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The New Solar System
I love the fact that Wikipedia is already completely up to date following today’s news that Pluto is no longer a fully-fledged planet. It’s now a dwarf planet, although I’ll be sad to lose it somehow.
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IPTV and the IAB
This week’s New Media Age makes quite interesting reading for various reasons – some of which I’ll go through separately, not least the interview with David Elstein. But there’s an interesting piece by Guy Phillipson of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), an organisation who’s role is to “work with our members to ensure marketers can…
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Entourage on ITV2
Just a note to say that Entourage is starting on ITV2 (not ITV4 as I at first thought) on September 10. They’ve got some kind of viral/microsite up live now. Not sure about the VIP access bit. But it looks like they’re going to seriously promote this show one way or another.
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Polling Figures
Fascinating piece in this morning’s Guardian with a new poll showing the Tories leading Labour by nine points now. Tony’s got to be worried. How long’s he going to hang on and let the Tories extend their lead? What I find especially interesting are some of the other questions that were asked at the same…
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Cloudwatching
Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying out some time lapse experiments with my video camera. Typically, it’s only recently that I’ve discovered that my camcorder (Sony TRV30E) does it: there’s a mode called Interval Record. Anyway, here’s my first effort in all its glory. It’s a bid strange at the start because…
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Email Overload
It’s difficult to explain just how satisfying it is to get 2,800 emails in my inbox down to a slightly more manageable 35.
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ITV Luddites
OK – that’s not my headline. I lifted it from the editorial in last week’s Marketing magazine. They carried a story which I’ve only just got around to reading that says that ITV is trying to limit Freeview PVR technology. With Sky+ being by far the market leader in PVRs, the Freeview consortium has been…
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Black Juice
I think that Black Juice, a collection of short stories with a vaguely fantasy/science fiction feel to them, might count as kids fiction, since the protagonists in most of the tales are children – well apart from the one that’s an elephant. I found the overall collection a bit hit and miss. It opens quite…
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A Good Year
A Good Year is Ridley Scott’s latest film. Once again, he’s working with Russell Crowe who plays Max, a bond trader in London. Max inherits a large Provencal house with its attendant vinyard. As a tough, cruel money-making man, he doesn’t suffer fools and his immediate response is to sell the place for as much…
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The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
With a never-ending stream of Nordic authors currently assailing UK crime fiction publishers, it probably wasn’t going to take long for someone to dust off the novels of Swedish husband and wife team Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Together they wrote a series of detective novels based around the character of Martin Beck. Some while…
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How the Standard Might Fight Back
It seems that the Evening Standard’s great idea for fighting Murdoch’s new thelondonpaper is to put the Standard’s price up by 10p to 50p. The thinking behind this is that this gives them a £7m warchest somehow (At 300,000 copies daily x 10p x 5 days a week that’s £150,000 a week which means it’s…
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Threat Level drops to SEVERE
I’m sure you’ll be as relieved as I am that the UK Threat Level has been brought down to SEVERE which means “an attack is highly likely”. Obviously, having come off CRITICAL, when an attack was “imminent” we can rest a little bit – but not too much! In the meantime, airport security restrictions 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…
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