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Cowboy Junkies
The Cowboy Junkies have a new album out at the end of next month, and are on a brief tour in the UK and Europe before heading back off to North America for a larger tour. I’m a massive Junkies fan, and one thing I was always sure of. A band like that would never…
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Aardvarks
I do get more than my fare share of strange mobile phone calls. It’s not because I’m being targeted by a stalker (at least I don’t think I am). It’s because my name begins with “A”, and so who do you think is top in mobile phonebooks? It just takes a loose mobile in a…
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Sportka “Non” Viral Email
Hmm. One week a viral email appears for the Ford Sportka in which a cat is seemingly beheaded. Bad taste from some European division of Ford. Er, no, because there’s a link to this site (doesn’t work at time of writing). Today’s Mediaguardian carries this piece (free registration required) in which the Chief Executive of…
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ID Cards Trial
Blunkett continues to push for these stupid ID cards, and now has a trial underway with 10,000 volunteers. Exactly what a trial with volunteers is going to prove I don’t know? I daresay that there won’t be too many terrorists or illegal immigrants rushing to queue up for this. So what can we expect? Well…
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The British Museum Isn’t Falling Down
Random conversations heard on trains recently: #1 A family are travelling into London. The mother’s French, the father English, and the kids seem bilingual. However, the family seems to live in France, and hence they’re doing the touristy thing with some English relatives, and are taking the kids to the British Museum. The mother is…
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We won the league, at White Hart Lane
Champions!
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So Why…
does no channel repeat Remmington Steele?
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Move Over Big Ron
Never mind Ron Atkinson’s atrocious outburst, this is far worse. This bloke runs a national newspaper…
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Great Short Films
Oh it’s so unfair – some people are so talented. I followed this link (via Ben Hammersley) to see a personal plea from one Chloé Micout for a job working for Joss Whedon (the man behind Buffy and Angel). The site is a short personal plea to be given a job as well as several…
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April Fools’ Day Comes Late
Thursday is Broadcast day, so here are my highlights from today’s issue: SMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3’s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)… Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned…
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VNC
I’ve just discovered the delights of VNC. Ever since I got broadband at home, I’ve wanted to fully control my PC from home. I played around with something called RemotelyAnywhere, but the remote control part never really worked well for me. Well guess what? VNC is free, simple and worked first time, out of the…
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BBC2 at 40
Last night BBC2 was 40, and in celebration they aired a three programme detailing some of the highlights of its history to date, as well as one or two lowlights. All in all it was a really good look back at the channel – and given the recent deterioration of Channel 4, probably the best…
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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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