Month: April 2006

  • Computers Have Feelings Too

    As anyone who’s travelled by train knows, most platform announcements these days are automated. There’s nothing especially wrong with this, since the male and female voices are clear and concise. The system at the stations on my regular route are very listenable. However, we, the passengers, do realise that it’s a recorded voice. So when…

  • Radio Programmes

    I’ve been meaning to write a little more about some of the radio I’ve been enjoying recently. First up is Nebulous, Graham Duff’s sci-fi comedy starring Mark Gatiss. Series 2 has just passed the half-way mark – it’s broadcast at 11pm on Wednesday. It’s more of the same, and very very silly. I love it.…

  • Judges Da Vinci Code Code Cracked

    Well I spent at least half an hour on this after work yesterday, and didn’t get anywhere. Fortunately, someone else has. Here’s the solution.

  • Peter Jones

    So Peter Jones (not the deparment store) has signed for ITV to present two shows for them, one of which is supposed to be a version of American Inventor. Of course, Jones has already signed on for another series of Dragon’s Den. What a busy man. How does he get time to run his companies?…

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  • Da Vinci Code Case Code

    This is a great story. Mind you, if you thought the whole thing was a big PR stunt for the film, which it wasn’t, then this isn’t going to convince you otherwise…

  • News in TV

    As television commoditisation increases evermore, there’s much discussion at the moment about BBC1’s weak Wednesday nights. Davina’s chat show has been lambasted, and the lack of a drama series at 9pm means that even Paul McCartney on the fur trade doesn’t get as many as 2 million. ITV are putting out a stream of dramas…

  • Top Drivers To This Site

    There’s something terribly dispiriting about consulting your server logs – not something I do very often – to discover exactly why people are visiting your site. Here, then, are the top three search terms that lead people to my site in the last few months: 1) Ultimate Force – And this was by a long…

  • Daily Mail

    OK – I’ve been tempted away from the straight and narrow again. The Daily Mail is running a free DVD promotion at the moment, and it’s just too easy to stop off at the WH Smith in the tube station each morning and pick up The Ladykillers for 45p. I’ve already had other Ealing classics…

  • BBC Programme Catalogue Now Open

    I’m loving access to the BBC’s Experimental Archive. Find out when all those programmes you remember were first broadcast nice and easily (and yes, I know that Bird of Prey has just been released on DVD. I’d completely forgotten until ten minutes ago that it was coming out. Now I have to rush off to…

  • Another Channel Caves in to “Quizzes”

    One of the few strengths of Channel Five when it launched was its coverage of US sport. If you were a night owl, there was something to watch, with live baseball, ice hockey (at least before they all went on strike for a year or so) and basketball. There were various random other sports bought…