Month: January 2009

  • Chris Martin

    (Needs to be seen large) Lots of live streaming (now over obviously) of Chris Martin from Coldplay at work. Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t have been taking photos, but I was standing behind non-performing band members, and couldn’t really resist. Most of the other photos have him gurning or are otherwise unlikely to be cleared by…

  • RAJAR and All Things Digital

    Everything happens at once. Yesterday, saw the publication of Q4 2008’s RAJAR results, and the eagerly awaited Digital Britain report. They’re not really related, but I should probably say something about both. From close to home, my employer, Absolute Radio, published its first results, and they clearly don’t make for comfortable reading. The numbers show…

  • Digital Switchover – US Style

    What on earth is going on in the States? As UK readers will almost certainly know, we’re currently embarking on digital switchover. That’s to say that by 2012, nobody will be able to watch TV in the UK without some kind of digital box. Sky hopes that will be via their system (and they posted…

  • Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler

    You do watch Flight of the Conchords don’t you? What do you mean, you’ve been meaning to? Stop wasting your time on the internet and either go and look it up on YouTube, or better still go and get the DVDs of the first series right now (and the Radio 2 series, and the album).…

  • Doubt

    Doubt is another “Oscar” film adapted and directed from his own play by John Patrick Shanley. And up front, it’s fair to say that it feels very much like a stageplay adapted to film. It’s claustrophobic and has powerful set pieces that scream “play” at you. Meryl Streep is a strict nun who’s principal of…

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    I saw a preview of this at the weekend, although it was a close run thing. When I turned up at the cinema at 10.30am on Sunday morning along with a hundred and fifty or so other people, my local multiplex seemed to know nothing about it. Cue lots of delays and uncertainty about whether…

  • One More Moan…

    Given the general lack of science programmes on TV, it’s a bit of a shame that when they do come along – they clash. Last night Horizon returned with an edition entitled “Why Are Thin People Not Fat” (I’ll just leave that there…) while at the same time on BBC Four we had the first…

  • Things That Currently Annoy Me

    Sky emails me to tell me about the “Exciting New Improvements” they’ve made to the Sky Player (aka Sky Anytime – but since the success of the iPlayer, everything has to be similarly named). I can now watch if I have a Mac (or “MAC” in Sky-speak – isn’t that something to do with WiFi?),…

  • Welney

    I went to Welney today, and apart from discovering that a simple five mile cycle from Littleport station took far more out of an unfit me than it should have done, I took dozens of photos. This is possibly my favourite, but there’ll be more appearing over at p.

  • Sport and Media

    Andy Burnham has today announced the committee that will determine which sporting events will remain “Listed”. At the moment, there are two groups of sports that are protected. That is, they must be offered in one form or another free to air to all viewers. Group A – Full Live Coverage The Olympic Games The…

  • MPs Expenses Defeated

    Great news! The vote called last week by the government to exclude MPs’ expenses from falling into the Freedom of Information act, which was to take place tomorrow, has been cancelled. This superb news almost certainly follows the vast amount of emails that MPs have been receiving, the Tweets and the Facebook group. All inside…

  • Write To Your MP Today!

    The government is trying to renege on publishing details of MPs expenses. They introduced some new legislation last week to remove their obligation under the Freedom of Information Act. This comes after over £1m had been spent collecting the information. And let’s not forget that they’re public servants. So write to your MP today. Get…