Month: October 2005
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Chance
I stumbled across this slim volume by chance in the bookshop and it intrigued me. It’s a basic (very basic) introductory guide to probability. The trouble is that it’s just too small and light. While the author’s not afraid to include some equations in the text, he embarks on a chapter on, say the normal…
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Back to Bologna
I thought I’d catch up with the books I’ve read recently. I’m quite a Michael Dibdin fan, and this is the latest Zen novel. He spoke to James Naughtie on the Radio 4 programme, Bookclub recently, and you can hear the conversation here (with Realplayer). On that occasion he spoke about Blood Rain which is…
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Sunshine
You know that ‘something else’ I mentioned the other day? Have a look at Gia’s blog on the new Danny Boyle film Sunshine. This film is looking good, that’s all I’m saying at the moment…
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Satellite Lost
This is sad news. I met someone who works for a satellite company the other day and she was speaking about how risky a business it is, and what kind of insurance premiums you have to pay. So let’s hope that if CryoSat truly is lost, that its worthwhile job is done by a follow-up…
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Raiding The Twentieth Century
Since I downloaded this on Friday, it’s barely been off my mp3 player if you see what I mean? (Via Boing Boing)
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Searches
Just looking at the logs of this site and a few strange searches show up. In the last month, the most searched term is for “Hunting Chris Ryan”. That’s because I reviewed it once. But I bet this site disappoints all those who get to it when searching for “Abbie Titmuss”! I misspelt her name…
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A History Of Violence
David Cronenberg films are always worth watching – although I admit I didn’t see his last film, Spiders. But eXtistenZ was a very interesting film. A History Of Violence is one of those films that you probably don’t want to know a great deal about before you see it. Viggo Mortensen is Tom, a nice…
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Serenity
Well, it’s the film that everyone’s talking about at the moment – well the Browncoats are anyway. I only recently saw Firefly having read a few decent things about it on the net (I certainly never caught any of its airings on the Sci Fi channel). Then it appeared quite reasonably in the current HMV…
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Highbury and “Something Else”
Yesterday I went to two fabulous places. Sadly, due to my having to sign an NDA, I can only talk about one of them. But if you run into me, feel free to ask! Roll on 2006 is all I can say, when, at some point, I’ll be able to reveal all… The place I…
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DAB Radio
Radio professionals need to be careful about what they claim, if the Advertising Standards Authority are to be kept happy (PDF).
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Copyright Nonsense
This article leads you to at first think that content producers are failing to actually copyright their product – perhaps allowing it to slip into public domain or something. Actually, it seems to be Macrovision touting for business. They obviously don’t think that they’re getting their wretched technology onto enough CDs and DVDs. If a…
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Darwin Drank Guinness
The new Guinness ad seems very timely.