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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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The Day We Phoned Maggie
One of the big stories in the news today is that someone somehow got through to David Cameron on the phone, and pretended to be the head of GCHQ. Cameron says that he realised that it was a hoax fairly quickly and hung up. I suspect that a lot of people are wondering: “Surely it…
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Refurbishment
This premises on Great Portland Street is using pop-culture magazines to black out its windows while it undergoes refurbishment. I can’t decide if it’s cool or sacrilegious! The naive person within me thinks that they found some magazines under some stairs somewhere and decided to use them to cover up the windows. The realist in…
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On a Canal in a Canoe – Secret Adventures
It being the middle of January, and therefore getting quite cold, what better way of spending a Monday evening could there be than paddling a canoe around London? This was an organised trip via “Secret Adventures“, an internet Meetup group. We set off from Moo Canoes’ base in Limehouse, heading up Limehouse Cut heading in…
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Big Norfolk Sky
Sheringham Beach, November 2014.
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Amazon’s App Notifications
As I buy a reasonable amount of stuff from Amazon, I use their mobile app a bit. It’s a relatively convenient way to manage my Amazon transactions. It also usefully sends you updates, using Android’s notifications system, to let you know when your items have been shipped, or if they’re available for collection should you…
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A Portable Music Player
When I was thinking about my future options for a home for my digital music library once I’ve breached Google’s 20,000 song limit, I also mentioned in passing the sad death of the iPod Classic – i.e. the iPod. If reports are to be believed, the remaining iPod Classics in the retail system were swiftly…
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Why I’m Abandoning Google Inbox
There was much excitement last autumn when Google launched Inbox, it’s revolutionary new email program. It came with accompanying mobile apps, and the company implored you to fully immerse yourself with it. Like any new product, it required invites to get in and try it. It’s the cool new thing. But having given it a…
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Is Golf Becoming as Invisible as Cricket?
According to a report in the Telegraph, the Royal & Ancient is considering whether or not they extend their 50 year broadcasting agreement with the BBC for future coverage of golf, or whether some or all rights go to Sky. In reality, I suspect that this is a negotiating tactic to try to squeeze a…
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Radio Radio
A couple of interesting stories today with news that finally there’s a signed agreement to rollout local DAB coverage to 91.2% of FM equivalence. This has been a little while coming – to say the least – but now it’s here and the first of 182 new transmitters should be built in March. Why 91.2%…
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York
In my ongoing project to purge my computer of photos I took in 2014, but did very little with, here are some from a trip to York nearly a year ago. Plenty more on Flickr.
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Scheduling Films
A regular moan, but it bears repeating. Do we have to have “awards season” films? What is the idiocy behind releasing every film Hollywood (and others) think is awards worthy over a 2-3 month period when there are so many barren times of the year? Yes – I understand that winning an Oscar/BAFTA has a…
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Why is Discovery So Poor in Amazon and Netflix?
Over on The Medium is Not Enough, Rob Buckley notes that Amazon has quietly launched a number of new US series onto the service with hardly any publicity. And I find it particularly interesting because I really hadn’t noticed despite spending quite a few hours on Amazon over the weekend. While a lot of this…
Hadrian’s Wall
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