April 23, 2010 by Screenbeard
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Name: Joshua Nunn
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The decisions Google makes don’t normally annoy me, except in small geeky ways that most people would pfft at, and you may well pfft at me now but they are seriously annoying me now.
On one hand we have the recent integration of Buzz into Gmail and Google Reader. The upshot being:
- You cannot disable Buzz without disabling your carefully tended Google Profile.
- Because you cannot disable Buzz, you end up slowly accruing followers — you could ignore them, but you start to look like an ass.
- So you follow back and this breaks Google Reader.
- So the choice is between using Google Reader OR Google Buzz to read content from others. Google Buzz is so tightly integrated with Google Reader that I can only choose one or the other. There is no way I can see to effectively and simply use both at the same time.
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April 6, 2010 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
There are a number of WordPress plugins I use to do various bits and bobs around the Geekorium. The Skribit tab and the Blogroll at the side are both produced with plugins for example. But there are some plugins that you never really “see” as such — they do their work silently behind the scenes, and most of them are primarily there to make my life easier. If you run a WordPress site, you might be interested too. These are the plugins I have both here and on
First Waves because they’re just so damn useful. Below is an introduction to each, and my explaination for why I use them:
After The Deadline
Adds a contextual spell, style, and grammar checker to WordPress. Write better and spend less time editing. Raphael Mudge
This plugin adds options to your profile page to check for grammar and spelling errors. Chrome usually picks up most spelling errors anyway, but this is great for picking up my awful grammatical errors. I use a lot of Passive Voice for example, and this highlights it.
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April 5, 2010 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Unfortunately I have two movies that spring to mind when I was given this suggestion:
Review the worst movie you’ve seen this year.
The first is The Ugly Truth with Whatserface and That Bloke who always seem to be in these awful movies. Normally I would have steered clear of something like this, but occasionally I have to watch a romantic comedy so that my wife will keep watching SciFi with me.
BlehWhat a dreadful movie. I’m not sure there’s much to be said beyond that.
The second was Surrogates with Bruce Willis. I had heard it wasn’t fantastic, but the idea behind it intrigued me: what if everyone lived their lives virtually through robot simulacrum?
Bruce Willis: Bored.The movie’s conceit is ridiculous in execution though, with almost the entire world having chosen to live in little pods that feed sensory input from their virtual bodies back to them. I cannot imagine anyone but the elite and a select few ever going for it. The movie world is one where doctors no longer espouse the benefits of sunlight or fresh air, where muscles don’t atrophy from under-use, and the technology is so good that no one misses reality.
Except Bruce Willis of course.
He has that same sort of bemused look he has in every film. Except in this one it doesn’t suit. I also recently re-watched 12 Monkeys and the man can act, but when the script is bad, he just spends the entire film with a little half-smirk like he knows something the director doesn’t. Well his character hates his virtual life for some reason. He’s a cop put on the trail of a man with technology to kill someone through the surrogate. There’s all sorts of interesting questions that this raises, but none of them are really explored or adequately covered.
Which is the essence of this film really. The premise is interesting, but the execution is flawed. About half way in the movie starts showing all its cards until there are no surprises by the end. None of the characters are “real”, so you don’t care about them in any way. The technology is so magical you just cannot believe any of it.
The final indication that this was not a good film came about 2 minutes after Bruce Willis saved the entire planet and my wife woke up. Oh how I envied her.
Cheers Zombie_Plan. Hope it was good for you too…
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October 16, 2009 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
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About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
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