Month: June 2003
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Al-Jazeera Exlusive
Last night BBC2 showed this documentary in the Correspondent series, going behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news TV station, during the Gulf War. There’d been a lot of controversy over this screening seeing as it featured footage (albeit pixilated) of dead British and American soldiers that Al-Jazeera had screened. The Sun lead –…
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State of Play
I’m quite enjoying State of Play on BBC1, or in particular, BBC4, since they show the following week’s episodes, and once you get caught in that cycle, you’re not going to leave it. The fact that it stars both Kelly McDonald and Polly Walker, was always going to make it must see, but it’s a…
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MTAmazon
Well I did have a bit of a play around with MTAmazon, trying to replace US links with UK ones, but unsuccessfully. The whole Plugin is fairly small, and despite the fact that I didn’t understand how it was all put together, I did find the references to the XML that Amazon supplies, and the…
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The Joy of Torrents
So I’m late in the day. But I read about Bit Torrents recently, and finally got around to getting them working at home this weekend. Consequently I’m a couple of episodes ahead of the rest of the country with 24 (well it’ll be one episode after tonight’s is aired). Today’s actually been very frustrating, with…