http://www.anotherblog.com Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:12:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The internet tells me that: Extraordinary - beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable. Rendition - a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role. Seems harmless enough, right? Extraordinary Rendition sounds nothing more dreadful than a god awful am-dram performance or a dodgy cover version by ... http://www.anotherblog.com/what-the-fuck-is-extraordinary-rendition/ I have purchased an original painting of Hayley Williams from the band Paramore by an artist called Stephen Quick (aka Splintered Studios). Check out this time lapse video below of Stephen making the painting - it's awesome. Check out his other work at his web site splinteredstudios.com - it's all ... http://www.anotherblog.com/check-out-my-hayley-williams-painting-artist-stephen-quick/ Shocked as a lightning rod today when I discovered the BBC is exempt from section 5 of OFCOM broadcasting code. “Section 5 - Due Impartiality and Due Accuracy and Undue Prominence of Views and Opinions” The OFCOM code states that “This section of the Code does not apply to BBC services funded by ... http://www.anotherblog.com/the-bbc-are-as-unbiased-as-a-tobacco-institute-study/ In 1997 Gordon Brown promised us "No more boom and bust". I'd love it if someone could dig out the original quote from the archives. It looks like that promise is well and truly broken. What we got was ten years of boom propped out by cheap money and dodgy ... http://www.anotherblog.com/gordon-brown-no-more-boom-and-bust-all-over-now/ My girlfriend got a remote control helicopter for Christmas and would not let me fly it :( Bad luck I bought my own for £20, I can't believe how cheap they are! My brother wanted a petrol powered one cost £1,000s! http://www.anotherblog.com/remote-control-helicopter/ A year ago I created the web site whatthemortage.com and didn't tell anyone. For a year, the web site has been aggregating news about the UK mortgage market. Take note, this covers industry and market news as well as news about specific mortgage products and deals. There has been no ... http://www.anotherblog.com/a-affiliated-adventure-in-mortgages/ I've hacked together a .NET custom trace listener to dump trace logs from my .NET apps into IRC. Writing a custom trace listener is easy, just derive from System.Diagnostics.ThreadListener and implement the Write() method. Using the listener the following code will produce the output in the screenshot: ... http://www.anotherblog.com/irc-trace-listener-for-net/ My spoon is too big! I am a banana! http://www.anotherblog.com/my-spoon-is-too-big/ This is a follow up to my previous rant about Barclays bank customer service. I ordered my Barclays PIN Sentry card reader over a month ago so I could continue to use my online banking facility. The PIN Sentry card reader it yet to turn up, and Barclays have locked me ... http://www.anotherblog.com/barclays-pin-sentry-customer-service-is-a-massive-fail/ About two months ago I tried to tranfer some money using my Barclays online banking facility. It told me I couldn't do this until I'd ordered and recieved a new secure card reader PIN thing. Great, I ordered the card reader and sent a cheque to the person I trying ... http://www.anotherblog.com/where-is-my-barclays-card-reader/