davidarkemp2

I still have a (parallel port) Zip Drive, a minidisc recorder/player (and shoe box of minidiscs) and a graphing calculator cluttering up my study.

We used to use a minidisc recorder and a pair of PZMs to record all our rehersals - It then took about a week to rip and burn them onto CD, but a few good ideas were saved/salvedged in this way.

Most petrol stations in the UK have an air compressor that you can use to top up your tyres. I wonder if these could be re-purposed.

"grok" thing? It's in the OED

This is a nice idea, but your css is horribly inefficient (using `.nav ul.actions li a` as a selector for example). I'm also a bit of a convert to http://smacss.com/ - make your html/css a bit more declarative rather than relying on nested selectors to apply rules.

Exactly. Android on an underpowered device like the Pi is going to be underwhelming.

The rest of the comments go too far. Adam Curtis does nothing that "real news" doesn't do. I'm not saying that everything that he says is true (he doesn't provide references, so it would be difficult to verify anyway), but I think the other comments are a little unfair.

With regards to the parody, I think it places too much weight on the belief that people can't watch a succession of images and follow a (albeit winding) narrative at the same time.

nice post, but it misses out the bit about documenting the change, making sure that your distribution doesn't suddenly nuke your changes when it does an upgrade, finding programmers who can work on your codebase given your customisation of php...

It's a useful post, but I'd like a but more warning that you really don't want to do this unless your proposing on either contributing this back into the core codebase, or forking php - something that can't be done likely. It reads a bit too much like this is something everyone should be doing.