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Cinema Sousterrain
I know that everyone and their mum had blogged this, but I love this pair of stories about the mysterious underground cinema recently found in Paris. What a shame that London doesn’t have the same kind of catacombs and tunnels. If anyone fancies starting a similar cinema in London, preferably not directly in a sewer,…
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Five Live Clip
The piece of audio that’s being passed around most in the radio industry today…
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Comment Spam
I’ve got a bit of a problem with comment spam at the moment. MT Blacklist works fine, but the problem is that when I get a comment, an email is fired off to me with the details of the comment, along with an automatic link to excise anything I don’t want. That means that on…
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Black Ice
The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with eReader, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full “Pro” version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that…
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Gun Law in the US
A great piece by Carl Hiaasen in the Miami Herald about the failure to extend the ban on assault weapons in the US. It’s not like they could be used by terrorists or anything is it?
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Over Ordering Hotels
It seems to me that the hotel trade is awfully careless – they keep over-ordering their linen and duvet supplies. Twice in the past month, an email has gone around our building at work offering cheap duvets, pillows and sheets. The reason given is always over-ordering, but given the frequency of it, anyone would think…
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Automation
I’m very pleased with myself. I’ve managed to set up an automatic process to record The World Today from the BBC World Service between 5.30am and 6.00am BST, move the file from one computer to another, convert it from mp2 to mp3, and then dump the said mp3 file onto my Palm, which is also…
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DRM Issues
Two things worrying about this story. 1) That DRM could be stymied before it’s got off the ground (and with the Chinese government backing it, cheap radios are going to be much more plentfiul far quicker than DAB radios have been) 2) That it could stop Shortwave radio transmissions completely. That would be terribly sad.…
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MusicAlly PR & P2P Debate
Last night there was a music industry debate about PR and the whole music downloading thing. For some reason, I decided to go along (well Virgin has just launched a download chart, cunningly timed to extract maximum PR). It was less about the right or wrongs of downloading, but more about how the music industry…
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Entourage Ends
But I’m looking forward to Johnny Drama in CSI:Minneapolis (spoilers ahoy)! So how long’s it going to take for a UK station to pick this up? Only 8 episodes so it might not suit Sky One; Channel 4 would probably end up showing it at 11.05pm; and I’m not sure it’s Five material. So maybe…
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Brighton
Well, it may have taken me until the following Friday to note it, but I spent the whole of last weekend in Brighton enjoying the sun, making a video, and checking out venues for our company weekend away. Anyway, the video’s here for a limited-ish time (terrible quality – will try and get a better…
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Collateral
Saw this new Michael Mann film earlier this evening, featuring Tom Cruise as a professional hitman who kidnaps Jamie Foxx’s taxi driver forcing him to help out on his night of hits. The whole thing looks like it was shot on hi-definition video, and it lends an almost noir-ish feel to the film. There are…
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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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