Month: July 2006
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Stage 16
Yesterday’s stage in the Tour de France was spectacular with Floyd Landis cracking badly on the final climb, rueing the day that he decided to let Oscar Pereiro get half an hour on the field and get into yellow.
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No TV Licences At Post Offices
This news seems to have escaped me. For some reason, from the end of this month, you’ll no longer be able to buy your TV Licence from a Post Office. Instead, aside from all the various direct debit options, you’ll have to use a PayPoint location. The reasons given include that there are more PayPoint…
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Euro Car Parks
Every company needs a good meaningless motto. Someone at Euro Car Parks obviously liked the Microsoft “Where do you want to go today?” campaign and though they could tweak it just a little bit for a car park company. Hilarious, just hilarious.
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Stuart Hughes is Quite Pleased
Who says that even journalists in warzones aren’t competitive? Listen to Stuart Hughes’s piece from late last night describing the BBC’s coverage of the day’s evacuation of British citizens from Beirut.
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Panography
I made this image from my window today in the baking sun using a great little tutorial from Photojojo. I’m sure I can do better with more time and many many more photos!
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Sport Relief
I’m completely with Martin Kelner on the various merits of Sport Relief. Kelner mentions Chris Evans high-fiving some tsunami survivors, while I was unfortunate enough to be there at the end when all the participants starting hugging one another congratulating themselves on a job well done. The most truthful comment came from a showstopping Peter…
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The Mediaguardian 100
Mediaguardian published their list of the most powerful 100 people in the industry today. As usual you get the feeling that the contributors had more fun putting it together than anything and it’s all a bit meaningless. But what I find really strange is that despite putting less usual entries in previous lists (for example,…
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The Shape of Water
I picked up this novel by Italian crime writer Andrea Camilleri purely on the basis of it being 99p in Waterstones. It just goes to show that such promotions can work, as undoubtedly be buying more in the series about Sicilian police inspector Montalbano. In this first novel in the series Montalbano is investigating the…
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The Future of Kids Television
According to last week’s Broadcast, ITV wants to substantially reduce its children’s programming from the current eight hours a week to as little as two hours a week – an hour each on Saturday and Sunday. The reason is simply that ITV isn’t competing in the teatime market at the moment with Deal or No…
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Hollywood Reporter on YouTube
A fascinating piece on copyright issues in The Hollywood Reporter (via TV Squad) following on from Newsnight the other day. There are a couple of questions I’ve got after reading this piece: First, YouTube’s 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates. Well yes, but it may be a tiny…
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Who Moved My Blackberry
Martin Lukes is the creation of Lucy Kellaway, and has been a regular feature of the FT for years. He’s the ahead of a-b global (I’ve left out the fancy characters), and what we’ve got here is a year in his turbulent life as he goes through his highs and lows via his email. If…
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All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
I’d not read any Christopher Brookmyre before, although he seems to be getting something of a push from his publisher at the moment, with reissued covers for his novels, and a new hardback also out. I’ve read comparisons of him with Carl Hiaasen, but on this reading, I wouldn’t place him quite on that level…