Month: June 2005
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Decent Radio
While the Radio Times releases its BBC-centric list of the Top 40 Most Powerful People On Radio (link ironically to The Scotsman as I couldn’t find it on the Radio Times website), I’ve been enjoying some other decent radio. The funniest programme at the moment is undoubtedly The Armando Iannucci Charm Offensive. I got to…
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Copyright Lunacy
It seems that The Beatles haven’t made enough cash and that the British government want to give them the rest of my adult life to keep earning. That way, EMI will invest more money in new bands. Alternatively, their shareholders will get richer, and the record companies will get let off the massive screw-ups they’ve…
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Lost
This week’s Radio Times (the print version) has a double page feature about the making of Channel 4 trails for Lost. It seems they’ve got David LaChapelle to them as they did for Desperate Housewives. Safe to say that Channel 4 are going to make a big thing about Lost.
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Cheap/Free Downloads
Not that I’m in any way recommending it, but if you enter the Coca-Cola win a music download (or ringtone) on promotional cans, you currently pretty certain to win. I’m edging towards a full free album’s worth of tracks.
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Robbie At Madam Tussauds
Madam Tussauds, the worlds famous, and bizzarely popular waxworks museum, is advertising quite heavily on the tube at the moment using this picture of Robbie Williams to entice us in. I may be a little bit slow today, but can someone explain to me why I’d want to visit the place if the likenesses are…
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Entourage Is Back
The fantastic HBO show, Entourage, is back on US screens and it’s as good as ever. When is a British TV station going to buy this exceptionally good programme?
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Junk Science
There’s a nice piece by Simon Singh in today’s Times about junk science. He calls for proper checks and trials such as those that real medicines have to go through before alternative remedies are flogged.
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Travelling At The Weekend
What fun it is to try to visit people using only public transport and wishing to travel on a Sunday. I wanted to pop down to Kent today to see my brother and his family. My dad and sister were also there. Yesterday I went on the National Rail website to try to use their…
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Cliff Richard Fans
It’s the same old story – Cliff Richard fans are out camping in a car park to buy tickets to a celebrity tennis tournament which go on sale on Monday. The reason for this excitement is supposedly because it’s the last time Cliff will be playing tennis. He’s 64. Cliff Richard fans, as we all…
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One Planet – Many People
Today there was plenty of coverage of a worthy UN initiative resulting in a publication called One Planet – Many People. I saw some coverage about it on TV this morning, and today’s papers had photos. The publication compares satellite photos taken years apart to show the impact of man. I was eager to learn…
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Hijacked!
Yesterday a Virgin Atlantic plane to New York was forced to divert to Canada when it mistakenly sent out a hijack warning signal. Fighter jets were scrambled and it was forced to land in Halifax where RCMP SWAT teams borded the plane. All very exciting, but what are the chances that I knew TWO separate…
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Misleading Ads
For ages it’s always seemed ridiculous to me that service providers are more interested in new customers than their existing ones. You get a better deal by switching away than being loyal. Recently BT and Nationwide have run TV ads explaining that they treat their existing customers as well as their new ones. Now Orange…