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ITV Suspends Premium Rate Phone Lines
Interesting news from ITV. They’ve cancelled all their premium rate phonelines until a few review by Deloitte has been conducted. This affects all their channels and in effect suspends ITV Play until the review is complete. ITV is “in conversation” with GMTV, who love their terribly hard competitions. What does this mean for Cheggers’ future?…
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The Police
So the “exciting” news today is that The Police, who recently reformed for the Grammys, are touring the UK this autumn. I have no real desire to either see them or not see them, but I am very interested in their ticket prices. First of all, I understand that tickets at Twickenham will cost £107…
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Sky’s Poor Grammar
The Sky/Virgin Media battle rolls on, with Sky putting starting a big poster and radio campaign. What a shame that the ads weren’t checked for grammar. Lynne Truss anyone? It’s “Virgin Media has” not “Virgin Media have!”
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Remote Record
Sky’s done some very annoying things over the past few weeks, not least announcing that they want to pull off Freeview and the stupid war they’re having with Virgin Media over their basic channels. At least they’ve got something right. They’ve just released Remote Record via your PC. Bizarrely both texting them, and implementing a…
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Trails on ITV
I don’t know how long ITV’s been doing this, since some of the only programmes I’ve seen on ITV recently didn’t even have any adverts – Al Murray’s Happy Hour. But watching a recording of Instinct from earlier in the week, it seems that ITV’s running trails within the adverts rather than bookending them before…
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Lunar Eclipse
There was a lunar eclipse this evening. Indeed it’s still going on as I type this. I took a bit of a sequence of photos of it which you can see over on my Flickr stream, but here are one or two of the best. A lunar eclipse is caused when the Earth completely blocks…
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Today’s Haul
As newspapers desperately attempt to shore up their circulations, they keep giving things away. The best of today’s “gifts” was a copy of The Killing Fields DVD in The Times. This is a great film that I haven’t watched for years. It’s remarkable that the film’s director Roland Joffé made this film and The Mission…
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Born Survivor
So I’m sitting here watching Born Survivor: Bear Grylls. “Bear” (is that really his name?) is some kind of born explorer who’s essentially a more gung-ho version of Ray Mears, except he’s ex-SAS. In this first episode of a new series he begins by leaping out of a helicopter in just a pair of trousers…
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Riding the Tour De France
OK. Not quite. But I have signed up for the British Cyclosportive which follows the route of Stage 1 of the Tour De France from London to Canterbury. We ride the route a week before the main event. It’s 187 km (120 miles) and your’re expected to ride at a minimum average speed of 20…
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Not Merging
We had some interesting news at work yesterday. We also found out where we came in the Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For.
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MySpace
We all know that MySpace is rubbish, but I hadn’t realised, until I went to play with it, just quite how rubbish it is. Considering its popularity, you might think that they’d make the damned thing a teeny bit user friendly. You’re stuck with default sections and to do anything neat at all, you have…
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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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