More proof (if any was needed) that reality tv contestants aren’t exactly the brightest of people. “Shell” Jubin was touted as one of the cleverest people on this year’s UK Big Brother. During the course of the programme she got a first class degree in some fluffy subject. But it seems that she’s not too… Continue reading Not The Brightest…
Film/Book Tie-Ins
Occasionally (!) films based on books end up bearing little relation to the original books. A good currenty example is I Robot. I haven’t yet seen the film, but the trailers I’ve seen make it very clear that that it has almost nothing to do with Asimov’s original collection of short stories. However there must… Continue reading Film/Book Tie-Ins
Thatchers
Very happy to see that Mark Thatcher has been arrested for his part in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. He’s always been a nasty piece of work with his fingers in all sorts of dubious pies. Let’s hope the shock kills his mother.
KarmaDownload
I’ve just got a press release announcing that the music download site that I was working on earlier this year has gone live. One particularly nice thing about it is that it has absolutely no DRM at all.
Eurofoo
Over the weekend I was at the Eurofoo conference in Enschede. Tim O’Reilly invited a group of people to hang out for a couple of days and tell each other about cool stuff. Before I forget it all, here’s a brief list of the interesting things that I saw. Ben Hammersley creates RSS feeds of… Continue reading Eurofoo
Boscastle Witches
The destruction that has taken place in Boscastle this week is, of course, terrible but there’s one thing that I haven’t seen mentioned on the news. One of the most interesting buildings in the village was the Museum of Witchcraft. This museum had a number of interesting and unique exhibits about the history of witchdraft… Continue reading Boscastle Witches
Matthew Shergold
I’m starting to suspect that there is an orchestrated campaign to turn Matthew Somerville into the new Craig Shergold. When I first mentioned the closure of the Accessible Odeon site I got this response (which also appeared in a number of other places). I emailed the person who made these comments to correct their errors,… Continue reading Matthew Shergold
Sports Commentators
Note to broadcasters… Most sports commentators are barely literate. They are (usually) able to commentate on their own sports without too much difficulty, but if you give them something more complex than that (like, for example, the opening cermony of the Olympic games) then they will have no idea what they are talking about and… Continue reading Sports Commentators
Martin Linton
My local MP is Martin Linton. He was one of the people who got into parliament on the back of Labour’s massive landslide victory in 1997, so he’s understandably a bit “New Labour” for my tastes. Like many MPs, he has his own web site and unlike many MPs he (or his staff) even keep… Continue reading Martin Linton
Blue Nile
Blimey. A new album from the Blue Nile. That makes four in just over twenty years. Not exactly the hardest working band in the world. Their last album, Peace at Last (1996), wasn’t their best, but the first two, A Walk Across the Rooftops (1983) and Hats (1989), are two of the finest in my… Continue reading Blue Nile