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Radio At The Edge
Apologies upfront for the rawness of this text. I’ll tidy it up later. To Radio at the Edge (where there’s some free WiFi), to hear about the latest goings on in the audio world. After introductions from James Cridland, and an opening from Nick Wallis, a familiar face – to me at least – Clive…
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Depressing Bookshops
I love bookshops. No really. I absolutely love them. Working in central London is great because there are a multitude of them, they open late, there are chains and specialists, and if I find myself with some time on my hands, then they’re the obvious place to go. I like to visit at least every…
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Radio Times 7 November 2008
Apologies that I’ve uploaded this so late, you won’t be able to catch any of the programmes. “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross” was especially good… Best read large. (Sorry too that the pen was a bit thick this time, and the copier I used to scan this in needs a bit of a clean too…)
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Picking Up A Souvenir
I like a souvenir as much as anyone. So with Obama getting in, picking a copy of that day’s New York Times seemed like an idea. Copies are printed in the UK, but it’s a “lite” version and time differences mean that it has to go to press very early. This evening on NBC’s Nightly…
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Change of Address
This is a kind of “sister” post to something James Cridland wrote earlier this week on his blog. He was talking about the email that my employer is currently sending out to people who are still using our old virginradio.co.uk domain. But of course he’s only seeing half the story. At work, our IT department…
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Help Me, Wolf Blitzer, You’re My Only Hope
CNN’s Election Night “hologram” was truly the most pointless graphical mechanism I’ve ever seen on any type of broadcast. I say get Max Headroom as a pundit for 2012.
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Photos
The Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture” is a fantastic that I visit everytime it’s updated. They’ve got some stunning photos of Obama taken over the last few weeks. The shots in the rain are awesome. F11 to maximise and then J and K to navigate. (A few photographers really need to clean their lenses/sensors though!)
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US Election Night 2008
You’ll get better, more accurate, and more timely information in a thousand other places online tonight, but I’m still blogging the election. 10:21 GMT So after I watched Obama speak, I did finally go to bed. But here’s the map as it now stands with two states still to be added. 4:57 GMT Still awaiting…
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Election Viewing
As America votes, there were a couple of fascinating films on TV recently which had well-timed screenings. On Friday there was a cracking film on BBC Four which isn’t available to watch on the iPlayer, so I can only recommend picking up the DVD instead. CSNY Deja Vu followed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on…
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Online Privacy
A couple of weeks ago, I started playing with Geode – a Firefox plugin that allows your browser to use geolocation technology to determine whereabouts you are. When you reach a Geode compatable site, a bar at the top of the browser asks you how much information you want to pass to the requesting site…
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Poor Journalism This Sunday
Finding poor journlism in the Sunday papers isn’t really hard, but The Observer had this story in yesterday’s paper. It begins: Media regulator Ofcom warned BBC bosses about lax editorial procedures on Russell Brand’s BBC 6 Music show over a year ago, it emerged last night. In a ruling published 15 months ago, it criticised…
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Quantum of Solace
I must admit that I managed to turn down two sets of free tickets for screenings I couldn’t make before finally paying to see the new Bond today. First the good things: Craig is still excellent as Bond, the premise of the story might not have been especially dwelt upon, but it was relevant, and…
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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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