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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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PSB – Public Service Broadcasting
It concerns me that terrestrial commercial television broadcasters in the UK are trying to reduce their PSB remits. Charles Allen is interviewed in Media Guardian today, on the morning that ITV plc is born. “Allen wants the PSB review to contribute to a new definition of ITV’s public service role, which he believes should take…
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The Sunday Format
I missed the entire first series of The Sunday Format, but thanks to Listen Again, I’m hearing the first episode of series 2 now. How about this excerpt discussing features of their new CD supplement: Computer cookies that track your internet use and help us learn more about you. Best of all, The Moment on…
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Spam Count
Well the results are in: Last week – 197 pieces of spam over a 24 hour period. This week – 21 pieces spam over a similar period. That’s quite a significant reduction. And my spam filter is only going to get better and cleaner as a result.
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Top Up Fees
The other day I didn’t know for certain which way my MP, Joan Ryan, had voted over these fees. Well now I do. She was a teller for this vote. And why does she have this job? Because she’s a whip. So there’s no danger of my local MP ever going against Tony then is…
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Another Tin of Whitewash
Whitewash by Jonathan Freedland from Thursday’s Guardian.
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Sir Bill
John Naughton wrote a good piece in The Times examining why exactly we’re giving Bill Gates an honorary knighthood.
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Hysteria Meter Working
Cheers Nick. The Hysteria Meter can now be relatively easily changed. Oh, and the Departures box on the left is just using the helpfully rewritten version of the official National Rail Enquiries website to supply me with up to date info on the trains I use. Well it is my website after all.
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Spam Filtering
Hooray! My ISP has started filtering my Spam. Starting now, I’ll see how many pieces of Junk Mail get through, and compare with last week – 1300 Sat to 1300 Sun GMT.
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Another One Bites The Dust
So Gilligan joins Dyke and Davies on the list. Meanwhile, Campbell aside, everyone in the government hunkers down and stays put. I just have one question. When are they going to paint the front of number 10 with Whitewash?
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Broadband Airships
Yeah, right. This is going to happen…
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Greg Dyke
Greg Dyke gave a relatively spirited interview on the Today Programme this morning, I managed to time it so that I was going into a tunnel on a train, but of course the website has the full audio. It looks like we’re going to have to wait for his full and measured rebuttal of the…
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Hello to my Work Colleagues!
Well, it seems that a larger than expected number of my co-workers are regular readers of this site. So can I just wish them all, a big “Hello”. I know that you have to put up with discovering what it is that I think about various films, books and other artistic merits, but I like…
Hadrian’s Wall
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