Month: July 2003
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Cold Is The Grave
The second Inspector Banks novel I’ve was probably slightly better than the first and I rattled through it at a rate of knots. I’m reasonably taken with this detective, although sometimes you do feel that there aren’t enough dead ends. Everything in this book lead in the same direction – but I suppose the same…
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ID Cards Once More
Well the Sunday Times reported last weekend that everyone in the UK is have to carry an ID card and will have to pay 39 pounds for the privilige! I’m sure that the story is phrased in as rabble-rousing a manner as possible, since I can’t see for the life of me that people will…
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Spooks
Well Tim Henman forced Spooks off our screens, with BBC 3 repeating the previous week’s claustrophobic episode. Once again, we had no actual “incident”, rather the ramifications of a Presidential visit to the UK. The episode seemed reasonably realistic, although any kind of personnel officer who behaved as the MI5 one did wouldn’t last long.…
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Any Human Heart
Any Human Heart reminds me a lot of a previous William Boyd book, The New Confessions, in that it’s a life story. A couple of years ago, William Boyd published a book that I’ve yet to read called Nat Tate – an American Artist which is fake biography. I believe that when it was originally…
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Le Tour
It’s started once more, and bowl me over with a feather, but dear old ITV are doing coverage. OK there was some late night action last year, and most of the coverage is on ITV2, but we do get Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin every night at the utterly reasonable 7.00pm. And on Sunday’s ITV1…
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Puttnam
I’m so pleased to see that Lord Puttnam is still keeping up his stand on the Communications Act.
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Berlusconi
Berlusconi really doesn’t mess around does he. Unsurprisingly, he’s not all that popular around much of Europe and so didn’t get quite the reception he would have wanted at the European Parliament. But causing a major diplomatic incident on day two of his presidency was certainly going it some. I think we’ve been fairly quiet…
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Cycling in Bruges
If you happen to be in Bruges and are looking for something to do, I can thoroughly recommend going on a cycling tour with Jos from Quasimundo. But get there early for the big men’s bikes!
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Bringing Up Baby
With print deadlines being very early, Andrew Collins would not have learnt of the death of Katharine Hepburn when he penned this week’s “Bigger Picture” in the Radio Times. He’s chosen Bringing Up Baby, which as I said the other day, I love. A nice piece (not online as far as I can see) detailing…
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Spam
It’s this kind of story that really annoys me about spam. Yes it’s terrible. Yes children should not be seeing it. Yes ISPs, when asked, should have some kind of spam filtering available. But, no, it’s not the ISPs fault. I get pissed off with marketing phone calls, but I don’t directly blame BT. Someone…