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US Sport v European Sport
I stayed up late last night to watch the Superbowl. I like American Football, and once you get over the inordinate number of breaks in play it’s a fine sport. I suggest that you either diligently us your PVR in live pause mode, or do as I did last night and decide that it was…
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Iceland
I’ve been very slowly publishing my Iceland photos. Plenty more still to come.
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Transatlantic Sessions
Transatlantic Sessions is one of those TV programmes which you may have seen if you spend any time watching BBC Four, BBC Alba, or (I guess) BBC Scotland. Jerry Douglas hosts a variety of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, the US and elsewhere as they record – well, sessions – which are then broadcast in a…
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RAJAR Day
Most of my thoughts on RAJAR today are published on the One Golden Square blog. So I won’t bother repeating them here. I needed a photo to illustrate RAJAR on the blog, so I took the one above. Although RAJAR’s mostly electronic these days, printing a copy of the summary PDF is still useful. But…
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The Dying Light
I’ve been frankly awful detailing what I’ve been reading recently. So let’s try to right that wrong in 2010. The book I’ve most enjoyed recently – if enjoyment is the right word – is Henry Porter’s new novel, The Dying Light. Porter is British editor of Vanity Fair, but more relevant is that he was…
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EBook Readers And In-Fighting
What are we to make over the weekend’s bit of fun over at Amazon.com? In brief, Amazon likes to charge a single price for its ebooks on the Kindle – $9.99. Macmillan, one of the biggest publishers in the US and the world, fundamentally disagrees with that philosophy. While it’s a clear and simple proposition…
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3D
This afternoon, I’ll be watching Arsenal v Man Utd in 3D. No – I’m not going to one of Sky’s un-named pubs which will be showing the game in 3D – instead I’ll be in the ground. But with Avatar number one at the box office, and large numbers of exhibitors at the recent CES…
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A Prophet and Up In The Air
What links these two films? Absolutely nothing, although both were showing in the Curzon Mayfair last week, I only saw A Prophet there. For better of for worse, I saw Up In The Air in my local Cineworld. They offer very different cinema going experiences, yet not at a colossal price differential. I’ll get onto…
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The iYawn – In Case You Hadn’t Heard
Apple as a company is incredibly skillful in the way it essentially manipulates the media surrounding the launch of one of its new products. And the media justs lets itself be manipulated. Apple certainly designs beautiful products that take design in consumer electronics to the next level. And their corporate muscle has managed to open…
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Breaking Up Your Podcasts
What’s the best length for a podcast? That’s a bit like asking, “How long is a piece of string?” The recent RAJAR MIDAS data showed a wide range of opinions: What this shows is that there’s no consensus. I listen to podcasts that can vary between a couple of minutes and nearly two hours. So…
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I’m A Photographer – Not A Terrorist
At midday today, I went to Trafalgar Square along with what must have been a couple of thousand of other photographers to protest that “I’m A Photographer, Not A Terrorist!” This is an event that will surely have hundreds of photos coming out of it. There were no speeches per se, but lots of group…
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Henning Mankell
One of my favourite authors, Henning Mankell, was in London this week to promote his new novel The Man From Beijing. This isn’t a novel set around his most famous creation – Kurt Wallander – but is a thriller set in several countries including, of course, Sweden. Mankell was interviewed by Stefanie Marsh of The…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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