Month: February 2012

  • Gmail’s Worst Feature

    The more I see it, the more I hate and loathe Gmail’s utterly awful and relatively recent innovation, its “Consider including” functionality. It pops into a space under the “To” box when I add an address to an email. I think Google think it’s useful in some way. It’s not. Here’s the thing: when I…

  • Olympic Stadium and Velodrome

    At the weekend, I was lucky enough to get along to a day of the UCI Track World Cup series in the new Olympic Velodrome as part of the London Prepares series. Lots of photos to come. But in the meantime, the buildings looked stunning – the velodrome in particular.

  • Promise TV

    [I wrote this on Google+, but decided it should probably exist, in a revised version, here too] I remember hearing about Promise TV several years ago at Open Tech 2005, so it’s nice to see that there’s a real product now available to buy. In essence they’ve built a Freeview recorder that records every programme…

  • Recent Films

    I’ve spent a while away from the cinema recently, but the “award season” means that I have to face my hatred of multiplexes and get out to see a few films. Although with the exception of one film, I saw these films in somewhat nicer confines of Curzon and BFI cinemas. I really liked The…

  • More Mirror Box Photos

    Somewhat inspired by the awesome Infinity Mirrored Room created by Yayoi Kusama especially for her wonderful retrospective exhibition that’s just opened at Tate Modern, I went out and bought a cheap “sound sensor” light at Maplin. And I used this to have another session using my mirror box. A few more photos are below. I’d…

  • When Awards Ignore Social Media

    As I type, BBC1’s coverage of the BAFTA awards has just started on BBC1. We have Stephen Fry hosting again this year. The show started at 9pm. But here’s the thing. I already know many of the winners. Or at least, it’s not hard for me to find out. If I wander over to my…

  • Curious Pricing

    We all know that if we buy bigger packs of products, we tend to save money. But in the strange world of confectionary, that’s not always the case. I was in Waitrose earlier, and it being February, there are clearly lots of Cadbury Creme eggs about. But the pricing was slightly odd. I could buy…

  • RAJAR Q4 2011

    The last quarter of 2011’s UK radio listening is out now, and the big news is that RAJAR has a new logo (see above) – Audio Measurement! OK, there’s some other news too. So let’s run through the highlights and lowlights from my perspective. First up is that radio listening overall is down a bit.…

  • January Books

    Here’s a vaguely accurate summary of the books I’ve read this month. An attempt, to some extent, to get me to read more. I can’t tell you how many books I have “backed up”… A Card From Angela Carter is an unusual thing. For starters, it’s due to be Radio 4’s Book of the Week…