Comments for Stuart Ford

Comment on RSSCreateFeed() by DG

DG — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:23:29 +0000

Seen http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.feed.writer.html ? I’d guess it would sanitise output (e.g. $item['title'] ) for you magically…

(Of course you may dislike the Zend Framework, or not want the dependency with it…)

Comment on What the CWU doesn’t want you to know by DLS

DLS — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:15:50 +0000

Boycott Royal Mail. That will, unfortunately, stop the modernising of RM temporarily but will sort the CWU stupid morons who are not looking at the bigger picture. New machines, new processes… faster mail, and potentially stopping the constantly increasing stamp prices. CWU: you are pathetic. Much like the UCU at my place of work, and much like the TUC… quite funny to see the TUC believing anyone gives a sh*t what they think.

Comment on Stargate Universe by Stuart Ford

Stuart Ford — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:24:58 +0000

First impressions are good. The series premier crammed in a lot of information but I’m confident and excited about what is clearly a brilliant, edgy and up to date work of science fiction. Bring it on!

Comment on Domain names available by Twitted by stuartford

Twitted by stuartford — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:57:27 +0000

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Comment on Facebook’s wretched application platform by stuartford

stuartford — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:58:59 +0000

I never used Bebo, nor did I ever use MySpace which I understand suffered similar problems and I remember there being quite an outcry in the Facebook community when Facebook launched their API, with people exclaiming that Facebook would just become like MySpace. Turns out their fears weren’t entirely unjustified.

Comment on Facebook’s wretched application platform by MrsW

MrsW — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:17:36 +0000

I can’t remember if Bebo was Facebooked or Facebook was Beboed… but I swore a bit (actually quite a bit) and slunked back to Friendsreunited, which is actually quite good and you don’t always get a baby when you participate. Apparently.

Comment on Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi’s controversial release by MrsW

MrsW — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:31:20 +0000

I think its difficult to read into the reception he received in Tripoli. We are quick to perceive it as a celebration, a welcoming home of a hero, lauded for what he accomplished. Maybe its a celebration, welcoming home an innocent man? I’m guessing the Libyans consider him innocent. The conviction was not, is not solid. There are grounds for appeal. What I want to know, what everyone should want to know, is who benefits from that appeal being dropped. Not Al-Megrahi who has always maintained his innocence. And sure as sherlock not the SNP.

I appreciate reading considered views like this. But I love your tweets ;)

Comment on Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi’s controversial release by Ian

Ian — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:17:25 +0000

But does the rapturous reception really change anything? Does it tell us anything we didn’t already know? Can we _really_ be surprised at what happened?

We all know what many of the muslims in the east think of us in the west, that’s no secret. To some – in fact, to many out there – the man is a hero. They’re going to give him a hero’s welcome, because he’s a hero coming home. The fact that the supposed Devil of the west was kind enough to let him out is probably lost on them. To many others he is an innocent man made a scapegoat of (the latter is definitely true, we can’t be 100% sure on the former). We must also remember that the media out there are very unlikely to be unbiased… we don’t know how the whole deal has been portrayed to them.

Consider it for a moment, from Colonel Gaddafi’s point of view. There _will_ be a demonstration of pride, heroism and the feeling of justice being done and the West conceding their mistake when he returns, there’s nothing he can do about that. If Gaddafi wants to stay in power, though, he’s going to have to allow some of this to go on. It’s either that or get ‘elected out’ – probably with a bullet. The best he can do is to allow some of this to go on and keep an official silence, which it seems is what’s going on.

I think they were right to set him free. He’s served effectively a life sentence. He’ll have very little quality of life for the remaining few months, I say show him compassion. Let him sort out his affairs before he dies, and let his family come to terms with his death now – he may be a monster to the west, but he’s still a human being to them. Would they do the same for us? Probably not, but that’s not important. If we all lived by the standards of others, what kind of world would we live in?

Comment on Broadband advice by Twitted by matjkd

Twitted by matjkd — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:50:15 +0000

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Comment on New journal launched by stuartford

stuartford — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:22:56 +0000

Aye, I was quite proud of that before!