This is more important movie moment than Avatar! Computer animators make a 60-year-old actor realistically look in his 30s! This method is going to be huge. Tron Legacy Tron, the original visionary movie that brought us the future of moviemaking is finally receiving a sequel. The big idea is one again center stage. ...

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Hi guys, as you know some of my sites may have gone wobbly Sunday morning between 02h00 and 03h00. As previously warned this was the dead time when I re-imaged the server to run Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the Linux distro run by Mark Shuttleworth the South African entrepreneur under the ubuntu ...

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I hate mobile phones. For an avowed technologist that is a very loud and emphatic counter-intuitive statement, but it is also true. [caption id="attachment_309" align="alignleft" width="293" caption="Apple iPod Touch"][/caption] I'm one of those people that didn't really have or needed a mobile till I was thirty and then I discovered that well ...

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And I'm on holiday so I couldnt be bothered really. If you need to get hold of me THAT desperatley then mail me at work (I do pick those up on holiday - I'm sad that way)

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Open iTunes. Highlight the song in your iTunes library, or in a playlist. Go file->get info. Select the "artwork" tab. If the delete button is grayed out, click once on the picture and then click delete. You can add a picture by selecting "add" and choosing the picture you ...

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There is a distinct difference between traditional European and African cultures experience of time. While Europeans have a Western mechanical concept of time African cultures have an emotional time consciousness. Good example are weddings. In Western societies a line gets drawn – a date is set. All organisation, preparations etc. gear ...

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Well the old site is up and running on a new platform. I've finally chucked Nucleus and its fanboy fidley-ness for Wordpress (braces self for outraged fanboy flame war) It seems to be mostly W3C XHMTL compliant as well as CSS compliant (mine in any case NOT the gallery plug-in)

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