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Gmail
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The Chronicles of Riddick
A dreadful film. I only recently came to Pitch Black, and it’s not a bad low budget sci-fi thriller. But this is an atrocious sequel. OK, it’s technically competent, but the plot is dull, and there are some dreadful sequences that simply make no sense. For example, when escaping across Creamtoria, being chased by the…
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V Festival 2004
It seems to have taken me the better part of a week to get over it, but it does take a lot out of me! Spent much of the weekend in the suprisingly dry, and indeed sunny, Hylands Park near Chelmsford, video and photographing my colleagues. Live performances in the tent saw highlight performances by…
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Why ID Cards Are Bad…
Check out this animation from the States! (Link from Infinite Ideas Machine)
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Shop Windows in Carnaby Street
If you’ve not been to London in a long while (or at all), you might not know that Carnaby Street has changed beyond all recongnition in recent years. Gone are all the sleazy shops selling cheap and cheerful stuff, and in their place are brace of shops that wouldn’t look out of place on Neal…
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V Festival Tickets
I just need to let of some steam…. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Thanks. Sorry about that. For reasons that I can’t really go into, but mainly down to the fact that I volunteered to write a database, I seem to have been lumbered with overall responsibility for our company’s guest tickets to the V Festival in Chelmsford this…
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The Block Annexed
As predicted, The Block has suffered the same fate as Making Waves and been axed from primetime by ITV. Not unsurprising given that it’s a daytime format dressed up in primetime gladrags. In brief, from what I can tell, several pairs of contestants are given identical flats to do up on fixed budgets. Those that…
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The Bourne Supremacy (& The Bourne Identity)
A couple of years ago Matt Damon starred in a reasonably good thriller called The Bourne Identity, and last night it was on Sky Movies so I watched it again. I liked this thriller based on the Robert Ludlem novel (and previously filmed some years ago with Dr Kildare himself) because it had a believable…
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Ice Cold In Alex
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DABs Dirty Little Secret…
I love DAB. In many respects it’s great. But there are things wrong with it…
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Hard Disk Recorders
Their time has yet to come. There’s Sky+, but it’s quite expensive and tied to a Sky subscription. Freeview does now have a 7 day EPG which is an essential part of the mix, but the boxes are unsubsided so still pricey. So they need to come down in price (you can buy a VCR…
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No London News
Very strange. The 10.30 ITV News ended and we were due to go into the local London news. Instead we got “Welcome to Meridian News, and also to viewers in London.” This was followed by a full local Meridian bulletin. I should explain that I’m in north London and shouldn’t ever get the news from…
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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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