Podcasts, Radio, TV, Books, Cycling, Photography and More
-
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…
-
Dyke
Frankly I’m shocked and disappointed in no small way that Greg Dyke has resigned from the DG of the BBC. It really is a tragic day when he feels he has to do this. I totally support the BBC throughout this “affair” (and I use the term in the loosest possible manner). Frankly, the Hutton…
-
The Book of Illusions
0571212182
-
Francis Wheen
I can’t have been the only person disappointed when Francis Wheen’s column in the Guardian ended a year or so ago. The brief period of Rod Liddle really didn’t make up for it. OK, so his biography of Marx still stares at me guiltily from one of my bookshelves unread, and there’s been his collection…
-
Moore on Desertion
Michael Moore’s worth reading on the Bush being a “deserter”. This election’s getting heated. Still, you can go to Amazon and contribute!
-
5 Votes
So he’s scraped through. This can still be defeated though, and I think worse is to come tomorrow. At the time of writing, opinion seems to be in one direction. 71 Labour MPs opposed the vote, somewhat fewer than those listed this morning on the front of The Independent. They had 77 committed, and 20…
-
Maes Howe
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. The Guardian have published an LRB essay about the Orkneys Islands, and in particular the amazing Maes Howe. A couple of years ago I got to visit the Orkneys – for just a short day – taking the foot ferry from John O’Groats to Burwick…
-
Power Cut
At about 1.00AM this morning, my immediate neighbourhood was hit by a power cut – the first I can recall for quite some time. If it wasn’t for the fact that I was working on the computer, I’d have probably not have realised until the morning came around and I saw clocks all flashing 00:00.…
-
Atkins Diet on Horizon
Just spent the afternoon sprawled out on my sofa watching Horizon have an examination of the Atkins Diet. Nothing is completely certain from it, but the overall results seem to indicate that the make up of the diet act as an appetite suppressor. In particular, protein may be what does the trick. Eat more protein?…
-
Do The Hustle…
I really am looking forward to this.
-
No WMDs
David Kay has quit his job searching for those elusive WMDs in Iraq. Seemingly it’s not just down to there being nothing out there to find, but personal reasons too. But this is vital news in a week when the Hutton Report is published. While that report is specifically looking at the death of Dr…
-
Industry and Protectionism
Two emails in my spam-cluttered inbox this morning raised some interesting problems that I find hard to break down. First Robert X Cringley’s weekly piece for PBS. He’s talking in the main about US jobs leaving those shores and heading to places like India or other developing countries, where costs are lower. This is illustrated…
-
The Nutcracker
Today I went to see my first ever ballet. The Nutcracker by Matthew Bourne is something of a different ballet, I’m told, with a non-conformist setting and method of producing the show. The charming people at ING Direct provided the tickets via one of their free offers, and who was I to refuse them. I…
Hadrian’s Wall
Check out some of my other photography
