Articles posted on October 7th, 2003

Remue.net persiste et signe

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 11:27 pm

Je reçois depuis un certain temps déjà par courrier électronique les messages d’actualité littéraire du site Remue.net. Je me suis déjà plaint à plusieurs reprises auprès des responsables du site des mauvais choix concernant le format de ces messages électroniques. J’ai réussi, à un moment, à les convaincre de faire un effort pour éviter autant […]

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Pete Gill on Sol Campbell’s hearing

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 10:42 pm

Pete Gill at Football365.com has a decent column on Sol Campbell’s forthcoming hearing with the Football Association regarding the Community Shield incident: The context is important because it is unlikely, based on his previous decisions, that referee Steve Bennett would have done anything more than pass on a few words of warning if he had […]

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Macromedia web site in Safari: slick looking, but…

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 6:02 pm

I wanted to visit the Macromedia site today… I hadn’t done so in a while. This is what I get when trying to use the site in Safari: Not very pretty! I suppose it might be a bug in Safari… except that the only site that gives me these strange artifacts is the Macromedia site. […]

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Aladdin StuffIt Deluxe 8 and kernel extensions

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 5:51 pm

Aladdin is being roundly chastised for using a kernel extension (and thereby risking the stability of the entire Mac OS X system) to implement a “new” feature where simply renaming a file with a “.sit”, “.zip”, etc. extension causes StuffIt Deluxe to compress the file. What few people mention, however, is that the whole controversy […]

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Controversy in the EPL

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 5:08 pm

After the big shock of Chelsea’s Russian makeover, now there is news that BSkyB, the pay-TV giant, has sold its 9.9% stake in Manchester United, and there are fresh rumours of a possible takeover bid for the club. We are talking about very big money here. While it is good news that BSkyB has sold […]

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Women’s World Cup Semi-Finals: Sweden 2 – Canada 1

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 4:40 pm

For about 10 minutes after opening the score in the second half, the Canadians must have thought that the ultimate dream of reaching the final was theirs. In truth, they were rather fortunate to be ahead, HAVING been dominated by Sweden for the most part. The Kara Lang free kick was a powerful shot, but […]

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Camino and non-standard text input

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 • 4:40 pm

I still use Camino for a number of web-related tasks, including posting new blog entries. (Safari has a tendency to crash after a while when I use it to access the pMachine control panel. Apple say that they are aware of the issue…) But I really don’t like the fact that text input in web […]

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