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K Street
Interesting Newsday about the new HBO show “K Street”. I still have to watch the first two episodes (which I have downloaded).
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David Blaine
So we went to see David Blaine down by Tower Bridge yesterday. I have to say that my expectations weren’t much, and rightly so. I expect that he’s taking on some kind of food somehow as he tries to spend 44 days in a relatively small perspex box, but he must be monumentally bored. There…
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Alex Cox
Alex Cox’s site has now left the BBC, so his first weekly diary on his own site is all about the BBC. He’s absolutely spot on about all the BBC bashers and the general distaste that we should all feel for them with their own collection of views and beliefs. Murdoch, Kaufman, Conrad Black, and…
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Platform
Platform is an interesting book, and I must admit that I have no idea what the title refers to. Michel Houellebecq’s previous novel (at least in English) was Atomised, and it’s striking cover was a regular in bookshops. It didn’t appeal to me however (what’s that phrase about books and covers?). I may go back…
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Man Utd v Arsenal
Well as expected the FA have got the match report from yesterday’s little friendly, and are “urgently” considering it and video tapes. As usual, the FA’s website goes into overdrive; they just love a juicy story like this. “Stay logged on to TheFA.com for all the latest news on this story” they report! The problem…
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Digital TV
The government last week published a report into digital television, Digital Television For All: A report on usability and accessible design. The DTI published it in association with a research outfit called The Generics Group. In particular the report examines current motivations for going digital, and the usability of the systems currently available. It still…
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ID Cards on the Agenda Again
So David Blunkett spent a lot of this time garnering headlines for his ID scheme. Despite a split in the cabinet over the scheme, he seems keen to press ahead and get ID cards into the Queen’s Speech. The core reason for introducing this big brother regime, is seemingly to keep track of illegal immigrants,…
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Weather
Well I’ve got to say that I absolutely love the PHP weather thing that I’ve got running on the index page now. I could maybe tidy up how it appears, and there are all sorts of fancy graphical devices that could be used, but in the short term, this scripting does something I’ve wanted to…
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BBC Bashing
A couple of pieces in today’s Guardian about some recent examples of pointless and utterly malicious BBC bashing. First a piece by Joe Conason contrasting Charles Moore’s Beebwatch with the American right’s anti “liberal” bias. Then there’s a corker of a leader in response to Gerald Kaufman’s self-serving Early Day Motion. Before the Hutton Inquiry…
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Cabinet Split Over ID Cards
The Guardian carries a report this morning about the cabinet being split over the introduction of ID Cards. No need to explain again where I stand on the issue. I don’t know quite what to make of all this. Gordon Brown doesn’t want the treasury to pay for it, but the alternative seems to be…
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More4
Finally, Channel 4 have announced their new channel plan, using the space they have sitting on the Freeview platform (as well as securing cable and satellite coverage). With a working title of More 4 it’ll be aimed at 30+ year olds, carrying all the property and wife-swap type programming which Channel 4 currently fills its…
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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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