scientology. It is so nasty and over the top that only crazy culties could imagine that anyone aside from themselves would believe it.This month a blog appeared here called joelphillipsreligiousfreedomwatch. It purports to be written by Joel Philips,

More fun in space

2007-08-08T01:14:00.000Z

My carebear trader character is leaving a totally safe space station in her cargo ship. But nowhere is safe in Eve...Oriella undocks, a small ship warps in and blinks red at her[ 2007.05.06 12:36:44 ] (notify) ACiD360: You have foolishly engaged in criminal activity within sight of sentry guns and must suffer the consequences.[ 2007.05.06 12:36:46 ] (notify) ACiD360's Ishtar has started trying to

Another Joanna blog

2007-07-21T02:12:00.000Z

Documentary video vlogger talent appears to be on a networking MySpace lookalike called Ning. It has three members who may not be real, but the fourth is Joanna. She has several posts which seem to lie chronologically between the original set and Deconstructing Judas, June 3-14th. They talk of making videos about her obsessions.

Correction: more veils

2007-07-06T00:12:00.000Z

One early Joanna blog I missed ishttp://markrowberryfreakout.blogspot.comThere are others listed athttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914820102062616373but they are presently inaccessible.

More from beyond the veil

2007-07-03T15:23:00.000Z

Deconstructing Judas is a second blog from the author of Babble's evil twin, see earlier entry.The supposed author now believes Judas to have been an earlier incarnation of L Ron Hubbard, whereas her ex or possibly fantasy lover was Adam, St John the Evangelist and Ludwig II of Bavaria.I remain fascinated and puzzled. Who else could possibly be reading these blogs? What are their purpose? Is this

Safari for Windows

2007-06-16T13:24:00.000Z

Apple’s Safari for Windows wins first battle in browser warMicrosoft Windows users are rapidly downloading Apple’s Safari Internet browser, with more than 1 million downloads in the last 48 hours. But will this be enough to compete against Internet Explorer and Firefox?So I did too, but because that will enable me to check webpages I've written with Safari which is the most used browser on Apple

Networking

2007-06-12T23:46:00.000Z

"You should be on Facebook", The Guardian said.So after an hour wrestling with yet another bloggy interface I am, but no you can't see it unless you too have a Facebook page and we are friends. That's how networking works. You can see the Photo Album bit of it though, with some annotated picket pictures.In a narcissistic piece of programming you can also get your blog to copy onto Facebook

Medieval II - Total War

2007-06-12T23:24:00.000Z

I buy computer games rarely since I prefer open ended long lasting ones, just Civ IV and Zoo Tycoon 2 recently. However the local wargames group said it was best thing since Attila the Hun...Vista note: it's fine. It guessed my optimum settings wrong and the sound was stuttering, but I knew what that was - as previously noted the Creative audio driver doesn't like pushy graphics. Dropping quality

XENU IS LOOSE!

2007-06-08T17:46:00.000Z

The Edinburgh Fringe will include a show from Collapsible Theatre:Xenu is Loose is a new satirical Sci-Fi Musical based on the beliefs of the Cult of Scientology.Jennifer, a young, beautiful high-school student finds her life transformed when she discovers the purifying power of L Ron. Hubbard's Scientology. But when Xenu, Alien Overlord and timeless nemesis of all that is good, escapes his

Babbles has an evil twin

2007-06-06T20:30:00.000Z

Barbara 'Babbles' Schwarz is alt.religion.scientology's mad baglady:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_SchwarzYes, I know the Wikipedia article looks like fiction, but it's real.Now we have a parody blog, written in an alternate universe by 'Joanna': http://henleyonthames2001.blogspot.com/This is wonderful stuff. 'Joanna' is fixated on 'Mark Rowberry', which is an amalgam of two well known

YouTube - Babylon 5: lost tales

2007-06-02T23:15:00.000Z

OMG! OMG! It's a trailer!!!YouTube - Babylon 5: lost talesLost Tales on Wikipedia.First Day filmingMore on set

Desynchronized

2007-05-27T19:55:00.000Z

I forgot to blog this, it actually happened last month.After several lengthy cutouts my broadband connection finally went down altogether. The modem diagnostics program said I was 'desynchronized'. So I phoned the Orange call centre, and after the usual long list of irrelevant questions we came to 'do test'."The test says your connection is desynchonised'.[Yes, that's what I said half an hour ago

Did we not kill them?

