Month: October 2013

  • Nebraska and Pioneer

    As the London Film Festival gets into gear, I’ve been trying to catch a few films before heading to Salford and the Radio Festival. Nebraska is the new film from Alexander Payne, whose breakout film was Election, but who has also made About Schmidt, Sideways and The Descendants. I’ve not seen all his work, but…

  • Gravity

    Wow. I’ve just seen Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, Gravity, and, well, just… wow! It’s a stunning piece of work, and I was just blown away by it on every level. Fear not – I won’t be spoiling the film in any way, and will say as little about the plot here as I can. Because…

  • LBC at Forty – Memories

    Happy Birthday to LBC which is forty years old, and was the first – legal – commercial radio station in the UK, launching on 8th October 1973 just a few days ahead of Capital Radio and Radio Clyde. I’m not going to write a history about it here, because others will do that, and they’ll…

  • Migrating from Movable Type to WordPress

    For a long time now, I’ve been very frustrated with the blogging platform I’ve used since I started properly blogging here back in 2002. At the time, Movable Type seemed to be the “go to” platform. And it was fine for many years. I’m in no way a web-developer but a lot of Googling meant…

  • WordPress Up and Running

    I’ve migrated my blog over to WordPress. With luck most things should be working fine, including feeds – the main way that people see this blog’s writing. You shouldn’t have to do anything, and old links should redirect accordingly. However in the short term, feed readers may re-present some older updates on a one-off basis.…

  • Short Nexus 7 2013 Review

    Since I’ve had it a few weeks now, I thought it was worth writing about the new Google Nexus 7, which annoyingly doesn’t have a particularly distinct new name to differentiate it from last year’s model. So let’s call it the 2013 model. I was a big fan of the first Nexus 7. It was…