Month: November 2003

  • Arcadia

    I dug out my old cassettes of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard to have another listen. I saw the original NT production of it when it visited Bath on tour some time around 1993 (I daresay I have my programme tucked away in the loft). Subsequently the production was recorded by Radio 3, and my cassettes…

  • Why Homicide Was One of the Best TV Shows Ever

    Good article from the New York Times.

  • Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure

    Dave Gorman happily showed up on both BBC London and Virgin last Friday to plug his new show – Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure. Anyway, I’ve never purposefully tried Googlewhacking before so I just had a go. It took me a while, but I’m happy to report that “Tertiary” and “Evisceral” produced the desired result. Well…

  • Pete & Geoff

    Nice interview with Pete & Geoff in the Sunday Times.

  • Matrix Revolutions

    Finally got around to seeing the last part of the Matrix trilogy, although I’d argue that it was never going to be a trilogy in the first place. Anyway, this was better than I expected. I’m not sure that I went in with especially high expectations, but the story was better than the last, and…

  • ID Cards in 2013

    Well despite a split cabinet, David Blunkett has published his plans for ID cards, which will carry all sorts of biometric data, and will be in place by 2013. It’s interesting to note that the Cabinet still has to agree to cards becoming compulsory as well as Parliament. It seems that they would stop terrorism,…

  • Panorama – In The Line of Fire

    John Simpson presented an excellent Panorama on Sunday night about his experiences of the war in Iraq, culminating in an American jet inadvertantly bombing the convoy he was in. Despite the US special forces being in the convoy, several people died, and many were injured. Among the dead, was a local translator that Simpson’s team…

  • Agencies Together

    There’s a great article in today’s Guardian by Nick Davies which looks at how all our intelligence agencies work, or rather, don’t work together. Over a few thousand words, he details the problems that confront intra-agency initiatives dealing in particular with a terrorist threat in the UK. Some of it is quite shocking: the Customs…

  • Arsenal 2 – Spurs 1

    Nuff said.

  • I Bought the Daily Mail – Shaming

    Yes it’s bad. But for 70p I got a load of Elvis songs – and one of them is Suspicious Minds – so I had no choice really.

  • Vile Bodies

    0141182873

  • CBS Bows to Republican Pressure

    Obviously this’d never happen in Britain would it? Well not quite the same. Although if a government’s feeling really vindictive, they can see to it that you lose your licence altogether. CBS have made a mini-series about The Reagans to run in one of the all-important sweeps weeks in the US. But the Republicans have…