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BBC Archives Online
How exciting is this? I can’t wait. OK – time to step back a little. I think that while old news programmes and a number of documentaries will find their way onto websites, episodes of drama series won’t. There are already discussions under way to limit the amount of time the BBC can hold onto…
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Fox News Lose
Tragically, Fox News lost their case!
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New Fan
Scary – I finally got around to fitting a new fan to my main PC. The problem was that every time I came to rebooting it, the motherboard made beeping noises at me, and I had to wait a few minutes for it to cool down. This is surely not a good thing! So now…
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Sobig
The Sobig virus is really virulent just at the moment. I got *20* emails today with it attached – far more than I’ve ever had in one day from any other virus. I’m keeping my antivirus software well up to date just now.
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Feeling Guilty
In neither of these two incidences should I have felt guilty, but in both I did – irrationally. On Monday I was on the tube and there was a spare seat, but I didn’t bother sitting down. A few stops later, another seat was freed up, and for no good reason I sat down. Then…
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Paris Barclay
With a name like Paris Barclay, you’re likely to spot it when it comes up on credits. Even more so when the same name pops up twice in one evening. First off was episode four of the fourth series of The West Wing, followed a short while later by episode eight of series 2 of…
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Hutton Inquiry Website
Full marks for putting up an official Hutton Inquiry website. Poor marks for making it so rubbish – particularly the frames nonsense with the evidence. Fortunately we now have it reversioned by Matthew Somerville.
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Blogdex stuff
Looking down the page at my RSS feed of blogdex, to see what other people are talking about, I see that some Weekly Standard article is having a bit of a go at the BBC about its coverage of the war. I’m kind of loathed to link to it since it just chucks it further…
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Fair and Balanced
I like to think that my blog is fair and balanced (via Gia).
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Iceland Whaling Again
Sadly Iceland have restarted whaling. Frankly, even if there are more minke whales alive than are stricly necessary to keep the species alive (a great state of affairs!), that doesn’t take away from the fact that they die a cruel and painful death. I should start supporting the WDCS again.
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Agricultural Subsidies
When Coldplay were on stage on Saturday at the V Festival, all the TV close-ups clearly showed the phrase “Make Trade Fair” on the side of Chris Martin’s piano, and also written on his hands. He’s a massive advocate of campaign’s such as Oxfam’s. The Guardian has started a new blog today which is solely…
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International Texts
A story on Mediaguardian reports another little area in which mobile operators are stinging their customers – international texts. Of course Orange already double charge you with the cost at the far end as well as the cost at your end. Charging 24p for such a tiny piece of data when email is free is…
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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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