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Month: September 2007

  • Kids – Don’t Do Video Piracy

    Tonights episode of The IT Crowd was as great as ever, and opened up with a mock video piracy warning:

  • Movable Type 4

    Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to MT 4, and so far everything seems OK. I got it working pretty much straight out of the box, and I took Sixapart’s advice and did it as side by side install to allow me to only move across folders that I actually needed. That said, once…

  • Stardust

    This evening I saw Stardust, the film based on Neil Gaiman’s novel. The film has already had its US release, and it’s fair to say that it didn’t perform outstandingly there. But is that a fair reflection of the film? I’d say not. The problem is that it’s a really hard film to market. The…

  • Danny Baker on Wippit

    So this week it finally happened; the Danny Baker podcast went to subscription only. A bit of background. Danny Baker’s been on the radio for years. In 2005, after a good stint on breakfast on BBC Radio London, he won the Sony Radio Award for DJ of the year. He promptly quit, returning to the…

  • New Products Launch – Hold The Front Page (Or Page 7 anyway)

    I’m torn. I admit it. On the one hand, it annoys the hell out of me that one company’s product launches gets so much coverage. But on the other hand, at 6pm last night I was sitting at my desk hitting refresh on Engadget’s excellent live blogging of Apple’s latest launch event. So much was…

  • Compilation Albums

    Wandering through Virgin Megastore yesterday, I came across two unlikely compilation albums – unlikely for very different reasons. First there was Cained. It’s a compilation of Michael Caine’s favourite chillout tracks. Yes – that Michael Caine. According to Caine’s “blog” he truly did pick these tunes, with the idea coming when he had dinner at…

  • Last Night’s TV

    Mediaguardian asks whether we watched Dumped or Hell’s Kitchen (now with Marco Pierre White). Obviously, I watched neither. I can report that the trailer for Hell’s Kitchen seems to be exactly the same as The Restaurant over on BBC2 – both showing people slinging food around the place (the BBC has already had to respond…

  • The Kingdom

    Well here’s a film that’s not likely to get shown in Saudi Arabia – The Kingdom of the title. The Kingdom is the first of a series of films set in a post 9/11 world with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fairly bogged down. It begins with a skilfully edited credit sequence that uses…

  • The Bourne Ultimatum

    The Bourne Ultimatum is the final* part of the Bourne trilogy which bears little to no resemblance to the Robert Ludlum books. Incidentally, Ludlum is one of those masterful authors who manages to publish new titles despite being long dead. Anyway, back to the film which is once again directed by Paul Greengrass. What can…

  • Sci-Fi TV News

    So we get two sets of interesting pieces of news today. First of all, after a significant amount of rumour regarding the future of Doctor Who, and David Tennant in particular, the Beeb has announced that 2009 won’t see series five. Instead there’ll be three specials. This isn’t surprising given that Tennant is now committed…

  • Thankless Task

    The Sun cut its price in London and the South East today, from 35p to 20p. People in London and the South East obviously need to save our pennies more so than people in the rest of the UK. Goodness, with one bedroom flats going for £300,000, you need to save all the 15 pences…

  • iTunes/NBC Universal Dispute

    NBC Universal has fallen out with Apple over the pricing of their products on iTunes with the result that Apple will not be offering any new material for sale from the company via its store. That means no new seasons of Heroes, Battlestar Galactica or The Office – three series that have sold very well…