Month: July 2012
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Olympics Day 3 – Swimming, The Orbit and Fencing
[Note: This is a first draft. I’ll drop in some photos when I get a chance to process them] Today was a swimming day, and I had a 10am session. Having decided that security was very swift I didn’t get in too early today, but I still ended up with an hour to kill before…
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Olympics Day 2 – Basketball
Another early start for me, and my first visit to the Olympic Park for a couple of matches in the preliminary men’s basketball rounds. Since the session started at 9am, I took seriously the “get there two hours early” suggestion, and found myself in St Pancras International at about 7am. By 7.20am I was in…
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Olympics Day 1 – Men’s Road Race
Up early today for the first Olympic action with the Men’s Road Race departing from Central London at 10am. I got to Richmond Park an hour ahead of that and roughly twenty minutes’ later, the peleton arrived. They weren’t really racing at that point, and looked like a big colourful cycling club out for a…
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Olympics – The Torch Relay
Warning: There’s probably going to be a bit of Olympics coverage in this blog over the next couple of weeks! Well it was only around the corner, and I was coming back from a meeting anyway, so I had to join the massed ranks of office workers, shop workers, and tourists who came out to…
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Le Maillot Jeune
What an extraordinarily wonderful day. Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France in Paris. The first Briton ever to do so in 109 years of the race and 99 editions of it. Chris Froome, another Brit comes second. Mark Cavendish makes it three out of three on the Champs Elysees. I just had to be…
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BBC Olympic Deal
The BBC has just announced that it’s signed a new deal with the IOC for the next four summer and winter games through to the 2020 games in a city that has yet to be announced. It’s not immediately clear how much the BBC has paid, but This was an interesting deal because of a…
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Girls – The Next Big Thing, Or Not?
It’s a blindingly obvious thing to say, but the choice of which channel airs a television series can really determine how successful it might become, irrespective of the programme’s actual overall quality and appeal. Case in point. Sometime in the not too distant future – September or October I believe – Sky Atlantic will start…
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Licencing Music
Of late, I’ve been shooting a few Super 8 films, and have really enjoyed the somewhat back to basics pleasures. I’ve still got plenty to learn about the medium however. But I am left with a problem. Because of the silent nature, the films work much better if I put a soundtrack on them. And…
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YouView Launch
George Entwistle may be the new Director General of the BBC, but the current one, Mark Thompson, was to be found in County Hall this morning alongside representatives of the other shareholders for the launch of YouView. Lord Sugar – chairman of YouView – kicked off procedings, although most of the demostrations were conducted by…