Month: December 2007
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DVD Screeners of I Am Legend
Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of the film industry. The torrent sites currently have for download a high quality copy of a “DVD Screener” of the big new Will Smith film, I Am Legend. The film has only just opened in the UK, and has only been out about three weeks in the US…
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John Woodruff
I read an obituary about this man the other day, and he’s someone I’d never heard of. He was a compatriot of Jesse Owens who ran in 1936 Olympics. Like Owens, he was also black: John Woodruff, who has died aged 92, was the first black to win gold in Berlin. His triumph in the…
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Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas everyone. I’ve not exactly sent a lot of Christmas cards this year, so please treat this as your Christmas greeting. Anyway, I’m off to watch the Doctor Who special, and all those Fred & Ginger films they’re showing on BBC Four.
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Terrible Misfortune
There was a Charlie Brooker Screenwipe end of year special this week And if you read this entry before Saturday 29 December, you can see it here. Alternatively, find it on YouTube. Anyway, Brooker took a well aimed swipe at The Jeremy Kyle Show, and you can’t really fault him for doing so. He concentrated…
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Dates For Your Diaries
Well… dates for my diary anyway. But I thought that I’d share them (it’s that time of year after all). A couple of programmes coming up that seem well worth listening to and watching: Sunday 6 January 2008, BBC Four – BBC Proms featuring the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. This is the performance…
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Dave
In Media Guardian’s review of the year, they’ve got a piece celebrating the success of “Dave.” Dave, you’ll no doubt recall, is the channel previously known as UK TV G2. And in an “inspired” piece of marketing, it was renamed Dave; minimal changes were made to programming, and success has followed. The numbers are hard…
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Danny Baker Ends Podcasts
Thanks to commenter Richard Miller for drawing my attention to the notices on Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast Show and Baker & Kelly websites. Danny has posted a note to say that there will be no more podcasts following an “irreversible and utter breakdown between the on-air team and the company who have, with varying…
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BBC iPlayer Now Streaming
The Beeb has updated the iPlayer to incorporate Flash streaming versions of programmes as well as the Windows XP only downloads previously available. This makes programme watching available to Mac and Linux users which is good news. It also means that I can link to a programme like last nights Can Gerry Robinson Fix The…
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Rewriting Yourself for the iPhone
Another website “optimises” itself for the iPhone. I do hope that every other gadget on the market gets a version of Picasa Webpages that makes best use of its own unique attributes. As I said previously, I’m getting really fed up of everybody rushing to write iPhone specific versions of their sites. I’ve no problem…
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Reselling Concert Tickets
I find this astonishing. Essentially what artists want is a cut of any resale money made from selling on concert tickets. The idea is that when tickets are resold, usually via websites these days, a proportion of the resale value would be passed on to a new body – The Resale Rights Society. I find…
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WRC – Where?
I was genuinely surprised today, to learn that the rally once known as the RAC Rally, had been run this weekend. Now I’m not an especially big rallying fan, but since it became “WRC” branded, it seems that it’s becoming harder for the passive fan to see. Once upon a time it ran for the…