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Offline Blogging on the Asus EEE… Anybody?
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…
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Some Decent Radio
Aside from Fred and Ginger films on BBC Four and Doctor Who on Christmas Day, I probably spent more time listening to the radio than watching the box over the festive period. Here are one or two radio programmes I enjoyed; they’re all BBC programmes I’m afraid, and very few of them are still available…
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Squashed Credits Revisited
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…
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Quality
A recent entry on Boing Boing pointed to an article in Rolling Stone magazine which highlighted the fact that producers mix tracks so that they sound good when they’re ripped to an mp3 player, at the same time, removing the subtleties that a wider dynamic range allows. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow comments “…it seems to…
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DVD Screeners of I Am Legend
Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of the film industry. The torrent sites currently have for download a high quality copy of a “DVD Screener” of the big new Will Smith film, I Am Legend. The film has only just opened in the UK, and has only been out about three weeks in the US…
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John Woodruff
I read an obituary about this man the other day, and he’s someone I’d never heard of. He was a compatriot of Jesse Owens who ran in 1936 Olympics. Like Owens, he was also black: John Woodruff, who has died aged 92, was the first black to win gold in Berlin. His triumph in the…
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Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas everyone. I’ve not exactly sent a lot of Christmas cards this year, so please treat this as your Christmas greeting. Anyway, I’m off to watch the Doctor Who special, and all those Fred & Ginger films they’re showing on BBC Four.
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Terrible Misfortune
There was a Charlie Brooker Screenwipe end of year special this week And if you read this entry before Saturday 29 December, you can see it here. Alternatively, find it on YouTube. Anyway, Brooker took a well aimed swipe at The Jeremy Kyle Show, and you can’t really fault him for doing so. He concentrated…
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Dates For Your Diaries
Well… dates for my diary anyway. But I thought that I’d share them (it’s that time of year after all). A couple of programmes coming up that seem well worth listening to and watching: Sunday 6 January 2008, BBC Four – BBC Proms featuring the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. This is the performance…
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Dave
In Media Guardian’s review of the year, they’ve got a piece celebrating the success of “Dave.” Dave, you’ll no doubt recall, is the channel previously known as UK TV G2. And in an “inspired” piece of marketing, it was renamed Dave; minimal changes were made to programming, and success has followed. The numbers are hard…
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Danny Baker Ends Podcasts
Thanks to commenter Richard Miller for drawing my attention to the notices on Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast Show and Baker & Kelly websites. Danny has posted a note to say that there will be no more podcasts following an “irreversible and utter breakdown between the on-air team and the company who have, with varying…
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BBC iPlayer Now Streaming
The Beeb has updated the iPlayer to incorporate Flash streaming versions of programmes as well as the Windows XP only downloads previously available. This makes programme watching available to Mac and Linux users which is good news. It also means that I can link to a programme like last nights Can Gerry Robinson Fix 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…
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