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Pointless
Channel 4 have made an early run for the most pointless show on television with their new “reality” format – Shattered. Yes, it’s a bunch of people trying to stay awake for as long as possible. Brilliant. That’s going to make fascinating telly isn’t it? Lots of people sitting around in a Big Brother type…
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Film Aspect Ratios on TV
It’s interesting that the BBC seem to be airing a film, Wonder Boys, in its correct aspect ratio. This isn’t something you see too often, as the films tend to be reformatted to a 16:9 shape as many films are actually shot. But this time around we seem to be getting the full 2.35:1 which…
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Online/Offline
I suppose that it’s a little strange in these days of weblogs where we share our innermost secrets with the world at large, that anyone should keep an “analogue” diary – that is to say paper-based. Well actually, I don’t share my “innermost” thoughts here you’ll be sorry to hear. What kind of fool do…
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Bookshop Sales
I read a piece somewhere recently (I don’t recall where exactly) which said that now is not a good time to buy books in the sales as you get good deals all year around. I tend to agree with this, as the so called bargains look suspiciously like publisher initiatives to me rather than retailers…
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Keep on posting
So one of my resolutions this year is to use this site more and post frequently. You might say that this is a feeble attempt at me to get an entry into Jan 2 before I go to bed. And to be honest you’re not far wrong. Here are some things I learnt today: 1.…
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Domestic Bliss
So what else can go wrong? My washing machine’s leaking. My hot water was first not working, then worked briefly, and now isn’t working again. My portable telly flickers a lot before it has “warmed up” enought. My cable TV came to a complete halt. My bathroom fan just splutters rather than fans. Aaaargh. Happy…
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Raw Spirit
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A Yuletide Tale
A true story about the day before the day before Christmas. Not too many people were going to be in work on Christmas Eve, but I was one of them. However I’d be getting away from work early to head down to Norfolk to visit my parents. So on the 23rd I happily went along…
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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The Return of the King
I didn’t get out to see this on the first day in the Odeon Leicester Square, as I did with The Fellowship of the Ring. But then I didn’t manage that with The Two Towers either. I guess that Christmas just isn’t a good time for squeezing in three and a half hour movies. Let’s…
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Harry’s Baptism
Congratulations to young Harry Bowie, my nephew, on his baptism today. (What a coincidence that he was born the day Saddam’s statue toppled, and was baptised the day Saddam was captured – I wouldn’t want to read too much into all that).
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Saddam Captured
It came as something as a suprise, since I thought that he would be holed up in some far flung corner of the globe, but Saddam Hussein’s been captured with a shot being fired.
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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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