palin

re ACO

there's two stories i've heard - both could be true or false.

the first is that the film was never classified/refused classification, and hence couldn't be sold in australia. i worked in a video store for a few years, and we had an NTSC copy that was loaned out to our better customers. US import obvs.

the other story is that the ban that Kubrick himself placed on the film in the UK was carried over to Australia/the Commonwealth. this could also account for it never being released on video.

if anyone has any further info, i'd be interested to hear it.

another victory due to the power of the internets. huzzah.

just after posting this, i went over to bloglines to catch up on my feeds after 14 months of inactivity, and one of the feeds has updated to provide full content, with piccatures which was nice.

i don't really do google though. so i'll give google reader a skip. i have issues with google and their privacy and data retention policies. i just stick to search.

oh, and that tabbloid thing mentioned in the 30 RSS uses article looks pretty awesome. brilliant way to get all your daily info behind a work firewall without getting in trouble.

ive wanted to love RSS for so long, but i find it so painfully inadequate. maybe i'm doing it wrong? if i subscribe to something (say, a blog), i want the full post to come down to my reader so i don't have to visit the site. but generally, all i ever get is a sentence or two, usually in plain text.

i want my RSS reader to deliver the whole content, formatted, to the program or page where i manage my subscriptions. is that too much to ask? (i think it probably is) i don't even mind if they want to pop an ad in to it to make up for the lost revenue. i just want to maximise my web browsing while minimising my effort (and RAM use and proxy footprint if at work).

i just blew myself.

Very nice.

hippers - do it.

is the Hull honeymoon over?

just the one PC using the net? i'd try to isolate it and see if turning this PC off or anything makes your net usage drop down.

Open Task Manager and check which processes are running under your user account - google all of them, see if they should all be running.

Open regedit and check through the following key: HKEYLOCALMACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Currentversion>Run

Make sure all those programs are legit and there's nothing in there you don't want running (this is where programs put entries to autostart when windows starts).

once that's done, there are a bunch of tools you can run - Spybot which you have, Ad-aware, Hijack This etc etc. Make sure you boot in to Safe Mode when you run scans so that the software has a better chance of finding/removing it.

you have wireless at your place Modi?