Yay for updating this thing with vim. Obviously I said I wasn’t going to update any more, but if everything everyoen said turned out to be true then the world wouldn’t be a very interesting place, would it?
Now the BBC has said that top documentary series The Power of Nightmares is going to be distilled down into a two-and-a-half hour film and shown at Cannes. Hey, can I paste links into a PuTTY window? Hey, I can, so check it out.
Being able to scroll around a wrapped line would be good though. Bloody vim. Bloody Linux. You know I really should resurrect that “Why Linux is Bad” article, because it was the one good thing on this site. And it got random people commenting on it ages after it was posted, presumably because some disgruntled Windows fans, tired of being preached to, were rebelliously typing “why linux is gay” into Google. Or something.
God, tlak about being sidetracked. Where was I?
Seriously though, bloody vim hotkeys. Give me a proper content management system any day.
Oh yeah, I was (haha - lucky you if you happen to browse the site right now - I’ve just saved what I’m typing without thinking that it will go LIVE! Straight onto the fearsome Internet! Bohh! Close bracket. I can edit this one easily enough because it’s at the end of a line. Don’t think I’m going to be fixing that ‘everyoen’ in the first bloody paragraph though.)
Yeah so The Power of Nightmares. Unsurprisingly no American TV network would touch it with a bargepole - too bad because I was wondering what Fox News would make of it if it got within moral outrage distance - but as a feature film, now, it at least stands a chance of being seen by those who might care. It’s no Fahrenheit 9/11 - though I’ll let you in on a secret (don’t tell anybody), I thought it was better - but it’s an incredibly thought-provoking piece. Not only that, it’s visually interesting with some great music, real feature film material. Michael Moore could learn a lot from this. Admittedly the series is full of gimmicks, like continual clips from Ali Baba and the Forty Theives whenever it starts to talk about Bin Laden, but none of it really makes you go “oh sod off Moore, you tosspiece.” Like the whole “guess what, soldiers die in wars” section in Fahrenheit 9/11, which by my best estimate lasted about four hours.
The real question is, would I be suffering more if I was using emacs? No, wait, that isn’t the real question at all. Ignore me.
