Posts from:
January 2009
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30th January 2009Zeitgeist, The MovieI watched Zeitgeist, The Movie the other day. Unusually for me, I had absolutely no idea what it was going to be about. That said, I quite enjoyed the suprise, though I'm not sure I can same the same about the content. The film is broadly split into 3 parts: "The Greatest Story Ever Told" - criticising and debunking religion, particularly Christianity. "All the World's a Stage" - 9/11 conspiracy theories. "Don't Mind the Men Behind the Curtain" - proposing that America has only gone to war for profit. The first part, according to Wikipedia: "[It] questions religions as original god-given stories, arguing the Christian religion ...
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30th January 2009Take On MeShying away. I'll be coming for your love, OK? Stupid copyright laws. Still, this old version kicks some mega 80s ass anyway.
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29th January 2009Derren BrownDerren Brown is a remarkable man. His book, Tricks of the Mind, which I bought recently, arrived today. Although I have a substantial amount of work to be doing for my exams over the next week, I decided to start to read his book. I shall reserve judgement somewhat, but so far it is very interesting. Obviously, he's not going to tell us everything - he'd be out of a job, after all - but what he does say is far from disappointing. I have watched pretty much all of Derren's shows - Trick of the Mind, Trick or Treat, The ...
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28th January 2009AkismetAkismet is the spam filter that I and most other people use for WordPress. It's working wonderfully - for me, I've had no false positives, and it seems to catch everything. Spam sucks, but Akismet gets rid of any annoyance.
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27th January 2009The Ghost BrigadesThis is the sequel to "Old Man's War", which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Again, I listened to this as an audiobook, sometime in December. What I remember most was the wonderful voice of the narrator - deep, mellow, and so relaxing. His voices for all the characters were both varied and convincing, even his rather strange-sounding females. Sadly, I don't know who this voice actor is, but I'll definitely try and find some more of his work. It really did add to the book. The book itself - well, you'd have had to have first read the first ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
