Month: September 2010

  • Olympus Trip Photos

    I really like my Olympus Trip. How else would I get photos like these? Fujicolor Pro 160S.

  • Amiina

    My favourite Icelandic band were in town tonight, and I was in XOYO in London to see them. I last saw Amiina at Latitude in the summer where some members of the group performed a live musical accompaniament to the animated films of Lotte Reiniger. Prior to that, I’d seen them in the Queen Elizabeth…

  • ITV in Good Drama Shocker

    It’s very easy to knock ITV, and I’m always quite prepared to do so. I don’t like reality garbage like X-Factor, so aside from Champions’ League football, it has been off my radar for a while. But to give the channel its dues, it does seem to have turned a corner recently. Last night we…

  • Tour of Britain – London Stage

    Bradley Wiggins looks impressed with something. On Sunday I was out to watch the Tour of Britain come through London. I say “come through”. I really mean “do laps of Docklands.” Usually the Tour ends with a scenic multi-lap sprint around the centre of the city, but with the Pope in town this year conducting…

  • Capital Radio

    In 1990, I was working for the Bath Evening Chronicle, which at the time was a daily paper. Locally we competed for advertising with GWR which had a Bath opt-out, and to a much lesser extent HTV West our local ITV company. Then in 1990, along came a new big station broadcasting across Bristol and…

  • Pictures From The Weekend

    There was a rather lovely sunset over London on Saturday. On Sunday it was to the Thames Festival where I first saw the amazingly talented CW Stoneking. Then it was on to the carnival parade and the fireworks. The full set are here:

  • Tamara Drewe, The Girl Who Played With Fire and Piranha 3D

    I was lucky enough to attend a “public premiere” of Tamara Drewe on Monday followed by a Q&A with many of the cast and crew. I hadn’t quite realised that the big Leicester Square premiere was happening at the same time, but it did explain why Tamsin Greig was so dressed up when she came…

  • The Boss Will Be Pleased

    Google Instant really is very clever. The boss will be very pleased to see the above come up when just typing “Abs”, although that’s possibly because Google knows the kind of sites I visit. Quite what it means for SEO is truly fascinating. I suspect that there will be a lot of meetings in a…

  • Things That Have Piqued My Interest Recently

    Further proof that BBC Four is the best channel in the UK comes through a series of excellent programmes that have been on-air this week: – Storyville had YouTube Hero: The Winnebego Man starting briefly with the stories on people who made it “big” on YouTube, but highlighting the story of Jack Rebney who shot…