A film with a very curious premise that is made sublime by the performances of Peter O’Toole and Sam Neill. Also the performances of Jeremy Northam and Bryan Brown are extremely good too.
I was expecting it to be just a bit of fluff but it is in fact a very moving and uplifting tale of how people deal with grief and embrace life.
Oliver Postgate the creator of Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine has died at the age of 83.
I grew up watching the work of Oliver Postgate and one of my very favourite TV programmes as a small child was Bagpuss.
And when Bagpuss was asleep,
All his friends were asleep.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was just an old wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him
He was like a very sweet gentle Grandfather who would sit me down and tell me magical tales. He will be remembered fondly by generations of children who have now grown up to have children of their own. [via]
The world’s most super-designed data center is described as being fit for a James Bond villain. [via]
Located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick, it can withstand a hydrogen bomb and has German submarine engines for backup power.
It reminds me however of the data haven that Epiphyte gets involved in building on the island of Kinakuta in Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon.
It appears that many users of Facebook will confirm friendships with a person unknown to them.
This coupled with the standard things that people post to their Facebook profile creates the perfect environment for Identity Thieves to ply their trade.
How times have changed.
A British teacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class.
The Derby Moor Community Sports College, where the unnamed teacher worked, said an investigation was underway and that its “priority is to ensure that students are happy to be in school.”
I’m sure push-ups are not an Ofsted approved punishment but it seems to me to be a fitting punishment at a Sports College.
Mr Crouch my sadistic PE teacher at school would make pupils do push-ups for the slightest infraction and loved every second of it.
