Month: June 2012

  • Random Notes

    A few entirely unrelated things worth noting: 1. Nexus 7 Tablet Google’s announced its new tablet, and I’ll let others tell you how good or otherwise it is. What I find quite staggering is Google’s UK pricing. In the US, the 8GB entry level model is $199. When you hear numbers like that normally, you…

  • The Daily Show – Back Daily in the UK

    Since it’s easier to moan than to be positive, I thought it was worth giving kudos to Comedy Central UK who are bringing the regular daily edition of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart back to the UK screens from the end of next month. You may recall that it used to air nightly on…

  • 10th Anniversary

    Ten years ago today the a new site took the internet by storm. adambowie.com was launched. OK. Maybe the internet wasn’t taken by storm. This was 2002, and while Google was already in existence, there certainly wasn’t a YouTube or Facebook. Arsenal had won the Premier League – at Old Trafford no less. The World…

  • Radio Times – 25 June 2012

    It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so as a tenth birthday special, here’s a new one. As ever, best viewed large.

  • London RAJAR

    If you happen to be passing by during RAJAR periods, you’ll know that I now tend to put together a nice chart of historical RAJAR that you can play with. This is for the national picture of course. And I’d meaning for a while to have a look at London specifically. A few weeks ago,…

  • Let’s Give The Government Access To All Our Personal Data

    I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Sign up to the Open Rights Group’s “Stop the Snooper’s Charter” now.

  • The Premier League’s £3bn Deal

    First of all – wow! I mean WOW! £3bn for the new Premier League rights. A 71% increase on the 2010/11 – 2012/3 deal. In the current economic climate, that has to be a spectacular result for the Premier League, and its clubs. But I just wanted to address what it means for all the…

  • Newspapers Need To Help Themselves

    I do something that’s becoming increasingly unusual in the 21st century. I buy a daily newspaper. Specifically, I have subscription vouchers for The Guardian and Observer. But I think it’s fair to say that everyone realises the days of printed daily papers are numbered. I don’t think it’ll happen that soon. It might be ten…

  • Smithfield Nocturne

    A great fun evening yesterday watching criterium cycle racing around Smithfield Market. Lots more to process and upload, but his was my favourite.

  • A Fruitless Early Morning

    The alarm was set for 4.00am. I’d bought some Baader solar paper. I’d made a solar filter for my camera, essentially following these instructions. I was already for the last Transit of Venus that’ll be visible from Earth until 2117, and therefore, my lifetime. Sadly, I hadn’t counted on the wonderful British summer. Actually, that’s…

  • The Righteousness of the Twitterati

    Actually, that title is inaccurate. What I really mean is the righteousness of a certain “mob mentality” on social media, and Twitter in particular. I refer, of course, to the apparent view that yesterday’s coverage of the Jubilee by BBC television was simply awful. If you were to venture onto Twitter yesterday – and today…

  • Prometheus

    I wrote recently about my travails in trying to pre-book a 2D screening of Prometheus. Come the release, there have been more 2D screenings made available than were listed for pre-booking. So I ended up heading over to the Hackney Picturehouse – a journey made considerably more complicated by Greater Anglia using the Jubilee Weekend…