Category: media

According to a report in the Guardian, Capital Radio is no longer London’s most popular commercial radio station having been overtaken by Heart. Me, I’d never go near either of them. I still pine for the good old days of GLR.

Some news about Cult TV shows which might be interesting if you have the same dodgy tastes as me. The BBC is repeating Threads on BBC4 next Wednesday (29th Oct at 22:40). This is the story of what might happen after a nuclear attack on the UK. Might look a bit dated now (it was… Continue reading Cult TV News

On Anna in Wonderland last night, Anna Nolan investigated groups of people in the UK who like to think they are vampires. It was all rather sad. There was Lucius (and I’m betting that’s not what her parents called her) who proudly showed off her filed teeth and her coffin. “So you sleep in that… Continue reading Vampire

Bloody hell. Dr Who is coming back to TV. It won’t be on for a couple of years and there are about a million and one things that can go wrong before then and it’ll never be as good as it used to be. But it’s pretty exciting news all in all.

I don’t download illegal music files from the Internet. I’ve found the ebook version of Data Munging with Perl on enough dodgy web sites to know how it feels to have your copyrighted material ripped off. I do, however, listen to music mostly at my computer and I have something like 40 Gb of digital… Continue reading Digital Copy Protection

My step-daughter has just started an A level course in flim studies. This means that I (hopefully) get a good excuse to buy lots of classic films on DVD. It also means that we get to have interesting discussions about films. Like this one from last night. Gill doesn’t like many Hollywood films. She thinks… Continue reading Film Studies

The disparities between the advertised, and real event were such that you wondered if there could have been some kind of mistake. Weren’t Tower Bridge and the Thames meant to be somehow involved, instead of just picturesquely adjacent? And on telly, a wide-eyed Nicky Campbell had referred repeatedly to “solitary confinement”. Blaine had also stressed… Continue reading Blaine in “Solitary Confinement”

£30M Wiped off Man Utd Shares screamed the headlines on yesterdays Evening Standard. But what the hell does that mean? Can you work out how badly Manchester United shares had done yesterday from that headline? Of course you can’t. For the £30M figure to mean anything, you need to know the total value of issued… Continue reading Meaningless Numbers

According to a report in the Washington Post, Opus the penguin will be returning soon. During the 80s Opus was one of the main characters in Bloom County which was the best comic strip ever.

Suddenly the last of a very small band of well-wishers has gone, and I am alone. Alone in a box with nothing but the clothes on my back and enough water to last me 24 hours. And a little mat to sleep on. And a sleeping bag and a pillow. And an extra fleece in… Continue reading Not David Blaine