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Far From Heaven
Every year the London Film Festival has a surprise film, and this was the second time I’ve been to it. It always sells out, and the simple thing is that you don’t know what you’re going to see. It will be a different film to the rest of the festival, a preview of something forthcoming.…
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New BBC Channels
Well the BBC have announced that BBC Three is launching on February 9 next year. I really do hope that they change tack a bit from the current BBC Choice. “Tack” is the right word. The quote from Stuart Murphy on the BBC News website story is encouraging, but we’ll have to wait and see.…
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Stylesheets
Still haven’t got this site’s look sorted yet. I printed out all of the Webmonkey tutorial but there’s a bit more to it than just knowing how it works. Will persevere.
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3-0
We were all over them yesterday!
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Michael Moore Live
Just got back from The Roundhouse in Camden where I saw Michael Moore Live. I know that I seem to be harping on about Michael Moore quite a lot at the moment, but you just can’t escape from the man right now. Bowling for Columbine opened properly this weekend, his book Stupid White Men is…
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Dirrty
Well the jury’s still out. Is the video on the Christina Aguilera CD single any different to the one that’s on constant rotation on all the music channels on TV. We don’t think so.
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Sainsburys
Another example of a promotion going well? Should have known better really. Sainsburys currently have a 2 DVDs for �25 in the top 40. Well did the Winchmore Hill branch have anything more than a random handful of discs to choose from? Absolutely not.
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Firewire Problems
I’m still suffering from unresolved firewire “issues”. I can capture happily from my camera but can’t record back to it. I don’t know if there’s a problem with the camera, my computer or just the cable. Some experimenting at work tomorrow (or later today) is in order.
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Firemen’s Strike
I’m not too sure what to think about the firemen’s strike that we’re enduring just now. On the one hand, I certainly wouldn’t want to endure a fire just now – but then I never would. And it has certainly caused me some inconvenience today, with the tube operating a far more restricted service than…
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Small site changes
Some ever so slight changes to the site today, because I’m very proud, that I’ve finally gotten around to learning a little bit about style sheets. You see, those nice people at Movabletype run the whole system from them, which makes it hard for a complete novice like me to adapt the site to suit…
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Siring
Just a quick word of thanks to the correspondent on the Fi Glover programme on Radio Five who, on the occassion of the retirement to stud of Fergie’s horse Rock of Gibralter, explained so completely the stud process the horse will now face. With perhaps 100 matings a year, and talk of “teasers” for the…
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Mobiles
Today’s Guardian handed over it’s second section totally to the phenomomenom that is the mobile phone. Full of fascinating facts about the number of mobile phones overtaking landlines internationally, that one person in six on the planet has one and that the British do a lot of texting (oh – you knew that). But can…
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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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