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My car is history..  *sigh*

I’ve just produced a video showing the use of QtDesigner with PyQt4. It’s simple, just a couple of buttons, but it joins the dots to get you started. View it on youtube, or here :-).

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Avatar. A friend recommended it to me. I scoffed, it’s a CGI dream, probably a shit story.

Then I weakened and went to see it at the Colchester Odeon, in 3d.

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Oh lament lament lament. I am still coming to terms with a review process that thinks wobbly bits are more offensive than people being brutally murdered. I think that this is a basic difference between Europeans and Americans that I will never understand.

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We’ve just been to BBC Radio Theatre to see Mark Thomas recording his manifesto program. It’s where he goes all around the country getting suggested manifesto items, having a discussion about them with the audience, and then a vote to decide which one gets through. Ultimately he intends to campaign on them. Shit. Wish I had asked what he meant by that.

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I’ve just installed Windows 7, and was really quite happy because here in Europe we are not forced to use IE :-)..   Ok, installing, installing, waiting for ballot box, installing, rebooting, waiting for ballot box, looking at desktop, waiting for ballot box, using Internet Explorer….    err…   So where’s the ballot box?..

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