Month: April 2004
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Reith Lectures 2004
Radio 4 is making this years’ Reith Lectures available as MP3 downloads. They weigh in at about 20mb each, but are worth the effort. A great idea, and one that should be extended, bandwidth permitting. I’m a massive fan of Radio 4, and my Wavefinder is one of my most important possessions. In tandem with…
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El Cheapo DVD Player
Most fun this weekend was attempting to teach dad how to use a DVD player. I bought a 29.99 special from
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Can you tell that I’ve been away with very little to do? The Kalahari Typing School for Men is the fourth in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. You either like these books or you don’t – they’re slight, and inoffensive, but they take you away to another world. And although AIDS doesn’t really…
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Firewall
Regular readers will know that I’m something of a Mankell fan. Firewall is the latest to appear here in translation, and apparantly the penultimate Kurt Wallander novel. Firewall starts with someone dropping dead at a cashpoint and a seemingly senseless murder of a taxi driver by two teenage girls, before the plot thickens and a…
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The Dante Club
Now this is more like it. After the disappoitnment of The Da Vinci Code, it was good to read a literary thriller that held up to all that it was trying to be. Set amongst the literary elite of New England in the late 19th century as they battle to help Henry Longfellow put together…
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Talksport Cricket Coverage
Just back from a long weekend with nephew and then parents. In the digitally challenged wilds of North Norfolk, where DAB is limited, and Freeview is just a mote in god’s eye, with just four analogue channels available. The local pub was OK for watching the football on Sunday, but on Saturday afternoon as I…
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Psychic to Solve Murders
I can take a joke as much as the next person, and the fact that loads of people seem to take Living TV’s Most Haunted seriously is fine by me. There are plenty of people who believe in all sorts of nonsense. I’m slightly more uneasy about people like John Edwards and his British equivalents…
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Soggy Bottom Boys
Soggy Bottom Boys Remixed – via Boing Boing. Music to pass the time of day by until you get your copy of O Mickey, Where Art Thou (heard the bluegrass version of Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious last night on Radio 2, but I want to hear The Bare Necessities – even though I hate Disney for reasons not…
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Kidnapped in Iraq
A must read article.
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ID Card Bill “Within Four Weeks”
Brilliant. It seems that the terrorist attacks in Madrid make it necessary.
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Ofcom – Digital Switchover
Ofcom has today published its report on digital switchover, looking at moving from analogue to digital. Ofcom put digital penetration at 50.2% of households, with satellite making up 28.9%, cable 9.1% and Freeview 12.2%. The report certainly makes for interesting reading, and it makes 30 main findings and recommendations. I didn’t know that Berlin switched…
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ID Cards Rear Their Head Again
Of course we need ID cards now. That’s obvious isn’t it? I mean with all the potential terrorists being picked up and arrested all over the place, ID cards are the way forward. Could someone please explain how ID cards would help? Will they have “terrorist” encoded somewhere in the electronic chip so that we…