Jon has an informative, lively review of the above over on My London Your London. It is now in rep for the rest of the season, although if you are only going to see one of the current shows, I’d recommend Titus Andronicus, provided you’ve a strong stomach.
Regulars will know that I’ve been putting off, dreading, and then yesterday spent several hours trying to work out the upgrading of the version of my WordPress installation.
And it was all unnecessary (although I suppose I learnt more about the whole structure of WordPress, PHP databases and similar that might come in handy some time).
All I had to go was go to Fantastico in my server control panel and press one button to update (at least to the one-but-last upgrade – it will apparently be a couple of weeks before the latest one arrives.)
Potentially useful to know … and one of those things that seems so obvious to the techies that they don’t bother to tell you this is possible.
Be told!
(This is only on hosts that provide “one-button installation” of WordPress. I’ve told the very nice help-desk that they should also note it is one-button update.)
… and what is more recommended by a committee of MPs headed by a Tory.
Work for the committee showed that when the purchase price and the CO2 emissions were taken into account, the VED on the biggest cars was proportionately about half that paid on the smallest cars.
A wealthy businessman being chauffeur-driven in a luxury Bentley Arnage R V8 auto, a petrol-driven saloon costing £160,203, will pay only 42p per gram of CO2. But the owner of a humble 1.3 litre Ford Ka costing £7,395 pays 68p per gram of CO2 and the driver of the 1.3 litre Toyota Yaris which costs £11,290 about 74p per gram of CO2.
“Tax differentials between higher- and lower-carbon cars must be made much wider if they are to drive market transformation,” the committee said.
Not that I can imagine any of my readers would be so anti-social, but if you were to earn one such I’d recommend getting rid of it quickly – they’ll be – they’ll HAVE to be, priced off the road soon.
Over on Blogcritics I’ve just got up a review of Joanna Frueh’s Swooning Beauty. I conclude:
One of the fascinating aspects of book reviewing is encountering books far outside your normal frame of references, taking approaches that are new, but sometimes shine light and new thoughts on your existing work. I’ve written a thesis arguing for the corporeality of the online world, but Swooning Beauty presents a view of a very different form of corporeality – one that, it has to be said, given the dominance of porn in the online world, has something new and relevant to say. I can’t see myself ever writing anything like Swooning Beauty, or indeed regularly reading such writing, but it has given me a lot to think about.
It is definitely different, and I might not have stuck with it had I not had an obligation to review it, but I’m glad that I did.
Jax was kindly asking about the progress of my WordPress update – ah, if you were trying to read Philobiblon this afternoon sorry about that – while trying to backup a PhP database I managed to delete it. (Thanks Bluehost help desk for getting it back!)
I think I’ve more or less got a handle on what I’m supposed to be doing, but have done about as much file fiddling as I can take for the day – maybe the end of this week I’ll try to actually do the actual update.
Despite the rise of hideous American-style evangelical churches in the suburbs, fewer than half of young Australians believe in a god. Hopefully they’ll be joined by more of the young behind them and hopefully that will FINALLY mean the end of John Howard as PM. (He recently announced his intention to stand for a fifth term.)
He’s done such a good job on destroying Australia’s human rights – as illustrated by the treatment of child asylum-seekers, who have been thrust into detention, not given any help or support. Last year there was a small change made, so they would be only detained “as a last resort”. But now, the government is planning to change the law again, so they can be locked up in some Pacific Island hell, with little or no access to lawyers or support services…
Dozens of children were shipped to the island processing centres under the old “Pacific Solution” – whereby the navy intercepted asylum seekers before they had actually reached Australia. For the children processed offshore, the record of success in gaining refugee status has been much worse than for the children who made it to the mainland and were detained in centres in Australia. Of the 55 unaccompanied children sent to Nauru, more than half were sent back to Afghanistan, compared with none of the 290 unaccompanied children processed in Australia, Crock’s new book, Seeking Asylum Alone, reveals. The Government put the kids through hell in Australian detention centres, often over years, and none escaped emotional scarring. But in the end, they got to stay. It is not clear what happened to the children we sent back to Afghanistan.
Is it any wonder that young Australians are questioning “Christian values” such as Mr Howard’s….
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