Opinion Road

Trend Micro’s PC-cillin Says it’s So According to Trend Micro’s PC-Cillin, every website that hosts Google ads from their Double Click network is hosting spyware. Should I just uninstall all my browsers now? This site (NYTimes) for example invokes the “Dangerous” warning. Say it aint so. – Update: Trend Micro advise this action (I’ll go [...]

Never under the influence of white spirits (.. shall I rent a movie again) With a score of 5.3/10 from IMDB and an inclination towards action and sci-fi, I thought this might fill my needs.  Oh, how wrong I was. Vin Diesel never has never had a great screen presence, especially when he’s the star [...]

MobileMe wont detect Firefox 3 Properly if you use the Firefox Add-on, Ubiquity Whilst starting Me.com in FF, Apple advise: We recommend the following browsers. To make use of rich web applications in MobileMe, we recommend one of the following supported browsers: Safari 3.1 or later (Mac / PC) Firefox 2 or later (Mac / [...]

Season 1 Saucy, surprising, audacious, personal, tantalising.  Billie Piper’s execution of the role far exceeded my expectations. Buy it Now: Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Season 1) DVD *New* – eBay Television Shows, DVDs, Movies, TV Shows, Movies. (end time 11-Jan-09 13:29:41 AEDST).

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and New Prices Apple announce iTunes store to go completely DRM-free and at three price levels $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29.  It’s about  time Apple! In a market where price pressure should be driving down prices, the threat of $1.29 is of concern. However, an optimist might correctly suggest that competition between the publishers will keep [...]

Amazon Selling Incomplete Season (as Whole!) How do Amazon get away with selling “Season 4.0″ of Battlestar Gallactica with only half the episodes on it. According to IMDB and the Wikipedia entry, there will be 20 episodes in total when Season 4 is complete.  I realise that Season 4 was carved up due to the [...]

Wilting It seems that the executives, eager to tone down the zaniness of the show to appeal to a broader [more stupid] audience, have had their way with the vigour that blessed Season 1. The music is subdued, more conventional and much less original than that featured in the first season. The narration, once brilliantly [...]

Apple iTunes releases only censored version of The Daily Show Though no other movies or TV shows on iTunes are censored, for some reason, The Daily Show is censored on iTunes  – that is, the only version of the show you can buy is the one with expletives ‘beeped out’ … talk about  a clusterf#ck! [...]

Come on Apple, get with the program! The Colbert Report is brilliant show, but why do Apple/iTunes censore it!? They don’t censor their movies .. they don’t censor any other of their TV Shows. B#tch and moan about it – tell Apple using their Request a TV Show page. Can you explain the logic please [...]