Month: August 2005

  • The Mask of Zorro

    Next week’s Radio Times is out, and I was idly flicking through when I came across this entry for next Wednesday (10th August). I’m guessing that the Antonio Banderas swashbuckler was pulled at the last minute, but wouldn’t it have been easier to grab some stock Holby City photo (a show that is on that…

  • Slim Pret

    Wow – here’s a “solution” to a problem I never knew existed. It seems that Pret A Manger have been look to produce a smaller sandwich. It seems that two slices of bread and a filling is just too much! So they’re now producing sandwiches which are made from just the one piece of bread.…

  • Showtime

    I’m sure there’s a really good reason why Showtime always block access to their site from non-US IP Addresses. It’s particuarly annoying when you go to the UK version of IMDB, see their big ads for the forthcoming Weeds, and can’t click on them. I know that advertising folk in new media are just beginning…

  • BBC RSS Feeds of Columnists

    It’s a shame you don’t seem to be able to subscribe to BBC columnists via their site. For example, John Simpson writes authored pieces, but the feed given on his current piece is for the Middle East feed, since that’s where he is just now. Unfortunately Byliner doesn’t cover the Beeb.

  • Harold Evans

    I never purposefully set out to listen to Alistair Cooke read his Letter From America, although as a sometime Radio 4 listener I heard plenty of them, if less so in recent years. The BBC are “sort of” replacing him with Harold Evans, another British journalist of long standing who now resides on the other…