Month: February 2010

  • Premier League Commentary

    A good night last night at Arsenal watching them beat Liverpool. And the other results were excellent too. So I’m really excited that today, Absolute Radio (my employer), has announced that it has won rights to live commentaries from a 3pm Premier League fixtures for three years from next season. Read more at the One…

  • Newswipe on the Iraq Inquiry

    I love Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. It’s simply one of the best things on TV anywhere. Anyway – this week they covered the ongoing Iraq Inquiry, and in particular coverage of Blair’s appearance at the Inquiry. Except, the programme couldn’t show any of the the Inquiry. This is because television programmes can’t show clips of Parliamentary…

  • The Chalk Circle Man

    As I mentioned previously, I’m going to try to get around to talking more about what I’m reading here. I picked up The Chalk Circle Man, because I’d not previously read any Fred Vargas novels, but had heard good things about her, and I found myself in town at the weekend without anything to read…

  • US Sport v European Sport

    I stayed up late last night to watch the Superbowl. I like American Football, and once you get over the inordinate number of breaks in play it’s a fine sport. I suggest that you either diligently us your PVR in live pause mode, or do as I did last night and decide that it was…

  • Iceland

    I’ve been very slowly publishing my Iceland photos. Plenty more still to come.

  • Transatlantic Sessions

    Transatlantic Sessions is one of those TV programmes which you may have seen if you spend any time watching BBC Four, BBC Alba, or (I guess) BBC Scotland. Jerry Douglas hosts a variety of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, the US and elsewhere as they record – well, sessions – which are then broadcast in a…

  • RAJAR Day

    Most of my thoughts on RAJAR today are published on the One Golden Square blog. So I won’t bother repeating them here. I needed a photo to illustrate RAJAR on the blog, so I took the one above. Although RAJAR’s mostly electronic these days, printing a copy of the summary PDF is still useful. But…

  • The Dying Light

    I’ve been frankly awful detailing what I’ve been reading recently. So let’s try to right that wrong in 2010. The book I’ve most enjoyed recently – if enjoyment is the right word – is Henry Porter’s new novel, The Dying Light. Porter is British editor of Vanity Fair, but more relevant is that he was…

  • EBook Readers And In-Fighting

    What are we to make over the weekend’s bit of fun over at Amazon.com? In brief, Amazon likes to charge a single price for its ebooks on the Kindle – $9.99. Macmillan, one of the biggest publishers in the US and the world, fundamentally disagrees with that philosophy. While it’s a clear and simple proposition…