In work, we’ve been using MonoRail for a while. It’s a C#/.NET web application framework, and it’s very much nicer than ASP.NET, which is what I was using before.
Now I’ve had a bit of experience with it, though, there are things I would definitely change: I want the framework to allow me to compose page [...]
Some overpaid academic (not that I think that all academics are overpaid, but this one evidently is) is rolling out more trite ‘predictions’ about The Future. (Like Kevin Warwick, only less plausible). A choice quote:
It won’t only be people who are lacking a sexual partner. Some people will do it for curiosity, some for [...]
Buckets of gore, Tim Burton’s finely-honed Gothic sensibilities and oceans of moody brooding by Johnny Depp make a perfect movie interpretation of the story.
Now unfortunately I don’t like Stephen Sondheim’s music much. It grates on my ear, though I think the fact that I’d seen the stage show and therefore had already heard the soundtrack [...]
Aw, heck, yes, it was enchanting.
You’ll know the story from the trailer, probably, but the gist is that Disney™ princess, Giselle, is banished from the magical animated land far away to real-world New York by the prince’s evil stepmother. She meets a cynical single-father divorce lawyer in New York and culture-clash-romantic-comedy ensues.
Bit of an odd [...]