2007-05-22T21:47:00.000Z

How do I introduce this one? It's a conversation overheard on a chat channel within Eve, my online game. In a star system in a distant galaxy two spaceship pilots are in conversation, unaware that I'm listening... KtB > Hey sam :)sammual > hye manKtB > How ya doingsammual > great uKtB > not bad not bad mansammual > coolKtB > Right, when i say :)sammual > kkKtB > rdy?sammual > yeKtB > hardeners

1 second of fame

2007-05-16T02:49:00.000Z

Yes, I was there on the Monday 14th edition of Panorama. Near the end, the guy in the red anorak and placard in Tottenham Court Road picketing the Scientologists. And I've spent the past two days trying to keep a webpage up to date with the storm that resulted which shows no signs of dying down.It was worth it though. To be accused of being 'orchestrated' by the BBC was hilarious.digg_skin = '

YouTube - Scientology Yellow Tent

2007-04-29T13:23:00.000Z

YouTube - Scientology PackageThis is an excellent Video from Josh M Peterson in which he visits the Volunteer Minister Yellow Tent that tours around the world advertising the Church of Scientology.

Vista Aero

2007-04-13T23:21:00.000Z

Aero is a fancy GUI for Windows that is optional for Vista. Switching it off seems to have cured several persistent bugs for me, as well as freeing up a chunk of memory.The Creative Audigy soundcard had a stutter that became continuous when running DirectX in a window. It's gone.Firefox had a nasty though infrequent memory leak that became a disk rattling virtual memory fight after a few seconds.

Vista modems

2007-03-22T21:21:00.000Z

The saga continues...I have an old 'green frog' Speedtouch ADSL modem that is not going to have Vista drivers as part of the 'throw away your old junk, buy our new junk' drive. So I bought a cheap Zoom ADSL and downloaded their just out of Beta Vista driver. The install notes were long and if followed exactly worked.Except that the line kept dropping. I tried this and that and the other, until

Fried!

2007-03-14T22:58:00.000Z

My power supply fried my motherboard. This was a sign from God, or possibly Bill Gates. I bought a Vista PC (Athlon Dual 3800, Nvidia 7300).It's been a fun week. Vista is still in Gamma and I had some retro Blue Screens of Death and one total panic - I mean Vista panicked and wanted to System Restore, but I knew all it needed was a reboot.Nvidia has a way to go. The current driver is slow, and

Xenu Day International!

2007-02-01T16:23:00.000Z

Xenu Day International is on Saturday March 10th, 2007.Are you a Xenu sympathizer? A drunk? An irate ex-scientologist? A freezoner? An ElRon apologist? A cacophonist? A Santarchist? A trouble maker?Then XENU DAY Is just the event YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!In the spirit of the Cacophony Society and Santarchy, a fun new yearly bar crawl and troublemaking event is planned for L RON HUBBARD'S birthday.

iframe (2)

2007-01-25T19:04:00.000Z

Firefox was happy with OBJECT menus, MSIE was not - it ignored target="_top" and thought I wanted to replace the menu with the page. Fortunately it did accept targetting with IFRAME.And the really annoying bug in MSIE that keeps warning me about unsafe Javascript that becomes safe when uploaded is driving me nuts.

iframe, scrollbars and mozilla

2007-01-13T05:52:00.000Z

I wanted to embed a menu on all the pages of a website so I wouldn't have to change every instance of it. This can be done using IFRAME, but not content with that I wondered if it could be done with OBJECT since strict HTML doesn't have IFRAME.It turned out to be possible:The size of the object could be set in the website's Style Sheet. The problem then became the

