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Look – we all know the fashion business is nonsense. But if there’s one recent trend that’s really annoyed me, for no good reason, it’s the sudden desire for Ugg boots. These Australian made pieces of footwear are, in themselves, perfectly fine (the fact that “Ugg” has been adopted as a trade name, when in…

In a smart PR move to promote UKTV Gold now running BBC1’s Robin Hood, the company commissioned some research which has resulted in worldwide coverage. Seemingly teenagers think that Winston Churchill didn’t exist and that Robin Hood was real. When I read about something like this, I immediately want to read the full press release,…

…reading breakfastdj.blogspot.com aren’t they? (Doing for radio what the Secret Blog of a TV Controller (aged 33 and 3/4) did for a person who’s in no way connected with BBC Three)

“RAJAR”:http://www.rajar.co.uk/ has just released its findings from a piece of research into podcasting in the UK. The report also considers usage of “Listen Again” features, as well as Personlised Online Radio (e.g. Last.fm or Pandora (RIP)). There is, of course, some debate about what a “podcast” actually is. But we needn’t worry too much about…

So you’ve got some valuable documents and perhaps some cash that you need to look after. You decide you want to put them in a safe. Surely, if you’re that concerned, you’ll want to spend more than £7.98?

It’s interesting to note that the BBC is now advertising the iPlayer quite significantly. I’ve seen ads on the Guardian Unlimited site, as well as search ads in Gmail. On top of both of these there are the TV “ads” on BBC television.

Voices is the third in the Inspector Erlendur series, following Silence of the Grave and Tainted Blood. Erneldur is a fairly dour Icelandic detective, and this novel is set in the run-up to Christmas at a large Reykjavik hotel. When Santa’s needed for a party at the hotel, a maid goes to look for quiet…

I know I shouldn’t be doing it. But I am. Yes, the Daily Mail has another of those DVD offers on, and it’s a good one. They’re giving away the quite wonderful Brideshead Revisited every day for 12 days starting from last Saturday. I know that there’s no excuse, especially from a paper that tries…

You know that there’s that “trendy” way to way a scarf – ideally a striped one? The picture above clearly explains why I’d never wear a scarf like that.

Does anyone know of an offline blogging program that will run on the Asus EEE without the need for me to install a different OS? I’ve used Windows Live Writer on XP successfully in the past but would really like something that I can install on my EEE. And some instructions about how to do…

In Charlie Brooker’s television resolutions he ends with: 6) Stop squashing end credits and shouting over them I’m going to keep banging on about this until it happens. Which it won’t. But I like a fruitless yell at the void, me. I suppose I’ve sort of stopped shouting about this myself, having pretty much given…

A little advance warning that my favourite Radio 4 comedy is returning for a new series on Friday 16 November at 11.30am on Radio 4. Yes, Ed Reardon’s back on air, and he’s not downloadable as a podcast! powered by ODEO

Another day, another “new” TV channel. UK TV has decided to rename the stupidly named UK TV G2 as the even more stupidly named Dave. UK TV has never exactly inspired a great deal of confidence in me regarding its branding. For years, there was simply a channel named UK Gold with a basic premise…