Category: Misc
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Something Was Broken Here..
I’m not sure what yet, but I will be fixing it over the next day or so… All fixed now. Cheers Jonny!
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Clear Skies
On Sunday, as I returned from a late afternoon cycle ride out in northern Enfield and southern Hertfordshire, I noticed the view from The Ridgeway, a road that as it suggests, is quite high up above London. (It’s all relative). Yes – you can normally look out to the City of London, and then across…
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A Fresh Coat of Paint
I thought that it was time for a new look around these parts, so over the weekend, I’ve been updating the look and feel of my blog. Longtime readers will know that many moons ago, this blog started out in Movable Type. In 2013, I transitioned to the much better supported WordPress, and I went…
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Reclaiming Additional Industry Compensation from Thameslink/Great Northern
If you get the train regularly, you may know that 2018 has not been the rail industry’s finest year. In particular, there was the disastrous introduction of new timetables across the whole network, but particularly hitting the Northern Rail and Govia Thameslink services. I know the former has probably been worse, but I was in…
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Chris Evans
At this point, everyone in the industry and beyond has written about the seismic UK radio events of yesterday, when Chris Evans, presenter of the biggest breakfast show in the country, on the biggest radio station in the country, decided to leave after 8 years on breakfast there. Instead, he will take up the mantle…
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Railplan 20/20
Hooray! The new timetables began today, and although I had spent time looking at them previously, it wasn’t until they first properly kicked in today that I realised that on my section of the Great Northern rail network, we seem to have got something of the raw end of the deal, in two separate ways.…
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Three New Exhibitions
There are some really good exhibitions on at the moment in London. Actually, there are always really good exhibitions on. But over the weekend I went to three new ones, and all three were really good, and well worth visiting in their own rights. I spent a May Sunday visiting the three and using a…
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Rail v Road During Holidays: Compare and Contrast
The above press release dropped into my inbox the other day.* It’s from Highways England, and is of the sort that is regularly published at holiday times of the year. So as we enter the Easter weekend, roadworks all over the country have been temporarily lifted to enable the flow of traffic. They even have…
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Things Annoying Me Right Now
People labelling their Tweets “Breaking” before highlighting a story they believe is more important than others. People you generally respect getting so annoyed that a news organisation doesn’t reflect their personal choices, that the news organisation is suddenly worthless. Left-leaning British commentators weighing in pointlessly against right-leaning US gun advocates on Twitter. It’s not that…
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Digitising My Life in 2018
Life is digital. We’ve known that for a long time. Digital offers lots of convenience, but it brings with it complications. In particular, safe storage. In 2018 I need to try to fix three or four problems/issues I have coming up. 1. Cloud Storage As longtime readers might know, I have a couple of Synology…
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Stuck in Draft
If you follow this blog on a regular basis, you’ll know that my publishing can be a bit hit and miss. Certainly there’ll be something about UK radio ratings at least four times a year (RAJAR), and there’ll be some annotated Radio Times – especially at Christmas. But otherwise, it’s as and when I feel…