Perspicuous as Mud

Entries from November 2008

DVDs without sound

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

A friend came to me a with a problem with playing DVDs using Windows Media Player.  The problem was that although he could play DVDs there was no audio.  It seems that it used to play just fine, but stopped.
It turns out that he must have installed or uninstalled something that messed about with Media [...]

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Tags: IT · how to

Tenbees

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been working for a little while on updating Tenbees to look more contemporary than it was looking – although it ended up being a significant redesign both at the front and at the back.  I’m very happy with the end result.
The feature I like the most is the integrated use of YouTube to show [...]

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Tags: Environment

Nu-Labour

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I was reading the Daily Mail online today, and rather enjoying the rather common anti-labour rants that regularly appear there.  Almost without exception any reference to the Labour party was “Nu-Labour” – and in every case it is used pejoratively.  I have no idea where this spelling originated.  Obviously “New Labour” was itself coined by [...]

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Tags: Language