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Month: May 2004

  • Tanner Back?

    It seems that Jack Tanner, of the abortive ’88 presidential race, is back. How excited am I? (Well, I’m still trying to work out the best way of transferring NTSC laserdiscs to PAL DVDs – any suggestions welcome). Longtime readers will know that I’ve always been of a fan of this series. Lets dust down…

  • The Secret History

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  • The Shape of Things

    I saw the new West End theatre version of The Shape of Things last night by Neil LaBute. It’s based on his film of the same name, which I must admit I missed. I did see the other two in his “battle of the sexes” trilogy, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and…

  • Wayne Rooney

    If you’re playing Everton and hear everyone singing “Who ate all the pies”, then you know Wayne Rooney’s on the pitch. The talented young striker is doesn’t have the most, um, svelte of bodies (not that I should cast any judgement in this matter), but it’s somewhat ironic that the two products I’ve so far…

  • Censorship

    While on the one hand the US media is doing a sterling job unearthing atrocities taking place in Iraq at the hands of US troops, and Donald Rumsfeld refuses to go (free registration required), at the same time the lack of free speech is amazing. Check out this article (free registration required) to find out…

  • Notes on a Scandal

    I’m not entirely sure why I picked up this book. But it may have had something to do with being cheap, me not having anything to read at the precise moment, and being near the hated Tesco. Zoe Heller is one of those newspaper columnists that on the whole I can’t abide. So why then…

  • BBC Trialing TV Player

    500 lucky souls at the BBC are getting to trial the BBC’s TV equivalent of their radio player according to this report in The Independent (read it quickly since it may go Premium, or go here instead). I suspect that the service will only be available to those broadband suppliers listed within the BBC’s Broadband…

  • Google Hijacked

    I’m currently suffering from some kind of spyware/malware that’s infecting my Google search results. The top 4 or 5 results are not being served by Google, but being inserted by something called “Hi-results” and pushing the real results further down the list. The style of Google’s returns is retained, even down to a “cached” result…

  • Hard Disk Nightmare Part II

    So I borrowed a hard drive from work, resigned to the fact that at least I could crack on with creating a Ghost of a reinstalled XP system last night. I’d already started on the “longer than you realised” list of software I had to reinstall, and drivers that’d need updating. Plug in the replacement…

  • Incredible Story

    Read this and then this, for a truly horrific story of agents, wrestlers and fraudsters.

  • Hard Disk Failure

    Aaargh…. Nooooo….. My primary hard drive’s failed at home couldn’t get it to boot for love nor money. Obviously I haven’t been backing up assiduously either. At least the email is likely to be OK minus about a week’s worth – it backs up onto another drive on a weekly basis. Add to that the…

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Try as I might, I really can’t cope with the title of this film. When I wandered into the Odeon, and reached the cash desk, my eyes were wandering around until I saw a poster from which to read the title. The fact that Charlie Kaufman wrote the screenplay was always going to be enough…