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The Baghdad Blog
It sometimes seems like everyone and their mum heard about Salam Pax and his blog from downtown Bagdhad in the run-up and lead into the Gulf War. At one point The Guardian republished extensive excerpts from his blog. Anyhow, this book is basically that blog in book form, re-ordered a little, and with a couple…
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White Horses
White Horses is one those TV series I remember from my childhood with enormous fondness. But now comes the news that its theme song by Jacky, which reached No. 10 in the UK charts in April 1968, has been voted the best theme ever in a poll to publicise a new edition of Penguin’s Television…
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Hutton Inquiry and Iraq
So the government have really been shafted by a couple of people in yesterday’s Hutton Inquiry. I’d link to the relevant Guardian stories, but their site’s down at the moment. Here are the headlines: Iraw’s weapons capacity was not accurately represented in the dossier The 45 minute claim was nebulous. Other claims were over-egged Complaints…
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RSS Feeds
Check out the new RSS Feeds on the right hand side of this blog! I think that they look quite cool, and there’s a funky new RSS 2.0 version which should be read quite easily by such programs as FeedDemon (which I’m beginning to learn to get to like). In fact it was only because…
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Google Pull Kazaa Lite
It seems that Google has bowed to pressure to remove listings for sites that distribute Kazaa Lite. If you search Google for “Kazaa”, “Kazaa Lite” and variants thereof, you get a notice: “In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 8 result(s) from this page. If you…
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The Return of Hitchhikers?
According to this article on Mediaguardian, Hitchhikers is returning next year, with an adaptation of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I suppose the big question is, who writes the scripts, and who are they going to cast. I must admit that I’d like to read a bit more from an official source,…
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The Perfect Storm
Well I sat down on Saturday night at a loss for anything to watch on TV, and on a whim, decided that I’d rewatch The Perfect Storm on DVD. Not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but a lot of fun. The interesting thing about it is that obviously it has stacks of…
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Once Upon A Time In The West
I sat down to watch this wonderful Sergio Leone epic on TV last night, and wake up to hear that Charles Bronson’s died! It’s a few years since I last watched this, and the first thing that strikes you is the long drawn out sequences – they’re wonderful. From the opening credit sequence as three…
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Alistair Campbell Resigns
Well it’s come a bit out of the blue, but he’s gone. I think it was fairly well expected that he’d be going some time soon, but while the Hutton Inquiry is still ongoing seems very unusual. Does this take the heat off Geoff Hoon or the rest of the government? These are the questions…
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Arsenal in Champions’ League
Just been watching the Champions’ League Draw on Sky Sports. You’ve never seen so many containers of balls in your life. I won’t begin to try to explain how they made something so simple so complicated. I still don’t quite understand red and blue groups – something to do with A-D being red and E-H…
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Tories Don’t Want To Shut BBCi Down – Just Review It
Ah. So that’s OK then. Anyone might otherwise think that the swiftest 180 degrees turn ever had just taken place.
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Al Franken Interview
A nice piece on Salon interviewing Al Franken about his recent “run-in” with Fox News. It’s also interesting to read a little about the progression of the “liberal” talk radio network that’s being set up. I assume that this is the same project that Fi Glover left Radio 5 to write a book about.
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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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