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[15:02] Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter - * (1/5)
Date: 6/3/05 at 11:02PM
I just watched Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. There's not really a lot to say but I do wonder how films like this would ever have "made it" without the power of the internet.
It's a Canadian effort, released in 2001 after two years of weekend shooting - I'd like to say "impressive" but I'm not sure it is.
See it for the kudos, I suspect not many people will be able to say they've endured it all.
[06:55] Bread in the UK
Date: 6/3/05 at 2:55PM
I haven't worked it out yet but bread in the UK, or here in London anyway, DOES NOT GO STALE!!!! I've had a loaf of bread I bought on Wednesday (three days ago now) sitting half-eaten under my bed (don't ask). I pulled it out for lunch today and it was fine. If I heated it up so it was warm and steaming you'd swear it was freshly baked.
I've decided I'm not going to eat it anymore until I find out why. If only I had a mass spectrometer and any idea of how to use it.
UPDATE: I've been thinking about this and I suspected that humidity may have something to do with it - more moisture in the air leads to the bread sucking it up and staying nice and squishy. Going off the BBC WeatherChannel site we have London and we have CanberraSydney.
I'm going off the relative humidity figures (relative humidity being "...expressed in percent, of the amount of atmospheric moisture present relative to the amount that would be present if the air were saturated.") and, for those who couldn't be bothered clicking, the June figures for London are 70 during the day and 58 at night. The same for Sydney (can't get Canberra on there, why would you anyway, it's only the CAPITAL CITY) is 77 daytime and 62 at night. This does not support my theory, nor does it support the average conception of English weather. It's a lot more humid in Australia (Canberra/Sydney) than London and I am rather surprised!
UPDATE II: I got figures for Canberra off BoM and they're even worse (for my theory) than the Sydney ones, daytime of 85 and evening 60!
UPDATE III: I'm back on the ingredient theme again. The packaging for my piece of, for want of a better name, "bread" says Bake 'n Bite - a little bit of internet trawling reveals The Bake 'n Bite Website. These guys seem to be a brand name extension of Country Choice, a "specialist supplier of frozen bakery products and bake-off systems to the retail market" who in turn are owned by Brakes Food Service Solutions. Armed with this information and the fact that I'm entitled to get an ingredient list according to the Food Labelling Regulations 1996 (I think) I'm going to find out what is in this thing. First I'm going to pop back down to the outlet I got it from and see if the ingredients were cunningly hidden on the container somewhere. If not I now have a number (0800 521366) and an e-mail address (country.choice@brake.co.uk) to harangue!
UPDATE IV: R.I.P. Bread. It seems I was little overzealous in my longevity predictions. My piece of bread is going hard. I went down and checked the stand (for those who are gripping their seats, knuckles white with anticipation) and the only ingredient listed is "Flour Treatment Agent". My research concluded that Flour Treatment Agent is usually Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) or, in less regulated countries, Potassium Bromate.
I checked it out on the off-chance that Potassium Bromate would do magical things and it turns out it is a carcinogen and not a magical bread freshness ingredient. Fat fingered research also showed that Potassium Bromide is an anti-convulsant for dogs. I wish I knew the difference between an -ate and an -ide ending.
[06:46] Business Bloodbath
Date: 6/3/05 at 2:46PM
I am now contracting to a company that I used to work for back in Australia. I spent a lot of time bad-mouthing the managerial structure and business nous of said company because of their frankly bizzare way of going about business (Hello Mr Customer! Can I....STAB YOU IN THE BACK? Muahahahahaha).
Anyway, after people found out I was going back for a second tour they pointed out that I was a) a hypocrite and b) loco. I defend my actions by pointing out that pounds convert into $A most favourably.
This is a "pay off the mortgage" move, not a grand career step.
I just thought I'd mention that the company in question work in EXACTLY the same fashion over here!
[06:10] Welcome Back To Windows
Date: 6/3/05 at 2:10PM
Well, after primarily working on the Unix for the last 5 years (and running Gentoo on my personal machine) I'm heading back into the Windows badlands! I've setup my first Windows box since I left my last job a year and a half ago and it seems my habit of keeping my tool collection on my USB key up to date has paid off. I have everything set up as I like it with minimum of fuss.
Here's what I've got (note, all but one of these programs are Free (not necessarily OpenSource though):