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Month: February 2005

  • Ticket Barriers at Kings Cross

    For the last year or more, there have been major refurbishments taking place at Kings Cross (and more particularly, at St Pancras where the Eurostar will terminate when the highspeed link is complete). The underground station has been, and still is, going through major renovations, and this week has seen the introduction of new ticket…

  • Charles and Camilla are Getting Married!

    So Charles and Camilla are to marry. But isn’t interactive television a wonderful thing? At only 25p or so a go, you get to have your say! But as I type, the viewers of Sky News have voted 62% against approving of the marriage. Now I’m no constitutional expert (particularly as our constitution is actually…

  • Copyright Eiffel Tower

    An article on Mediaguardian (free registration reqd.) talks about Bill Gates’ ownership of Corbis, the world’s second largest picture library. But what’s incredible is the bit about the Eiffel Tower. Depending on the time of day you take a picture: by day it’s public domain, but at night you have to pay the person who…

  • Illegal Immigrants

    Help! We’re being overrun by illegal immigrants. I know this to be true because both Mr Blair and Mr Howard are saying so. They’re all coming through the tunnel or something. And they’re over-running the country like the aliens in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. For goodness’ sake, don’t go downloading the Government’s own statistics…

  • Bracelets

    I was just about to pen an amusing piece about how the whole world (well Western world anyway) has gone plastic/rubber bracelet mad. I was going to point out that since Lance Armstrong launched the Livestrong bracelet last year, we’ve seen a massive explosion in bracelets including a blue bullying one, a white Make Poverty…

  • Sway Over Newspapers

    Today, I got seperate emails asking me to join reader panels for The Evening Standard, The Times and The Sun. Apart from the fact that I’ve obviously been too free and easy with my email address, what does this all mean? Well News International obviously embarked on some reader research today. I think it really…

  • Superbowl

    It’s always entertaining listening to the hyperbole surrounding the Superbowl. 800 million people were watching apparently, according to one commentator (we had the choice of Sky or ITV – but not Five, who of course do nothing to support the sport in the UK besides show several live games a week and regular highlights. Still…

  • Gmail Invites

    Over the last couple of weeks, Gmail has changed around how it highlights the invites you have left quite a lot. Now, all of sudden, instead of having six invites, I have fifty! Are Google entering a new phase of opening up Gmail? This new openness suggests that an invite is no longer a valuable…

  • Trackback Spam

    Is Trackback Spam the new Comment Spam? Worth noting that since I introduced the “you can’t comment until you log in” thing with Typekey, I haven’t had any Comment Spam at all. Mind you, I’ve not had many comments either…

  • Bovril

    The other week in a moment of reckless abandon at the football I ordered a drink of Bovril for the first time in about 20 years – seriously! The last time I remember drinking it I was at Enfield FC. I should first of explain that my local Co-op has been accurately described as being…

  • I Capture The Castle

    Over Christmas, I was thoroughly engaged by I Capture The Castle on BBC2. This film came out in 2003 and I must admit that it passed me by. The film stars the then newcomer Romola Garai (who I knew as Zoe from Attachments) as Cassandra as well as Tara Fitzgerald and Bill Nighy. I loved…

  • Kilroy-Silk

    While it will be hard ever to extinguish from my mind, the bit from Jam featuring the day Robert Kilroy-Silk “went mad”, running naked around a shopping centre. But in the meantime, he’s just formed a new political party – Veritas. Of course he’s just left the UK Independence Party who were pretty anti-Europe –…