Ben is wrong. Some of us know what leading is. And I wish he’d stop dropping tantalising hints and just release the bloody thing :) (Does iWeb have to generate such crap URLs?)
Category: media
Gervais to Charge for Podcast
This won’t go down well in the blogosphere. Or the podcastosphere. Or whatever it’s called. There were a couple of jokes in an episode of the Ricky Gervais Show podcast about how much money they would have made if they had charged for downloads. And now. it seems, that’s exactly what they’re going to do.… Continue reading Gervais to Charge for Podcast
BBC Four
The always excellent BBC Four has been excelling itself over the last couple of weeks. First there was the Folk Britannia season which looks at the history of British folk music since the 1950s. Then there was Lefties – a series of three programmes about people involved in left wing politics in the 70s and… Continue reading BBC Four
Overstating the Case
The Guardian rather overstates the case on the smoking ban. Parliament, so often maligned and so often ignorantly, has done itself and the nation proud by banning smoking in England. “Banning smoking in England”? Smoking won’t become illegal everywhere in England. Just in public. Which puts it, I suppose, about on a par with masturbation.… Continue reading Overstating the Case
BlogCode
You can never have too many blogs to read. BlogCode is a good way to find new blogs that are similar in tone to blogs that you already read. More details from Tim Ireland. There goes the rest of my spare time.
The IT Crowd
Channel Four have launched a new comedy show called The IT Crowd. It is about the IT support group in a large company and is therefore of interest to geeks everywhere. The most interesting thing about it is that the episodes are available for download from the web site before they are broadcast. Unfortunately Channel… Continue reading The IT Crowd
30 Boxes
I’ve signed up for the public beta of 30 Boxes the web calendar system that everyone seems to be talking about. It looks very pretty but seems to have one major flaw. I can’t find a way to import data from another source. I have a .ics file which I’ve been using to store my… Continue reading 30 Boxes
New Yahoo! Slogan
Anyone from Yahoo! reading? I’ve got a new slogan for you. Yahoo! – the Swiftest search engine I just thought of that. I obviously missed my calling. I should have been in marketing. What do you mean, it’s too literary? You just don’t read enough!
First Direct Web Site
Here’s a good example of how not to design a user interface. Yesterday I realised that I needed to pay my tax bill. My accountants had filed the return, it was just up to me to actually stump up the money. The deadline for payment is January 31st so it was a bit late to… Continue reading First Direct Web Site
Film Reviews
I’ve seen quite a few films over the weekend. So let’s pretend that you’re interested in my opinions of them and give you some reviews. Batman Begins I still love buying and reading superhero comics. But it’s been some time since I saw a really satisfying film based on a comicbook hero. This wasn’t very… Continue reading Film Reviews