Month: March 2004

  • Fry and Laurie – Holmes and Watson

    Look, I know this’ll be fun, but frankly, I’d prefer more Jeeves and Wooster (dug out my tapes the other weekend for a couple of nostalgic episodes) or even “a bit more” Fry and Laurie!

  • PS2 Online

    Much excitement on Sunday, when I finally got my PS2 online. I bought the adaptor… ooh… back in May last year. Registered, and then borrowed a copy of SOCOM to try to get online. Unfortunately, while I was able to register, using my good old crossover network cable, unplugging it from my other PC, seemed…

  • Hey, Nostradamus

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  • Peter Ustinov and Alistair Cooke

    To be honest, lumping together these two people doesn’t do much service to either of them, but this weblog isn’t an obituary column. I just mention the deaths of people I respected for one reason or another. Alistair Cooke, who’s death was announced this morning, always struck me of something of a curmudgeon. But he…

  • Happy Birthday

    Radio Five Live is ten. Happy Birthday!

  • Euro 2004 Spreadsheet

    In 2000 I wrote an Excel spreadsheet which I called the Euro 2000 Wallchart. I called it this because come every major tournament, everyone I knew would get their poster, or newspaper pullout and chart England’s (and other teams) performance throughout the competition. There was nothing spectacularly original with this idea – I saw one…

  • New York Times & Daily Telegraph

    Today’s Telegraph is the first edition to appear with a New Yorks Times supplement. Under an agreement announced a couple of days ago the Telegraph is publishing a weekly broadsheet supplement from the NY Times. It’s a strange pair of bedfellows, since the Telegraph is just a tad on the right-wing side, and I think…

  • Off-Roaders Banned From Ridgeway

    I’m pretty sure that my email didn’t push them over the edge, but it’s good to see that 4x4s are to be banned from The Ridgeway. Campaigning and does do some good!

  • Dasani Ditched

    So Coke have announced that Dasani’s not coming back anytime soon. They’re going to tend their wounds and rethink the brand. I suggest that they re-evaluate European water drinking tastes. Supposedly France is/was next on the list. They’ve been drinking bottled water longer than most of us, and I just don’t see a not Natural…

  • ALL NEW Entry!!!

    Yes that’s right, this isn’t a repeat. It’s an All New entry. BBC3 is the latest channel to go down this ridiculous and mis-used path. During half-time in the football last night I was flicking around and stumbled over BBC3’s Celebrity Boat Race thing. Obviously an entirely pointless and uninteresting programme, but championed below the…

  • Zatoichi

    Zatoichi is directed by and stars Beat Takeshi Kitano. Well, he’s Beat Takeshi the actor Takeshi Kitano the writer/director. Most of Takeshi’s work makes it through to the west one way or another, but this is probably one his better pieces that I’ve seen. The story is set in 19th century Japan with Takeshi playing…

  • Filming in Piccadilly Circus

    Much interest this evening in some filming taking place in Piccadilly Circus. As a public place, it’s very hard to close off (that’s certainly the case elsewhere according to Film London). Anyway, precisely nothing was happening, and I was hurrying on to actually see a film (see next entry).