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One Night
On BBC1 this week, there’s been an excellent drama over three nights, with a final fourth episode tonight. One Night tells the goings on over a single twenty four hour period in an inner-city part of London. Each episode tells one side of the story, starting with Ted (Douglas Hodge) who lives in his fairly…
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Sport on TV – Racing
Channel 4 has just done a deal with the Racecourse Media Group to become the exclusive free-to0air broadcaster of horse racing of all forms of horse racing in the UK. At first glance, it’d seem to be a good deal, with Channel 4 picking up the rights to prestigious events such as the Grand National,…
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King’s Cross Station
I was expecting the new concourse at King’s Cross station to be open tomorrow. That’s when we’d been told it’d open. But sneakily, they actually opened it today. So although I hadn’t planned to, I had a bit of a look around. Now I’m no expert on architecture, and you’d best look elsewhere if you…
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Games on the High Street
Now I’m not much of a gamer these days. I take a broad interest in the industry and perhaps buy one – maybe two – games a year. I have an Xbox 360, but my Wii hasn’t been switched on in many months. Anyway, I say this as I’m vaguely aware that Mass Effects 3…
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Gmail’s Worst Feature
The more I see it, the more I hate and loathe Gmail’s utterly awful and relatively recent innovation, its “Consider including” functionality. It pops into a space under the “To” box when I add an address to an email. I think Google think it’s useful in some way. It’s not. Here’s the thing: when I…
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Olympic Stadium and Velodrome
At the weekend, I was lucky enough to get along to a day of the UCI Track World Cup series in the new Olympic Velodrome as part of the London Prepares series. Lots of photos to come. But in the meantime, the buildings looked stunning – the velodrome in particular.
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Promise TV
[I wrote this on Google+, but decided it should probably exist, in a revised version, here too] I remember hearing about Promise TV several years ago at Open Tech 2005, so it’s nice to see that there’s a real product now available to buy. In essence they’ve built a Freeview recorder that records every programme…
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Recent Films
I’ve spent a while away from the cinema recently, but the “award season” means that I have to face my hatred of multiplexes and get out to see a few films. Although with the exception of one film, I saw these films in somewhat nicer confines of Curzon and BFI cinemas. I really liked The…
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More Mirror Box Photos
Somewhat inspired by the awesome Infinity Mirrored Room created by Yayoi Kusama especially for her wonderful retrospective exhibition that’s just opened at Tate Modern, I went out and bought a cheap “sound sensor” light at Maplin. And I used this to have another session using my mirror box. A few more photos are below. I’d…
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When Awards Ignore Social Media
As I type, BBC1’s coverage of the BAFTA awards has just started on BBC1. We have Stephen Fry hosting again this year. The show started at 9pm. But here’s the thing. I already know many of the winners. Or at least, it’s not hard for me to find out. If I wander over to my…
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Curious Pricing
We all know that if we buy bigger packs of products, we tend to save money. But in the strange world of confectionary, that’s not always the case. I was in Waitrose earlier, and it being February, there are clearly lots of Cadbury Creme eggs about. But the pricing was slightly odd. I could buy…
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RAJAR Q4 2011
The last quarter of 2011’s UK radio listening is out now, and the big news is that RAJAR has a new logo (see above) – Audio Measurement! OK, there’s some other news too. So let’s run through the highlights and lowlights from my perspective. First up is that radio listening overall is down a bit.…
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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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