A very obscure bug

2007-01-10T19:21:00.000Z

I found that bit of javascript that creates snow falling down the screen. Actually I found two versions, one had the snowflakes as tiny GIFs, the other as ASCII stars. Too late for this Xmas, but next year I'll be annoying people with them (they eat CPU time).Except that the ASCII version didn't work in Firefox. After steadily cutting out the usual suspects - other javascript for example - the

Picket video

2006-12-13T13:55:00.000Z

This is a link to a flash video of a Scientology picket in London last Saturday:http://xenutv.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/the-internet-is-scientologys-worst-nightmare/John in full rant, me telling an entheta story and at the end our cameralady being politely asked to leave.

My two days on the help lines

2006-11-17T13:43:00.000Z

I asked my ISP if it was possible to upgrade my Broadband connection. I'm a long way from my local Exchange, so I wasn't surprised to get an Email back saying it wasn't possible yet.Two days ago, I got a 'wrong Username or Password' message. In successive phone calls, we established thatThe connection was OK.My account was still active.Then I noticed that my diagnostic program was saying I was

Fixed

2006-10-31T20:18:00.000Z

My virus checker is AVG, my secret decoder ring is PGP. PGP 9.0 uses the same Email intercept method as AVG, so they weren't compatible. Until...AVG popped up to tell me that it's Email checking component wasn't running. Yes, I knew, I'd turned it off. So why was it telling me? Because the daily AVG update had updated it?I turned it on, and sent myself an encrypted message. It worked...and then I

Exploder 7

2006-10-20T11:25:00.000Z

It's happy day, testing out Internet Explorer 7 to see what unexpected things it's done to webpages...It defaults to Medium Font size instead of Smaller at last - excellent! People will stop complaining about being unable to read the text, and thousands of websites that only look good in 'smaller' will be screwed.It defaults to Clear Type! I guess this makes sense with CRTs being displaced by

Discworld Cake

2006-10-08T17:13:00.001Z

This is just so cool.Discworld Cake

Fighting good roads and fair weather

2006-10-03T10:23:00.000Z

Barbara Graham just wrote this article about her experiences as a critic of the Scientology cult. If you still think this is a Church, read it. Churches don't lie to the police, harass their opponents' relatives or send private detectives to follow their friends' cars.

YouTube: scientology shorts

2006-09-04T10:13:00.000Z

YouTube - The Friend of Mankind (1/4)This link leads to a selection of short videos poking fun at the cult of Scientology.YouTube also has a series of official videos published by the Cult of Scientology such as the Anatomy of the Human Mind course. These will give you a good insight into some of scientology's pseudoscientific beliefs.

Just say no to Scientology

2006-08-27T00:50:00.000Z

Blogzilla: Just say no to ScientologySo there I was picketing the cult of Scientology in London when a blogger took our photograph! And posted it before we'd posted our picket reports! Is there no escaping from these guys?It was an irritating picket, we'd booked the main Org building in a side street and the police wouldn't let us move to the main road (Tottenham Court Road) where our cult

Currin Trading

2006-07-04T17:35:00.000Z

Eve on-line (link on left) is my current MMORPG and it's pretty good, or so says mmorpg.com where it's currently rated at #1. It's an SF game in which the characters are spaceship pilots, flying around mining, trading and shooting at each other. Anyone who remembers the legendary game 'Elite' will be immediately at home in the Eve universe.My character happens to be a Trader, hauling all manner

Accidental links

2006-06-25T16:31:00.000Z

A page on my website had an image called tardis.gif. It comes up if you search Google Images for 'tardis' and since all the other pictures are photos of the Doctor's travelling machine and mine is a floor plan (albeit of the Master's Tardis and entirely non-canon) it gets hits. With the new Dr Who BBC series, lots of hits.The hits are distorting my Stats Counters, so I changed the name. Now I

First!

2006-06-25T09:18:00.000Z

This blog will be referring to my website 'News from Bree' and my other Internet activities. I do have a life afk as well!