Month: April 2004
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Great Short Films
Oh it’s so unfair – some people are so talented. I followed this link (via Ben Hammersley) to see a personal plea from one Chloé Micout for a job working for Joss Whedon (the man behind Buffy and Angel). The site is a short personal plea to be given a job as well as several…
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April Fools’ Day Comes Late
Thursday is Broadcast day, so here are my highlights from today’s issue: SMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3’s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)… Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned…
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VNC
I’ve just discovered the delights of VNC. Ever since I got broadband at home, I’ve wanted to fully control my PC from home. I played around with something called RemotelyAnywhere, but the remote control part never really worked well for me. Well guess what? VNC is free, simple and worked first time, out of the…
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BBC2 at 40
Last night BBC2 was 40, and in celebration they aired a three programme detailing some of the highlights of its history to date, as well as one or two lowlights. All in all it was a really good look back at the channel – and given the recent deterioration of Channel 4, probably the best…
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Politician Idol
I suppose it’s unfair to criticise a programme that hasn’t even been transmitted yet, but I’m with Tony Benn and Alistair Campbell on ITV’s new Pop-Idol type programme with politicians. Obviously there are strict electoral laws about TV or Radio backing one side (I should know, our station was reprimanded very severely when Chris Evans…
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Cinema Phone Booking Lines
UGC Cinemas (is that tautology?) have recently changed their telephone system so that instead of tediously pressing “#” and various numbers, you now tediously say things to their voice recognition system, which them proceeds to missunderstand you and prompt you to repeat what you just said. In their infinite wisdom, the system is now set…
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Bookshops
I have a habit that’s uncontrollable. I can’t walk past a bookshop without going in. My local town centre has an Ottakers, a WH Smith and a British Bookshops and Sussex Stationers (great name). But there have been some quite noticeable changes in the retailing landscape of bookshops of late. First of all, they all…
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Tesco
I’m torn. As a rule, I quite like Tesco. Yet mum is in vanguard of a campaign to keep Tesco out of Sheringham. The locals want them kept out as Sheringham is one of those few surviving towns without a major supermarket. Therefore, the town centre is thriving with traditional butchers, bakers, and candelstick makers.…
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ieSpell
This is useful. Hopefully the spelling on my entries will improve, even if what I have to say doesn’t.
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Shaun of the Dead
Finally got around to seeing Shaun of the Dead, and well worth a visit to the cinema it is. Essentially this is zombie spin-off from Spaced, but that’d do it a disservice. I was a big fan of Spaced… OK, I became a big fan of Spaced. You see, I entirely missed out on the…
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FACT
I love the ridiculous copyright notice we get at the front of films these days from FACT. That should put a stop to it. I suppose I really take exception to the fact that they can’t print their own phone number properly – it’s not 0208-xxx-xxxx, it’s 020-8xxx-xxxx. And yes it does make a difference…
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From Ash to Diana Krall
Ash came in to do a Virgin Superstars session on Wednesday, which I sat in on. These things take the form of an interview in front of a live audience, interspersed with songs, a couple of old ones (Girl From Mars and Burn Baby Burn) and a couple of new ones. All acoustic and all…