Writing by aj@lecraic on Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 5:26 pm
From this Saturday’s Irish Times.
I know, it’s the opposite of what they are talking about – but still, I don’t think their last price increase was justified.
But they are spot on regarding the price differential. Sad thing is, there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it. Unless someone like the Consumers Association spent a bunch of money on providing free stickers that shoppers could start sticking to UK multiples shop windows as a protest.
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Writing by aj@lecraic on Sunday, 30 of March , 2008 at 2:20 pm
Ahhh, welcome back Anna. Every guy’s favourite TV lesbian is making a triumphant return to British TV screens on April 12th, when ITV screen the hit show Pushing Daisies. Not surprisingly she’s isn’t over the moon with the constant Brookside references. Interviewed in the Independent this weekend she says:
“When I’m 90 and have done 97 movies and 22 plays, they’ll still call me ‘Brookside’s Anna Friel’! Can I just be plain Anna Friel now, please”
She can of course, but there’s nothing plain about her because:
“at the age of 31, she could easily pass for 10 years younger… when we meet in the chintzy bar of a central London hotel, heads turn immediately towards her. I notice the conversation at the next table grinds to a halt as the business executives – male and female – strain to get a closer look at my companion’s pulchritude.”
I might give it a watch and see what all the fuss is about, and to see the wonderfulness of Anna Friel of course.
Oh, and pulchritude means “physical beauty; comeliness” – I had to look it up. If you didn’t need to, I’m quite sure you won’t be interested in watching Pushing Daisies. Shuffle off to BBC4 or something – there’s bound to be something far more cerebral on there instead.
Writing by aj@lecraic on Saturday, 29 of March , 2008 at 6:51 pm
UPDATE : Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and Zemanta doesn’t work with this version of Wordpress. WP 2.5 was only released yesterday though.
UPDATE 2: Zemanta have just left a comment that they are working on the 2.5 issue and they are looking at the image issue also. Very impressed with their taking time to reply to various blog posts all over d’interweb about their software.
UPDATE 3: Zemanta now works with Wordpress 2.5 - just a few little glitches to work out, but amazed that a rep from Zemanta again popped back to this post with an update. There’s dedication!
Zemanta – get to know this Firefox plugin, which is one of the most useful plugins for Firefox that I have come across. Only recently released, this add on will work:
“with whichever blogging platform you are using and as you write suggest contextually relevant pictures, links and articles that you can use to enhance your post with.”
The blogging platforms supported at the moment are Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com and self hosted Wordpress installs of Version 2.0 or greater.
Once you have installed the add on in Firefox just login to your blog admin panel and go to create a post. You will notice a new panel showing the Zemanta interface. Here is what it looks like on a self hosted Wordpress blog, like this one is.
As you type, Zemanta will automatically suggest photographs and links to other articles that you can add to your post. It also creates links to specific words in the post and as if that wasn’t enough, you get tag suggestions as well. All of these can be added to your post with a simple click.
The majority of the links you see in this post were added in about 10 seconds with a few clicks.
The Gallery is a bit restrictive though as it only returns 6 possible results. If Zemanta got together with Jazz Biscuit and integrated his excellent creative commons image search tool into Zemanta, then I think Zemanta would have it all.
Stumbled via the organ grinder who has a selection of classic corpsing moments – with my personal favourite of an MP who finds the phrase “short sea shipping” highly amusing and no doubt very embarassing for him at the time.
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