Month: June 2003

  • Straight to Hell

    A couple of weeks ago I picked up a copy of Total DVD magazine – in the main because it had a complete copy of Alex Cox’s film Straight to Hell. I rushed out for my 3.99 copy of the magazine and disc. Well it turns out that although Alex Cox didn’t know about this,…

  • Katherine Hepburn

    Sadly Katherine Hepburn has died at the age of 96. She’s easily one of my favourite actresses of all time. Films such as Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year from the thirties and forties are just wonderful. Then there were all the films with Spencer Tracey. CNN has a nice…

  • Alistair Campbell v BBC

    Well this story just goes on and on, and I really don’t like it. I watched the Channel 4 News interview via the net (being otherwise engaged on Friday night). The story runs and runs, and I really hope that the BBC stay with it. The government should not be dictating the stories that the…

  • Communications Bill

    I can’t believe that the government have been so stupid over this bill. Yesterday, the Lords massively defeated the government.

  • Spooks

    While some might have quite enjoyed last night’s episode, it was pretty obvious where the episode was going from the outset, and even knowledge that the series is not afraid to kill off major cast members is not enough to prevent the resolution being obvious from some way off. I’m led to believe that this…

  • A Wild Sheep Chase

    I must admit that it’s taken me a bit longer than usual to work through this particualr Murakami book. Without checking, I’m not quite sure where in the oeuvre this fits, but it truly is a wild “sheep” chase. It involves a typical Murakami protaganist, a small-time publisher, who’s dragged into a neverworld built around…

  • Communications Bill

    There was a fantastic piece by Steve Barnett in yesterday’s Observer talking about the forthcoming Communications Bill, and the various parts of it that the government simply haven’t been able to defend so far. I really do hope that the House of Lords sort the government out over this. This coming week should really sort…

  • State of Play

    So State of Play finished last night and it didn’t pull any punches. Great performances all round, and even though it is back for another series, I can’t see all that many characters beyond the newspaper ones being able to return for it. I’d quite happily watch the whole thing again, although I didn’t feel…

  • Special Characters

    I can see that Movable Type’s not brilliant at special characters without using proper HTML to describe them. Will bear that in mind. I’ve got a basic “Now Playing” section working, but I’ve kind of given up on the Amazon link, since for whatever reason, Winamp simply won’t pass more info than the song title…

  • Observer Business Section

    As I sat and read in the park this afternoon, listening to the cricket, I read a couple of very interesting stories in the Business section of The Observer. The first was a piece about a tiny set of islands called S�o Tom� and Princ�pe – just off the coast of West Africa. I’ve got…

  • The Site Evolves

    Well I now have Winamp talking to my PC courtesy of the very smart Virtual Venus website and the associated plugins and scripting languages that their system uses. I just need to take it one step further, and that’s proving to be quite difficult. Basically I want it to have those very smart pop-up boxes.

  • Getting Now Playing Working

    Well I got my calendar right, but now I need to get my Now Playing working properly. More complicated than the instructions suggested. I shall persevere over the weekend. It may be something to do with firewalls here, so I’ll have bash at home.