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Recent Books
It feels like ages since I wrote about some of the recent books I’ve been reading. Let’s try to put that right with this handful of recently finished books. Taipei Story by Rebecca F. Kuang I first discovered Rebecca F Kuang when I read her fantasy epic Babel a couple of years ago. Her lastest…
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Alisher Usmanov
Hello lawyers at Schillings! (I’m pretty sure, there’s nothing illegal, libellous, or defamatory on this page, but be sure to let me know if you think otherwise! Send me a comment. You and your client have certainly done us all a favour by drawing attention to the man). I’ve no idea if they’ll read this…
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In The Air Tonight
You can’t move for Phil Collins at the moment. Geneis has just embarked on a new tour of North America for the first time in something like fifteen years. There’s a new book out about the band. But mostly, there’s that Cadbury’s ad: Over in the States, there’s a new ABC sitcom called Carpoolers which…
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The Colour Purple
Guess where I was last night? I had my camera confiscated at one point, and was very pleased that I slipped the memory card out of it and into the palm of the person next to me, as I was directed to some lockers to hand it in. It was an unnecessary subterfuge since they…
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Dynamic Interactive Content from the Radio
I note that Virgin Media customers will be able to get “dynamic interactive content” from BBC Radio services later this month. Basically this gives you lots of “now playing” type information when you’re watching a BBC Radio channel. As the press release explains, this has been available on Freeview for sometime. And the release also…
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Apple Video Pricing Revisited
There’s an interesting piece about Apple’s pricing for video in Variety at the moment. It seems that Apple would quite like to drop prices from $1.99 to 99c an episode, and not all the studios are happy. ABC/Disney might bite the bullet, but as an unnamed commenter for the piece says ‘it doesn’t make sense…
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Kids – Don’t Do Video Piracy
Tonights episode of The IT Crowd was as great as ever, and opened up with a mock video piracy warning:
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Movable Type 4
Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to MT 4, and so far everything seems OK. I got it working pretty much straight out of the box, and I took Sixapart’s advice and did it as side by side install to allow me to only move across folders that I actually needed. That said, once…
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Stardust
This evening I saw Stardust, the film based on Neil Gaiman’s novel. The film has already had its US release, and it’s fair to say that it didn’t perform outstandingly there. But is that a fair reflection of the film? I’d say not. The problem is that it’s a really hard film to market. The…
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Danny Baker on Wippit
So this week it finally happened; the Danny Baker podcast went to subscription only. A bit of background. Danny Baker’s been on the radio for years. In 2005, after a good stint on breakfast on BBC Radio London, he won the Sony Radio Award for DJ of the year. He promptly quit, returning to the…
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New Products Launch – Hold The Front Page (Or Page 7 anyway)
I’m torn. I admit it. On the one hand, it annoys the hell out of me that one company’s product launches gets so much coverage. But on the other hand, at 6pm last night I was sitting at my desk hitting refresh on Engadget’s excellent live blogging of Apple’s latest launch event. So much was…
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Compilation Albums
Wandering through Virgin Megastore yesterday, I came across two unlikely compilation albums – unlikely for very different reasons. First there was Cained. It’s a compilation of Michael Caine’s favourite chillout tracks. Yes – that Michael Caine. According to Caine’s “blog” he truly did pick these tunes, with the idea coming when he had dinner at…
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Last Night’s TV
Mediaguardian asks whether we watched Dumped or Hell’s Kitchen (now with Marco Pierre White). Obviously, I watched neither. I can report that the trailer for Hell’s Kitchen seems to be exactly the same as The Restaurant over on BBC2 – both showing people slinging food around the place (the BBC has already had to respond…
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