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Archiving Podcasts
This week, it was announced that WTF with Marc Maron would be ending its run after 16 years. The show will end sometime in the autumn (aka ‘fall’) having produced more than 1,600 episodes over that time. Maron’s podcast was one of the big early titles, and it’s fair to say that although Maron was…
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Lorries Not Biological
Well surprise, surprise. The “mobile labs” that coalition forces found are not quite that. They’re for manufacturing hydrogen for barrage balloons. Somewhat less harmful. I look forward to Blair apologising for saying otherwise.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Good to see that the Burmese (never Myanmar) are still up to their old tricks, holding Aung San Suu Kyi in “protective custody”.
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Science Books
There are few interesting books on this Aventis Science Books Award shortlist. In particular Small World looks interesting.
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Playstation Online
I had a very geeky evening on Friday playing SOCOM online with several others from work using borrowed kit. I must admit that it was all enormous fun. So much so, that I went out to buy a network adaptor of my own yesterday. Now the thing to say about this is that Sony have…
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Halo Jones and Ian Gibson
Now that I have the blog up and running, I suddenly got in a bit of a Halo Jones mood, and decided to search for pictures. But what do you, a quick Google search throws up images from the site of Mr Ian Gibson himself. While this is to be expected, you must know that…
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Don’t You Love It
When it all goes wrong. Actually I ran out of space on this server, and that had dire consequences for the Berkley DB on which this blog is sat. Even adding extra space was no good. Fortunately, the shift over to MySQL soon put things back on an even keel, and now I even have…
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Spooks
The new series of Spooks started last night, beginning precisely where the last one left off. Of course the bomb didn’t go off, although another did. I do enjoy Spooks, although I’ve yet to visit a hospital where Natasha Little was an available doctor… BBC 3 continued with episode 2, so I had a bit…
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WMD
Another great report this morning on the Today programme, detailing some of the serious doubts being aired over Iraq’s having Weapons of Mass Destruction. The security services are still leaking that they were unhappy with the publicity being given to the so called mobile biological laboratories, and there seem to have been a number of…
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Corriere della Sera
Last Thursday, the Italian newspaper’s editor resigned “for personal reasons” in what was seen as a political decision from Berlusconi. Today, the paper doesn’t appear on the streets of Italy, but does seem to appear on the web.
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Al-Jazeera Exlusive
Last night BBC2 showed this documentary in the Correspondent series, going behind the scenes at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news TV station, during the Gulf War. There’d been a lot of controversy over this screening seeing as it featured footage (albeit pixilated) of dead British and American soldiers that Al-Jazeera had screened. The Sun lead –…
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State of Play
I’m quite enjoying State of Play on BBC1, or in particular, BBC4, since they show the following week’s episodes, and once you get caught in that cycle, you’re not going to leave it. The fact that it stars both Kelly McDonald and Polly Walker, was always going to make it must see, but it’s a…
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MTAmazon
Well I did have a bit of a play around with MTAmazon, trying to replace US links with UK ones, but unsuccessfully. The whole Plugin is fairly small, and despite the fact that I didn’t understand how it was all put together, I did find the references to the XML that Amazon supplies, and the…
Hadrian’s Wall
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