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HBO Max and Paramount+: What It Might Mean For Sports
Today the deal was done, and Paramount took over Warner Bros. Discovery in a massive deal that has much of Hollywood quaking. There were some last minute wrinkles with a deal being struck a couple of weeks ago with a group of US Attorneys General, with the general view being that they folded and didn’t…
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TV News Channels – Political Pawns
In the last few days, both Sky News and CNN have become tangentially embroiled in ongoing media takeovers. In both cases, there could be an impact on their longterm futures to a greater or lesser extent. In the UK, 21st Century Fox is trying to takeover complete ownership of BSkyB. In a response to the…
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Lights
It has been a week since British Summer Time ended, the clocks went back an hour, and suddenly the sun is setting around 4:30pm. If you ride a bike, and work regular hours, that means that you’re going to be cycling home in the dark. Now I’m a pretty live-and-let-live cyclist, in that I’m not…
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Administrative Note: HTTPS
I forgot to mention it when I switched it on recently, but this site is now HTTPS enabled. That should mean that in browsers like Chrome you see a nice green “Secure” label to the left of the URL. What did I need to do to get this to work? Not a great deal really.…
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London Film Festival 2017
I went to a decent selection of films at this year’s London Film Festival, and overall was very impressed by the range and quality. There are obviously a stupidly large number of films that you can see, and while seeing some big hitters early is always nice, there’s also the opportunity to see films that…
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If People Think It – Does It Matter If It’s Actually True?
In this week’s excellent episode of the Reply All podcast, Alex Goldman and PG Vogt explore the question Is Facebook Spying On You? In particular, a number of people are of the belief that the Facebook app is listening to what you’re saying and that’s the only way to explain why things you were talking…
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Autumn Colours
A couple of videos that I shot over the weekend. Epping Forest in Autumn from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Hilly Fields in the Autumn from Adam Bowie on Vimeo.
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Thor: Ragnarok
I confess that I feel left behind by Marvel’s Cinematic Universe these days. The films come thick and fast, and I’ve not seen them all by any means. That has begun to instill in me a fear that I won’t actually fully understand a new film because I’ve missed things that happened in the last…
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U-Turns in Pancras Road
Note: This is aimed particularly at anyone who cycles in central London and travels near either King’s Cross or St Pancras stations. Everyone else? As you were. Unless you work for Camden Council… While tube maps show King’s Cross St Pancras as a single station, anyone who visits will know that there are actually two…
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RAJAR Q3 2017
As ever, this post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 9 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details…
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Trent Park at Sunrise
Trent Park Dawn from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. I was up early this morning, and although there was some rain coming, I caught this.
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What I’m Listening To… October 2017
It feels like it has been a long time since I wrote about what I’m listening to, and I thought it might be worth just recording my current listening patterns, for my own interest at a later date, if nobody else’s. In any event, this week I was a panellist on this month’s Radio Today…
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On Uber in London
(Note: This mostly comes from something I wrote on Facebook. So I thought I may as well broaden it out and publish it here.) TFL has decided it will not award an operator licence to Uber from 30 September. In essence, it is saying that Uber must cease operations in London. TfL has today informed…
Hadrian’s Wall
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