Month: January 2005

  • Huygens/Cassini Cameras

    I learn from listening to Material World on Radio 4 that the digital camera on the Cassini and Huygens probes have lower mega-pixel ratings than the average mobile phone (Cassini is 1 mega-pixel and Huygens, much smaller) – and of course they’re black and white. Obviously this is a combination of things like data rates…

  • Plug-in Air Fresheners

    Over the years, on more than one occassion, I’ve bought one of those plug-in air fresheners. The only thing is that it forms such an unimportant purchase that when I next visit the supermarket and decide it’d be a good idea to buy a refill, I can’t remember the brand I bought before, and so…

  • Nightmare

    Please feel free not to read a word of this entry. OK – so you’re actually free not to read a word of any entries on this site. But this one is particularly unworthy since it’s really to get something off my chest – a hideous journey home last night. I’m out with friends in…

  • Chain Reaction – Alan Moore

    Chain Reaction has been a fascinating Radio 4 series in which a celebrity pick’s someone to interview, and the following week, interviewee turns interviewer and chooses a new guest. People this series have included Jenny Eclair, Mat Lucas, Johnny Vegas and Stewart Lee. Lee was interviewing comic book writer Alan Moore this week. Alan Moore…

  • The Desk

    It’s the TV show that Soho’s glued to. It’s the show that Mediaguardian will be disecting to within an inch of its life tomorrow. It’s The Desk – new on BBC4 tonight! (Why do they get their own website away from bbc.co.uk?) It’d be unfair to comment on the first show – mainly because I’ve…

  • New Phone

    I can’t claim ownership of this but it makes me chuckle. Next time a friend or colleague is wowing you with their new state of the art mobile phone fresh from the box, pick it up, weigh it in your hand and comment on how light it is. But then add sagely, that of course…

  • Johnny Carson

    Obviously one of the big entertainment news stories of recent days has been the death of Johnny Carson – the king of the late night talk show. Here in Britain of course, we’re not quite as knowledgable about Carson as Americans since the show basically didn’t get shown here. How many Briton’s realise that Jack…

  • 2046

    I’m a massive Wong Kar Wai fan, so it was inevitable that I’d be dashing out to see 2046 (well maybe not quite dashing, since it opened a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve only just seen it). The genesis of this film has been well reported with its gestation taking a good five years…

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  • Jerry Springer – The Legal Action

    This is all getting completely out of hand now. An organisation named The Christian Insitute is claiming that it’ll be taking the BBC to the High Court as it has “violated” its Royal Charter. I’m actually scared by the sway that some of these organistations are having on our liberty and freedom of expression. I…

  • The Oxford Murders

    A couple of weeks ago – on January 9 to be precise – The Observer recommended The Oxford Murders as its paperback of the week (incidentally, I can’t find the piece on The Observer’s website strangely!). I was intrigued as it was a book written by an Argentinian, but set in Oxford dealing with a…

  • nofollow – To Stop Comment Spam

    A great initiative to stop comment spam has been the introduction of the rel=”nofollow” tag that Google has come up with and other major search engines and blogging software vendors are supporting. The reason for comment spam is to get yourself ranked high on search engines page ranks. But including “nofollow” on the link means…