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Month: September 2004

  • HHGTTG

    Hitchhikers is back! As many of the original cast as could be rounded up (well you can age far more gracefully on radio), and I love the clever way they handled the change of the Voice of the Book from the now deceased Peter Jones to William Franklyn. Fortunately, if you missed it today, it’s…

  • The Perils of Conference Calls

    This is brilliant (free reg. reqd)! The ex-head of publicity at the US TV channel, FX, continued dialling in to conference calls after he’d been fired by the channel. He listened in to over 100 calls – and then told competitors about what he’d heard. Criminal it might well be, but the fact that it…

  • Rescue Me

    Sky One has bought this excellent US TV series starring Denis Leary as a post 9/11 New York firefighter. I’m surprised that a channel like BBC3 didn’t pounce as it’s got to be one of the best imports for ages, and it’s been better as it goes along.

  • Fun Day In Parliament

    The fox hunting lobby have been up to their tricks, invading the Commons while the bill to ban hunting was being debated. I suspect that Tony Blair is using this to appease a country who don’t see him in a great light just now. Look at his new found environmental slant with a speech yesterday.…

  • Digital Coming Soon

    Ofcom yesterday began their digital consultation, in particular, examining how replacement licences will be awarded in the light of the digital age. This quickly spawned news stories about a 2007 launch in some areas of digital. Today we learn that the first test area is likely to be the Borders TV region. Right. That’ll be…

  • British Films on the BBC

    I see that PACT have been getting a bit of press about their complaint that the BBC is not investing enough in British films. They spent £10 on British films in the last year, but I’m not at all sure that they should be investing much more than this in UK films. If we’re just…

  • Cinema Sousterrain

    I know that everyone and their mum had blogged this, but I love this pair of stories about the mysterious underground cinema recently found in Paris. What a shame that London doesn’t have the same kind of catacombs and tunnels. If anyone fancies starting a similar cinema in London, preferably not directly in a sewer,…

  • Five Live Clip

    The piece of audio that’s being passed around most in the radio industry today…

  • Comment Spam

    I’ve got a bit of a problem with comment spam at the moment. MT Blacklist works fine, but the problem is that when I get a comment, an email is fired off to me with the details of the comment, along with an automatic link to excise anything I don’t want. That means that on…

  • Black Ice

    The other week I noticed that Palm had updated their eBook software with eReader, their new improved version. The way they make you set it up is that you get the full “Pro” version for 15 days before it defaults to the normal version. And you also get to look at some ebooks for that…

  • Gun Law in the US

    A great piece by Carl Hiaasen in the Miami Herald about the failure to extend the ban on assault weapons in the US. It’s not like they could be used by terrorists or anything is it?

  • Over Ordering Hotels

    It seems to me that the hotel trade is awfully careless – they keep over-ordering their linen and duvet supplies. Twice in the past month, an email has gone around our building at work offering cheap duvets, pillows and sheets. The reason given is always over-ordering, but given the frequency of it, anyone would think…