Month: August 2004

  • BBC Three

    I really do have to wonder about the sanity of some of our channel controllers – in particular, step forward Mr Stuart Murphy, controller of BBC Three. Since it was launched, this particular channel has gone for a multi-channel styling like no other channel. That means permament on-screen “DOG” (i.e. a BBC Three logo), reminders…

  • Rooney Set For Man Utd

    So it seems that Wayne Rooney’s off to Man Utd – but that story highlights a real problem that I have with the way the Premiership is organised. Yesterday Man Utd drew with Everton 0-0, but Fergie refused “all post match interviews.” Fergie already has a problem with the BBC, and is not giving interviews…

  • You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day

    I think it was watching Caught on a Train which made me realise that I should relate the following which happened earlier this week. I’d been working reasonably late, and admit that I popped into the pub for a couple of drinks after work. This is the new look Midas Touch which has been refashioned…

  • Caught on a Train

    I’ve just spent a good part of this evening watching the great Stephen Poliakoff play Caught on a Train starring Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen, which was released last year on DVD. I’ve watched it at least once, and maybe twice before, and it really leaves an impression. We follow the story from Peter’s (Michael…

  • Outfoxed

    I got around to seeing this little masterpiece that dissects Fox News piece by piece. Of course, it’s not news that Fox News massively distorts the real news, and takes a consistently right wing approach to its coverage. But the really interesting parts of this film were those that covered the techniques that Fox engages…

  • The One Game

    I remember watching this way back in 1988 when it seemed to be coming off the boom in Dungeons and Dragons (celebrating its 30th anniversary) and the plethora of supposed teenage millionaires who’d made their fortunes in games for the Spectrum and Amiga. As it says in the packaging, The One Game was never repeated…

  • Gmail

    Any regular readers want a Gmail invite? I have more than one available – just drop a comment below and I’ll see what I can do!

  • The Chronicles of Riddick

    A dreadful film. I only recently came to Pitch Black, and it’s not a bad low budget sci-fi thriller. But this is an atrocious sequel. OK, it’s technically competent, but the plot is dull, and there are some dreadful sequences that simply make no sense. For example, when escaping across Creamtoria, being chased by the…

  • V Festival 2004

    It seems to have taken me the better part of a week to get over it, but it does take a lot out of me! Spent much of the weekend in the suprisingly dry, and indeed sunny, Hylands Park near Chelmsford, video and photographing my colleagues. Live performances in the tent saw highlight performances by…

  • Why ID Cards Are Bad…

    Check out this animation from the States! (Link from Infinite Ideas Machine)

  • Shop Windows in Carnaby Street

    If you’ve not been to London in a long while (or at all), you might not know that Carnaby Street has changed beyond all recongnition in recent years. Gone are all the sleazy shops selling cheap and cheerful stuff, and in their place are brace of shops that wouldn’t look out of place on Neal…

  • V Festival Tickets

    I just need to let of some steam…. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH Thanks. Sorry about that. For reasons that I can’t really go into, but mainly down to the fact that I volunteered to write a database, I seem to have been lumbered with overall responsibility for our company’s guest tickets to the V Festival in Chelmsford this…